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Press pool encountered @stevenmnuchin1 on Air Force One flying back from Ohio visit with @POTUS. Declined any comment on the plummet on Wall Street today.

Stepping off Air Force One after flight back from Cincinnati. Mrs Trump visited Children's Hospital for briefing on adverse impact of opioids on newborns. Also brought valentines and coloring books for children being treated at @CincyChildrens.

"She is our secret weapon. I just hope they don't change her. There are a lot of people that want to run her out," President Trump ridicules House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi while discussing 2018 midterm elections.

[email protected] Jordan: "Markets change. Markets fluctuate. Markets correct."

Department of State: Secretary Tillerson comments on the strong U.S.-Peru partnership and expresses the United States' support for Peru's growing international leadership role on a range of issues during a press conference with Foreign Minister @cayetanaaljovin in Lima.

President Trump formally notifies Senate he's withdrawing nominations of K.T McFarland to be US Amb to Singapore and Kathleen Hartnett White to the Council on Environmental Quality. McFarland faced questions about her work with Gen Mike Flynn and Hartnett her views on climate change.

"The fundamentals of this economy are very strong and they're headed in the right direction," Deputy Press Sec. Raj Shah said in a gaggle on Air Force One, an unfortunate echo of John McCain's comments at the onset of the recession.

Earlier today on Air Force One, @RajShah45 said of stock market downturn Friday and this morning: "Look, markets do fluctuate in the short term. We all know thatBut the fundamentals of this economy are very strong and they're headed in the right direction."

[email protected]: Thanks to the historic TAX CUTS that I signed into law, your paychecks are going way UP, your taxes are going way DOWN, and America is once again OPEN FOR BUSINESS!

"Can we call that treason?" asks Trump about Democrats who didn't applaud his mention of declining unemployment in his State of the Union speech? "Why not." "They were like death and unAmerican," he says of the Democrats. Said they would rather see him do badly than US do well.

Trump calls Dems "treasonous" for not applauding during his State of the Union

[email protected]: "We're one team, one people, and one family and we're saluting one, great American flag and everybody stood up yesterday. There was nobody kneeling at the beginning of the Super Bowl."

[email protected]: "We're all in this together. We're one team, one people, and one family and we're saluting one, great American flag."

[email protected]: "We've gone from being one of the highest taxed countries anywhere in the world to being one of the most competitive."

President Trump calls Democrats "un-American" for not standing and applauding during his State of the Union address. Adds: "Somebody said treasonous. Yea, why not? Can we call that treason? Why not?"

Trump: "There was nobody kneeling at the beginning of the Super Bowlthat's a big improvement"

[email protected] on tax bill: "Millions of workers are thrilled to have more money to save for their children's college or to fix their home or put aside money for a rainy day."

"Honestly it was bad energy. It was bad energy!" — President Trump, on looking over at the Democratic side during his State of the Union address.

Turning factory visit into a political event, Pres tells workers he hopes to avoid downturn first-term presidents face in midterm elections. "We're not gonna let that happen to us," he says. "We want to do great in '18," and tells workers to "start thinking about November."

"We want to do great in '18. And we're gonna do really great in '20," Trump says at Ohio event in lengthy remarks about upcoming elections. WH spox Raj Shah just before this speech: "This isn't a political event."

President Trump: Pelosi's "gone so far left. Schumer's gone so far left."

[email protected]: "Hard-working, patriotic Americans like you are what make this country run and run like no other."

Talking about the 2018 mid-term elections, the President repeatedly says Democrats "want to raise your taxes"

Pres calls Sheffer employees to the lectern to say what they'll do with the company $1000 bonus plus the tax cuts: They cite help buying a house, sending kids to college, more money in the bank.

Trump, at official WH event in Ohio, apparently touting release of Nunes memo: "Did we catch them in the act, or what?"

[email protected] on tax bill: "At the heart of our plan is tremendous relief for working families and for small businesses."

Pres tells workers at Sheffer Corp in Blue Ash, OH., that they're among 3 million workers to receive a bonus because of his corporate and business tax cuts.

Trump attorneys have approved idea of appointing 2nd special counsel to investigate DOJ, FBI action during '16 election: Axios

[email protected]: "After years of wage stagnationwages are now, for the first time in many years, rising."

"I am non-braggadocious." - Trump

Pres says his signing of the tax cut bill "set off a tidal wave of good news." Says companies announcing new jobs, enormous investments. Cites @Apple announcement of $350-billion investment in new plants in US. Said he would have been satisfied with $350-million.

President Trump: "Good guy, Tim Cook."

[email protected]: "Your paychecks are going way up, your taxes are going way downAmerica is once again open for business."

If Dems take control, "your taxes would go way up," Trump says. Sending a campaign theme taking shape.

President Trump: "We're bringing back those four magnificent words: Made in the U.S.A. We'll count U.S.A. as one word, is that okay?"

At hydraulics plant in Ohio, Pres tells workers that after years of wage stagnation, wages are rising for the first time in many years.

[email protected]: "I love the state of Ohio."

Trump at Sheffer Corp. "I love equipment. And I love workers."

President Trump starts his speech on tax cut law, "Oh, I love the people of Ohio"

From the White House Pool aboard Air Force One

Ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Cmte., Rep. Jerry Nadler: "Republicans, at least in the House, are complicit in trying to cover up this entire thing, and they're complicit because until then they simply ignored everything."

[email protected] slaps sanctions against four individuals in the Democratic Republic of Congo deemed "human rights abusers perpetuating the horrific conflict" there. Includes a general in the DRC Armed Forces.

During AF1 gaggle, @RajShah45 says "the fundamentals of this economy are very strong" despite recent stock market fluctuations.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan: Saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Sean Murphy, Chief of Staff for @TomColeOK04. Please keep Sean's wife and his three children in your prayers.

President and Mrs Trump step off Air Force One in Cincinnati and greet supporters allowed on the tarmac.

GOP Senators release portions of a criminal referral memo sent to DOJ last month about Christopher Steele

Department of State: Today in Buenos Aires, Secretary Tillerson and Argentine President @mauriciomacri discussed how we can our deepen economic and security ties. The Secretary said the U.S. is very pleased with Argentina's G20 presidency and looks forward to working with them throughout year.

At @JBA NAFW, the Trumps board Air Force One (C32A/757) for flight to Cincinnati. @POTUS has tax reform speech. @FLOTUS visits Children's Hospital for update on opioid abuse.

Iran could be winner, U.S. a loser from UAE-Qatar tensions

US Rep Brendan Boyle: Glad that GOP leadership in the House has agreed to schedule a vote on my bipartisan bill to help Ukraine defend its cybersecurity against Russian attacks. (Clearly my bill will be the biggest story in Philadelphia this week.)

[email protected]: Representative Devin Nunes, a man of tremendous courage and grit, may someday be recognized as a Great American Hero for what he has exposed and what he has had to endure!

[email protected]: Any deal on DACA that does not include STRONG border security and the desperately needed WALL is a total waste of time. March 5th is rapidly approaching and the Dems seem not to care about DACA. Make a deal!

Jeff Norris on @POTUS: "He stands firm. He's very clear on which direction he wants to go and very persistent. That's something, at least as a manufacturer, I love." @foxandfriends

[email protected]: Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped!

US special envoy slams Hamas for using aid money to fund terror

[email protected]: Thank you to @foxandfriends for exposing the truth. Perhaps that's why your ratings are soooo much better than your untruthful competition!

[email protected]: The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going broke and not working. Dems want to greatly raise taxes for really bad and non-personal medical care. No thanks!

UK judge blocks US extradition of alleged hacker Lauri Love

Alleged computer hacker Lauri Love has won his High Court appeal against extradition to the U.S.

China rebuffs U.S. criticism of relations with oil-rich Venezuela

Russia says it has measures it can take against the U.S.

'Let's talk': Japan hopes low-key strategy averts U.S. trade flare-up

South Korean, U.S. nuke envoys meet to discuss North Korea

US to Russia: respect nuclear limits under New START Treaty

Kashyap Patel, a senior Intel Committee staffer and the primary author of the Republican memo, traveled to London last summer at the request of Devin Nunes and tried to meet with Christopher Steele—outside official channels, NYT reports.

Chuck Schumer is calling on Trump to support the release of the Democratic memo.

[email protected] tells @GStephanopoulos the FBI and Justice Department knew information in the Steele dossier "wasn't verified" when using it to apply for a surveillance warrant on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

[email protected]: "I don't believe this is an attack on Bob Mueller" in reference to the declassified House GOP memo.

Sen. Dick Durbin says if President Trump uses the Nunes memo to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein or special counsel Robert Mueller, it could "precipitate a constitutional crisis"

Does @HurdOnTheHill agree with President Trump that the House GOP memo vindicates him in the Russia investigation? "I don't."

Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin says the Nunes memo does not "totally vindicate" President Trump in the Russia investigation

Why didn't the House Intel Committee wait for the Democratic memo? GOP member @HurdOnTheHill tells @GStephanopoulos "The [Democrats'] information wasn't ready to go, and we decided to release ours. People can criticize that decision."

[email protected]: A tool of anti-Trump political actors. This is unacceptable in a democracy and ought to alarm anyone who wants the FBI to be a nonpartisan enforcer of the law.The FBI wasn't straight with Congress, as it hid most of these facts from investigators." Wall Street Journal

[email protected]: "The four page memo released Friday reports the disturbing fact about how the FBI and FISA appear to have been used to influence the 2016 election and its aftermath.The FBI failed to inform the FISA court that the Clinton campaign had funded the dossier.the FBI became.

[email protected]: Great jobs numbers and finally, after many years, rising wages- and nobody even talks about them. Only Russia, Russia, Russia, despite the fact that, after a year of looking, there is No Collusion!