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TRUMPS SCHEDULE:

10 a.m.: President Donald Trump will meet with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the Oval Office.

10:30 a.m.: Trump will receive his daily intelligence briefing in the Oval Office.

11 a.m.: Trump will make an announcement with the National Association of Manufacturers in the Roosevelt Room.

3 p.m.: Trump will meet with NIH director Francis Collins in the Oval Office.

4:45 p.m.: Trump will meet with OMB director Mick Mulvaney in the Oval Office.

OTHER HAPPENINGS: Press secretary Sean Spicer will brief the press at the White House at 1 p.m.

HAPPENING TODAY: From POLITICOs Doug Palmer: President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Friday instructing his administration to examine the causes of the U.S. trade deficits with China and other major trading partners and report back to him within 90 days for possible action to reduce the gaps. This will represent the first systematic analysis of what are the causes [of the deficit] country by country and product by product, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told reporters at the White House Thursday evening. It will form the basis for decision-making by the administration subsequently and that will be decision-making that will be based on hard facts, not theories. Trump, who is hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping for talks next week in Palm Beach, Fla., also will sign a second executive order directing Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly to strengthen the collection of penalties on unfairly traded foreign products.

BREAKING LAST NIGHT: Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is seeking assurances against unfair prosecution in order to provide interviews to congressional panels investigating possible collusion between Trump aides and Moscow, his lawyer said in a written statement. The statement came after a report in The Wall Street Journal that Flynn has told the FBI and congressional committees he is willing to testify in exchange for immunity from prosecution, write POLITICOs Austin Wright, Josh Meyer and Martin Matishak.

TRUMPS TWITTER THIS MORNING: Mike Flynn should ask for immunity in that this is a witch hunt (excuse for big election loss), by media & Dems, of historic proportion!

TRAVEL BAN UPDATE: From POLITICOs Josh Gerstein: The Trump administration is appealing the broadest judicial order currently blocking President Donald Trump's revised travel ban directive. The Justice Department filed a formal notice Thursday appealing U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson's preliminary injunction suspending Trump's executive order that sought to halt the issuance of visas to citizens of six Muslim-majority countries and held up refugee admissions from across the globe.

IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE FOR NUNES: From POLITICOs Austin Wright: Did the White House seek to launder information through the House Intelligence Committee? Thats the question Rep. Adam Schiff, the panels top Democrat, asked Thursday as new details emerged about Chairman Devin Nunes secret visit to the White House grounds last week to view what he claims was possible evidence of wrongdoing by the Obama administration. Nunes briefed President Donald Trump on the evidence the next day, even though it reportedly came from high-level White House staffers who likely could have taken the information to the president themselves, rather than first deliver it to Nunes. The behavior by the California Republican and the White House has led to an outcry from Democrats, who say he has shown he is too close to Trump to lead an impartial investigation into Russias meddling in the presidential election, including the possibility of collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign.

Matthew Nussbaum is a White House reporter for POLITICO.

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