(Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) Welcome to Fox News First. Not signed up yet? Click here. Developing now, Friday, March 2, 2018 Wall Street watchers await Friday’s reaction to President Trump’s tariff plan, which sent the Dow down 420 points Thursday; GOP lawmakers cry foul. The FBI may have used unverified info from the Trump-Russia dossier to spy on former campaign aide Carter Page, House Intel Chair Devin Nunes says President Trump and Vice President Pence ‘don’t want gun control,’ the NRA’s chief lobbyist says after a White House meeting EXCLUSIVE: Broward County, Fla., deputy sheriff calls for transparency, end to ‘political posturing’ in Parkland massacre investigation EXCLUSIVE: A Republican senator wants to know why the FBI appeared slow to act on former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s computer in the Hillary Clinton email probe The Rev. Billy Graham will be laid to rest Friday in North Carolina, with President Trump expected to attend the funeral The 90th Academy Awards will take place Sunday in Hollywood. How political will it get? THE LEAD STORY – TARIFF TUMULT: Wall Street will look to recover Friday after President Trump sent stocks tumbling Thursday with his plan to place tariffs on aluminum and steel imports … The Dow closed more than 420 points lower after the announcement. Trump said the tariffs will level the playing field for American companies and help them expand after plant closings in recent years. Trump made announcement after participating in a listening session with 15 representatives from the steel and aluminum industry. Some GOP lawmakers pushed back on Trump’s plan. “Tariffs on steel and aluminum are a tax hike the American people don’t need and can’t afford,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said. “I encourage the president to carefully consider all of the implications of raising the cost of steel and aluminum on American manufacturers and consumers.” RULE-BREAKING FBI?: The FBI may have violated criminal statutes, as well as its own strict internal procedures, by using unverified information during the 2016 election to obtain a surveillance warrant on onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page, House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes alleged in a letter obtained by Fox News … In a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Nunes wrote that “in this instance, it’s clear that basic operating guidance was violated.” A memo released by the intelligence committee last month stated that the FBI and DOJ sought surveillance warrants to spy on Page by using an infamous, Democrat-funded anti-Trump dossier that included salacious and unverified allegations about Trump’s connections to Russia. Democrats released their rebuttal memo last weekend. TRUMP PUTS STUNNED NRA AT EASE: Just one day after putting the NRA on the defensive with stunning televised comments, President Trump has signaled in an Oval Office meeting that he doesn’t want gun control, according to the NRA’s top lobbyist … Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, tweeted late Thursday that “POTUS & VPOTUS support the Second Amendment, support strong due process and don’t want gun control.” About an hour later, Trump appeared to endorse Cox’s
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