The Wrap: Troops on the border, tariffs on the Chinese, first Mueller sentencing, but Trump is not a target … yet. Shooting at YouTube. It was all in a day.

On Guard: President Trump announced that he wants to guard the southern border with soldiers until his promised wall is built.

Trump tweeted this morning, “We will be taking strong action today.”

Yesterday at the White House he said, “Until we can have a wall and proper security, we are going to be guarding our border with our military. That’s a big step.” He went on, “We cannot have people flowing into our country illegally, disappearing and, by the way, never showing up for court.”

Why the President believes this is necessary is unknown. The number of illegal border crossings is believed to be at its lowest since 1971, but Trump sees a big threat to national security.

After failing to get Congress to give him the money to build his wall, Trump appears to be appealing to his political base by getting tough on illegal immigration.

“The Mexican border is very unprotected by our laws,” he said at a news conference. “We have horrible, horrible and very unsafe laws in the United States, and we’re going to be able to do something about that hopefully soon.”

Person of Interest: Alex van der Zwaan, a Dutch lawyer who is the son-in-law of a Russian billionaire, yesterday became  the first person sentenced in the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. He was also fined $20,000 and given 30 days in jail for lying to prosecutors. Now he’s talking.

Van der Zwaan admitted deceiving prosecutors about communications between Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, his associate Rick Gates, and a Ukrainian official with ties to the Kremlin.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is still working his way up the ladder, but how far he goes is anyone’s guess. The Washington Post reports that Mueller told Trump’s lawyers last month that he continues to investigate the President but does not consider him a criminal target. The Post says their sources tell them Mueller is preparing a report about Trump and potential obstruction of justice.

Lost in the Amazon: The Trump administration yesterday proposed new 25 percent tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese imports to protest Beijing’s practice of requiring foreign companies to hand over their technology. China immediately retaliated, announcing a 25 percent tariff on American soybeans, cars, aircraft and other goods,

At home, President Trump continues his public fight with Amazon, tweeting, “I am right about Amazon costing the United States Post Office massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy. Amazon should pay these costs (plus) and not have them bourne by the American Taxpayer. Many billions of dollars. P.O. leaders don’t have a clue (or do they?)!”

Just because he’s in charge, doesn’t mean Trump knows how things work. The Postal Service does not operate on tax money.

Nation: A woman killed herself at the headquarters of YouTube in San Bruno, Calif. after shooting and wounding three employees, the police said. A 36-year-old man is in critical condition. One woman is listed as serious and another as fair. The shooter, Nasime Aghdam, was unhappy with the way YouTube had filtered her videos. It’s rare for a woman to be a mass shooter.

The Obit Page: Anna Chenault, a staunch Republican and widow of the acclaimed leader of the Flying Tigers fighter squadron in China and Burma during World War II, has died in Washington at age 94.

After the 1958 death of her husband, Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault, Anna Chenault became a big Washington socialite, a Republican fundraiser, and a back-stage ambassador to Asian leaders when unofficial talks were required.

When President Lyndon Johnson stopped bombing North Vietnam to bolster

the Paris Peace talks, Chenault convinced South Vietnamese leaders on behalf of Richard Nixon to wait for his election so they could get a better deal at the table. Nixon was elected three days later and Johnson was furious.

>>> Former ABC Sports skiing analyst Bob Beattie died in Colorado at age 85. It’s pronounced “be-at-ee.” Beattie was coach of the US Olympic ski team in 1964 when the Americans won their first alpine medals. His signature moment as an announcer was calling the race when Austria’s Franz Klammer won the downhill at the 1976 Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria, one of the most exciting moments in Olympic sports. Klammer was the last man to race and was close to crashing during his entire run to beat Bernhard Russi of Switzerland.

Unable to contain his excitement, Beattie shouted, “He’s right on the edge!”

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