tariffs and in fact that it s damaging to the economy? yeah. it s interesting, boris in some ways has donald trump exactly where he wants him. i mean, having been quite critical of him during the 2016 campaign when he was mayor of london and saying rude things about donald trump, he s one of the few leaders who has come back from being rude in public about president trump to having this kind of cozy relationship with him. that s partly because donald trump thinks he can get something out of this relationship. he can get the fracturing of the european union which is something that he would like. he thinks that boris johnson is the person to do that and boris johnson at the same time wants to get the trade deal with the united states and he s got to be careful because he doesn t want to be seen as tony blair was with george bush as the puppy of donald trump. no british prime minister wants to be see as fully in the pocket of any american president. just not something they can do. and b
what don t we have to talk about this morning? we ll begin with president trump s new comments this morning on the continued escalation of his trade war with china. speaking earlier this morning in france amid the g7 summit, the president said that beijing has signalled it wants to try and reach a deal. china called last night our top trade people and said let s get back to the table. so we ll be getting back to table. i think they have been hurt very badly but they understand this is the right thing to do i have great respect for it. i have great respect for it. this is a very positive development for the world. this comes after president trump on friday announced that he would be hiking tariffs on most imports from china following beijing s decision earlier that day to place new tariffs on $75 billion in american goods.
angela merkel said the german economy is contracting a little bit. say, listen, you cannot keep messing with the global economy, that s going to impact us pack at home as well. well, when you talk about the delegations the staff level, when you get past the president i think there are a lot of frank conversations. but it seems the rest of the world has figured out like most people in america have that president trump is the only one who makes decisions so they can have conversations with the state department and their counterparts and the administration all day long. and those people can carry that message to the president. but he s going to see things in his way and he s going to carry them out in his own way. i think that one of the reasons that the president may be so optimistic in his tone his tone might be so different from last year s g7 summit where he left early and then got in a twitter war with justin trudeau
politics as well as liberal activists and other political opponents of the president according to the times. only a fracture has been made public with more to be disclosed as the 2020 election heats up. let s bring in the co-author of this report. jeremy peters. jeremy, what kinds of information do they think they have, have, on journalists? and what do you make of this strategy here? well, mika, this is just the latest escalation under a president who has called the media the enemy of the people. and what what that has done is emboldened the president s allies the group of people who are connected to donald trump jr. to start looking at the online histories going back in some cases more than a decade of journalists who in some cases don t even cover this administration. and what they have done is they
morning in a tweet about a half hour ago is almost fawning. he talks about the calm resolution of president xi and he s impressed that they re willing to come and state the facts so clearly. it you know, it s a concession wrapped in flattery as near as i can tell. but he wants to calm the situation down because he knows that continued turmoil takes him over the edge. donald trump blinks and he keeps blinking, steve rattner, again, this is something you can see coming on friday when the president exploded after exploding he ordered companies out of china. he then claimed that he had authority to do that under the law and deciding the law going into saturday morning but again, what really concerned him was the fact that of course he never thinks ahead. that s the problem with the day trader. he didn t realize until this weekend that president xi is