Too mind blowing so you move on. You play past it. Tonight, there is far more from that summit that cannot be brushed aside so easily because it concerns legitimately serious stuff and because of what it says or continues to say about the president. It all came out today in a series of press encounters that saw the president make news on any fronts and explore all of them tonight. First, though, to set the stage when we left you on friday, the president had just departed for france having sent wall street tumbling by leveling new tariff threats against china. Then he suggested he might have regrets about that. Then his staff said no, his only regret was not being tougher. And then this morning he got less tough. Confusion aside on china at least the situation has not devolved in the last few days as far as we can tell. The countries are apparently still talking, though, as you will see the question of who precisely is doing the talking and at what level remains in dispute. Here is the
Breaking news tonight. A judge in oklahoma just ordered Johnson Johnson to pay 572 million, holding the Company Accountable for its significant role in the Opioid Epidemic in that state. More on the landmark ruling coming up. Also ahead, President Trump is right now heading back to the United States from the g7 summit in france, leaving a trail of discord and confusion behind him. The president capping a tense weekend of talks with another apparent attempt to mislead, claiming there was tremendous unity at the summit when there clearly was not. U. S. Allies got whiplash from mr. Trumps many contradictions on his trade war with china, whether hed meet with irans president and much, much more. Ill get reaction from democratic senator richard blumenthal. Hes a member of both the Armed Services and Judiciary Committees. And our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, though, lets go to cnns alexandra field. Shes in norman, oklahoma, for us. Alexandria, tell us more about t
Today. And the taliban talks, bipartisan backlash and internal white house disagreement over the president s plan to meet with the terrorist group on u. S. Soil. If it is monday, it is meet the press daily, im Steve Kornacki in for chuck todd. Breaking news. President trump is in North Carolina where he was planning to tour some of the damage caused by Hurricane Dorian before heading to a Campaign Rally which could be a key indicator of which direction the 2020 election is heading. Well get to that potential canary in a coal mine race later. We also learned the weather is keeping the president from touring the damage and that he will receive a previousing on air force one. A little latebreaking development. I said a lot was happening. At the same time the president is facing new questions about his administrations actions after the president warned falsely warned alabama remained threatened by Hurricane Dorian. This goes beyond the days of digging in insisting he was right, the map doc
Appropriate. Which ultimately then flowed. We worried if we didnt pay out the money it would be illegal, it would be unlawful. That is one of those things that has a little shred of truth in it that makes it look a lot worse than it really is. We were concerned about, over at omb, about impoundment. I know i put half of you to bed, but there is the budget and impoundment act of 74 that says if Congress Appropriates money, you have to spend it. We knew that money had to go out the door by the end of september or we had to have a really good reason not to do it. To be clear, what you described appears into the democratic server happened as well. We do that all the time with Foreign Policy. We were holding up aid to the northern triangle countries so they would change their policies on immigration. By the way, and this speaks to im sorry . This speaks to an important point because i heard this yesterday and i can never remember the gentleman who testified. Was it mckinney . I dont remembe