to change their work with china, doing business with or in china. that, of course, is part of what set the market into a turbulent state on friday in particular because private companies have supply chains in china, they do business in china. that is not the typical american open market, free capitalist way of dealing with this kind of an issue. the president seems to be backing off from this. at the same time, asserting that he has the authority to do so. but, of course, he has not said that there is such an emergency. he s just citing this power. might be another instance where he s using different levers to try to compel china to come to the negotiating table. that appears to be one of his tactics, one that has had blowback. jo, kendis. kelly o donnell, thank you so much. now to bill neely, who is there taking an eye and keeping a track on the protests. bill, we saw some arrests and some action.
ned, what do you make of the numbers? jo, i have to tell you, at this point, we re in august of 2019, i m not sure i put much credence into polls. that all to say, let s not forget, donald trump was at 36% approval rating overall in the gallup poll when he won in 2016. it s the big question, jo, going back to the economy, people might not like somebody, but if the economy is doing well, they re doing better in life, they re still voting for that person. am i concerned? yes, i am. do i think president trump performs well in polls? no. except for the one that counts on election day. ned, rashad, thank you very much. let s get to breaking news from overseas right now and hong kong. protesters on march in the rain once again. one day after clashes with police. we have a reporter on the scene. janis mackey frayer is there. like the protests yesterday
g7? yeah. jo, as kelly said we don t hear the president talk in those terms. he doesn t usually express regrets. he s the president of no apologies and he s having second thoughts about this massive step that he s taken in terms of trade war with china that has jitters among world leaders, and elsewhere that s going to drag down their economies. it s part of this broader image he s putting forward so far at the g7 of being a little bit softer and not as much of poking the leaders in the eye as we ve seen him do either on twitter or before he took off to come here. one interesting thing about his meeting so far today, he met with boris johnson of the uk who he considers a good friend and prime minister abe of japan an he has spent a lot of time and they ve tried to forge a relationship. both leaders gently disagreed with him in the public portion of their meetings. you saw boris johnson say that
she met the cast behind stage. after the cancer was discovered, ginsburg said she ll stay on the court as long as she s able. you have to take it year by year. i know i m okay. i was okay this last term. expect to be okay next term. and after that, we ll just have to see. justice ginsburg who is 86 cancelled her annual summer trip to santa fe. but the court says she s otherwise maintained an active schedule. she has almost a dozen public events next month. so far, she hasn t cancelled any of them. jo. pete williams in washington. joining us jonathan adam with nbc news and hanna trubeau reporter with the daily beast. let s hear the president s response? well, i hope she does really
how he responded to a question on whether he had that authority. well, in 1977, we had an act, the emergency act, i have the absolute right to do that. nbc s kelly o donnell is traveling with the president in the southwest of france. kelly, before we get to his agenda today. he made some comments on the economy there as he left the white house tonight. what more did he say? the president had a lot on his mind, jo, leave be the white house for the overnight trip to france. and he s certainly very frustrated with jay powell, the head of the federal reserve, saying he s not a good chess player, frustrated at a time when we re seeing the stock market go up and down with these two different leader, the fed