Honestly, its the har decision of my life. And Wounded Warriors getting off the sidelines, fighting for a new life. This is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im mark strassmann. President trump heads back to washington today after wrapping up the g7 summit in france. The president was at odds with the worlds other economic powerhouses over global warming, russia and his trade war with china. The president told reporters he had second thoughts abouts 4 tariffs on chinese goods and that left his aides scrambling to say the president really meant his tariffs should have been higher. Ben tracy was with the president in france. We have horrible trade deals, and im straightening them out. The biggest one by far is china. Reporter President Trump seemed to admit hes not entirely sure about his trade war with china. Mr. President , are you having second thoughts on escalating the trade war with china . For sure, why not. Might as well. Might as well. You have second though
Or so we thought. Take a look. Any second thoughts on escalating the trade war with china . For sure, yeah, why not. Might as well. Might as well. You have second thoughts about escalating the i have second thoughts about everything. He has second thoughts about everything. And within minutes the white house claimed the president had been misinterpreted. The president was asked this a couple of times and he said a couple of times. I think were not cleaning up anything. I want to be clear. The president we saw how this was being reported. The white house put out a statement. We just quoted him. Have you spoken to him directly about what did he say he said he was not having second thoughts about putting on the tariffs. If anything, he was thinking about raising them. Did he tell you he misheard . Creating confusion for leaders i dont think theres any confusion. These meetings have been going great. And one of those reporters you heard there asking questions of the Trump Economic Team was