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Tariffs and in fact that its damaging to the economy? >> yeah. its 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, hes 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. thats partly because donald trump thinks he can get something out of this ...

What dont we have to talk about this morning? well begin with president trumps 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 lets get back to the table. so well be getting back to table. i think they have been hurt very badly but they understand this is the right th...

Angela merkel said the german economy is contracting a little bit. say, listen, you cannot keep messing with the global economy, thats 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 s...

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. lets 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 p...

Morning in a tweet about a half hour ago is almost fawning. he talks about the calm resolution of president xi and hes impressed that theyre willing to come and state the facts so clearly. it -- you know, its 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 presid...

Vladimir putin as a special guest, even if putin is not a member. so certainly that is something we could look forward to potentially next year at this time. >> great. nbcs shannon pettypiece, thank you so much for being on the show this morning. now to the latest on president trumps ongoing attacks against the media. "the new york times" reports that a network of conservatives allied with the white house is pursuing what they say will be an aggressive operation to discredit news organizations...

They like him and still want to support him, so theyre not telling the truth to somebody. >> i think his support is soft. look our campaign slogan is be brave. heres the bet im making. i believe that most republicans privately believe what i say publicly about this guy. he is unfit. he lies every time he opens his mouth. hes tweeting us into a recession. look, i believe most republicans are just tired of his bs and his drama. the bet of my campaign im trying to get people to come out and be brav...

And theres been a lot of head butting between the white house staff and the french including as you mentioned this visit yesterday by the iranian foreign minister, the president said he was aware of that and i was told and my colleagues, hallie jackson, we were told that even at the top levels of the administration they were completely caught off guard by the arrival of zarif. they felt it was the french playing games with them. and even increased tensions here. theres been a lot of complaints b...

The hong kong in force. the last thing ill say is that -- and we can talk about this in the context of trade and other things as well. the chinese -- for the chinese its a lot about pride and face and about their rights and their standings as a world power in the global community. and its a little bit like trade in that its a little tough to see how these two sides back down. each of them getting enough to be able to say it worked out and not having it end in tears. >> david ignatius, give us yo...

The white house says it will raise existing duties on $250 billion in products from china from 25% to 30% on october 1st. meanwhile, tariffs on $300 billion of goods will increase from 10 to 15% beginning this sunday. in addition to the tariffs, the president also announced that he is ordering u.s. companies to ship their production from china, saying they must look for alternatives immediately, advocating they consider moving operations back to the u.s. those moves sent wall street just crashin...