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With president xi jinping, mr. trump agreed not to slap 25% tariffs on some $300 billion of chinese imports. he will also allow u.s. firms to sell to the chinese tech giant huawei >> were going to work with china on where we left off >> reporter: in return, china has agreed, according to trump, to buy american agricultural products. the president also met with russias vladimir putin and saudi arabias crown princ mohamed bin salman mr. trump seen playfully gesturing to the man who the cia conclud...

President trump and the first lady arriving in tokyo. trade tariffs on the table as well as time on the links and a sumo wrestling tournament. abc white house correspondent tara palmeri is traveling with the president. >> reporter: tonight, president trump arriving in tokyo for high-stakes trade talks, wasting no time, immediately pressuring japan to remove trade barriers against american imports. >> i would say that japan has had a substantial edge for many, many years, but thats okay. maybe th...

Thats bad news for some of the presidents biggest supporters, american farmers. martin savidge is live in davenport, iowa. >> reporter: farmers have been dealing with the fallout from this trade war since last spring. in other words, this is the second planting season that they are going up against these tariffs and they are having a really hard time. so in some cases the best way to compete they find is by teaming up. here is what we found. in the middle of an iowa cornfield amy nelson is in th...

Squabble with china because weve been treated very unfairly for many, many decades. for actually, a long time, and it should have been handled a long time ago and it wasnt. and well handle it now. i think its going to be -- i think its going to turn out extremely well. >> well, the consequences of the presidents actions are very real, extremely well, doesnt exactly match up with the realities on the ground for many. cnns martin savidge has that for us tonight. >> reporter: robert readies for ano...

Democrat disaster supplemental bill. now that relief is bogged down in the republican controlled senate over how much assistance to give hurricane devastated puerto rico. and so back in republican voting farm districts there is a growing bumper crop of frustration, particularly with the president who brags about his negotiating skills. >> my uneducated guess is that he better hurry up and start producing a little bit because this negotiation that im seeing so far has not panned out. >> you voted...

This one, farmers gather for coffee and to commiserate. its not just tariffs. across the midwest and southeast, farmers are also reeling from disaster, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, even fires. its been raining so much in iowa, farmers are nearly a month late getting into their fields and every day they delay costs them more money. how far behind are you? >> oh, theres almost nothing planted out here. >> reporter: to try and help, democrats in the house joined by 34 republicans voted for a $19 ...

In our 2020 lead today, the fight for the democratic presidential nomination heating up today as senator kamala harris called out joe biden, criticizing his defense of the 1994 crime bill that biden helped write and shepherd to passage. progressive critics have assailed that law as one of the reasons for increased mass incarceration. also today, a brand-new poll

It has a substantiative military force, both army, navy, and air force, and missile defense. it wouldnt be the same kind of force that we went up against in 2003 in iraq or certainly not the same kind that you saw in afghanistan. the other thing thats important is the fact that it would cause global repercussions. when youre talking about potentially attack organize sending a force into iran, it means other people would react. >> iran is deeply involved throughout the region and many people supp...

>> given what i know, it does not surprise me that they are doing it. we have alternatives to another war in the middle east. and we should not be going to war in the middle east. if we tear up stuff like the iran nuclear agreement with no alternative or no strategic alternative at all, bad things are going to happen. and thats whats happening now. >> senator michael bennett, thank you for coming in. much more to discuss in the future. please come back. >> thanks. please let me come back. some...

Cnns martin savidge has that for us tonight. >> reporter: robert readies for another day of battle. an iowa farmer, hes on the front line of americas trade war with china. a war president trump says hes winning. but ewalt says hes losing. china has stopped buying his soybeans, cutting his income by half. he still has a third of last years crop in storage and this season it will likely cost him more to grow his soybeans than he can sell them for. >> this is survival, at this point. i mean, for a ...