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Good evening once again from our nbc news Head Quarters here in new york. Im ari velshi in for brian williams. The president is now touting his unprecedented meeting with north koreas dictator and issuing new warning to iran as he plans a fourth of July Celebration featuring tanks and a display of the nations military hardware. More on that event in a moment. But just afew hours ago, donald trump sent out this message about his summit with kim jongun in the korean peninsulas demilitarized zone. ...

Talk in a second. Because a lot of it is on camera and you have to see it to believe it. One spokesperson denied it and confirmed it in the same interview, which is, i mean, that takes skill. Thats the best people. I want to begin by discussing and focussing on the other president ial double talk we saw today about background checks for gun vbuyers. After the Mass Shootings in el paso and dayton, the president was talking about meaningful background checks. Confirmation hes not looking at backgr...

Weekend in france. Responding to a retaliatory move by china earlier today, the president tonight declared hes hiking tariffs on beijing, raising existing rates as well as those set to kick in next month. It comes after china announced this morning theyre imposing a new round of tariffs on 75 billion worth of american goods. The news was met with outrage at the white house where the president took to twitter and attempted to order all American Companies to cut their ties with china. All American...

So is biden still beatable . Its early. Lets check in with senior Political Writer and analyst harry henton. Look at the numbers. Weve talked about this for some time, and you made the point to me if he stays with this kind of lead over time, thats a sign hes becoming more inevitable. Is that where we are right now . Lets take a look. Well break down everything and get exactly that point a little later on. I think this is one of the key divides right now for top choice of the democratic nominees...

And could 2020 bring another kennedy to the senate . Massachusetts democratic senator ed markey could face a challenge from an iconic political dynasty. If its monday, its meet the press daily. Im Steve Kornacki in new york in for chuck todd and heading into 2020 President Trump is banking on a Strong Economy. Hes making it a key part of his argument for reelection counting on it to help overcome doubts about his style and his conduct as president. In our new nbc news wall street journal poll, t...

For a democrat i think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty. Isnt that antisemitic . Its only antisemitic in your head. Were talking about indexing. Im not looking to do indexing. Ive been thinking about payroll taxes. We dont need it. Bring up background checks like weve never had before. We have very, very strong background checks right now. The prime ministers statement that it was absurd, it was an absurd idea, was nasty. You dont talk to the United States that way. ...

As much as 140 points lower as the opening bell rings in an hour. The chinese said they have to impose these Counter Measures because of the trump trade war. And what theyre going to do is beginning september 1st and december 15th theyre going to impose a 5 tariff. If you remember those dates they pretty much mirror the dates President Trump has on the tariffs that are imposed on chinese imports on those 300 billion of chinese goods and that 10 tariff. So this is clearly yet another step, anothe...

And dominic chu. The president today is not indicating hes looking to concede on that in any way. Youre right about that, hallie. And the chief trade and economic advisers are, in fact, defending his trade war with china. We should point out President Trump himself, as you well know, put off the next round of tariffs until middecember which seems to be implicit acknowledgment that the tariffs might create a dragging effect on the economy. But the view from the white house about fears of impendin...

Longer. Well dig into that in a moment. We start this hour waiting for President Trump due to leave the white house any moment now. And if he talks to reporters, we may find out more on the president s thinking about his changing positions on changing this countrys gun laws. Tuesday the president appeared to be backing off, open to expanding background checks on gun buyers, the week after Mass Shootings after shootings in dayton and el paso, he seemed to be at odds with the nra. Now with a conve...

This is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news on President Trumps scramble to ease growing fears of a recession. He just confirmed hes looking at a possible payroll tax cut hours after the white house denied that was under discussion. And hes once again picking on a favorite target, pressuring the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. The president suggesting something needs to be done to boost the economy while insisting the u. S. Is very far from a recession. Also breaking, the pres...