too mind blowing so you move on. you play past it. tonight, there is far more from that summit that cannot be brushed aside so easily because it concerns legitimately serious stuff and because of what it says or continues to say about the president. it all came out today in a series of press encounters that saw the president make news on any fronts and explore all of them tonight. first, though, to set the stage when we left you on friday, the president had just departed for france having sent wall street tumbling by leveling new tariff threats against china. then he suggested he might have regrets about that. then his staff said no, his only regret was not being tougher. and then this morning he got less tough. confusion aside on china at least the situation has not devolved in the last few days as far as we can tell. the countries are apparently still talking, though, as you will see the question of who precisely is doing the talking and at what level remains in dispute. here is the president this