Tariff response to china. Okay. When it comes to the latest north korea missile tests, trump and abe are on two different pages. This is what President Trump had to say. Are you concerned at all about north korea conducting more tests . Im not happy about it. But again, hes not in violations of an agreement. Then the issue of the economy and concerns that the president s trade war with china could lead to a recession. He defended his policy. Our market is doing great. Our country is doing great. Everybody is telling me yesterday, people are trying to copy the formula. We cut taxes way down. Got rid of regulations. More than any other president. We are doing very well. You people want a recession because you think maybes that the way to get trump out. President trump tweeted out yesterday, the question i was asked most today by fellow World Leaders who think the u. S. Is doing so well, mr. President , where does the American Media hate your country so much, why are they rooting for it to fail . In hong kong, several officers drew their weapons with one firing a warning shot after they were surrounded by protesters. They use the water cannons. Some hurled bricks at officers. Some were arrested on the crime of Unlawful Assembly and assaulting police officers. Protests have been running 12 straight weekend. Saying beijing has the authority to step in and quell the unrest. Now a look at the democratic field. Bernie sanders called out Mitch Mcconnell demanding the Top Republican stop his quote coward as. Today i say to senator mcconnell, stop stopping legislation from coming to the floor of the senate. You dont have the rights to prevent debate and vote on the most important issue facing the working people of this country. Stop your cowardice. Have the guts to debate the issues. Joe biden spent the weekend Kris Krossing the northeast from a swanky Charity Event in the hamptons to another state he mixed up what state he was in. Watch. I love this place. Look, what is not to like in terms vermont and the beauty and what a neat town. Okay. Also out in New Hampshire was mayor Pete Buttigieg discussing his plan to tackle the Mental Health and drug addition. Touching on one million debts of despair involving suicide over the next few years. Joe walsh has announced he will take on President Trump for the republican nomination in 2020. Im running against the guy unfit to be president. He lies every time he opens his mouth, a narsist like weve never seen, hes a sexual predator. He wakes up and sends out a tweet every morning that insults the average american. When he was elected, i tried to do the good trump, bad trump. Praise him when he did something i liked. It became clear that the man basically lies every time he opens his mouth. I think he stokes bigotry and racist. I dont think hes a racist. It is whatever benefits trump is all i care about. Walsh was admitted as part of the tea party move. He called barack obama a muslim, enemy and trader. During that interview, he apologized for his past criticism of obama. I got personal and hateful. I said some ugly things about president obama. Do you really believe hes a muslim . God no. Thats not easy to do. We have a guy in the white house who has never apologized. I think it is a weakness not to apologize. I helped create trump. I regret that. Im sorry for that. Coming up on morning joe, former congressman will be a guest later this morning. And with us this morning, scott wong. Lets talk about joe walsh and what his primary challenge means . Joe walsh is giving voice to a number of critics out there in the republican of President Trump of the elected officials, very few have been willing to challenge President Trump on any issue or to criticize him publicly in fear of retribution. He has shown to take retribution against members of his own party. That is why there has been this devoning criticism. Joe walsh is giving a voice these. Will he win the gop nomination . No. But he is echoing some of the thoughts being privately said. Id also keep an eye on joe sanford, another conservative and another who could run as lib tarrian or independent. They could do serious damage in terms of conservative support for President Trump heading into the general election. Ill shift gears to the g7 summit. The big twist was the foreign minister from iran coming to visit. We had the president speaking out saying the french president asked me about it. I gave him his approval. What are your take aways from this weekend . Looking at the g7 summit, there were obvious parallels between what was happening there and what we saw last month. President trump created utter confusion in france during that summit just like he did back home specifically the most memorable moment had to do with President Trump answering three times that he had second thoughts about imposing additional tariffs on the chinese. That sent a number of officials scrambling. They were arguing and the president was saying they had second thoughts that the tariffs were not more aggressive. So trump is going to be returning home from this summit with not a whole lot of victories in hand. In fact, has created more confusion. Thank you, scott. Well talk again in a little bit. Brazilian president has authorized military operations to help combat the raging fires in the amazon rain forest following his lack luster response to the disaster. Military planes began dumping water on the fires over the weekend. A few hundred of the troops were deployed into the fire zone. The response comes as a result of the g7 leaders expressed grave concern. French president macron said they were nearing a deal. Nearly 80,000 fires have been registered across brazil this year. The highest level since 2013. Still ahead, britains Prince Andrew weighs in on his association with the late Jeffery Epstein. And still nothing new has been built. New reporting about what the Administration Says about that. Those stories and a check on the weather when we come right back. A lot will happen in your life. Wrinkles just wont. Neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repairs dermproven retinol works so fast, it takes only one week to reveal younger looking skin. Making wrinkles look so last week. Rapid wrinkle repair® pair with new retinol oil for 2x the wrinkle fighting power. Neutrogena® new pepto diarrhea to the rescue. Diarrhea . Its three times concentrated liquid formula coats and kills bacteria to relieve diarrhea. 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Andrew met with epstein in 2010 after he was released from a 13month prison sentence. Andrew called the meeting a mistake and error and added that he has tremendous sympathy for his alleged victims. Going to our legal analyst. He is totally under scrutiny. They are hoping this will come to an end. What are the implications for those documents released so far . Legally for Prince Andrew, nothing. Could he even be held liable in an American Court or does he have what weigh call head of state immunity. He is not the head of state, that would be queen elizabeth. But in the past, americans have extended this to family of certain rulers. For example the wife of the president of mexico. It is interesting, Prince Andrew and Buckingham Palace have been putting out statements distancing the prince from epstein. When push comes to shove, he may not be suable or prosecutable. The fascinating thing is that the person or entity is that person who is the head of the brench, who is the president. He is now on the record saying he was there, he stayed with him once or twice even staying once after his conviction. Could he still be interviewed and make himself available. He said he has empathy and sympathy for the victims of his sexual crimes, could he answer if they say come talk to us and tell us what you know as you already have come out and said. That is the main question. What if federal or state prosecutors said, hey, we had like you to come over because we have some questions for you. He is probably not going to do that. Could he just say, im not coming in. Could there be any jurisdiction with him being arguably a head of state and not a resident of the United States. The answer may be no. You would think he would want to cooperate just to help people seeking information on Jeffery Epsteins lifestyle. We could see a landmark ruling today whether Johnson Johnson could be held responsible for the opioid issue. They aggressively marketed to doctors while down playing the risks. The attorney general is seeking up to 17 billion to cover the cost of treatment, health care and criminal justice bills johnso Johnson Johnson is denying any responsibility. It is interesting. The idea that the Company Created a nuisance. As we know, opioids have become a serious problem. Originally, opioids were marketed as something for acute pain. Post surgery. In the late 90s this shifted in a Marketing Campaign that marketed not acute pain, longterm pain. Once they did that. That was one of the factors that led to this addiction problem in the United States. The idea that these were a cure all for lots of kinds of pain made them more risky to be released to the world. And more on the possible flood gates. Absolutely. Lets take a look at the weather now with janessa webb. Hurricane season starting to pick up now. Now we are tracking our next tropical storm. This is our fourth named storm of the season. Our 5 00 a. M. Update has just come in. We are seeing a change in this pattern. It is starting to strength inhere. We are seeing sustained winds up to 60 miles an hour. The features of the storm are very compact here. It sits in the water where the temperatures are 80s and 90s, that is allowing for this storm to really build. I want to show you the new track. It has significantly changed here. The cone of uncertainty not really going to impact puerto rico now. Well see a potential cat 1 hurricane hit hispaniola here by late thursday. Really will be watching that system. Last time we saw a hurricane in domincan republic in that area was 2008. Watching that system. Especially for the people there in puerto rico crossing their fingers tight. Thank you. It seems the new England Patriots will miss a visit to the white house. Well explain the likely running coming up. Im off to college. Im worried about my parents retirement. Dont worry. Voya helps them to and through retirement. 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Golfer rory mcilroy won the single largest pay out at the fedex cup with a 15 million prize. The total doubles his earnings for the year as he joins tiger woods as the games only twotime tournament winners. The Indianapolis Colts in question as andrew luck announced his retirement. We have the details. This is not an easy decision. It is the hardest of my life. A brutal sport has lost a warrior. The only way for me is to remove myself from football. After injury sidelines him for long stretches including the entire 2017 season. He announced hes quitting at age 29. It has taken away some of joy joy. The news not immediately welcomed by home fans who booed. One fan taking off his jersey. Id be lying if i said i didnt hear the reaction. To take as many hits as he has repeatedly over seven Straight Years, i cant imagine what hes going through. Luck who played at stanford was the number one pick of the draft but was be set by injuries. Ribs, abs, kidney, recently his ankle. Im in pain. For me to move forward in my life the way i want to, it doesnt involve football. Giving up the sport that paid him well yet cost him so much. Thank you for that report. Weve been following news throughout the day of President Trumps meetings. We want to cross over now to france to listen to a meeting with the german chancellor Angela Merkel. Lets take a listen. I think well be coming out with a statement to that effect from the g7. Everyone agrees we cant let iran have nuclear weapons. [ inaudible question ] [speaking nonenglish ] i can only repeat that together all the Seven Members have said any kind of situation is something we want through negotiations. We had very productive talks on this issue as well. But it is still moving as an issue. It is slowly moving forward but there is still a long way to go. Mr. President , what are your thoughts in terms of the climate . I think way have had unity. There has been a lot of fake news saying no unity. There has been unity with all seven of the countries. It has been really good. It is not quite over yet. I will tell you weve had great unity, even with iran. A lot of progress made with iran. Weve come to a conclusion. They cant have nuclear weapons. They can have a successful g7. You had a report where i was in the plane. I hadnt even landed yet. You said i was in a dispute. I hasnt landed yet. The other thing, the United States, as you know, is doing very, very well. Talks are going on with china at a very high level. Steve, you want to mention what was said. It was reported in bloomberg and others, market watch that china just put out a statement. We appreciate vice premier, his comments he came out with. We look forward to continuing our discussions, mr. Lighthizer and i will expect to continue those shortly. [ inaudible question ] reporter do you think the eu treats china worse with regard to trade . I think they are as tough as china. I really do. I think they are very tough. The United States has not been treated particularly well over the years. Im not saying that because it should have been the other way around. It wasnt. I congratulate you. The European Union are tough, very tough. The United States has lost tremendous amounts of money over the years with the European Union. I dont hold that against the European Union. I hold it against our president s and administration that did not a good job. I respect the European Union. I respect china for what theyve been able to do over the years. You look at a guy like Sleepy Joe Biden and obama to allow them sto do what they did do us. What i did to china should have happened 25 years ago. Not just obama, push and clinton, they should have done this. They are taking out hundreds of billions a year. It is not right. Somebody should have done it. Im not blaming china. Im blaming our representatives