President Trump has insisted that he doesn't chicken out when it comes to enforcing his tariffs, telling reporters earlier this summer, quote, "It's called negotiation." Well, despite that, with a deadline to impose new tariffs on China at midnight, Trump was waffling again this morning. We'll see what happens. They've been dealing quite nicely.The relationship is very good with President with President Xi and myself. Well, just hours later, Donald Trump folded, extending the deadline for China tariffs for ...

Welcome to the beat. I'm Jason Johnson in for Ari Melbour. We begin with new heat on Donald Trump amend the Epstein uproar as his latest attempt to slide slide slipply slide away from any accountability blows up in federal court. Today, in a scathing ruling, a judge essentially accusing Trump's DOJ of trying to fool the public with quote the illusion of transparency. Hours later, in a sign of how this is absolutely dogging Donald Trump, reporters are pressing him about that ruling. It happened during his pr ...

This is Liberation Day in DC and we're going to take our capital back. >> All right, guys. So, you could consider this an unordinary day at the White House.Then again, most days of this presidency have been unordinary. But you probably saw the videos, presidents of the United States announcing that the federal government was going to be effectively taking over the local DC police department, that he was putting his attorney general, Pam Bondi, in charge of it. And at the same time that while he was standing ...

limited home rule uh gives the federal government uh the ability to intrude on our autonomy in many ways. I've said before uh and I'll repeat that I believe uh that the president's view of DC is shaped by his COVID era experience during his first term and it is true that those were more challenging times related to some issues. It is also true that we experienced a crime spike postcoid, but we worked quickly to put laws in place and tactics that got violent offenders off our streets and gave our police offi ...

Residents of the nation's capital are pushing back against Donald Trump's attempted power grab. The president announcing today the federal government is taking over the DC police force and sending in National Guard troops. At least 800 soldiers have been activated and he's threatening to send in the military if needed.Trump invoking a law that allows the president to take control of local police in an emergency. He claims this is in response to rampant crime, but you know, the facts in DC of course don't ma ...

New heat on Donald Trump amid the Epstein uproar as his latest attempt to slide slide slipply slide away from any accountability blows up in federal court today. In a scathing ruling, a judge essentially accusing Trump's DOJ of trying to fool the public with quote the illusion of transparency. Hours later, in a sign of how this is absolutely dogging Donald Trump, reporters are pressing him about that ruling.It happened during his press conference at the White House. Thank you all. Thank you all very much.At ...

It's absurd. I mean, si DC is a city and there's the issues that any city has, but it's absurd. And you know, if his mouth is moving, he's lying.One of those things. So, I mean, I don't It's all distractions. Every city that he named, Chicago, Oakland, Baltimore, all of them are black cities.So, it just feels not only like a target on DC black on DC's back, but also mine as a black man in DC. It's just it it doesn't feel like home anymore. If you don't live in DC, you would think that damn DC is like like h ...

The Wall Street Journal reports this, quote, "A generation ago, conventional wisdom held that as China liberalized, its economy would come to resemble America's. Instead, capitalism in America is starting to look like China. " The journal is referring to what it describes as state capitalism, a hybrid between socialism and capitalism in which the state guides the decisions of normally private enterprises." End quote.We're watching that happen in action in front of our eyes. As news on Friday revealed that m ...

[Applause] So that's what violent crime in DC looks like. And Donald Trump sat in the White House watching that happen for hours and did nothing. Police officers were brutally beaten as America's tradition of a peaceful transfer of power was ended on that day, January 6.Trump supporters chanted to hang Trump's own vice president, Mike Pence. Yet today, in a very peaceful day in Washington that looked nothing like that, and amid a 30year crime low in the nation's capital, Donald Trump decided to claim that n ...

Now, just as a general rule of thumb, if you are trying to convince the public that there's nothing to see here, nothing at all, it's a very good idea to get your story straight. Not that Donald Trump has ever been particularly consistent on the matter of Jeffrey Epstein, but today, yet another whiplash moment in the Trump administration having to do with what exactly the American people are being asked to believe. For starters, just so it's top of mind, recall the way Donald Trump himself spoke of the cont ...