So shortly before his meeting with President Xi Jinping, President Trump announced the United States will resume testing nuclear weapons. In a social media post, Trump wrote that he has ordered the Pentagon to resume testing on an equal basis with Russia and China. The US conducted its last nuclear weapons test in 1992. Former President George HW Bush signed a moratorum on testing that year. Here's what the president said on Air Force One overnight when asked about his social media post. >> We have more nuc ...

Some other news this morning. Two top Republicans on Capitol Hill are criticizing the Pentagon's plan to cut the number of American troops deployed to Eastern Europe. Senator Roger Wicker and Congressman Mike Rogers, who chair their respective Armed Services Committee, say the move jeopardizes the US relationship with key allies on NATO's eastern flank.Around 700 troops with the 101st Airborne Division will be rotated out of Germany, Romania, and Poland as the Trump administration shifts its focus toward La ...

Senator Thun keeps talking like something's changed behind the scenes. >> Hopefully, the fever is starting to break. >> What makes you think? >> Um I I I think there's some cracks developing right now uh amongst the Democrats and uh I'm glad some common sense may finally prevail. >> We'll see. That was Republican Senator Steve Danes to me on Capitol Hill yesterday. Welcome back to Way Too Early. 5:30 on the dot here on the East Coast, 2:30 out west. I'm Ali Vitali and the government is still shut down. We'r ...

Trade Relations & Agreements - US and China agreed on "almost everything" regarding a potential trade deal, with a signing expected "pretty soon" [1] - China will pause restrictions on rare earth exports and purchase large amounts of US soybeans [2] - The US will reduce fentanyl-related tariffs on Chinese goods, bringing the overall levy down from 57% to 47% [2][16] - South Korea will invest $350 billion into the US in exchange for lower tariffs, set at 15%, and will purchase US oil and gas in vast quantities [4] Unresolved Issues & Omissions - The Chinese statement following the meeting did not mention a trade deal, TikTok authorization, Taiwan, or buying US agricultural goods [6][7] - The meeting did not address the TikTok deal, China's purchases of Russian oil, or Taiwan [12][13] - Guarantees on the amount of soybeans and other agricultural goods China committed to buying remain unclear [10] Nuclear Weapons & Geopolitical Tensions - President Trump announced the US will resume testing nuclear weapons on an equal basis with Russia and China [18] - This decision was influenced by Russia's testing of a nuclear-powered underwater drone and missile [21] - The US seeks de-escalation in nuclear capabilities and potentially opening conversations with Kim Jong-un through President Xi [24]

the last word with Lawrence. So, Donald starts right now. Hey, Lawrence. >> Hey, Jen. Uh, I heard your discussion uh earlier tonight about the difference between uh you approaching confirmation hearings uh during your experience in the White House and the Trump world approaching confirmation hearings, which is the most absurd version of it you could imagine. >> I mean, Lawrence, I had hundreds of pages of vetting documents. We had meetings until 1 and two in the morning. These nominees before they even beca ...

First, I want to start with an incident from two years ago that has kind of thrust itself back into the news today. It was this moment back in 2023 when an armed and dangerous man showed up outside the home of a former president. There's new information on the January 6th defendant arrested near the home of former President Barack Obama here in DC >> after federal agents spotted and chased Taylor Toronto outside the DC home of former President Obama.But they say they found these guns, hundreds of rounds of ...

Trump is engaging in a whole of government retribution campaign. Basically using every lever of the federal government to target anyone in this country who he thinks is insufficiently loyal to him. That has been his goal ever since his first term in office when he tried to do the same thing over and over only to be stopped by some of the people around him. So Trump knew the only way he could carry out that campaign of retribution in his second term was by making sure that this time there was no one around t ...

Exactly 96 years ago today, billions of dollars were wiped out as the Dow plunged. Investors gathered outside the New York Stock Exchange as many of them lost everything. Some called it the darkest day in American history.October 29th, 1929 became known as Black Tuesday, a key date in the stock market crash that sunk our country into a depression. As we mentioned earlier, that crash is the subject of a new book by my friend Andrew Russin. It is called 1929 and it is already a New York Times bestseller.Our n ...

It is day 283 of the second Trump administration and right now President Trump's highly anticipated meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping is underway in South Korea. The leaders of the world's two largest economies are discussing a trade truce after months and months of turmoil. Here's what we just heard moments ago as their meeting kicked off.>> We will be having some discussions. I think we've already agreed to a lot of things and we'll agree to some more right now. But uh President Xi is a grea ...

Well, as we reported here last night, Donald Trump will not have a third term in the presidency. We're beginning once again tonight with something that is not actually news. Shouldn't shouldn't be treated as news.Today, even Donald Trump himself gave up the game of using talk of a Trump third term as a way of diverting news attention away from the Trump cruelties, especially the denial of food to hungry people around the world and soon here in the United States. That is what the third term talk was supposed ...