Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that's so desperate for a guest host that they called me.

I'm Sam Stein, in for Ali Vitale on this Friday, May 15th, and we'll start with the news.

President Trump is on his way back to the United States this morning, boarding Air Force One overnight,

after a busy two-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Visit was filled with pageantry in kind words, but little tangible policy change in

the relationship between the two superpowers.

Key divisions remain with China issuing a stark warning against further U.S. support of Taiwan.

The president did mention some wins from the trip, including new trade deals, but he gave

little details about those deals, musically vague about any commitment from China with respect

to Iran.

This has been an incredible visit.

I think a lot of good has come up with.

We've made some fantastic trade deals, great for both countries.

These are men I respect greatly, become really afraid.

We did discuss Iran.

We feel very similar in Iran.

We want that to end.

And we don't want them to have a nuclear weapon.

We want the streets open. We're closing it now. They closed it. Then we close it on top of them.

But we want the streets open. And we want them to get it ended because it's a crazy thing. They're a little bit crazy.

Now, President Trump met with Xi Jinping for their final closed door discussion.

At the symbolic headquarters of China's ruling Communist Party,

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