All the news teams are on the ground in China to cover this epic and historic summit.

All except one, because our CBS News colleague, Tony DeCopal, is being forced to broadcast from Taiwan after failing to get a Chinese visa in time.

Well, that is disappointing, but it does fit in with their slogan, CBS News, when events happen, we're at most one country away.

All right, Stephen Colbert, not holding back on CBS, with only five shows left in his run on the late show.

As for President Trump's China trip, it's still not clear what,

if anything, was accomplished as he heads back to the United States claiming great deals,

but offering few details, deals for who? What are they? What's the goal here? We'll dig into the root causes also of rising grocery prices, as many Americans are feeling a financial squeeze on staples and at the pump.

Also, ahead, ICE is moving forward with plans to turn warehouses into detention centers, despite legal challenges and the unpopularity of these sites. We'll go through

that as well, especially since many in the state of Texas, for example, are quite a profit

machine. So there are a lot of incentives to get these built and to get more and more people

inside them reportedly under horrendous conditions.

Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It's Friday, May 15th. With us, we have the co-host of our 9 a.m.

Hour, staff writer at the Atlantic, Jonathan Lemire. MS Now National Affairs analyst, John Heilman,

he's partner and chief political columnist at Puck, MS now national security reporter, David Rode, and managing editor at the bulwark. Sam Stein is with us this morning. So I see you guys approved of my S&LJ. Very nice. Yeah, you saw that. Yeah, it dialed into hot culture. I did the weave. Yeah, I wore it right in. That was very good. What's the goal? What is it? What's the goal here? What are we doing? It's really good. They got to keep that guy coming back. Okay, let's get to our top story this morning. Or what we know about it. President Trump is on his way back to the United States this morning, boarding Air Force One overnight after a two-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

The visit was filled with pageantry and lots of 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 gave little details. He was equally vague about any commitment from China

on 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.

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