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Laura Coates Live

Trump Returns From Xi Summit with Few Wins, No Iran Breakthrough

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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President Trump departed Beijing without any immediate sign that the US and China have resolved challenges dogging their relationship, but with a freshly stabilized relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, tonight, the summit's over.

0:04.4

This trade still closed.

0:06.6

And the president faces a major choice on Iran.

0:09.7

Plus, Democrats accusing the president of a shakedown, as reports emerged of a controversial

0:14.8

DOJ idea to potentially pay his allies and claim they were victimized by Biden's DOJ. And later,

0:22.5

Alex Murdoch's attorneys make a claim about Evans they think could shock the retrial. Just as the state

0:28.0

warns, they may go for the death penalty this time. A juror speaking out on all of this tonight

0:33.2

on Lara Coates Live.

0:46.9

My opening statement tonight, Trump's right back where he started before the summit with Jijan Ping, embattled, entrenched, and still unable to articulate how or when the war with Iran ends.

0:55.5

I mean, you heard him this week.

0:57.0

His focus is on stopping them from having a nuclear weapon.

1:00.8

Americans' financial pain?

1:02.8

Not a consideration.

1:04.6

After Vice President J.D. Vance unsuccessfully tried to do cleanup on aisle 12 after that comment,

1:10.5

Fox News gave him a mulligan on that very question, and he hit it even further into the

1:15.6

rough.

1:17.4

You can imagine Democrats and political pundits jumped all over this statement.

1:23.6

The people get it.

1:24.0

It's a perfect statement.

1:25.1

I make it again.

1:25.9

It's very simple.

1:29.4

When people hear me say it everybody agrees short-term pain well the polls tell a different story because they show 60% of

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