AP Headline News May 27 2019 09:00 (EDT)

 

AP Radio News. I'm Rita Foley.

 

A public disagreement between President Trump and his host Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The leaders held a joint new conference in Tokyo this morning and a reporter asked whether President Trump was bothered by North Korea's recent short range missile test.

"You're not bothered at all by the small missiles?"

"No I'm not. I am personally not."

But Prime Minister Abe disagreed pubicly with the President. Japan sees the missile tests as a threat and Abe said they violate U.N. Security Council resolutions. President Trump also sided with North Korea's leader on the subject of Joe Biden, the Democratic Presidential contender.

"Kim Jung Eun made a statement that Joe Biden is a low IQ individual and he probably is based on his record. I think I agree with him on that."

Trump ally and a Republican Senator Linzy Graham told FOX News Sunday that President Trump's legacy is at stake as he deals with North Korea's Kim.

"I will give Trump the space he needs to deal with Kim but I'll remind the President that you have to deliver on this is one the signature issues of your administration."

The President is holding out hope that he can get Kim to agree to give up his nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.

 

Mother nature is making millions of people miserable. Temperatures may well top 100 degrees in parts of the deep south and over the weekend, tornados slammed into parts of Oklahoma including Sapulpa where Samantha Ward lives.

"All of a sudden, there was a flash of lightening and we saw the clouds coming down into a funnel like ok we need to get in and that just in that split send later, we saw one of the little trees bent completely over."

She talked to KO TV. Another Tornado tore through a mobile home park near Oklahoma city over the weekend, killing 2 people.

 

Fiat Chrysler is proposing a merger with Renault which would make it the 3rd largest car company in the world behind only Volkswagen and Toyota. Shares of both companies jumped more than 10% on the news. This is AP Radio News.

 

House Democrats can't decide whether they think President Trump should be impeached. Congressman Hakeem Jeffries who chairs the House Democratic caucus says the party needs to focus on its agenda.

"We'll proceed as speaker Pelosi has eloquently laid out methodically yet agressively to get to the truth." But congresswoman Rashida Tlaib believes more Democrats are favoring impeachment.

"I think it is moving towards that. It's gonna demand it. It already is."

Jeffries and Tlaib spoke on NBC's "Meet the Press" Republican Senator Linzy Graham tells FOX News Sunday that House speaker Nancy Pelosi is battering her members.

"She knows an impeachment would be politcal suicide."

 

Fewer than 1/3 of the 23 Democrats vying for the presidential nomination have called for an impeachment. Mike Hempton, Washington.

 

If you're travelling on this Memorial Day, gas is $2.83 a gallon according to the AAA. A year ago, it was $2.97.

Rita Foley. AP Radio News.