China hit back on Trump’s accusations of a trade war truce violation. Trump considers pardoning a musician accused of sex trafficking. The Education Department is targeting efforts to change Native American mascots.

Hours later, Trump said in the Oval Office that he will speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping and “hopefully we’ll work that out,” while still insisting China had violated the agreement.

Trump had earlier accused the Chinese side of having "TOTALLY VIOLATED" the Geneva agreement that had resulted in the U.S. and China both reducing their import tariffs by 115 perc