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President Trump has long believed other countries were taking advantage of the U.S. when it comes to trade. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to Tim O'Brien, executive editor of Bloomberg View and author of Trump Nation, about the roots of Trump's views on trade.

At the beginning of November, the six-member White House opioid commission delivered 56 recommendations to President Trump, for reigning in the nation's opioid crisis. On Thursday, the White House hosted a summit on opioids. Commission member Bertha Madras speaks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about the progress she sees happening, or not, toward those 56 recommendations.

The National Weather Service, already understaffed, would lose at least 200 positions in the White House's proposed budget for fiscal year 2019.

Special counsel Mueller has unveiled 32 new charges of money laundering and other crimes against President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business partner Robert Gates.

Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California about President Trump's latest tweets concerning the Russia influence probe. He tweeted: "Schiff, the leakin' monster of no control."

We have an update on the Paralympics now underway in South Korea, plus Tiger Woods and college basketball.

Rex Tillerson has been replaced as secretary of state. The president says he is nominating CIA Director Mike Pompeo. The surprise Cabinet change was announced on Twitter by President Trump.

There has been a big development in the mysterious death of a Border Patrol agent beside a remote highway in West Texas last year. The case received national attention because President Trump speculated it was a brutal murder committed by smugglers. The FBI now says, after an exhaustive investigation, that they have found no evidence the officer's death was a homicide.

Emory Rounds III, if confirmed by the Senate, will take charge of the Office of Government Ethics, a once obscure agency that advises federal workers on how to comply with ethics laws.

New Jersey has several Republican House seats Democrats would like to flip. In one, the Democratic primary involves a candidate who is moderate on gun issues and backed by party establishment figures.