The Latest: McConnell tells home state group trade is good

FILE - In this June 6, 2017 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. listens as President Donald Trump, speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. The rift between President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is poised to have lasting consequences on the GOP legislative agenda and Republicans' re-election prospects. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) FILE - In this June 6, 2017 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. listens as President Donald Trump, speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. The rift between President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is poised to have lasting consequences on the GOP legislative agenda and Republicans' re-election prospects. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

By Associated Press August 24, 2017 2 min read

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on the division between President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (all times local):

10:20 a.m.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he is concerned with some of President Donald Trump’s talk on trade, saying congressional leaders have a “selling job” to convince people that “trade is a winner for America.”

It was the latest evidence of growing tensions between the president and the Senate Republican leader. McConnell’s comments came during a speech to a breakfast sponsored by the Kentucky Farm Bureau in his home state.

McConnell said the assumption that every free trade agreement is a losing proposition for America is “largely untrue.” He said that accounting for all the nation’s free trade agreements, the U.S. sells far more than it buys.