TRUMP ON LATEST MASS KILLING: President Trump is in Japan today where it is already Monday night. North Korea tops his agenda, but the latest mass shooting in the United States has overshadowed the first day of his Japan visit. Trump says the 26-year-old man who gunned down at least 26 people in a small Texas church during Sunday service was “a very deranged individual. … Sutherland Springs, Texas, such a beautiful, wonderful area with incredible people. Who would ever think a thing like this could happen?”

The Texas church massacre occurred one month after a gunman in Las Vegas killed 58 people and wounded more than 500, firing from his 32nd floor hotel room into a crowd of country music fans. As in that case, the president has said it’s not the time to talk about any changes in U.S. gun laws. “We have a lot of mental health problems in our country, as do other countries, but this isn’t a guns situation,” Trump said at a news conference in Japan early this morning Washington time. “I mean we could go into it, but it’s a little bit soon to go into it, but fortunately, somebody else had a gun that was shooting in the opposite direction. Otherwise it would have been as — as bad as it was, it would have been much worse,” Trump said. “This is a mental health problem at the highest level.”