Both sources familiar with the conversation said Trump wasn’t expressing regret for the specific vaping policy outcome, which the team believes is the right one, but rather for personally wading into vaping and e-cigarette policy in the first place rather than leaving it up to the Food and Drug Administration.

Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio was talking during the meeting about health care as a 2020 issue, including the importance of protecting people with pre-existing conditions.

Trump also ribbed Azar over drug prices, per two sources familiar, asking him, “When are you gonna get these drug prices lower?” and pressing him to “hurry up” on rules that would let people import cheaper drugs from Canada.