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Of his comments. as we wait, we want to go to the u.n. to speak to abby phillip. as were waiting for the presidents speech there, big developments concerning the presidents embattled supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. whats the latest youre hearing? >> thats right, jim. we know this is one of the big things on president trumps mind as hes coming to the u.n. this week. hes been urging -- yeah. >> the president walking into the building as youre speaking. set the context here as he faces this ...

Recent weeks and months. but hes absolutely determined to do it. the problem is, and again jim, you know this, when he goes after china on trade, if hes going to do it as aggressively as we think he might in the speech coming up, how much is that going to hurt his chances of getting things done in north korea? because china is now and always has been and always will be the linchpin in that region and with north korea. >> ryan lizza, as i speak to people who follow the u.s./china relationship clo...

Things she did not mention were defunding the u.n. agency for palestinians, for pulling out of the international criminal court, and the list goes on and on. but jim, he will hit on north korea, of course. that was one of the main themes last year. thats when trump was taunting kim jong-un, calling him little rocket man, threatening to annihilate north korea. we find ourselves in a very different place this year following that summit in singapore. just yesterday, the president talking about the ...

Dialogue, i do not see it as beneficial nor appropriate, but you should ask him who made such requests. >> well, jim, you can see its kind of unusual, body language and verbal sparring between these two leaders. it appears that president trump manages to get all the world leaders to kind of respond in kind. so thats what rouhani was doing. and he then went on more seriously to say that the reason we cannot meet now is because we need to have movement on the iran nuclear deal. that president trum...

Calling, saying i am sure rouhani is an absolutely lovely man. jim, china is going to be the area where most of us are going to be watching closely. thats the area of u.s. foreign policy that has perhaps the greatest consequences. the president is expected to defend his tariffs, to talk about how china has been unfair in international trade, how they violated international law in terms of maritime law and intellectual property. essentially what were going to see is the president going into the h...

Obviously, the president privy to classified information, to communications between secretary of state pompeo and the north koreans could know more than we know at this time, but one of the biggest tells to know whether north korea is really going to change its behavior over time and get around to cbid alt some point is how they treat their own people. the only thing that props up the kim regime, and theyre all about self-preservation, is the nuclear program. the minute they denuclearize in a re...

Especially those who are in farm rich states, they are being targeted directly because of where they are by the chinese. the chinese and, jim, you know this better than anyone, you understand that country and how it works. they are focused on the political situation here, and theyre trying to hit the president and hit the republican party where it hurts the most, and that is in key swing districts. so thats for sure going to be part of the presidents audience. to try to reassure people back home...

President, hassan rouhani. you heard the president both on camera and earlier today in his tweets seeming to leave the door open to a possible meeting with the iranian president at some time. based on your conversations, is rouhani open to meeting with trump? >> well, jim, heres the thing. this specific question to rouhani was based on a specific tweet by president trump and the specific thing he just said just then, which was that he said despite repeated requests, implying that the iranians ha...

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