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Straight to the white house to abby phillips standing by with the latest. do we have any sort of read out yet from that call? >> we dont yet, brooke. a white house official confirmed the call is now over. the first time president putin and trump are speaking since they met in vietnam on the sidelines of apec. the key here to this call is about the future of syria. the interesting thing about vladimir putins meeting with bashar al assad earlier this week was that what came out of it was talk of a...

They have met face-to-face just one in the last 48 hours here when they were at apec. seemed to be comfortable meeting as they said. but what is to come is what is in question. >> yes. >> exchanging some pleasantries here with duterte and the first lady. just a quick photograph here. the question is will the president be forceful when it comes to the issue of human rights as matt rivers detailed there. folks do not be fooled by the raw silk and smooth jazz. according to human rights associations...

Families will slowly rebuild. very tough to recover from that kind of a loss. but, please, on behalf of the united states, accept our condolences. and at the same time, our congratulations on a job well done. vietnam has truly become one of the great miracles of the world and it is very impressed no matter where you come from, no matter who you are. when you look at whats happened in vietnam, there is nothing more impressive. thank you very much for this honor. and i look forward to seeing you, ...

Still the president hopes to have laid a robust foundation. a strong show of support from chinese president xi jinping can bolster the presidents position when hes expected to meet with russian president vladimir putin. that will be at the end of the week, likely tomorrow or saturday at the apec conference in vietnam. >> bret: a lot a focus on elections last night in the u.s. but the president wanted to commemorate one year ago for his election. the big election, general election. >> it doesnt o...

White ball around with both abe and hawaii deck key matsuyama who is ranked number four in the world in professional golf. the president getting off to a bit of a recreational start today, but hes got a lot of heavy lifting ahead of him with a lot of important talks on security in the region, particularly with north korea at the center of it all as well as trade. the president not particularly happy with the fact that the u.s. is running trade deficits with japan, huge one with china and with so...

Old lunatic. mr. trump tweeting, why would kim jong-un insult me by calling me old when i would never call him short or fat. oh, well, i tried so hard to be his friend and maybe some day that will happen. kevin corke is in the philippines. whats on the agenda for the president? reporter: i will steer clear of the jokes about height and weight. economic ties are the main focus. but you are going to hear a great deal about the necessity* for security cooperation. the president just left one econom...

Advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens? i give china great credit. but in actuality i do blame past administrations for allowing this out of control trade deficit to take place and to grow. >> rectifying the trade deficit between the united states and china is not going to be done overnight. it will take years if it can ever be rectified totally. faster movement might be done on the opioid crisis. he said china has to stop dropping precursor drugs for fentanyl and take a gr...

Property, so the tough on china economic policy that trump promised throughout his campaign is coming, but you wont see it in beijing. that will be a smile test. >> back to russia, clearly, the president has to expect hes going to be peppered with a lot of russia-related questions and we know vladimir putin is going to be at the apec submit in vietnam. david, do you see any potential of these two having any kind of sideline meeting or brush with one another? >> perhaps they will. josh may have s...

Died in the war. this is the first sitting american president to come here since the end of the vietnam war. really, this was the moment that grabbed all of the headlines. the spotlight this evening. the handshake between presidents trump and putin at the asia pacific economic conference. trump has said he sought putins audience and help on the north korea issue but so far no formal meeting has been managed to be put into schedules. it will be very interesting to see what comes of any possible e...

Hello, john. >> reporter: julie -- [speaking japanese] on a sup morning, were at -- on a sunday morning, were at the air base just west of tokyo where the presidents going to touch down in about two and a half hours time. the first order of business will be an address to the troops, 14,000 of them stationed here. behind me, a contingent of marines here on the mainland, they were doing some training, and theyre transferring back to okinawa, so they will be part of this evenings goings-on as well....