trump s re-ordained list. selected by powerful special interests who will reverse the progress we have made over the decades. until the kennedy announcement, the big news was the pending summit between president trump and russia s vladimir putin. it s good for everybody. we will probably meet around my trip to europe. the foundation for a bilateral meeting was laid by the national security advisor john bolton. he met with putin and his foreign minister. bolton expects the topic of russian meddling in the 2016 election to come up. i expect it will be a subject of conversation between the two presidents. the leaders last met in the apeck summit in vietnam. the white house said there was no need for a bilateral meeting. the two did not have much to
president trump is gearing up for a series of meetings later today at the opec summit in vietnam a peck summit in vietnam. there it is, in which president trump was seen sharing small talk with russian president vladimir putin. well, the exchange comes amid word from the white house that there will be no formal meeting due to scheduling conflicts on both sides. despite that, white house secretary sarah huckaby sanders says they will be in the same place, are they going to bump into each opts and say hello,? certainly that is likely and possible. how coy. we ll be right back. and administrative paperwork, your days of drowning people are numbered. same goes for you, budget overruns. and rising costs, wipe that smile off your face. we re coming for you too. at optum, we re partnering across the health system
notice and squeezed in a round of golf with japan s prime minister shinzo abe. janice, what kind of welcome can the president expect as he moves through the region? reporter: well, keir, it was on the airplane here that president trump suggested to reporters that he would indeed meet with russian president vladimir putin. he ll do so on the sidelines of the a peck summit in vietnam toward the end of the week. he said, quote, we want putin s help on north korea. now, north korea, of course, will be the dominant issue on this trip. when president trump arrived in japan today he addressed u.s. troops who are stationed here and didn t mention north korea specifically. but told them they are the greatest threats to tyrants and dictators. here is more of what he had to say. no one, no dictator, no regime and no nation should underestimate ever american
we re breaking use at this hour. president obama is attending the apeck summit. he s at a press conference a short time ago. the president responded with some strong criticism toward the governors and the presidential candidates, republican presidential candidates who said syrian refugees shouldn t be accepted in the united states. let s listen to this. with respect to the refugee debate that he s been taking place, i gather, while we ve been gone. what happened in paris is terrible. because you have this vibrant, modern, open, diverse, tolerant western city that reminds us of home, that reminds us of our own caves and our own parks and our own sparks and stadiums.fes and