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Plated golf clubs. after the green, trump heads to a sumo wrestling match where hell have a chance to prevent a trump cup to the winner. its to be followed by a dinner where the meat will be prepared just the way the president likes, probably well done, maybe even with a side of catsup. on the previous trip, he enjoyed similar fare where they sat down to eat an american-style hamburger. the vip treatment led to speculation of an effort to court trumps favor as deeper policy issues loom. >> japan...

An american style hamburger. the vip treatment has led to speculation of a calculated effort to trumps favor. after threats of damaging auto tariffs abe and trump are in the midst of bilateral trade negotiations as one of japans largest export markets, the u.s. is a market japan cannot afford to lose. but japan may find leverage after a dramatic failure of u.s. trade talks with china this month. on matters of security, north koreas resumption of missile testing has rattled many in nearby japan w...

A sumo wrestling match. it is to be followed by a dinner where the meat will be prepared just the way the president likes, probably well done, maybe even with a side of ketchup. on his previous trump, he and abe sat down to eat an american style hamburger. the vmip treatment has led to a calculated effort to court trumps favor. >> japan sends us millions and millions of cars and we tax them virtually not at all. >> reporter: after threats of tariffs, they are in the midst of bilateral trade nego...

Yore briefings as a u.s. senator, is this appropriate? >> you have to listen to the military when there is a threat. i wanted to talk to them about it. that wasnt happening when we had our classified briefing last week. that being said it really concerns me that this administration, this is a self-inflicted problem. first of all, they got out of the iran agreement, something that i would not have done leaving this all to our allies to enforce and giving more leverage to china and to russia, the ...

Were people calling for obamas justice department, go investigate cheney, go do these things, keep this alive. and there was political pressure to do it and they didnt because it creates -- >> there was something that actually did happen during the obama years, which was the senate investigated the cia torture program under bush. and there was a huge fight at the end of that about whether they were going to declassify that document where the cia kind of jammed up for a long time the ability to s...

And south korea. the projects they had under way have come to a standstill. north korea squarely blames the u.s. for this impasse. the north has been wanting at least partial sanctions relief for taking steps towards denuclearization while the trump administration wants all or nothing. president trump has tension with iran. north korea could be using this period as leverage in order to gain concessions knowing president trump considers north korea his foreign policy win. stephanie? >> all right,...

Counterintelligence investigation, which at some point started, we dont know what happened to it, do you think youll be able to discern if thats ongoing, if that was resolved in some way, if there has been any sort of conclusion as to those core questions about potential leverage over our government? >> yes, i do think we will learn that. that is to say the intelligence committee and quite possibly other people in the congress will learn that. the intelligence community is required to keep us ap...

About syria, the rise of isis. now we have donald trump also obsessed with not getting the united states into war, so much so that hes actually removed troops from syria, which were doing an extraordinary service, not on to the united states interests but interests across the middle east. what leverage do we have over north korea or iran or any country if they know this president is not going to follow through with any threat that he makes? because he is not going to go to war. hes not going to ...

Close to the president. >> because that kind of information wasnt in what we have seen of the mueller report, i think there is the sort of emerging revelation that we really -- we the public really dont know what happened to the counterintelligence investigation, what we expected mueller to be looking into which was whether or not there was foreign leverage over the president or his campaign or other senior positions in the

Dont know anything about traveling. during the roughly six-hour meeting, sex tear tillerson said while he didnt question jared kushners motives, his lack of knowledge of history exposed him to being outmaneuvered and he didnt follow protocols that made it difficult to understand what he was doing with world leaders. last year "the washington post" reported that four countries discussed ways they could manipulate kushner. the presidents son in law a living roomed officials because he was using pr...