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welcome to the journal editorial report. im paul gigot. a high-stakes summit in san francisco this week as president biden met with chinese president xi jinping in an effort to cool tensions with beijing as conflicts rage in ukraine and israel. the president hailed his four hour meeting with xi as productive even as china warned that re unification with taiwan is quote unstoppable. heres president biden on what the two discussed. >> i reiterated what i have said since ive become presid...

Obscure to famous in 24 to 48 hours. >> what do you make of that possible argument that the mayor is making there, that you can have a pop -- >> sure. >> -- if youre not on the debate stage, and that can turn things around for you? >> sure. in that case, in that regard, he does have a point. in the age of social media, you can go viral and you can try to ride that wave. but we havent seen anyone really do that just yet. and when it comes to mayor de blasio, with all due respect when your own pol...

Not donald trump. >> that is a great point. theres a life in the law for you. >> and on top of that, ill say, i understand what bob is saying. and people at the white house are accurately reflecting the notion the president thinks in a mano a mano political fight where he has the megaphone and the other person is mute that he will win. i dont know what the evidence for that is. i mean, you look at bob mueller right now. who has a higher standing in american life between bob mueller, who has not ...

Decisions. >> maya, this would give us some indication, would continue, of how the trump white house would deal with subpoenas? >> oh, i think we know that they will fight subpoenas to the death. i think one of the things, to go back to the point about chief justice roberts, is between the two of them only one of them has a lifetime appointment and it is not donald trump. >> that is a great point. theres a life in the law for you. >> and on top of that, ill say, i understand what bob is saying. ...

Will fight subpoenas to the death. i think one of the things, to go back to the point about chief justice roberts, is between the two of them only one of them has a lifetime appointment and it is not donald trump. >> that is a great point. theres a life in the law for you. >> and on top of that, ill say, i understand what bob is saying. and people at the white house are accurately reflecting the notion the president thinks in a mano a mano political fight where he has the megaphone and the other...

Speculating that the president may not fully grasp what he is getting into locking horns in a fight with the chief justice of the supreme court, as i know you know. but these are the times were living in, bob. >> thats exactly right, brian. this is the political view of a white house, a white house that unusually sees the court as a potential battleground, a battleground in politics not just when it comes to judicial decisions. >> maya, this would give us some indication, would continue, of how ...

Answer to one question. is trump cutting into clintons lead or is he not? we just talked about, he is cutting into the lead but not enough to get all the way there. for a while, ive been saying there are certain things he would need to do if hell be in a position to pull off an upset in this presidential contest. a surge in national polls was one of the things. weve seen it in the abc news tracking poll but not a significant surge in any other major national polls. he had to show more message di...

More giving to the mormon church than we know about and is uncomfortable talking about mormonism, yes. he is making a judgment and clearly decided he is going to try to tough this out, because he thinks its worse if he releases them. >> the other thing, not to defend him at all, they may point to -- ive heard his campaign officials point to the fact that this has not affected their campaign, their polling standing in some of the key states. if you begin to see a drop and we see new numbers come ...