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About what is happening with kim jong-un and the threat from north korea, so that will be a big part of what happens over the next several days. youve got trade issues, youve got two economic summits, over five countries. so as much as the russia investigation has been dominant, there will now be a whole new parallel track of important international issues where the president will be dealing face-to-face with world leaders, grappling with what to do about north korea, so well see a lot of events...

Actually ends up being an extraordinarily long day, liz, because they have a ten-hour flight. then they have lunch, then they play golf and have dinner all before they get any time to go sleep in a bed that isnt flying 500 miles an hour. liz: you talk about how busy its going to be, according to media reports, like you said, hit the ground running, hes going to be speaking to u.s. and japanese forces at an air base shortly after arriving and it looks like hes going to be doing, you know, hes goi...

Former chief of staff for senator mitch mcconnell was echoing what you are saying. focusing on the democrats. i would have to think your team is relaxed because you are not being focused on but the president certainly has an eye out. he calls them obstructionists. >> i think democrats can never get complacent. i said the democratic party needs to find a way to get its voice back. we cant be the anti-trump party. we need to find and reconnect with the strong economic message that has been embrace...

Chief of staff for mitch mcconnell was echoing what you aree saying. focus in on the democrats, i would have to think that your team is rather relaxed at this focused on aid, but the president certainly has an eye out. ts calls them obstructionists. >> book, democrats can never be complacent. i have said a number of times, the democratic party needs to find a way to get its voice back. we cannot be the anti-trump party, we need to find and reconnect with the strong economic message that has been...

So trumps happy. >> jason, the president has reason to be happy, no? >> well, i think amanda made some good points, but my take on it is senator flake is down more than 20 points in a republican primary in arizona and hes down by 10 plus points in the democratic election next year. senator flake was going to lose his own primary. and he even made some comments today aside from his attacks on the president where he essentially admitted that his positions on immigration and on trade issues were ou...

Did express a vision for multilateralism and wanted to commitment himself on a number of topics. i think that many of us remember, his words in davos and they are very strongly expressed, his vision of chine in. a number of joint commitments including on climate. hes very committed to that and told me he wanted to do more in the field. i can only be happy about it, and like president trump said, also the trade issues and regarding the number of activities. they are issues, differences but a join...

Multilateralism and wanted to commit himself on a number of top topics. i think many of us remember his words in davos and he very strongly expressed his vision of china. we have a number of joint commitments including on climate. hes very committed to that and he told me that he wanted to do more in the field and i can only be happy about it. and like president trump said, trade issues and regarding a number of activities, there areish shouse and differences but a willingness to sort them out a...

Builders. they were very focused on economic issue, trade issues, security issues, north korea. >> so is the general consensus that the presidents meetings were more than just talk? >> well, you hit the nail on the head here. the presidents sideline meetings with really the ones that made the headlines. particularly vladimir putin. or his conversations with the chinese leaders over north korea. when the president campaigned, he did campaign on an america first policy. we saw him come out in this...

Impactful if he came out and took questions, but you know this is kind of the new normal. he communicates through tweets and you wait for the tweets to see exactly where he stands at the moment. i think this is what is to be expected. >> to that end, the president tweeted that the g 20 summit was a great success for the u.s., and plaining that we must fix many of the bad trade deals and it will get done. now i want to listen to what they said about the meetings at the g 20, here it is. >> i thin...

Korea did was wrong or theyre not. if they dont go along with that, the president has made it clear he will start looking at trade relations with china. >> senator, do you think trade is our best negotiating tool here? if so, how powerful a tool is it? >> well, frankly, i think its a mistake to try to use trade as leverage, to try to get cooperation from china, north korea. theyre separate issues. first of all, chinas very protectionist in the first place. we should not try to give any concessio...