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Of his comments. as we wait, we want to go to the u.n. to speak to abby phillip. as we're waiting for the president's speech there, big developments concerning the president's embattled supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. what's the latest you're hearing? >> that's right, jim. we know this is one of the big things on president trump's mind as he's coming to the u.n. this week. he's been urging -- yeah. >> the president walking into the building as you're speaking. set the context here as he faces this crisis back in washington. here's the president, he's going to speak. sorry to interrupt. ...

Recent weeks and months. but he's absolutely determined to do it. the problem is, and again jim, you know this, when he goes after china on trade, if he's going to do it as aggressively as we think he might in the speech coming up, how much is that going to hurt his chances of getting things done in north korea? because china is now and always has been and always will be the linchpin in that region and with north korea. >> ryan lizza, as i speak to people who follow the u.s./china relationship closely, the fact is despite the criticisms, that the u.s. has china's attention now. on these issues...

Things she did not mention were defunding the u.n. agency for palestinians, for pulling out of the international criminal court, and the list goes on and on. but jim, he will hit on north korea, of course. that was one of the main themes last year. that's when trump was taunting kim jong-un, calling him little rocket man, threatening to annihilate north korea. we find ourselves in a very different place this year following that summit in singapore. just yesterday, the president talking about the beautiful letter he had gotten from kim jong-un and talking about a second summit. as for iran, he'...

Dialogue, i do not see it as beneficial nor appropriate, but you should ask him who made such requests. >> well, jim, you can see it's kind of unusual, body language and verbal sparring between these two leaders. it appears that president trump manages to get all the world leaders to kind of respond in kind. so that's what rouhani was doing. and he then went on more seriously to say that the reason we cannot meet now is because we need to have movement on the iran nuclear deal. that president trump has pulled the united states out of it, he said that -- he calls it illegally and unjustifiably....

Calling, saying i am sure rouhani is an absolutely lovely man. jim, china is going to be the area where most of us are going to be watching closely. that's the area of u.s. foreign policy that has perhaps the greatest consequences. the president is expected to defend his tariffs, to talk about how china has been unfair in international trade, how they violated international law in terms of maritime law and intellectual property. essentially what we're going to see is the president going into the home of international diplomacy, a place where -- that is designed to foster multilateral global co...