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One brought it up to the president in the lunch yesterday. why? >> what the president was doing was providing a very broad overview of the topics that are important to all of us and we have those conversations with the president privately and one-on-one. i know that whenever i do call about those types of issues and believe me, i have talked to the president about china and about tariffs. he was always very, very responsive and i feel that i get a better discussion when i'm talking to him one-on-one and able to make the points that are important to iowans, for example. i know many others have ...

This meeting is behind closed doors, interesti ing to see how forceful the republicans call out president trump when he's actually in the room with them. i think a lot of the sentiment we will hear today from those republicans is, like -- is, look, this is someone who deserves our respect and despite differences you have with him, we should make that clear. we'll see if there are any changes from the white house. >> you're also reporting that republicans plan to push the president on another issue, what he really means when he tweets out that he wants to help the chinese company zte get back i...

Axios that zte in his view is divorced from the trade issue, the trade story. then kudlow is undermining the other element of how the president is kind of making out this zte issue. so what now? >> well, it is head spinning. i think one of the reasons you hear the concern that you're hearing from capitol hill is, this is not some sort of, you know, question in people's mind, if this is a good company or bad company. this company violated sanctions. this is -- and the president's tweets seem to come out of nowhere as so many of his tweets do. people are starting to wonder and this is different ...

A certain number of people who believe it. i don't think he differentiates. the thing i think will be interesting is what we have seen a lot of out of congressional republicans is a tut tut, i wish he wouldn't do that, whether that's kelly sadler, zte, the millions of other things s he' said that they have taken issue with but there is no follow through. there is no next step. the president said this, and i feel satisfied or the president didn't and we're going to take x, y or z legislative action. remember, congress is a co-equal branch of the government. republicans run congress. they don't ...

Because of the tariffs put on china. president trump, two of his key issues are now coming to a head. he wants to hold china accountable on trade and reduce the trade deficit with the country, but at the same time he needs them in order to advance a potential peace negotiation with north korea. so he is trying to appease them perhaps on that angle of things, and maybe that is why he is legging up on this other trade issue. >> the tweet reads like a distilled version of the chinese government's talking points of what they're looking for in these negotiations. to add a little more nuance to it, ...