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China, south korea and certainly with china. the is there any optimism there? any hope for progress on narrowing a $70 million gap with south korea? >> there is mutual enthusiasm for starting the renegotiation of the trade agreement and getting it done quick. this is an irritant in an otherwise happy alliance. they want to get past it. now, when trump gets to china it's going to be a different situation. when he's standing next to xi ping it's going to be smiles and hand shakes. then when trump getting home, his white house will make a series of decisions that will ramp up the economic pressur...

>> china of course the main key when it comes to having sanctions work given the degree of trade that happens between the two countries, this latest round of u.n. sanctions was adopted unanimous by the security counsel, but it was a watered down version of what was initially proposed. watered down to try to get key support of china and russia. the sub text to that is that sanctions as a diplomatic tool are pretty much maxed out. so people will be listening for what president trump has to say about north korea, given this mixed messaging coming from the united states. u.n. secretary general has...

President vladimir putin. a discussion between the two countries president in nearly two years. >> if putin likes donald trump i consider that an asset not a liable. because we have a horrible relationship with russia. >> reporter: but the trump administration is hopeful for a breakthrough. >> our relationship with russia is not ditch than any other country. >> reporter: the meeing comes amid an ongoing special counsel investigation and mumble congressional probes into russia's meddling into the u.s. election. it's not clear if the issue will be raised when the leader meets. instead the presid...

Vladimir putin and his chinese count about xi ping had a meeting. north korean very high on that agenda. what did we hear? >> that was here in mouse cow and it coincided with the missile launch in north korea. both countries put out a joint statement where they expressed concern about the missile launch but stopped short at condemning it. both russia and china are signature tors to united -- which banned north korea from nuclear weapons test and further developing its miss t technology. the two leaders put forth a proposed plan for de-escalating principaling on the peninsula kaubling for a dou...

That's the craziest idea in the world. flattering him, calling him a smart cookie, it's so much like trump. he's been on a flattery tour recently with xi ping, duterte, kim jong-un, a phone call with erdogan of turkey. he operates in hyperbole, bragadocia of himself and flattery of others. would it be useful for the north korea and others to talk with china, russia, japan presumably as the partners in guaranteeing the talks, the answer is yes. that would be a good idea. >> sure that would be a good idea. that's been done before. but for there to be a summit level talk between leaders. i was ta...