meeting with putin. this meeting was also much bigger than the meeting with the russian president. at that meeting you only had secretary of state rex tillerson along with president trump and a translator. at this meeting with president xi, more seated at the table, including tillerson and the hr director, and jared kushner, wilbur ross and you had the top economic and top military advisors seated as well and that gives you a sense of the top issues discussed. trade and north korea. on north korea, president trump said that something must be done. he had been hoping that china would be able to do something to get north korea to the negotiating table, or at least put some pressure on them. so far that hasn't seemed to happen. on the way over, they tweeted trade between china and north korea had increased by 40% over the first quarter. so, that was a big topic of discussion and then trade. president trump has been trying to level the playing field