no. they re by design. you mentioned the meeting between putin and xi. this was their 30th meeting. they signed, you know, a number of trade deals which are significant, but the trade between those two countries pales in comparison to us. you know, the last half an hour we ve been, you know, listening to your people, your guests talking about the trade war. that s an indicator. i would say the posture issues with the su-35 going after a u.s. navy reconnaissance plane in international wears just two days ago waters, and, of course, the ships that almost collided in the philippine sea, we have routine things like that across the world whether it s under the sea or off the alaska coast or off the california coast. these things becoming very predictable. i identify 16 indicators in alliance of evil that we ve
you know the phrase what doesn t kill you makes you stronger. if i walk off the set at 1:00, i m good. it s still an hour left. come on now. we won t kill you but we ll cut you. speak for yourself. i have band-aids. president trump is gearing up to meet shinzo abe at the white house any minute now. that s what you re looking at in your screen there. a beautiful day in washington. the two men will have a joint news conference later this afternoon. japan has been adamant about their desire for the us to stick to a hard line approach in dealing with north korea. it fears the president will make a deal with pyongyang regarding their nuclear program that fails to account for short range missiles that could hit japan. today s meeting will come a week before president trump is set to meet with the north korean dictator for negotiates.
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if they don t denuclearize, it will not be acceptable. we cannot take sanctions off. the sanctions are extraordinarily powerful. i can add more. but i have chosen not to do that at this time. but that may happen. by the way, with iran, we re adding tremendously powerful sanctions. they understand that very well. i think iran is not the same country if you look. i don t think they re looking to the mediterranean like they were two months ago. it s a big difference. number 1 nuclear but also you get the side benefit that iran is a different place and we ll see what happens. maybe ultimately something will happen with iran. for our meeting next week, i think it s going to be a very fruitful meeting. it s going to be an exciting meeting. i think we re going to get to know a lot of people that our country never got to know. this is something that should have been handled many years ago
news conference, which we will carry live here. they will address issues like north korea, trade and north korea s missile program, which the japanese have expressed concern over. this again in front of president trump s big meeting in singapore next week with north korean dictator kim jong-un. we saw the north korean delegation in the same place last week on friday in the oval office. so we ll see and get that tape from the meeting with shinzo abe, the japanese prime minister as it comes to us so we know what is going on ahead of the singapore summit. and a fox news alert. a growing show down over rod rosenstein who will not recuse himself unless it deems it necessary. all of this amid if rosenstein should be a witness. the doj responding the deputy