in beautiful tokyo. and kristin, what is the goal for the trip for the president besides getting a nice tan on the golf course today? reporter: well obviously trade is going to be front and center as you talked about, kendis, the president engaged in a major trade standoff and a trade war with china. he wants to get a bilateral trade deal with japan. will he be able to do it? it is going to be very difficult and in part because there are parliamenty elections next month but a number of sticking points. the u.s. accuses japan of having a $56.8 billion trade surplus. the president frequently accused japan for having chronic trade surpluses. take a listen on what he had to say on that point today when he spoke to the business leaders. as you know the united states and japan are hard at work negotiating a bilatter trade agreement to benefit both of our countries.