remain as president trump welcomes japanese prime minister shinzo abe to his mar-a-lago estate today amid concerns over trade and north korea. the meeting between the two leaders came as word that north and south korea are working to formally end the state of war that has lasted more than 60 years. president trump trying to reassure his ally about his upcoming meeting. the meeting between himself and north korean leader kim jong un. but down playing what could be a very historic event. chief white house correspondent john roberts reports on the summit from florida. president trump today welcoming japan s prime minister to mar-a-lago for the second time. the two are friends and may play golf tomorrow morning. but these talks could be contentious at times. we re going to be discussing trade with japan. we are going to be discussing military. we re going to be discussing security. and we will, i am sure, at the outset, we are going to get along.
concentrated in the old classic orange county plus conservative rock red reagan california and those guys are still down there and they are still fly flying the flag. they are kind of like japanese soldiers in the war. bret: no thought that the president is going to win california. or that they are going to win seats in california. no. but any time the president can talk about immigration is a good day for him politically. it s just his go-to issue. it s important, it energizes his base around the country. it sends the message he wants to send. helps with fundraising from very wealthy counties. this is his touch stone issue. remember, the california republicans are actually just as elsewhere, very much behind the president. that s my experience with them day-to-day when i m there. there is no reason position. because exactly as jonah said it s a reasonable one. it s something that is a federal policy and should be as such. bret: panel, thank you. a master class in avoiding
our international competitiveness will erode and our children will become the first generation in american history that is poorer than the previous generation. bret: that was 2011. still true today? it is. the cbo report, not reported by very many is that tax revenues in america actually grew after tax reform. so, it s the spending that grew faster. so, my point is that we don t have a revenue problem. we have a spending problem. and that s where we need to focus our efforts. i m convinced we could start with the rescission package of savings cuts that the president is proposing working with congress. secondly, and i think this would be, i think, a major signal to america. the house has already passed a bill. last year with the trillion dollars of savings. in the first reforms of entitlement medicaid in its history. it s sitting in the senate today, just a couple votes short. we re going to encourage the senate to move on that bill because we think that takes a significant step for
politics of california right now, meaning that you don t just get any credit at all for doing anything vaguely cooperative with this administration. bret: he was asked about that today, governor brown here in d.c., asked about finding common ground. the fact is, america has 10 to 11 million people that are here. and they are human beings, they have families. it s very important that they be integrated in a humane, intelligent way. we want to be cooperative, i appreciate the president s tweet when he thanked me. there has been a little bit of back and forth as you always get with bureaucrats. i think we can find common understanding here. bret: he is just being very specific about what his troops can and cannot do. look, jerry brown is one the most experienced, effective politicians right now. i would say he is probably the most effective. and he knows that sometimes you cooperate with the president as he did when he
philadelphia. we ll follow that story. some of america s hardest working men and women are farmers. and they are feeling caught in the middle of a president trump s fight with china on trade. and they re asking the president to rethink his position on the matter before it s too late for them. correspondent doug mckelway has part one of our series on the fate of american farms. douglas comey and his employees arrive at one of hundreds of fields they farm throughout virginia. but the wind means spreading fertilizer will have to wait. unpredictable weather like this has kept farmers looking at the up sky for centuries. today they are also looking towards washington. china has trend retaliation of the proposed 25% tariff on u.s. corn, s soybeans and many other u.s. agricultural exports. it would put many people out of business, including maybe myself. we can t keep going without nothing. the looming trade war has rallied farm state lawmakers who see widespread economic