jim accoster is in palm beach. extremely high stakes for the president tonight. reporter: that s right, erin. president trump is in florida for what could be some tense talks with the chinese president, from trade to north korea. syria is likely to dominate his thoughts as he and his national security team are making clear syria leader s bashar al assad s day are numbered. it s a commander in chief test. he told reporters on air force 1 that bashar al assad may have to pay a price its attack on civilians. i think it s a disgrace to humanity. i guess he s there and i guess he s running things. so something should happen. i i think what happened in seesh ya is one of the truly egregious crimes and it shouldn t have happened and it shouldn t be happening now.