incredible way and that s the power of the trips and that s something often times you hear from the white house that they really hoped that these can be reset for the president, then he comes back to the united states having looked presidential for 12 or 14 days, then his bully pulpit is a little bit stronger putting behind him some of the domestic issues. fresher on domestic issues and comes back and talks about tax reform and the like. well, and the show must go on at home right here. so we hear speaker ryan out, he will be on fox news sunday, he s out front and ready to be promoting tax plan and successes they ve had this week and as they hammer out the details and those. and so you talk about the president even though it s an exhausting trip, it it may be on opportunity to focus on global relations before he comes back to tackle some of those things at home which at times would be a little bit more challenging when we talk about the infighting and also leland:
stay on message during this trip specially when we see things heat up? well, the tweets were unusual, you don t see to see the united states president ordering the department of justice to investigate opponents. they brought a lot of criticism. we know the president for several months, rants about jeff sessions, attorney general, he thinks that it s unfair, it has nothing to do with the meeting and i m tired of it. the question is what happens overseas if the mueller probe stays quiet, if there are in new indictments, no new subpoenas, big news stories, maybe the president doesn t talk about it. but was know from his lawyers and talking to people close to him, he tracks this closely and follows every development and if something significant happens, it s hard you won t see a response from the president. liz: thank you so much for joining us. a live picture, a huge trip ahead of the president and we appreciate you joining us. thanks for having me,
there s always things that can derail you at the moment. you have the administration that wants to be focused on the trip. i assume part of the focus will be but you have tax reform, you have mueller, a lot of other things happening back in the united states. liz: right. do i want to bring up mueller probe because there was obviously ahead of this trip to hawaii yesterday and we looked at a similar picture, different location before he head today hawaii yesterday and criticism that he was bringing up tweets ahead of the trip that were related to the mueller probe and he was sort of using bully pup it to talk about that the dnc should be investigated. we heard that before. do we need the president to stay on message and do you think the mueller probe is something that we will be hearing about and as you answer the question just to bring our viewers at the speed of live pictures that we are looking at, president trump obviously walking up to air force one and we see the first lady there
about 10 months or so, nine months or so and shinzo abe and him have seen ie eye to eye on north korea. the japanese and united states pushing forward. something to me in remark yesterday, who would have thought in 1945 that america would be talking to japan about increasing their military strength and perhaps changing their constitution in the way shinzo abe has said to perhaps allow for a more aggressive military stance and as we watch air force one take off, it shows you how much has changed in the world over the past few decades. liz: right. you brought up a good point earlier when you talked about just this severe just how long this trip is and we talked initially 11 days, now it s 12 days, obviously he extended the trip by a day on friday when he agreed to participate in the summit in the philippines.
this is the longest obviously trip by an american president since george h.w. bush in 1992 and you brought up the stamina issue because there s going to be so much global focus on this trip and like you said, friendly territory but you look at itinerary, he will be talking to u.s.-japanese forces and he has a number of things on ie itinerary and could there be a number of things that come out of it specially the united front that we have been discussing. i think it s incredible that he s really taking on this 12-day journey with so much to tackle and and specially so much going on back at home, so as he continues to stay on message, i hope that we see that on twitter and with see that with media reports coming out of this trip. like you said, he s going to be hitting the ground running and it s not going to be an easy task by all means. leland: well, on his last trip