okay. so in light of that, the president essentially really calling out china specifically around potentially being a part of the stalled talks that the u.s. was having with north korea. so when you put those tweets alongside his absence of these two fall summits, what do you make of it? it s hard to square them. like you say, we shouldn t read too much into the fact that he s not going to one set of meetings. previous presidents like president obama and president bush often skip the meetings, at least once. but when you pair that with the fact that he is starting a trade war with china, you would think he would be want to be present at these meetings to show u.s. leadership in order to cultivate the relationships with our other asian allies who we need to really isolate china in order for him to be successful with his policy to press for china to compromise on trade. eboni: is it possible, as i read in the open, vice president pence is going to these so is it possible strategy fro
on anything. i don t expect that to happen but obviously, we want to look for that. judge kavanaugh s opening statement at the end of tuesday i think will be a natural focal point. the rest of tuesday is going to be a lot of statements by the 21 members of the committee, so it will be a slow tuesday until we get to midafternoon or so. mike: ed whalen, thanks for teeing it up for us. eboni: president trump decides to skip two key meetings with asian leaders this fall. why is this raising concern among u.s. allies in the region? and the president continues to slam the justice department and fbi over the russia investigation. the president s latest warnings, up next. a lot of people talk about the department of justice like it s the fourth branch of government. it s not. all the executive power flows to the president of the united states. he delegates that power, he can take it back.
january 2017 which also sent a very serious message to our allies in asia about the priority he puts on having a good trade relationship with our allies there, i think those two things together, him not showing up for these meetings and pulling out of tpp, that does send a message. it s a negative message. hopefully pence can do a good job and make up for that and make some progress. eboni: so it definitely, you are factually stating correctly there, pulling out of tpp in 2017 sends a message. i m going to push back on you a little bit and say do we know it s a negative message? one of the things president trump has been unashamed about and very consistent around is his disruptor mentality. would you say it s fair at all to say this is a continuation of that disruption and perhaps there s some grander plan from the white house around how he s going to deal with china and the other partners in the region? you make a very good point. the president has a preference for bilateral trade d
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