live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. u.s. president joe biden is expected to land in south korea next hour to begin his very first asia trip as president. he ll spen most of the weekend in the country holding talks with the new south korean president before heading to japan, where he ll be meeting with japan s prime minister as well as indian and australian leaders. officials say the trip to asia comes later in his presidency than he might have liked, but biden plans to, in his words, quote, affirm the importance of our indo-pacific alliances. cnn s kivevin liptak is live fr seoul. it s taken a while for him to make his first trip in his presidency. he is certainly coming over later than his recent predecessor, and probably a little later than he would have liked to. president biden has tried to make asia a center of his foreign policy, just like president obama did. just like president trump did. but he has been stymied somewhat by these other
live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. u.s. president joe biden is expected to land in south korea next hour to begin his very first asia trip as president. he ll spen most of the weekend in the country holding talks with the new south korean president before heading to japan, where he ll be meeting with japan s prime minister as well as indian and australian leaders. officials say the trip to asia comes later in his presidency than he might have liked, but biden plans to, in his words, quote, affirm the importance of our indo-pacific alliances. cnn s kivevin liptak is live fr seoul. it s taken a while for him to make his first trip in his presidency. he is certainly coming over later than his recent predecessor, and probably a little later than he would have liked to. president biden has tried to make asia a center of his
effectively saying president obama s administration, the past relationship to the president here was horrible him so this white house feels that those stronger relationships in their eyes of the president comes home with is a significant deal. lit show the cooperation the u.s. has with the region to further isolate north korea. notably, there are no new north sanctions just yet and no new trade agreements, the president is expected to make an announcement about exactly what he thinks he got out of this trip. go get some rest. more on president trump s eldest son and his correspondence after the 2016 presidential campaign t. author of the atlantic article that exposed the conversation joins the conversation with mike moore on the reporting. the latest from alabama as a backlash against roy moore continues to grow in the wake of a fifth woman coming forward
prior to leaving ma fill lonila summarized the trip. it s been an extraordinary trip, i made a lot of friends at the highest level. whether it s china and the incredible opening they gave us, that unbelievable evening, people really have never seen anything like it and japan likewise, it was a tremendous rollout and we, from the moment we walked off the plane and back onto the plane an south korea, as you know, we made the speech. i believe seldom has there been the opportunity to speak for somebody from the outside world in that hall. so south korea was terrific to us. and coming to the philippines was terrific and coming to vietnam was terrific. vietnam treated us incredibly, as did i think the philippines, we could not have been treated
nicer. all right. joining us again live from the philippines, national correspondent peter alexander, lots of terrific, trump alluding to. the red carpet rolled out for him, of course, talk to us about the atmosphere on the ground as you saw it? reporter: yeah, terrific, fabulous, tran fafantastic. those are the trump words, to welcome him like nobody has seen before. to be clear, this is a big deal any time a president comes here, it is not just an event for that city but an entire nation with a stop at traditional allies like japan and south korea. also in china, where the president warmly spoke of president xi there, flattering him, calling him a great man, saying his people were proud of him with president duterte, president trump spoke about the great relationship the two men have, while at the same time