beijing. joining us now is jonathan swan from axios. what is that bind for the president? so sources close to the president including senior administration officials are increasingly pessimistic about the chances of a trade deal with china. they say in recent weeks the trade discussion has become a national security discussion. you have people like mike pompeo, john bolton, mike pence very hawkish on china and the intelligence community worried about the chinese overreaching militarily in hong kong. so you have this conversation going on inside the administration about how to push back against china militarily. you have mark esper and mike pompeo going to australia earlier this month to meet with the officials there and giving them the unequivocal message there s no compromising with china, we re going to push against them wherever we need to and then you have a president