law, the president trump said trade is high on the agenda at mar-a-lago. are getting a lot of things done. a lot of great things between our two countries. thank you for being hurt. we appreciate it very much. the steel and aluminum tariffs. japan wants to see the u.s. back in the trans-pacific partnership. president trump wants to negotiated bilateral free trade deal. tweeting last week that the u.s. already has bilateral deals with six of the 11 nations in tdp and are working to make a deal with the biggest of those nations, japan, who has hit us hard on trade for years. he is not a big fan of these multilateral agreements. he would rather go country to country, so-called bilateral. going to talk with japan today and tomorrow. we will see about it. there is concern in japan that the president may link
japan. donald trump said trade is high on the agenda at mara lago. a lot of great things between our countries. thank you for being here we appreciate it, thank you very much. aluminum tariffs. japan wants to see the us back in the transpacific partnership but donald trump free trade deal with japan japan, who has hit us hard on 6 of the 11 nations in tpp, and working on the biggest of those nations, japan hit us hard on trade for years. not a big fan of multilateral agreements, would rather go country to country bilateral tomorrow today and tomorrow.
has bilateral deals with six of the 11 nations in tpp and are working to make a deal with the biggest of those nations, japan, who has hit us hard on trade for years. he is not a big fan of these multilaurel agreements. multilateral agreements. bilateral like we will talk with japan today and tomorrow. so we will see about this. japan is worried that president trump may link trade and security with a message that if japan wants security assurances on north korea, he needs to move on trade. and president trump also revealed today that the white house has been having direct talks with north korean officials about setting up that summit with kim jong un, likely in either late may or early june and that they have narrowed down the location for those talks to five possible sites. though no word on what those sites are. president trump sounding optimistic about the opportunity to sit down with kim, best of your recollection at the same
stand up to china and to be a better counterpoint to china and its growing clout in the region. the president said would only join tpp if the deal were substantially better than offered to president obama. we already have bilateral deals with six of the nations and working to make a deal with japan, who has hit us hard on trade for years. the idea here, though, is bilateral trade relationships together don t really help you against china. you all have to stand together against china. now, the prime minister of new zealand basically said, look, this is already signed, we re already moving forward here. so the united states might have to have some work to do to get back at the table. and actually has less negotiating clout now than it did before, right? they have already backed away. this train has already left the station. the sentiment might matter. the facts are getting in might be much more complicated than
hard on trade for years. it became a matter a year ago when we got out of it. traders liked that, right? free trade. sandra: they like that and profits. there are a lot of earnings coming out right now. a lot of banks are reporting solid profits and earnings. bill: 160 to the up side of the open. 9:31 now. sandra: as we continue to look at the excerpts, james comey s book focused on loretta lynch revealing certain classified information would have cast serious doubt on lynch s handling of the clinton email investigation. this revelation has congressman trey gowdy fuming. there were a lot of things they could have called into question the legitimacy of that investigation including what some of us have alluded to in the past. the real reason he had the july 5th press conference. it wasn t the tarmac. it was information he had about loretta lynch that if it became