Chance to be briefed by the u. S. Pacific command and made his way over to the Pearl Harbor Memorial with the first lady. It will be interesting to see what that conversation was like after they had a chance to sort of absorb all that. Now, at the top of the agenda, of course, is lots that the president is going to try to get done here as he makes his way through asia. A number of important stops along the way and north korea and the threats theyre posing, and south korea. The president will be in search of a united front before going to china where hell try to get president xi to get together on pyongyang. Ivanka trump batting leadoff, giving a speech in tokyo on friday before having dinner with the Prime Minister of this country shinzo abe. Thats before the president s visit and the stops wont overlap, but white house officials acknowledge that hers is a value added element to the trip especially as she keeps the focus on women in business. Now, elizabeth. You made an important point
arguments that are, you know, being used against him against the democratic party. he also looks at the polling and he understand that is the only major politician in america that s left popular than him is hillary clinton, so he s trying to turn the focus on her because she s not the face of the democratic party anymore. she s the past. it s smart but there are no crimes committed here and the democratic party is moving forward. leland: well, i guess that is one perspective, hillary clinton would like to at least revamp her legacy. she seems to be doing that whether or not you ll let her or not is yet to be seen. great to come in on a saturday. liz. liz: house republicans have released their long-awaited tax bill despite hesitation from two lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. we will take a deeper dive and tell you just what s in that tax
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
podesta, gop congressman, expansive investigation and it s not going anywhere? well, let s focus on the dnc for a second, this is all the republicans trying to get involved in democratic politics reality is this is a standard operation agreement that s been in place for 50 years and what mr. trump and some republicans have done has really try to day care donna brazile s words and make them something they are clearly not. liz: all right, i want you to respond that, mark. i m glad to put that behind us and answer your initial question about russia and mueller probe. let s assume that all trump supporters want mueller probe to go away, let s objectively look at what we have. paul manafort could be in big trouble. he may deserve to be in big trouble. liz: unrelated to the campaign, obviously? that s not true. that is is not true. he is related to the campaign. he s a former adviser to the campaign. you can t say he was not
in pyongyang. they have been threatening the peninsula for quite some time, they are now threatening the u.s. mainland and so the president has made it clear that will be the primary focus on visit here. before he heads out to beijing where he will take a great deal about trade, he wants to hammer unity here between south korea and japan and we will talk more about the visit here in japan in just a bit. then, of course, the president will make a couple of stops in vietnam before extending his say in the philippines an extra day, he will have a chance to exchange ideas with president duterte there. a visit to hawaii, very important trip for a couple of reasons, a chance to see the guys on the ground, talk to pacific command, get a briefing and visit peril pearl harbor, a solemn occasion. i want to share a tweet. this is a picture of john kelly, this is the chief of staff for the white house and he, of