broadly trying to co-opt that and make that their own. we will see how successful that is but what she did tonight by making that her first answer was set the tone for the economic discussion for the rest of the debate and it served her well. shannon: there were a lot of expectations honor, most and she lived up to it. great to have you both. the trump campaign war room s firing out rapid responses to democratic candidates while donald trump is on his way to japan. leland has more. reporter: it is unclear how much of the debate the president watched on air force one en route to japan on a refueling stop in alaska. he had it out on a summer afternoon to talk to the troops. big debate going on just started. it is between you and them. i chose you over the you are smarter than they are and better looking. a few minutes later he summed
president trump in the air on his way to the g20 in osaka, japan. at a refueling stop in alaska, he greeted the troops. and here s what he said about the democratic debate. so we have a big debate going on. just started. and i had my choice between you and them. and i chose you. you re smarter. you re smarter than they are and better looking. you re smarter and better looking. the president s one-word take on the policy-driven debate, boring. that was it as far as the twitter debate at this moment. nic robertson live for us in osaka, japan. nic, good morning to you. what should we look for today at the g20? reporter: you know, i think president trump s going to get a taste of what is going to get across the whole of this g20, which is as we ve seen before, you know, a fairly hostile crowd to what they view
be meeting with leaders from two countries, japan, india and germany. the president left washington wednesday afternoon, had a brief stop in alaska. this is video from that refueling stop. the president has a lot on his agenda but we will be watching to see if he makes any further comments on iran. on wednesday before leaving dc encouraged iran to negotiate with the us, two days after the us imposed new sanctions on iran s top leaders. iran should do the right thing for their people. i m not sure their leaders care for their people. if they do they will make a deal. if they don t they are just thinking about themselves and they are selfish and stupid. if that is what they are doing. later this morning house lawmakers will return to work to debate a bill to bring humanitarian aid to the us border. house lawmakers passed a bill to do just that earlier this week but the senate refused to push the house plan forward instead of proving their own bill, now
on his way out of the country, flying to japan for the g20 summit. we saw the president briefly this evening as he was spotted greeting american troops during a refueling stop in alaska. you can see that video right there. then he was back on the plane and as the debate was underway, he was on twitter and he only had one word, or you can see right there, the word boring in that tweet once he was back on the plane. the president has also spent the day talking about emergency border funding. the senate approved a plan to spend over 4 billion on humanitarian aid and border needs but the senate plan is different from one passed by the house meaning it s a fight that s going to go on tomorrow. the president on twitter, chiming on this issue as well. he said the democrats should change loopholes and asylum loss so that lives will be saved at the southern border. all this is happening is the president is set to meet with several foreign leaders this week, including the head of russia and ch
versions of the emergency border funding bill and there s news on mueller. mark meredith is live in washington. a very busy night and we will start with president trump on the later japan japan right now. the meeting with world leaders of the g20 summit. i want to show you some video that we got the news room in the last few hours. this is president trump on the ground in alaska as air force one was having a refueling stop. the president taking a few minutes to speak with troops in the ground. before he left washington, he spoke with reporters on the south lawn at the white house where he was talking about what he expects for this trip, his latest overseas. the meeting with russia, meeting with china, meeting with many countries. meeting with many countries. we have been ripped off by everybody over the years. the president was also asked today about the news that we talked about all night last night on the show and that s special counsel robert mueller going to be testifying bef