president trump over in mar-a-lago in palm beach. they re trying to bridge the gap in the world s most important bilateral relationship right now. president trump had this to say about the upcoming meeting. it s going to be very interesting. nobody really knows. we have not been treated fairly on trade for many, many years. no president s taken care of that the way they should have. we have a big problem with north korea. we re going to see what happens. let s get some more from our senior white house correspondent. he s already down in west bapal beach. we have a general idea whaf they wh of what they ll be discussing, but give us some specifics. they re trying to tamp down expectations between these two leaders that might take place during this visit. this is really about getting the conversation started between president trump and president xi who should be arriving in florida in just a few moments.
coming in from north korea as well as trade. no shortage of issues to discuss. in the meantime, we re back with the breaking news. cnn learning that president trump is weighing military action in syria in retal yaeiat for a joining us now republican senator of wyoming. if the president does go srd, would you support that? i would. i think all options have to be on the table. these are horrendous war crimes and i believe they will continue unless we do something about it. i think we lost considerable credibility a couple of years ago with the red line that was passed and turned into a green light. we need to do something. i think that should be aimed at assad s air power, his air assets, because that s what he s
one of the rapes why they re trying to lower expectations somewhat is because of so much of this tough talk and so many of these big policy disagreements between president trump and president xi. you ll recall during the campaign candidate trump said he would in the last week the white house did say that it s reviewing its trade relationships with countries around the world most notably with china. and so the question becomes and it s a very important international question, but also a domestic political question, will president trump follow through on some of these campaign promises and really crack down on trade with china. at this point what we re getting in terms of indication from senior administration officials is that is not likely to happen at all this week obviously. those discussions will take place on those subjects. but they have another critical issue to deal with and that is the subject of north korea. they fired off north korea fired off that missile earlier
that s the key question. north korea has to be at the top of it. we ve got to get china to act more aggressively. what s happening with the territorial developments of islands that have been mill tarrized by china in a major international shipping lane, that s a real concern. our concern with our trade relationship with china is very complicated. of course, the president as both a candidate and subsequently has talked about china s currency manipulator. what breakthroughs are going to be achieved. now, china likes the idea of dealing with president trump because they see a transactional opportunity. so i think the president can get them to change their calculus on a couple of things, particularly on the security questions because those are the most pressing and we ll see what he can accomplish. we see aides, the staff members from the chinese leader
this week. it was a scud missile that was a spectacular failure in the w0ors of one official. it only lasted 55 seconds, but it does underline the problem that president trump has. while he wants to hold china over a barrel on this issue of trade, he needs the chinese to deal with north korea or at least that is the conventional wisdom in washington. you heard and saw in that financial times article that came out over the weekend the president is willing to go it alone on north korea if he can t get china s help. that s going to be certainly very, very high on the agenda. trying to get from the u.s. perspective, trying to get the chinese to use their leverage on north korea to ease that nuclear threat. jim acosta, we re waiting for the arrival of the chinese president over at west palm beach international airport. the president should be arriving there in a couple hours as well. stand by. there s other news we re following. the fate of the next supreme