Foreign trip, so as we prepare for that trip they bring up a general our National Security advisor general mcmaster to give you a preview of what the team has been doing to prepare for the president s trip. Our goal is to start that process now and next week bring the general back and give you a more detailed update as to what the president is going to be doing in each of the areas. Additionally we have background briefings for you as well to get the teen that is going to be traveling from the press corps and some logistical updates. Take lessons after this . You get to go first. Happy mothers day weekend everybody. Exactly onenow when week the president will embark on his first trip abroad since taking office. To explain the president s objectives for his visits to the middle east and also preview a bit of the schedule. The trip has three core purposes. First to reaffirm americas global leadership. To continue building key relationships with World Leaders and third to broadcast a mess
First foreign trip. I would want to bring general mcmaster to preview what we are doing for the president s trip. We will next week brings the general back and give you a more detailed update as to what the president is going to be doing in each of the areas with highlights from the trip. I will obviously additionally have background briefings for you as well, to give the team from the press corps some additional updates. Without further ado, general mcmaster. Yes, i will be glad to take your questions. In fact, if you would like, you get to go first today. Happy mothers day weekend. As you know, in one week, the president will embark on his first trip abroad since taking office. Today i would like to spend the president s objectives for his visit to the middle east and europe and also preview a bit of the schedule. The trip has three core purposes. First, to reaffirm americas global leadership. Second, to continue building key relationships with leaders. And third, to broadcast a mess
First foreign trip. I would want to bring general mcmaster to preview what we are doing for the president s trip. We will next week brings the general back and give you a more detailed update as to what the president is going to be doing in each of the areas with highlights from the trip. I will obviously additionally have background briefings for you as well, to give the team from the press corps some additional updates. Without further ado, general mcmaster. Yes, i will be glad to take your questions. In fact, if you would like, you get to go first today. Happy mothers day weekend. As you know, in one week, the president will embark on his first trip abroad since taking office. Today i would like to spend the president s objectives for his visit to the middle east and europe and also preview a bit of the schedule. The trip has three core purposes. First, to reaffirm americas global leadership. Second, to continue building key relationships with leaders. And third, to broadcast a mess
Meantime, the president is the doing a lot of work overtime, going after the media right now. Now questioning the need for White House Briefings as we presently have them. That he is concerned that the way we go about them one gotcha moment after another. Maybe the best way for the media to proceed Going Forward is to give a written he question. They will give you a written response to make sure everything is accurate. He had it with all of this. But for the timebeing, White House Briefing is on. Less than an hour, sean spicer will do the duties today. Blake burman with the latest from the white house. Reporter speaking of work, sean spicer will have the work cut out for him at the White House Press briefing later today, after President Trump set out series of tweets this morning, one click after the next generated one headline after the next. Kind of went through one of them a little while ago there as relates to the president questioning the need for press briefings. The president tw
Trade. They simply Steven Mnuchin said the u. S. Deserves the right to be protectionist. Haidi i am haidi lun. This is daybreak australia. We are moments away from the opening of the first major markets. Etty i am betty liu we are looking at how all the action on wall street will play into the asiapacific trading day, kind of a whimper in how we ended trade on friday. Retail Sales Numbers we are looking at friday morning coming in and missing estimates for the most part, so we will get more data this week that will include numbers on the Housing Market that will lead to more clues whether or not the big consumer demand we have seen in the u. S. Driving the u. S. Markets, whether that is peering out or not. On friday we close down, the dow was down 20 points, the s p lower. The nasdaq composite pretty much unchanged on friday. Sort of a mixed, mixed session. U. S. Is in, and the this relentless phase of being range bound. Againatility, falling heard the 90, 93 lows. Is ifa, the big agen