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
elizabeth. liz: leland. leland: a couple of minutes when the president walks up the stairs and aides get on air force one and as air force one gets over throughout asia, japan, south korea, you ve got china, vietnam and then you have the fliep means, philippines, they are basically drawing a big circle around the problem child in asia which is north korea and it s important to know, liz, that at this time there are u.s. carrier strike groups now over in that region and that is a fact not lost on the chinese, it is certainly not fact lost on the north koreans as the head of naval operations once said to me, one hundred thousand tons of sovereign american power. that s the ability to project power unlike any military in the world and that is definitely a shall we say not so subtle