working right now to strengthen their partnership and a visit that comes just days after the united states announced a significant boost in its military presence in japan. mod deanizing our military alliance, building japan s increase spending in spending and let me be crystal clear, the united states is fully, thor rowley, completed committed to the alines. mj lee and kylie atwood join us. mj, let s start with you. what is the most significant takeaway from the conversation so far? reporter: well, first of all, i would point out sometimes we have luck getting the president to answer some shouted questions in that setting in the oval office but as you heard there, reporters trying to ask him about various issues include, of course, about the classified documents drama swirling around the white house, he wouldn t take questions but what stood out to me was this emphasis on building on an existing relationship as opposed to
white house diary he complained about being kempt at arm s length. i kept both ford and nixon sthor rowley informed and after i left the white house i rarely had such briefings, when i told reagan that i planned to inform the media that never et he all he gave me were a few items of information that had already been published in the news media. but the bontds of a fraternity have a way of overcoming personal and political rivalries. president h.w. bush was in 2010, president obama saw i don t think political differences with his predecessors and enlisted presidents clinton and bush 43 to help with fund rasing for haiti.