Korea. They are testing new form of icbms. President xi not liking this chummy meeting that is going on right now at camp david. Well keep you posted as they come out moments away. Jim ratcliffe is here to tell us what he thinks of all of this and congressman Mike Gallagher, who is the chair of the select committee on china. What a great team we have to talk about this. Theyll be with us in just a moment. First to Jacqui Heinrich who is live on the ground at camp david as we await the president me moment now. Hi, jacqui. Hi, martha. Were waiting for the president to speak. Theyve been walking the grounds speaking informally. Were told a buildin time for that type of discussion outside of their trilateral meeting. This is a significant moment to have these three leaders appearing on a stage together. It was two years ago the deputy secretary of state for the u. S. , windy sherman, had to stand alone on a stage following a trilateral meeting to do a News Conference solo. The Japanese For
and you heard me say it before, republic of korea and japan are capable and indispensable allies. now to the purpose of why we re here. america i commitment to both countries is iron clad. my personal commitment to bringing these three nations together was real from the very beginning. since last summer, we ve met on the margins of the nato summit in spain, the summit in cambodia and the g-7 summit in japan. today we have made history. the first ever stand-alone summit between the leaders of our three countries and commitment to meet together on a the leader level annually and to have all of our relative cabinet member people meet on a regular basis for from this point on, not just this year, not next year, forever.