needs to articulate what the trump doctrine in is asia because everyone is confused. it s a military but also diplomatic but also economic message that he has to the chinese work on five year plans and they do increments in their bigger plan. their whole thing is thinking long-term and forward. they don t do anything off-the-cuff. i think the chinese have been around, what, 2,000 years. you ve got to remember president xi who just won re-election, what they want from this president is some type much stability and some type of vision as to what he wants to do. right. not only as i said before diplomatically from a trade standpoint. and you know this better than i do. they have an upper hand here. they have a lot of our debt. and they sell us a lot of our goods. they do. the question becomes whether or not the president truly understands this. steve, from your perspective
when we should really take notice. that s where b-52s are in closest proximity to north korea. sandra: we understand james mattis is in the region? absolutely. he is at a meeting with other defense ministers in the philippines. there is a statement coming out of that grouping of officials from the southeast asian nations saying that there should be grave concern about north korea s nuclear and missile programs. mattis will go to south korea and elsewhere. next month we ll see president trump in the region and north korea will be top of the agenda. the regime of kim jong-un not keeping quiet during these last couple of days with a lot of chatter going on about this crisis. the state news agency today saying that president trump is a hooligan and lunatic. bill: interesting trip next week when the president is asia and rex tillerson in afghanistan. all the big pieces are moving
during his asia visit last week that all options are on the table. and that could include a preemptive military strike against north korea. kim jong-un has threatened that he will soon test a missile capable of reaching the united states. so this also suggests there s been improvements, incremental, but incremental advances in the technological capabilities of north korea despite the sanctions. so it is unclear what steps the u.s. could take, to include more sanctions or ramp up pressure on beijing to use the influence with the north. this is making for a nearly day-to-day watch. janice mackey frayer from beijing, thank you. and a former player criticizes lebron james kids. and a severe storm brings damage across parts of the south. we ll get a check on the forecast when we come right back with bill. stay with us.
country where our exports did not increase. what? and that is better for u.s. consumers. we have not had a trade deal genevieve is right about the exports. no. we have not had a trade deal where the imports have been lower than the exports. come on. you can pick certain industries and say that jobs are lost but that is not true across the board. call services are going to be outsourced the pharmaceutical industry will benefit big time. this is going to circumventing american law. ed, come on. more american goods are going to find their way so 67% of the people living with bad trade deals in iowa they re wrong on this genevieve, right? i don t think they re being given all the facts, certainly not if e.r. listening to your program right now. the other thing we need to talk about is asia is currently at 30% of global gdp, all right? we need to have a structured trade deal with them to make sure that we do have good trade and that s what trade so you have ameri
where a crisis starts, gets hot and cools off and ends. there is in this end to the story. there was a big sell-off on wall street. how is asia reacting to that now? initially at the morning session today we also reacted with a big sell-off. the markets have erased some of their losses from just a couple of hours ago. in the last two hours, they have reversed directions after spending most of the session in negative territory. let s take a look at the big board. as you can see, most of the indexes are still in the red. some of them have closed already. the big factor that weighed down the markets today and yesterday was first quarter gdp data. that data showed that growth in