Politics the former president s pardon play. Donald trumps lawyers make a hail mary request for an april 2026 start to the 2020 Election Trial and try to make sure the case never sees the inside of a courtroom. Plus a game of risk. New reporting outlines how republicans plan to conquer a trumpless debate. How another republican warns his party appears poised to fulfill the textbook definition of insanity. President biden invokes the whole enemy of my enemy is a Friend Theory of Foreign Policy today pushing two neighbors to put aside a generation of bad blood and send a message to the country a couple blocks away, china. Im Phil Mattingly in for dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Were going to start with this up first. Two questions. Do you know what youre doing on monday . Do you know what youre doing in april, 2026 . The answer is no for me on both of them. Donald trump, though, has plans for both. More specifically mr. Trump knows where he wont be on monday
Stronger ties and present a united front against china, russia and north korea. The Faulkner Focus and im john roberts in for harris. The setting for the summit camp david. President s Retreat In The Woods of maryland. Historic grounds have witnessed major strides in american diplomacy. National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby with this. This is the culmination of months and months and months of work not just by the United States but by south korea and japan to improve their relationships. They are operating more together. They are communicating more together and looking for ways to deepen their own cooperation because they see much of the same things we see in terms of the threats and challenges. So there is a lot of common interests, common shared goals here that we will pursue. John he referred to the decades of disagreement between japan and south korea. One headline says President Biden looks to cement a fragile truce. Mike pompeo says the true gamble is the impact on china.
Into this situation. They stormed our kibbutz, they kidnapped me. Bring them home, bring them home. Nothing will be the same because at the end of the day our community lost 10 of its population. Sandra begin a brandnew hour breaking moments ago, two Security Sources telling reuters a Rocket Attack has targeted an air base in iraq which hosts u. S. And other forces just west of baghdad. An update from john kirby. He is going to be joining Karine Jeanpierre at the White House Press briefing, expected to begin just moments from now. Bill also well hear from the pentagon as a new report reveals the u. S. Military is stepping up its surveillance now in the middle east. Sandra a lot happening at this hour, over on capitol hill, lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs committee are set to receive a classified briefing on the threat from iran. Another busy day in our Nations Capital and beyond. Sandra smith in new york. Bill, great to have you here. Bill i dont know roberts is off today. Bill
about growing tri lateral cooperation in the western pacific, east part of asia as a bull work against china, russia and north korea. they will talk and walk around camp david. it is extraordinary given the fact that south korea and japan have historically had a lot of tensions and disagreements between them. so to bring these countries together for the first time at a significant location like camp david really is quite an extraordinary accomplishment. as for what comes out of it, though, and will that be extraordinary, we ll have to wait and see. there is talk in the communique that will come out of the summit the name china might not get mentioned. of course, china is a big concern there in the western pacific particularly the south china sea with all the
scheduled exercise. annual military exercises, ballistic missile drills. this requires a level of coordination and diplomatic engagement between the countries that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. as you rightly pointed out these are countries with decades of mistrust and suspicion going back quite a ways now. they have come quite a ways beyond that to say, look. these are our shared concerns. we are putting some of that behind us so we can cooperate here and move forward to work together diplomatically and militarily. here is national security council s john kirby speaking about this earlier today. we are talking about ways to better codify and institutionalize tri lateral cooperation across a wide range of issues not just in the security realm. so again, you ll see these leaders come together today and announce a set of initiatives we hope will be sustainable for the long term.