now about, did national security adviser john bolton tell president trump he was going to resign, offer his resignation, as he said in a tweet? or did president trump ask for his resignation, as trump is now saying. now, secretary of state pompeo landed on the side, no shocker here, of his boss, the president of the united states saying that it was trump who asked last night for bolton to resign. so those dynamics are still being figured out, but what we are following here is, what are going to be the changes in trump s national security, his foreign policy agenda as his biggest iran hawk is leaving? now, secretary pompeo was asked if there s a possibility that president rouhani and president trump meet at the end of the month. there s going to be the u.n. general assembly taking place in new york city. we know that president trump has said he wants to meet with iranian leadership, and pompeo
loans have tripled since mid 2015, now the highest in eight years. some important perspective for investors here, the dow is up 10% this year, the s&p up 13%, nasdaq up 16%. i want to bring in cnn s matt rivers live in hong kong. matt, proof that trade wars are not easy to win as the president has said. i don t see an offer up here. the next in person negotiations between the u.s. and the chinese are sometimes this fall. reporter: yeah. you know, those are relatively low level. the time that we ve seen both sides kind of get fwak on the right track is when president xi jinping and president trump meet face to face. that s not going to happen for a while. nothing on the books to suggest they re going to meet. it s been a rough week. if you don t want to see a trade
today we saw something different. today we saw president moon really follow kim s example with respect to making this about president trump as a peacemaker, and putting the onus on president trump as doing something historic for the korean peninsula and for security around the world. president moon said that interkorean dialogue was taking a backseat today to the broader discussion between president trump and kim jong un of north korea. and that s really building president trump up, building up his ego, which is something that has worked well with other leaders around the world. kim jong un has gone directly to president trump when he s wanted something. he likes getting president trump s attention, and we all know that he has really other members of his team, a tactic that has yielded brute as we wait to see president trump meet kim jong un at dmz. sam, president trump when confronted with the fact that
there be a potential at that meeting of the denuclearization of the entire peninsula? missiles aren t being fired. remains have been sent back. hostages have been released. a lot of progress. is this where you might close that deal? i will be surprised if we get all the way homeha in this meeting, although it i would be fantastic if we did. i don t want to tell you exactly what our negotiating strategy is. suffice it to say, i think we have set the conditions that we can makeis real progress when chairman kim and president trump meet and take down the threat to the united states and to the world that has been frankly holding america hostage for so long in north korea. it will be good for south korea, japan, and all of the world. sean: putting aside the khashoggi incident, there seemed to besi an emerging alliance against iranian hegemony. that would be the united states, our closest allies, israel, saudis, egyptians, jordanians, the emirates, against the iranians. do you see a hist
entire peninsula? missiles aren t being fired. remains have been sent back. hostages have been released. a lot of progress. ? where you might close that deal? i will be surprised if we get all the way home in this meeting, although it would be fantastic if we did. i don t want to tell you exactly what our negotiating strategy is. suffice it to say, i think we have set the conditions that we can make real progress when chairman kim and president trump meet and take down the threat to the united states and to the world that has been frankly holding america hostage for so long in north korea. it will be good for south korea, japan, and all of the world. sean: putting aside the khashoggi incident, there seemed to be an emerging alliance between the iranian, that would be the united states, israel, saudis, jordanians and the emrats against the iranians.