it is china that is violating international law in the south and east china sea and in the president s trip to vietnam in the past two days the vietnamese talked along with the u.s. about the need and respect for territorial integrity really in an unveiled way pointing to the chinese. it is the united states that is reordering the international system by getting back to first principles and that s what i believe the america first policy is actually about. it s not just about the united states, it s about reasserting commitment to own interest. arthel: that s what vietnamese president was saying according to john roberts report earlier that the two presidents, they are working on a bilateral u.s.-vietnamese trade agreement and as we reported earlier in the segment, that you have the pacific rim nations, they are reaching a trade deal going forward with tpp and president
president trump s efforts to get the agenda through. arthel: you have 2018 around the corner, can the gop run the table with the party in-fighting? i m not sure they can. if you look at what happened last tuesday in virginia, you know, this was not a good sign for the republicans and we always know that an off year the opposition party picks up some support, so the republicans are under attack from many different directions, but the infighting is really, really crucial and i don t see any end to it in the near future. arthel: so is this opportunity for the democrats or do they have their own inhouse affairs to clean up as well? they have their own in-house affairs to clean up, that s for sure. we have to remember in alabama donald trump won by 27 points. so this is a super red state and it could be that roy moore could still win but, you know, when
proof that he did not hack the election, he only said, well, we didn t do it. and in all of my experience reporting on russia it s really unlikely that you would look at a former a kgb agent in the face and ask him about something incriminating and he would say, yeah, i did it. it s really it s confusing as to why trump continues to take putin s word for this and that is something that will have to be investigated further. eric: we don t know if the president s takes putin word. he believes that and there are two tracks of thought. one, let s go with one, has to do with the fact that some some people say that this could delegitimize or have that view or the president may view it that way of the election that, if, indeed, the russians did tip any votes, look, you re dealing with international affairs, there are other things going on such as syria, you have to have these types of agreements, international relations and that takes a preponderance of effort
after north korea and put the squeeze of them and the president will be talking with president cuam about expanding u.s.-vietnam s bilateral trade and another point they have been pushing and on the days of big multilateral trade agreements, what he wants to do is craft very fruitful for both countries bilateral trade agreements so things like the u.s. and vietnam, the u.s. and south korea although the president wants to redo that particular trade agreement that that s been existence and other bilateral trade agreements one-on-one as opposed to something that the president believes is not in the united states best interest. eric: 10:00 a.m., 10:00 p.m. eastern time, so we will be following that up in a few hours. do not miss the news conference, thank you. thanks, eric, will do. published rather yet another attack on my character,
stronger bilateral relationship among the world s great powers. arthel: apparently president trump securing vietnam s commitment to support maximum punish to bring north korea back to the path of denuclearization. according to your assessment it appears that president trump is making positive headway in asia. i enjoyed talking to you and we will have you back again, thank you very much. thank you. eric: as we mark veterans day, one organization is helping veterans add just to a new life at home. coming up, we will show you how. americans are proud of our veterans 21 million american of them but on this day in particularly, it s a day to set aside politics and express gratitude and thanks veterans for their sacrifice, for what they ve done for the country diabetes can be a daily struggle,