robert, let me start with you. it s not your story, your paper is reporting, though, we just quoted from it, the president apparently feeling some urgency to show tangible progress on this border wall by election day 2020. obviously the signature promise of his 2016 campaign. behind the scenes, how big a concern is that for trump, that so little progress has been made in 2 1/2 years as president? inside the white house tonight, they re bracing for a fall where the u.s. mca trade deal may not even be brought to the floor for a vote, where a china trade deal may be long away on the horizon. so they re trying to look at two u.s. senators who have executive authority as a way to been critical of russia have now try to galvanize that republican been banned from entering that country. base, the president s core voters for 2020. and that s why they re going to republican ron johnson of wisconsin and democrat chris put an emphasis this fall as the washington post reports murphy of connec
that not just the partners here at the g7 but the entire world know that he is completely convinced of the strength and the security of his tariff strategy against china, and he in fact said today, he is strong ly in the belief that it is in fact working. president trump: we re getting along very well with china right now. we re talking. i think they want to make a deal much more than i do. there s a lot of money in tariff s coming in by the billion s. we never got 10 cents from china reporter: so, we ll see what happens. here is the chinese response. such unilateral and bullying trade protectionism and maximum pressure violates the consensus reached by the head of china and the united states, violates the principle of mutual respect and mutual benefit and seriously damages the multilateral trade system and the normal international trade order again that from china s commerce ministry. now earlier today we also saw the president and his newly-mint ed british counterpart boris johnson m
sidelines with respect to an all likely no-deal president, mr. trump was asking if a strong bilateral deal with the uk would happen soon softening the blow of a no-deal brexit. president trump: we re having very good trade talks and a very big trade deal bigger than we ve had with the uk and now they won t have the obstacle, the anchor around their ankle. reporter: president also hinting at a possible announcement of a new bilateral trade agreement with japan which as you know is a major security partner with the u.s. as well living in the constant threat of the shadow of north korea. by the way, the president was asked what he thought recently of the north s increased missile activity of late. listen here. president trump: i m not happy about it, but again, he s not in violation of an agreement. he was upset that south korea was doing the war games, as you
about the trade war with china. it s the individual trade deals whether it s with the uk because of brexit or trudeau trudeau is up for reelection in november. whether it s with disin so abe. the president saying they re close to a deal. it s possible that we could have news later on today on that. when you re watching the sound bite you can hear the cameras rapidly clickin click because tw he s holding all of the cards with these countries and they all have a stake in this. they all have deals i don t know if italy does but most have deals on the table right now. i think this is president trump saying what he would do to your point, to go trade and do things that haven t been done. i also think, you know, he brought china and the issue of china to the forefront at the very start.
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