a deal, that he wants to see a comment minister. >> so it was a foreign ministry statement, not a phone call directly to the president or his aides. it was actually a statement of china's long-standing position on the issue. so why is the president framing it as something new today in a call that wasn't a call, but just a general public statement? >> what it comes from is the back and forth and the changing of statements from yourself, so that -- >> sorry! it's the way i negotiate. >> so my question is, is that a strategy? is it a strategy to call president xi an enemy one day and then say that relations are very good the next day and then -- you know, it's gone back and forth -- >> it's the way i negotiate. it's done very well for me over the years and it's doing even better for the country. >> is it? up next, the president's list of confusion today added the meeting of world leaders on climate change. the president was a no-show. we already knew from u.s. officials that the president thought the sessions on climate