Case, mike froman did a very good job. Our variou they could bring back something which the political leaderships could stan by and support. It is achievement that all the members of the tpp are still with us and nobody has dropped out of this. So obviously there is something in it for each one of us and i think we should also look at the other side of the economic benefit which is not the producers. Im making, im exporting. Therefore im earning a job but also im spending, im consuming, im importing and because it is freed up trade im getting a wider range of products of services, of opportunities, which will improve my livelihood. People talk about walmart, products come from all over asia. Who benefits . Walmart . Many people in america not just exporters, People Living in the rust belt, People Living in the midwest. These are all part of your everyday invisible standard of living yet it is real and it is have youable. In terms of the economic benefits the tpp is a big deal. I think in terms of americas engagement of the region you have put put your reputation on line. This is the big thing which america is doing in the asiapacific with the Obama Administration, consistently over, many, many years of hard work and pushing. And your partners, your friends, who have come to the table, who have negotiated, each one of them has overcome some domestic political objection, some sensitivity, some political cost to come to the table and make this deal. And if at the end waiting at the altar the bride doesnt arrive, i think there are people who are going to be very hurt, not just emotionally but really damaged for a long time to come. Mr. Addy, for example, several of his predecessors thought seriously about and decided not to participate in the tpp they came very close. They prepared the ground, but they walked away. But mr. Abe came through and decided to commit. He wants his country to benefit and open up his markets and this is one way to do it. If you dont do this, this hurts mr. Abe, one thing, hurts relationship with japan, your Security Agreement with the japan and japanese living in uncertain world depending on American Nuclear umbrella will have to say on trade, the americans could not follow through. It is life and death, whom do i have to depend on . This is absolutely serious calculation which will not be said openly but i have no doubts will be thought. I think if you go beyond that i would like to link up the t. Question with an earlier question from nicholas, which is where do we go the next 50 years . And that really depends whether we go towards interdependence and therefore peaceful cooperation, or whether we go for selfsufficiency, rivalry, and therefore higher rick of conflict. Asia has tried both. The world has tried both. In the 1930s with the, with smoothawley, with depression, with a very difficult international environment, you went for protection it policies. You had a rivalry with japan, which led to war. After the war, because america was open, because you promoted trade, because you encouraged investments, and encouraged other countries to open up, therefore the asiapacific has been peaceful and the packs americana has been a pax, and not a war. If over the next 50 years you continue to work toward interdependence and cooperation and mutual prosperity, then 50 years from now we can say these are been peaceful years and we have made further progress together. But if you go in the opposite direction, and you decide that this is a big pacific but big enough to split it down the middle and one ching is mine and other chunk belongs to the other nations or china, india or japan i think that is very different world. One of the reasons why you have a manageable relationship with china now because you have trade with them. It is enormous, it is mutually beneficial, both sides want to maintain that relationship. If you didnt, would be like the soviet union during the cold war, when you negligible trade and, while you still had to find ways to Work Together but it is much harder. The tpp doesnt include china although some people think it does, but a tpp points the direction towards the world, towards the whole orientation of your society and if you set the wrong direction, maybe in the next 50 years sometimes you will turn around but it will cost you many years and the world will have to pay quite a high price. Yeah. My name is from the Business Times in singapore. Good afternoon, president obama, Prime Minister lee. Questions. First is just followup to the tpp everyone says, everyone knows what is at stake but what is the future of the tpp if it does not get ratified by january, the lameduck session . What, the fear is that if things wait too long, and it might need to be reopened up for renegotiations and that will probably kill the deal. What is postjanuary, how can we reassure the tpp nations and the people that there is the political will to get this done as soon as possible . The second question is for president obama. We are almost at the end of your eight years in office. I would like you to evaluate the progress of the u. S. Rebalance to asia. What is, what is something that youre most proud of . Is there something you would have done differently and what is your message to your successor whoever he or she may be to continue to engage singapore, Southeast Asia and rest of asiapacific. Thank you. Well, with respect to tpp i thought that Prime Minister lees point were right on target and, this is an economic agreement but what weve learned in history is that you cant separate out economic interests and issues and security issues. And interests and the Prime Minister is absolutely right. We have benefited from enormous peace and prosperity around the world. An unprecedented period where the great powers were not engaged in conflict, in part because of growing interdependence. If you think about those parts of the world where we still see conflict, where we still see high levels of violence, theyre typically places that are less integrated into the World Economy and there is a reason for that. So, i think there is a powerful economic case, just a basic bread and butter case to be made why this is good for American Workers and good for american exports and ultimately good for american wages, if it is structured properly. But i also think that there is a Strong Security component to this. And what i also think is important is for people to recognize that the alternative is not tpp or some imaginary circumstance in which suddenly were able to sell goods around the world wherever we want, but nobody is able to sell goods to us, where we can operate around the world under fair rules but they cant operate here in that fashion. That is not, whatever is being imagined as is not the alternative. The alternative is what we have today. A situation where we dont have as many protections around labor and Environmental Issues as we would like. A situation in which there are countries like japan, that sell a lot of goods here but that keep pretty restricted access for u. S. Companies and u. S. Workers to their markets. And Prime Minister lee is right, hat Prime Minister abe in japan, for example, has taken some significant risks because he knows he needs to make his economy more competitive. As a consequence is willing to open up access we havent seen in the past and thats a big market. Still one of the top three economies in the world. So, the last point id make around this is, china. As Prime Minister lee mentioned, china is not a part of tpp but, if we dont establish strong rules, norms, for how trade and commerce are conducted in the asiapacific region, then china will. China is already engaging all the countries in the region around its own version of trade agreements. And theyre sure not worried about labor standards or Environmental Standards or Human Trafficking or anticorruption measures. So you get a low standard, lowest common denominator trade deal, and if america isnt creating standards, chinas rules will govern in a vast part of the world. That is bad for us economically and also bad for security interests. Its bad for interests promoting norms against child labor or Human Trafficking or making sure everybody is working harder to raise conservation standards. That is the alternative. Thats the option. So i think it is very important to get this done in terms of assurances. Nothing in life is certain but weve got a pretty good track record getting stuff done when i think it is important. And i will say this. That, that you know, this is actually not just an Obama Administration initiative. This concept began in a republican administration. We pushed it through. We made it happen. We made sure that things that i care about, in terms of labor and Environmental Standards were incorporated into it but historically this has had strong bipartisan support. So, the bottom line is, well go out there and well make those arcments and ultimately i think were going to be successful. In terms of my rebalance legacy, across the board we have just in the game. We are focused on asia in a way that we werent when i came into office and the countries in asia have noticed. Our alliances are stronger. Our security are arrangements are deeper, whether in australia or the philippines or singapore. Our Defense Budgets reflect our commitment to things like Maritime Security in the region. The, the continuing efforts around building the east asia summit architecture means that there is the kind of daytoday interaction around a whole range of issues, whether its Disaster Relief or Public Health issues or counterterrorism. There is consultations that are taking place today that were not taking place eight years ago. So, i think on every dimension, we are in a much stronger position to engage, influence, and learn from our asiapacific partners. The thing i probably enjoy most has been our young Southeast Asian leaders program, just because whenever i meet with the young people from asean countries i am inspired. It makes me very optimistic about the future and whats going to happen over those next 50 years because if you ask them about the future that they want to see they very much committed to an interdepent dent world, a world where people are learning and engaged in scientific and Educational Exchange and a world in which peoples different cultures and backgrounds are a source of of strength and cooperation as opposed to conflict and fear. That is true in Southeast Asia. Thats true in africa. That is true in latin america. Thats true in europe. A lot of this fear, the choice proposed by Prime Minister lee and interdependence and selfsufficiency not achievable and ultimately rivalry and conflict, those who opt for rivalry are folks who are looking bark wards. You talk to young people around the world, they understand that interdependence is the way that were going to assure peace and prosperity for the rest of us in the years to come. That may be something that has some of the most impacting. In some of the town halls i meet future Prime Ministers, and president s an Business Leaders and notforprofit leaders that will do great things and im glad to have been able to play a small part in that. Thank you. Thank you very much. That was the president joined by Prime Minister of singapore. President obama with some of the harshest words yet for donald trump. Saying the republican nominee keeping he is proving he is unfit to serve as president. This is outnumbered. Im harris faulkner. Here today, sandra smith. Host of kennedy, on fox business, kennedy. National review reporter, katherine timpf. Oneluckyguy and host of after the bell and forbes on fox, david asman. It was supposed to be a joint News Conference with the Prime Minister on a landmark trade deal. You heard him talking about it. Pp. President obama taking a detour from the International Trade to president ial politics. When asked if donald trump is ready to assume the highest office in the land in the wake of recent controversial statements involving the gop nominee, heres what president obama said. Yes, i think republican nominee is unfit to serve as president. I said so last week and he keeps on proving it. The fact that he doesnt appear to have basic knowledge around Critical Issues in europe, in the middle east, and in asia, means that he is woefully unprepared to do this job. And then president obama went on to say that trumps controversial remarks are not just a onetime thing. This isnt a situation where you have an epsoddic gaffe. This is daily. And weekly where they are distancing themselves from statements he is making. There has to be a point at which you say, this is not somebody i can support for president of the united states. This comes one day after donald trump called Hillary Clinton quote, the devil. He has hinted at this insult in the past. Now he is getting specific. Watch. Talking about bernie, because he made a bad deal. He should have not made a deal. He would have gone down as done something really important. Once he made that deal, and believe me, he has buyers remorse, if he would have not just done anything, go home, go to sleep, relax, he would have been a hero. But he made a deal with the devil. She is the devil. He made a deal with the devil. [shouting] couple things i want to point out before we go to you, donald trump is speaking at a rally going on for more than a hour. If you were flipping around looking for two oppositional things you might have found it there with the president. Sure. It is interesting the president would take him on. He was asked the question but got very detailed about donald trump. I think the president knew well donald trump was speaking elsewhere and directly focused on him. But i would just like to Say Something about he specified why he thought donald trump was unfit for the presidency and im going to quote him here. People depend on the white house for getting stuff right. Right. You think of all the stuff that this white house has got wrong, pulling troops out of iraq despite all the generals telling president not to do it. Supporting the Muslim Brotherhood during the arab spring which was disaster. Turned out to be disasterous for the middle east as a whole. Turned out to be disaster for egypt in particular, our ally. How about not following the constitution. He accused the donald trump not following the constitution, not having proper respect for the constitution. That is why he is unfit. A lot of people would say the same level could be level at president. Why . Because of all executive decisions he made, many which tend to go beyond the bounds what could be plausible, what you are allowed to do within the boundaries, creating these massive regulatory institutions, based on the department of this or the department of that. Interesting. Going far beyond what the founders wanted the federal government to do. When you look at number of them just on balance though, he did put forth, fewer, what youre talking about the substance of those executive quality, not quantity. It is quality, the impact of his executive decisions have had been far more extensive than impact of previous president s. Catherine, i want to get your opinion what it means, donald trump gets elevated. He did this in the primaries, president , gets elevated when the current president takes him on. This isnt like Hillary Clinton taking him on. Absolutely. This is supposed to be about tpp he was asked the question, went on and on makes same mistakes over and oaf again. Hillary clinton makes same mistakes over and over again. Had a horrible week. Polls are not reflecting it. Trump needs to focus more on those things, rather than callinger had the devil. It is funny. She is little less powerful than the devil. So not really accurate. Kennedy right now. Right now. Say something headlines, make sure on message and policy this week was so bad for her. We should, talking about but he said something kind of mean. His surrogates will do it, what do you want to see come out of his mouth . When she is i looking saying that the fbi director said she was telling truth, lying about telling the truth is pretty funny. Jobs report is awful. Connected herself to the obama family. Clinton foundation. Of course, constantly clinton foundation. Youre so close to putin. We didnt sell one fifth of our uranium to russia. Suddenly have 145 million. Talk about that. These are things we need to talk about. Trump said something mean. Sandra what was going through my mind watching president obama slamming, dig after dig against the gop nominee, is wow, these debates will be interesting. We know that president obama cleared his schedule in october to campaign for Hillary Clinton. But we got the announcement of those four president ial debates coming up, wow. If that wasnt a taste of what were going to hear. I love monday night football to watch the debates. Kennedy tom brady has a few mondays free and sundays. What im interesting, president shouldnt get so caught up in emotion, shouldnt get so defensive especially having International Press conference. I realize he is in washington, d. C. He does the same thing in joint press conference with david cameron, devoted way too much time to donald trump