Chance to be briefed by the u. S. Pacific command and made his way over to the Pearl Harbor Memorial with the first lady. It will be interesting to see what that conversation was like after they had a chance to sort of absorb all that. Now, at the top of the agenda, of course, is lots that the president is going to try to get done here as he makes his way through asia. A number of important stops along the way and north korea and the threats theyre posing, and south korea. The president will be in search of a united front before going to china where hell try to get president xi to get together on pyongyang. Ivanka trump batting leadoff, giving a speech in tokyo on friday before having dinner with the Prime Minister of this country shinzo abe. Thats before the president s visit and the stops wont overlap, but white house officials acknowledge that hers is a value added element to the trip especially as she keeps the focus on women in business. Now, elizabeth. You made an important point
friday. cnn aviation correspondent pete munteen has our report. reporter: the truth is no airline is immune to these cascading issues. now it is american airlines which canceled more than 800 flights on sunday, more than 500 on saturday, more than 300 on sunday. that means 1 in every 10 flights over that period was canceled. but american says this really all started on thursday when high winds and bad weather hit its main hub at dallas fort worth that kicked off a chain reaction of cancellations leaving planes and crews out of position. the ceo sent a letter to the entire airline saying he wanted to build certainty into the operation so the airline proactively began canceling flights. but that left thousands of passengers stranded in long lines across the country. i don t understand why it s canceled. i heard they didn t have enough staff. well, you sold me a product.
up. we have been talking about this trip for quite some time and a lot of issues that the white house want us to be focused on. i m curious as to how we are going to see the trip play out with all of the distraction. we certainly speculate and in fact, we heard leeland talk to kevin cork, are there goals that the white house wants us to be talking about as opposed to the things that we are going to be seeing at home. you have the president going to five different countries meeting with all the world leaders, you know, golfing with the japanese prime minister and then back home you have tax reform which is his biggest agenda item for the fall, playing out and others begin jocking what should be in the package. the administration wants it done by christmas. we are looking in the beginning of december. you have a lot of action. you have the mueller probe back home. you always have cascading issues, one of the parts about the white house and the presidency is there s always 15 balls in t