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
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Hi, josh. hi, shep. shepard: so if later on, after dinner tonight, maybe you re having a coffee around the dinner table and somebody says, the president spoke today, what was it about, what would you tell them? this had the feeling that your cousin told you about their vacation but makes you watch the slide show of the pictures? there was nothing new in here that we didn t know from having watched the president s travels. clearly the white house wanted to show the president had come away from this trip with accomplishments. they went into detail in his comment just now about here s what we got as far as commitments on north korea, understandings about how we ll move forward on trade. this fell short of the major announcement we had been teased and lead to be coming from the president. the fact of the matter is, he didn t walk away with any concrete bilateral agreements on trade like he s been talking about. instead we saw the 11 other