we met another soldier who i'm introducing on my show later today. we were on the dmz, had extraordinary access there and a different story of a 19-year-old who had never left the country and is now living a stone's throw from north korea. so, please, tune in today at 2:00 eastern. >> as we do every day. >> of course. >> you capture the sacrifice of the family so beautifully. >> thank you for letting me share it on your show. >> we'll be watching. >> a lot of news this morning, so let's get to it. president trump did not dismiss the idea of arranging a meeting between vladmir putin and trump. >> i had nothing to do with russia. no person that i deal with does. >> sessions failed to tell congress about the trump/putin meeting. >> his people were riddled with russian connections. >> he is peeling away the layers of the onion and somebody is

going to end up crying. >> this is about a dnc that lacks transparency. >> do you agree it was rig? >> yes. >> we're going to get this done because the american people deserve this. >> their advertised effort on behalf of the middle class is simply not true. this is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. welcome to your new day, it's friday november 3rd, 8:00. chris is off this morning. john berman joins me. >> someone else has been busy this hour. >> we'll get to that. despite repeat denials from president trump and the white house, we have concrete evidence that mr. trump was told about ties. jd jordan, as you'll see here in this photo was at that meeting march 2016, that's where george p papadopoulos made his pitch to set up a meeting between vladmir

putin and candidate trump. he did not dismiss the idea. jared kushner turning over documents to robert mueller's investigators. sources tell cnn that signals that mueller could be building a case of obstruction of justice against the president for firing fbi director james comey. serious new questions about attorney general jeff sessions, his memory and sometimes lack thereof. carter page testified to a house panel that he told sessions he was traveling to russia during the campaign. sessions was also in the room with papadopoulos when he made the pitch, yet the attorney general has said he was not aware of any conversations between the trump campaign and russia. all of this as the president gets ready to leave this hour for his high stakes 12 day trip to asia, he has been writing furiously all morning. tweeting about many, many things, not one of them about this 12 day trip to asia. we have it covered for you, let's begin with joe johns live

at the white house. good morning, joe. >> reporter: good morning, john. that's right. this is expected to be the longest foreign trip of the president's administration, at least so far. he's been tweeting all morning. but not about the trip. probably the biggest thing on the agenda will be the crisis in the korean peninsula. but this focus on foreign policy overshadowed by the russia investigation. the latest bombshell in the russia probe, president trump did not dismiss the idea of a campaign advisor arranging a meeting between vladmir putin and trump during a campaign meeting in 2016. according to a person in the room. it's the first concrete evidence that mr. trump was personally told about ties between the campaign advisor and russia, despite fierce denials. >> i have nothing to do with russia. no person that i deal with does. >> reporter: court documents reveal that during this national

security meeting, former trump campaign foreign policy advisor george papadopoulos pitched the idea of a meeting between putin and trump. trump campaign advisor jd gordon. mr. trump listened to his idea and he heard him out. the white house denying the president had any recollection of this. >> mr. papadopoulos suggesting the meeting between then candidate trump and vladmir putin, does he recall that? >> i don't believe he does. >> reporter: attorney general sessions rejecting the idea of a meeting with putin, but sessions never disclosed the discussion when he was asked directly about such communications in the trump campaign. >> he believed that surrogates from the trump campaign had communications with the russians, is that what you're saying? >> i am not aware of anyone else thad did and i don't believe it

happened. >> reporter: democrats want to question sessions about those denials. it's fuelling any more questions regarding ties between the trump campaign and the kremlin. testifying behind closed doors. the trip was connected with the campaign. this is another conversation, sessions failed to mention during hearings. >> he seems to have problems telling the truth. >> reporter: the attorney general forced to recuse himself from the russia investigation after failing to disclose his own contacts with russia's ambassador to the u.s. >> i have never met with or had any conversation with any russians or any type of interference with any campaign or election in the united

states. >> in the wake of indictments of three trump foreign policy advisors the president continues to insist that hillary clinton should be the one investigated. >> the saddest thing because i'm the president of the united states i'm not supposed to be involved with the justice department or the fbi. i'm not supposed to be doing the kind of things i would love to be doing. and i'm very fusteratrustrated >> reporter: the president has been on a real twitter tear. last night there was some controversy when a rogue twitter employee on his or her way out the door apparently shut down the president's twitterfeed for 11 minutes. since then he's tweeted about a variety of subjects including excerpts of a new book from donna brazile. alleging the process in the primaries was rigged in favor of hillary clinton. he most recently tweeted about

isis, but so far, john, as we said at the top he has not tweeted about this asia trip he's about to embark on. it's going to be the longest trip so far of his administration. >> he is making up for that 11 minute absence on twitter to say the least. thanks so much. president trump's son-in-law jared kushner has turned over documents to robert mueller. investigators are looking into what role he may have played into the firing of james comey, is the special counsel building a case for obstruction of justice? we're live in washington with much more. explain these documents. >> reporter: the sources tell us kushner voluntarily turned over these documents. these are documents from the campaign and transition and they're related to any contacts he had with russia and these are the documents that are similar to the ones kushner gave to congressional investigators. this comes as investigators have

begun asking witnesses about kushner's role in the firing of the former fbi director james comey. >> so why, exactly is the special counsel interested in what kushner did or did not do during that firing? >> reporter: interestingly enough, witnesses who have come before the special counsel have been asked about kushner's role in that firing. we've heard different accounts from different sources. some say kushner was a driver of the president's decisions. others have said simply he didn't oppose it and that it was something the president had already made his mind up about. sources close to the white house say that based on what they know and we don't know how they know this, kushner is not a target of mu mueller's investigation. this is a sign that mueller could be building a case for obstruction against the president for that firing of the former fbi director. >> they say kushner is not a target. important there to remember the source. the bigger question is how

significant is all of this? >> reporter: mueller's questions about kushner are a sign, we believe that investigators are reaching into the president's inner circle, this is extended beyond the 2016 campaign to actions taken at the white house by high level officials. a white house official tells us that mueller's teams questions about kushner are not a surprise and that kushner would be among a list of people who investigators naturally would be asking questions about. now, kushner's lawyers did not comment and the white house also declined to comment. >> all right, thanks so much. joining us now is congressman kevin brady of texas. he's the chairman of the ways and means committee and drafted the gop's tax reform bill. we'll be talking all about taxes and getting into the details of that. it's great to see you. in the meantime, we want to start with the news of the day

and that is the new russia revelations. we now know that donald trump, then candidate, was in a meeting where george papadopoulos pitched having a meeting between president vladmir putin and president trump. here's a picture from march 2016. what do you make of the latest revelations. >> everyone following this russia investigation deserves a tax jcut. here yesterday we unveiled the tax cuts and jobs act. this grows the economy in a major way. it reduces taxes for families. so much so and simplifies it so nine out of ten americans can file using a postcard system. there are other interests and other issues, i will tell you in our community, our main street local businesses, they are starved for tax reform.

>> i give you an a for pivoting. let's dive in i know that's what you want to do. let's get into the details, where the detectivil waits. the local and state deductions that people in blue states like new york, new jersey, connecticut, california, people have been relying on being able to deduct their local and state taxes. if those go away, those people get hurt. >> so i don't believe so. here's why. we want families, regardless of where you live, including in those high tax states. by the way, i'm sorry that these families just get hammered by their local mayors and governors with the highest taxes in the world it feels like. i don't know how they make it. we believe they ought to keep more of what they earn as well. so we are working with these high tax state lawmakers. the reason we provided a significant tax cut, we doubled the standard deduction, we eliminate the double amt tax and

we create a new family credit to help every family in america keep more of what they earn. when you do that you make sure that whether you're in new york or kansas, you know, you keep more of what you earn. >> well, it's not passing the math test for some. another republican says i am a no. eliminating the s.a.l.t. deduction would be a geographic redistribution of wealth. >> i want to make this correction. he's a champion. he wants to make sure his families are better off after tax reform than before. i agree with that. but to be accurate, we do restore the state and local property tax deduction to this, because of our discussions with people like congressman zeldin and others. we are focused on working with him, but -- >> it's back in there. you're saying that for people in those states, that they can take their state and local tax

deduction. >> their state and local property tax deduction, which is for most families, maybe the most painful. it's not based on your ability to pay, it's just hurts. whether you're a young family or a senior family where you've paid off the mortgage and the property tax is killing you. again, imposed by those local governments, we want to provide help for you. >> that leads us to the mortgage deduction. any deduction for mortgages over $500,000, as we understand it, is going away. the national association of homebuilders doesn't like this. let me play for you what they say about the plan. listen. >> when house values start to go down, in one market, it spreads to the next market and the market next to that and another market. next thing you know you have a housing recession. the people that are counting on the equity in their homes had better sit tight for a few years before cashing it out. that has our members irate.

>> congressman, here is his point. there are seven million homes on the market right now that are more than $500,000. so the mortgages wouldn't be able to be deducted under your plan. those houses would automatically be devalued. what do you say to him? >> i don't believe that and here's why. people don't take out a mortgage for the entire value of the house. hopefully they're not anymore. that was a problem in the last crisis. everyone keeps their mortgage deduction up to a million dollars, today so nothing changes here. here's my main point, the value of your home and the home sales increases when the economy gets stronger. and it goes south when the economy goes south. so when we go bold like we do to get people back to work, create jobs and create growth, that is good for homeowners. it's good for home builders. by the way, it's good for home values. >> well, obviously, they've thought about that and disagree with you, as do --

>> i will tell you this, we are work ing with the home builders. we've worked with them to develop a new home credit that can help more people across maybe a broader economic spectrum with their home ownership issues. i think it's a terrific idea. i would like to see it frankly, in the tax code at some point. >> you might be inserting some things to help the home builders come around. >> just because i think there are smart ways and smarter ways to do the exact same thing. this old broken tax code, frankly, doesn't work for a lot of americans. so we'll continue to work all the way down the line. because while we're starting in ways and means committee on monday to take action on this tax reform, i'm looking to improve it every step of the way. >> let me show you the list of republican lawmakers who are not a yes on your plan yet. we have congress zeldin, peter king, dan donovan, lobiando.

there's a terms pattern. you have senator marco rubio of florida. he doesn't think that it goes far enough towards helping working families. you have senator jeff flake, who doesn't like it would increase the debt and deficit. and senator bob corker believes it would increase the deficit. what do you say to them? >> so i say the senate will have a chance to pass their tax reform. we think unlike healthcare, where simply they didn't deliver, we're hopeful they'll work together to provide big bold tax reform -- >> hold on a second. obviously, you know -- >> you were asking about some of the members who have concerns. >> i am, but does -- >> at this point, and we're working with those lawmakers to make sure we find common ground. >> are you comfortable with it increasing the deficit by $1.5 trillion. >> i believe tax reform will

move us to a balanced budget. part of it will be because of strong growth. that really helps, not just in washington but mainly back home as well. you also have to cut out all the special interest deductions and loopholes and all that. the reason we go to the simple po postcard approach, is we eliminate special loopholes so we can lower tax rates to everyone. that's part of getting to a balanced budget as well which is where we want to go. >> we often hear that tax cuts lead to growth, but that's not always the case. that didn't happen with george w. bush's tax cuts. >> his tax cuts were right for that era. but president reagan's cuts and we know president john f kennedy's cuts he designed as well were incredibly pro growth. here's what we do know, if you want to stay with high deficits and national debt, stick with

the status quo. keep the tax code what it is. let's watch our jobs continue to leave america. keep paychecks stagment for another decade. i guarantee you we'll be deeper in debt. >> many analysts say the ronald reagan analogy is not an apt one. he was bringing it down from 70%. you can't use that in the modern day. george w. bush analogy is more applicable because that one, as you know, did not lead to the promised growth. >> i think you make a great point about the reagan reforms. this is a different era. we know that the rates have come down over time, we make the changes, improvements underneath those rates to get rid of all those hidden taxes, that double taxation of amt. all that stuff that people don't know hit them. we make those improvements but we do something else. another focus for us is leap

frogging america from where we at into the top three so we can bring jobs back to america. by the way, look, this economy, it has improved dramatically. we've got to get it revved up for another decade. and so that growth, those paychecks, that's all great for middle class families. >> look, we're out of time. but, obviously, we'll have you back to talk about all of the things in your plan. because there are so many questions still. >> there are so many, thank you. >> thank you for being on with us, john? thanks. president trump minutes away from leaving for a most important trip of his presidency. over the last hour, he has had a steady stream of statements, including, apparently announcing, military policy. we'll discuss what he's been doing and what he plans to do. is he going to keep this up for 12 days on the road? stay with us.

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okay, president trump very busy this morning. and doing things of enormous consequence. for the last hour he's been making statements of all kinds on all subjects, eight

pronouncements on twitter calling for an investigation into the dnc using a racial term to describe a u.s. senator. maybe more importantly, most importantly, making news in the war against isis. i want to bring in our panel. i want to read you a couple of the last statements from the president, because it's very, very important. isis just claimed a degenerate animal who killed and so badly wounded the wonderful people on the west side was their soldier. based on that, he writes, the military has hit isis much harder over the last two days. they will pay a big price for every attack on us. did the president just announce -- first of all that there have been military strikes against isis over the last few days we didn't know about, but some kind of policy shift against isis that each terror attack will end up with some kind of disproportional or proportionate response?

>> who knows? i hate to be flip about it, jean. b but the reality is if past is prologue, this tends to be punditry by the president. him reacting to events. making exaggerations, saying things that are sort of wish it were true. hopes. or because he's not a pundit, he's the president of the united states, it's to your paint, maybe it is a military change. maybe we have made strikes against isis we don't yet know about. this is the fundamental peril of a president who thinks and acts like a pundit. we don't know if he's just popping off or if he's acting and there's policy behind it. that uncertainty by its very nature is dangerous. >> look, we don't always know about all of the attacks the military is making on isis. but does it sound like there's a new front or change in policy?

>> of course it does. when the president said a few months back that north korea was going to face fire and fury if they'd threaten us again like the world has never seen. and they subsequently threatened us again. what happens is people start to not believe what he's saying. i think none of us will be surprised if we see h.r. mcmaster come out later and do a cleanup on aisle three. what he does, chris is right. he acts on impulse. sometimes it actually can be that he revealed something that should not be revealed. that's rare. it's happened. or he's talking about what he would like to happen. either way he's supposed to be getting on a plane to asia for a very sensitive trip on which there has already been reporting by newsweek that his aides are very concerned about his fatigue level. what he might say to the japan

or south koreans or chinese or north koreans or about them. this is obviously, a concern that he is making pronouncements about a potential strike against isis strongholds before he gets on the airplane. >> we'll do this, we're going to press the pentagon for answers right now, if there was some kind of attack or strike over the last few days we should know about. if there is some kind of policy shift. that was just announced. i want to note one of the things the president has written about he's called elizabeth warren pocahontas again. i'm going to shift gears for a second. as the president leaves for the asia trip, cnn has been doing a lot of reporting on new russia investigations and the investigation right now. i think the most significant is jeff sessions, we know he testified two weeks ago he had never talked today anyone in the campaign about russia. no advisors talking to russia. carter page testified yesterday he told jeff sessions about

russian meetings. george papadopoulos was sitting in the room. we've seen the picture where he said he'd been meet ing with russians who want to meet with the candidate then running for the president of the united states right now. there seems to be an issue of either a memory or truth telling here. >> that is correct. he's testified now three times. and every time there's been more questions for him to clarify something from before. he's been very hinky. we need to look at this in the big picture. there's a statistically improbable number of russian contacts with this campaign. apart from sessions, we have russian lawyers, russian billionaires, russian professors, i mean, this is like, gilligan's island with russian spies and the trump campaign was in the middle of it. and as the primary law enforcement officer of the united states, the attorney

general, he should not only be concerned about this, but he should be proactively scouring his memory to give the information to congress on his own and not be waiting for them to ask questions. i will say this, mueller will question him and if he lies to mueller, we know that mueller has no problems with charging people with false statements. >> that would be very interesting. because how will he, you know, sort of square the circle of what he has said publicly when he is questioned robert mueller. >> i think she's got it. we focus on mafnafort, george papadopoul papadopoulos, most of us didn't know until earlier this week. at the hend end of the week, bu maybe there's more to come. close to the end of the week is jeff sessions. forget once, forget twice, forget three times, again,

remember the things he's forgetting. i think you can somewhat understand a conversation or mention of carter page saying he's going to go to russia over a dinner. it's harder for me to believe that jeff sessions forgot he had a sitdown with the then russian ambassador in his senate office basically saying well i didn't mention that when i was under oath and people asked if i had contacts because that was in my official capacity as a senator. you're slicing the onion very thinly there. i think sessions is who we should pay attention to here. because there's a lot of smoke around a lot of different people here. it seems to me there's more and more growing around sessions. >> focus on sessions, jared kushner also turning over documents. our reporting is he's being asked questions about the firing

of james comey and possible obstruction of justice. is he now in the spotlight? >> we throw around the terms like target or focus or subject or whatever. the point is they're asking him a lot of questions. we all know because we've been talking about this all year. he left off foreign contacts, almost 100 of them i believe, on his security clearance form. he snuck the russian ambassador up the back elevator to trump tower to elude the press during the transition. he was trying to set up a secret back channel of communications to evade our own security apparatus during the transition. so there will be questions of jared kushner. there is conflicting reporting about how much he had to do with the comey firing. he is someone they need to learn about and we have no idea where this is going. i mean, to speculate about how intensely he is under the spotlight is really hard to do.

but there's too many anecdotes about him hiding things and we learn them later for him not to be a subject of a lot of information, at least in the investigation. >> all right. thank you all. panel, great to talk to you. have a good weekend. meanwhile, we do have breaking news for you right now. the october jobs report is out. we'll bring you the numbers and what it means for you, next. cancer challenges us.

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october. that's a good number. it shows you companies are hiring. we know layoffs are down and companies are hiring. that is the lowest against since late 2000. this is a strong job market. this is a job market where someone who wants a job and has the skills for a job is getting a job. where are they getting a job? in food, bars and restaurants, that's a bounceback after hurricanes irma and harvey in texas and florida. people are coming back and getting hired. business services, these are office jobs. these are lawyers, these are consultants, jobs that tend to pay more. even in manufacturing, 24,000 net new jobs. job creation in healthcare. that's been a steady performer. 85 months of job gains. i would call this a strong jobs report. it shows you what we've been

saying for many months now, there are about 6.5 million people out of work looking for work. there are about 6 million open jobs in america. now we need to start talking about raising wages. we need to start talking about how to raise wages and how we're going to put those people who have -- want a job with those jobs that are open. >> it's going to be hard for us to talk about that. i can tell from the raised wages. >> really raise wages. happy friday. >> all right. christine romans thank you very much. president trump willing to hear out a campaign advisor to russia. is that evidence of collusion? we're going to speak with author bill brouder who went from investing in russia to crusading against corruption there next. whoooo.

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major developments in the russian investigation, a campaign advisor who attended a meeting last year where george papadopoulos pinchedtched a mee. jeff sessions was in that meeting, but the attorney general testified that he did not know of any campaign workers communicate ing with russia. joining me now is someone really at the center of this russian discussion, bill brouder, the

author of red notice. thanks so much for being with us. for people who don't know you and don't know your role in the back and forth with russia over the last year, bill's been -- was the main proponent of what ended up being the magninsky act. your lawyer ultimately died at the hands of russia. a panelist was just on and said there was a statistically improbable level of contact between various people and various russians in the trump campaign, does that seem like an apt statement? >> i don't have all the evidence that's available to all these people. but what we can see is that vladmir putin absolutely wanted to get rid of sanctions. what we can see is that there was a meeting at trumpato tower

between a representative of vladmir putin. there was carter page, this guy papadopoulos who was doing various things for the russians. now we still don't know whether these people like papadopoulos and carter age were instrumental members of the trump campaign or whether they were guys trying to do -- make themselves known. and so there's still a lot of work that needs to be done. but this does start to solidify a picture, which has been sort of hanging out there for a while. >> we also know is that george papadopoulos was offered stuff. you know, these russians he was speaking with offered him dirt and apparently e-mails from hillary clinton. we know that donald trump jr. was offered stuff, dirt on hillary clinton before that meeting whe meeting. based on what you know of how vladmir putin and russian intelligence works, these offers, what do you see in them? >> well, so vladmir putin had an

objective, his objective was to get rid of the magninsky act because it sanctions russians for ill gotten gains. he has to offer something in return. what seemed to be offered in return is information that would help donald trump get elected. now, we don't know whether this was just a low level reachout that they got through these people, or whether it actually generated real engagement between the two campaigns. we know for sure what russia's intentions were and we're starting to see little bits and bites of information to suggest that that -- those offers were either warmly received or possibly even openly accepted. >> you say special counsel robert mueller's investigation is working perfectly. explain. >> well, so what we have going here is a situation where there

was worry or reason to believe there might be collusion. so as a result, a special investigator was appointed. as a result of his appointment, we now have people being -- all throughout this process -- being interviewed. some interviews are generating legal results. i mean, the fact that papadopoulos has pled guilty, i don't think we've seen the end of the papadopoulos story. we'll hear his testimony in due course. as this materializes, we'll get to, eventually, the end of whether there was collusion or whether there was not collusion. the thing about it is is mueller is absolutely talented law enforcement officer. he's got a couple dozen people below him who are equally talented. and the answer will come. there will be -- we won't be left in the dark by the time this is all over. >> you made kremlin accountability a cruse aade. we're learning how involved

russia was on social media during the campaign. what do you think the u.s. government needs to do to protect itself going forward? >> well, what's absolutely clear is that technology has advanced faster than regulation of that technology. and both twitter, facebook, wikipedia, google, all these organizations are being abused by russia and there aren't any safeguards in place. so this is an area that can't be just left to the chaotic elements of the masses. this has to be something that -- where there is clear regulation so that russians can't come into our country and basically manipulate public opinion as if it's american public opinion. >> final question, one of the bizarre natures of the russian thing is fusion gps who was involved with the russian dossier at some point hired to talk about you and research you

in a not necessarily completely flattering way. what do you make of that? >> at the exact same time as glen simpson and fusion gps were working on the trump dossier, they were working for a woman who was working for vladmir putin to cover up the murder of surgergei magninsky. i find it astounding that anyone who is trying to cover up a murder for putin does rank very high for me. >> thanks for your insight. we really appreciate it. >> thank you. here is some exciting news. cnn is proud to announce the top ten cnn heroes of 2017. and you can decide who will be named cnn's hero of the year. here is anderson cooper to show you how.

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trip. one of the longest, if not the longest the president has taken. obviously, the big sort of, you know, geo strategic challenge will be north korea. they haven't figured out how to keep kim jong-un from using and threatening his nuclear capabilities. so that's going to be a big, big issue. and i've been talking to the highest ranking north korean defector in about two decades. he was the deputy ambassador here in the uk. and i asked him about the, you know, the very heated language that president trump and kim jong-un have been hurling at each other through twitter and through the atmosphere. and he said to an extent it worked, particularly forcing kim jong-un not to come through with threats to target places bike guam and test missiles in that direction. listen to what he said. >> the unpredictability of president trump worked to some

extent. but now i think that kind of exchange of rhetoric, warnings or whatever are not necessary and the most important thing is to deliver the policy messages towards north korea. >> so that is the big deal, deliver the message that the west, the allies will not tolerate north korean adventurism. they have the nuclear devices, they are perfecting their intercontinental ballistic missile. this defector believes there could be another provocation by north korea. but says we must keep the international sanctions regime, keep up the pressure, but also try to engage to reduce this danger on the korean peninsula. >> you know, on the subject of the rhetoric, this is something the white house has been asked repeatedly and h.r. mcmaster was asked about this yesterday, will the president tone it down.

will he watch what he's saying, this is what he said. >> the president will use whatever language he wants to use, obviously. what the president has done is clarified in all of his discussions, his statements on north korea are determination to insure that north korea is unable to threaten our allies and our partners and certainly the united states. >> on that front, he's going to keep on talking like he's been talking. that seems clear. i want to shift gears to vladmir putin. the russian leader will be at the apex summit the president will be at also. there is a chance the two leaders will meet. the white house says they don't know yet. what do you think of that? >> it's likely they will be in some form of fashion. that's going to be in the vietnam leg of the trip. vladmir putin has tended to be at the meetings and has meetings with major leaders. it's likely. we don't know, but it's likely they will engage in some form or fashion. of course, that also comes at,

obviously, the crucial time that you've all been talking about and we're all watching with the increasing revelations of the closeness of russia and interfering with the election and links with trump campaign officials. so it will be another one of those touchy times, very sensitive times for a meeting between the two leaders. beyond that, there are huge areas that they have to talk about. for instance, north korea. the other big issues with will be trade. president trump used the idea of limiting the notion of trade on china's terms. he's pulled out of the ptt. he's be discussing with president xi and prime minister shinzo abe. he'll be listening to many of the leaders on climate as well. there are a lot of issues there. with north korea being the most dangerous one. >> how about international lightning rod, duterte, president of the philippines, how is that interaction going to go? >> well, look, you know, you

remember president obama did not meet with him, duterte was using very vulgar language in public. he was not only having a massive crackdown at home which involved the killings of thousands of civilians in the so call war against drugs. he was using ugly language towards president obama himself. the american president hasn't met duterte since he's been elected. it will be yet another development. we'll see what comes of that meeting. that will be in the philippines, where the asean meeting will take place. we don't know. h.r. mcmaster was asked about this. will president trump, as the leader of the country that espoused the most democratic values, the most human rights values, the most values of freedom around the world, will he impress those, that necessity on people like authtorians on president putin, president

duterte, president xi. don't know whether he's going to do that. >> thank you very much for all the insight. >> again, the president departs any minute from the white house. we're watching that very carefully. he's been speaking to cameras on the way out. we'll have our cameras there waiting. time now for "cnn newsroom" with poppy harlow all alone today. guys, thank you very much. have a great weekend. the president about to come out. and when he does, he often speaks to the press. so you should see that in moments if he takes that opportunity. thank you so much for being with. i'm poppy harlow, let's get right to it. good friday morning, everyone. a lot of news to get to. president trump is about to take off for a huge critically important five nation tour of asia. there you see air force one. not before though, taking some parting shots at a litany of his favorite targets. a lot of tweets this morning,