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franchesca? >> i'm grateful for you calling on me regularly. i'll follow your lead. thankful for the service members and police. my dad is a police officer and my brother is in the service. thankful for their service. i want to ask about something that kellyanne conway said this morning on "fox and friends" about the alabama senate race. show brought up tax reform. they said the democrat in that race would not be a vote for tax cuts. she did not endorse the republican running, roy moore. but however, it opened the door to a question that we haven't discussed yet. whether the president would be supportive of a write-in candidate like luther strange or jeff sessions who is attorney general? both of those are going around. >> actually we have addressed it. the president feels it up to the people of alabama to make that determination who their next senator will be. i've answered a number of questions on this topic and our position has not changed over the weekend. certainly still the same as it was when i answered the questions thursday and on friday. >> you said whether

franchesca. >> thank you. china has announced they're spending a special envoy to north korea tomorrow. the president was just in beijing. is that something that the president talked to president xi about while he was there? is that something that the president favors? >> the president certainly favors china taking a greater role in putting maximum pressure on north korea. this is one of the things that he and president xi spoke about over the course of our visit. any effort in order to denuclearize the peninsula there in north korea, then china participating in that, the president supports. >> yesterday in the president's remarks, he said that we can no longer tolerate unfair trading practices and steal american jobs, wealth and intellectual property. the days of the united states being taken advantage of are over. does the president still believe that china is raping the u.s. economy? >> the president knows that there's not been a fair and reciprocal trade with the china. he doesn't think we've had great dea