tom: do you feel like you have become closer to meng wanzhou? ren: yes.rtance of family. tom: in a strange way it has brought you closer? ren: yes. my daughter was barely talking to me before. tom: your daughter faces extradition to the u.s. from canada and is facing charges in the u.s. of fraud and breaking sanctions, those of the allegations from the u.s. side. president trump has suggested he could intervene to help your daughter. presumably you welcome that kind of intervention? ren: canada violated the law with this arrest. we will point out these violations during the court hearings. meng wanzhou has never committed any fraud, which we have already made clear. two sides can present evidence in court. we have evidence. meng's case is politically motivated. tom: do you think the legal action against the u.s. and canada are helping, or are there risks that it inflames tensions? ren: the problem is that it is the u.s. and canada who sued us first, then we countersued. why are we the ones who followed suit considered to be the ones disrupting the social

request to detain the huawei cfo meng wanzhou when she was changing planes in canada.orts that justin trudeau could not get a meeting with chinese president xi xinping in the meeting in osaka, japan. he is trying to get trump on his side, getting some leverage of negotiating release of the two canadians. melissa: certainly the thing he mentioned the most so far. he is talking about the trade deal being put in place. he mentioned his own citizens that he needs to get back. they pressed him what he has asked the president to do. there is such a change in tone between the two leaders, you have to think this is one of the reasons because he definitely wants help on this front. >> yeah he needs president trump's help on this front in particular. also amentioned to you, there is a political element. we're four months away from a general election in canada. so justin trudeau is fighting it out with the conservative leader. some say this is a very tight race. he is in washington, d.c., bolstering relations with canada's largest trading partner, the u.s. and showing canadians i

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