and he said xi jinping. >> he saw somebody that was a lot like him, but he said about xi jinping, one thing, this man has iron in his soul. look at his biography. he was a prince ling, and then came this crazy cultural revolution. they sent him off to the countryside. he almost died. his sister committed suicide. he thought of getting out of this world and then decided, "damn it all, i'm going to become redder than red and get my way to the top." i said who is he like? he said, "he's a little bit like nelson mandela." i said, "what?" that would be the most implausible thing. he said this is a man who is emotionally very secure, who has been through much trauma and is determined to do whatever he gets to do. >> rose: and he's married to a general who happens to also be a singer. >> absolutely. and one of the brilliant strokes in president trump in his "art of the show" at the mar-a-largo summit that a lot of people missed. he had the daughter of ivanka come out and said,iment" to you meet my granddaughter." and she-- she's five years old-- she sang in mandarin-- in mandarin-- the song

there is a picture of xi jinping.t says china's president makes his way to the podium in the great hall of the people in beijing to deliver an hour-long speech that warned that china's neighbors that the country would not tolerate any infringement of its territory. warned that china would not tolerate any infringement of its territory. graham: absolutely. he was just coming from spending the weekend with the p.l.a. at their -- charlie: people's liberation army. graham: they had a celebration thehe 90th birthday of people's liberation army. the people's liberation army. there were military exercises in which they were playing against looking a lot like us. charlie: what do you think the chinese mind is about what they want to do? >> i think it's very clear. long before donald trump sounded 'ss banner, xi jinping objective is to make china great again. he calls it the great rejuvination of the great chinese people. in his story, china was the great country for 5,000 years. there was a 200-year intermission when the west

and certainly whatever will happen, xi jinping has laid the groundwork to do what he wants, if he can, at the party congress. afterwards,ms to me one of the mysteries, is xi theing solid meant to be most powerful chinese leader since dang. theory and in don't want want to get into a only gotalysis, he's two loyalists on the seven member bureau standing committee already the most powerful person, what does he want to do that he can't already do? and that's not clear to me actually, and i think there will taiwan, but non matter how strong their military not great.ptions are >> just a quick comment i think well earlier,very but the notion that the pla is somehow forcing any of these issues, you know, it applies at least that xi jinping would path, to go a different but i don't think we've ever seen at least since maybe the to late '90s if you're really generous anything liberal or soft line within the top leadership in terms of any single member. somebody -- realistically, not in these people are their view patriots and something akin to hawkish or strong. so i don't think it behooves us

. >> chinese president xi jinping spoke at a ceremony in beijing commemorating the 90th anniversary of china's people's liberation army. he talked about efforts to modernize army and what it would take to build a world-class military. courtesy of global china television network, this is about one hour. pres. xi jinping: comrades, now i declare the opening of the conference in celebration of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the people's liberation army. please stand up, everyone. we will sing the national anthem together. ♪ li kequiang: please be seated. today, the central committee, the military commission, is holding this conference in and theation celebration of the united anniversary of the founding of the people's liberation army, to review the glorious history of the army under the leadership of the communist party of china. and to look in a beautiful future of the cause of a strong military. force to a strong realize the chinese stream of a strong military. we have theerence, chairman of the people's republic of china, and a chairman of the central military commission to p

xi jinping the secretary-general of the central committee and chairman commission of china.plause] pres. xi jinping: dear comrades and friends, today, we are gathered at this very big gathering in celebration of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of the of the people's liberation army. the glorious history of the chinese army under the communist party of china. and to look forward into the future of the modernization development of the national defense, and to mobilize the whole military and nation to continue to struggle. together, we are a strong force. we will strengthen the military together to realize to endeavornd persistently for the realization of thechinese dream chinese nation's. -- of the chinese nation. amrades and friends, i have goal. china had semicolonial status, as a society. the people were in domestic strife and aggression. national independence and a liberation of the people, and to overthrow [indiscernible] -- to overthrow the imperialism the chinesesm, people have been fighting ferociously under the leadership of the communist

xi jinping. [applause] pres. xi jinping: dear comrades and friends.oday, we are gathered at this very big gathering in -- in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the people's of the liberation army. the glorious history of the chinese army under the communist party of china. and to look forward into the future of the modernization development of the national defense and the military. whole party,ze the military and nation to continue to struggle, and together, we are a strong force. nation,strengthen the and strengthen the military together, to realize and -- to .ealize things and an endeavor persistently for the realization of the chinese nation. dear comrades and friends, i ago, china was semi-feudal status as a society. the nation was in an obese of suffering-- abyss of and decay. the people were in a mystic strife and aggression -- foreign aggression. national independence and a liberation of the people, overthrowing imperialism and capitalism, the chinese people have been fighting ferociously under the leadership of the common

xi jinping and mr. vladimir putin. they are both tough autocrats. both of them whether it is vladimir putin looking at ukraine or xi jinping looking at democracy in hong kong, they find a comfort in each other in terms of looking at the united states as potentially undermining the democratic subversion of their grips on power. thank you. i like that there is disagreement. >> so that we can mix it up. i want to get back to this issue of the trilateral relationship and whether we are in a uni-polar world -- in the cold war era, we were obviously -- we thought of ourselves in a bipolar world. the introduction of china into that wouldnship -- be important globally in a few decades. it is interesting to think about , when he made that decision in ,he context of a bipolar world here we are in 2017. a courseently teaching last spring and i mentioned to students at stanford that i thought we were in a uni-polar to try to trigger a reaction. the reaction was, what? half of our students are foreign students in this program. , no, werspective was are in a mult

xi jinping and mr. vladimir putin. they are both tough autocrats. both of them, whether it is vladimir putin looking at the ukraine or xi jinping looking at democracy in hong kong, they find a comfort in each other in terms of looking at the united states as potentially undermining with democratic separation there grandson power. >> thank you. i like that there is a little disagreement. get back to this issue of the trilateral relationship and whether we are in a multi , unipolar world. -- arab,ld world area we got of ourselves in a bipolar the relationship to china and see that china would be important globally in a few decades. if you think about when he really made that decision and the context of a bipolar world and distribution of global power and authority between the soviet union and the u.s. and whene are in 2017, i was recently teaching a course last spring, i mentioned to international policy students at stanford that i thought we were in a unipolar world, sometimes to trigger a reaction. they reaction was what? half of the students are fo

if xi jinping could say to kim jong un do this and do that and he would do it, he would say it. relationship between beijing and pyongyang is very stressed. never have the chinese been willing to accept kim jong un to come and visit. even the premier's never gone to visit there. i talked to a chinese colleague just recently. i said, well, how do you talk to this guy? he said is, our ambassador can't even go see him, ambassador in pyongyang. they said, well, we can talk to his ambassador to beijing, and he has at least some ability to communicate messages. this is a very stressed relationship. so here a third party could take an action though that, as we were describing before, that could end up in this cascade. so i think, i think the military balance is very rell rant, but i think -- relevant, but i think the vulnerability to war is more a function of these entanglements with the third parties than it is with whether i'm just a little bit stronger or a little bit weaker. >> a phrase i've heard recently from chinese officials relating to the original korean war is that china and

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jinping resident xi delivered a speech at a ceremony in beijing. is one-hour program china global television network. comrades, i declare the opening of the celebration of anniversary of the people's f the liberation army. [applause] li kequiang: please stand up, everyone. we will sing the national anthem together. [singing chinese national anthem] li kequiang: please be seated. today, the central committee, of the cpc, the central council, the commission is holding this conference in commemoration and the celebration of the united anniversary of the founding of the people's liberation army, to review the glorious history of the army under the leadership of the communist party of china. and to look into the beautiful future of the cause of a strong military. together, a strong force to realize the chinese dream of a strong military. in this conference, we have the general, chairman of the people's republic of china, and a chairman of the central military commission to president xi jinping. and other members of the standing committee of the politbur

>> the president spoke with chinese president xi jinping last night. to pressure him about trade. ing xi that a u.s. investigation into china's trade practices could begin as soon as monday. xi in return is pressuring trump to tone down threats on north korea. japan is also hoping for a diplomatic solution. but now they are ready to respond with massive missile interceptors in place should north korea make good on its threat to strike guam. president trump in a call with the governor of guam is pledging his support and promising safety for that tiny u.s. territory. >> we are with you 1,000%, you are safe. we are with you 1,000% and i wanted to call you and say hello. how are you? >> mr. president, as the governor of guam representing the people of guam, and as an american citizen, i have never felt more safe or so confident with you at the helm. with all the criticism going over there, from a guy that's being targeted, we need a president like you, so i'm just so thankful and i'm glad you're holding the helm, sir. >> we have a team of correspondents covering all of these angles fro

he's been working on xi jinping since the beginning of his administration.e not come through. but diplomacy is the ultimate step and i think i've been watching your program for the last 30 minutes. war is not imminent with north korea. there are further steps that we can take, a tough-minded diplomacy backed by a strong defense, getting china to use its influence against north korea. that's where the united states i think is heading here in this conflict. >> what does north korea want ultimately? you can't do a deal until you understand what their mow tetiv are. we know this guy's tested twice as many weapons as his dad did in six years than his dad did in 17 years. what ultimately does he want? >> i think most experts believe what he wants is to preserve his family's autocratic authoritarian tick that toauth r authoritarian dicta torie dicta. he looks at saddam hussein who gave up his chemical weapons and lost his regime. i think that's the ultimate goal of the north korean regime. there has to be a regional solution. the chinese and russians here are going

but chinaen its president xi jinping is also asking the president to cool his head and lay back on thetoric. is rhetoric what is going to come down to whether military action is exchanged? >> we can't look at the rhetoric from president trump or kim jong-un or the tweets. you don't create foreign policy in 14 some characters. you have to look at what both sides are going to do. i think kim jong-un will probably test a nuclear what he upon in an attempt to ratchet up the rhetoric. julie: what should the president be doing and should less of his plan and strategy be on twitter and what is being talked about behind the scenes with his national intelligence experts. >> i was impressed when president trump made that call to xi jinping. if the chinese would enforce the sanctions. this is the 8th time we have thanked united nations security council sanctions on north korea. we could stop them from building a hydrogen bomb that could hit the united states. that's what needs to happen here. julie: one of president trump's evangelical's advisors says he believes the bible gives him the who knew

president trump was on a call with xi jinping this morning, saying that the u.s.igate chinese trade practices possibly, opening a whole new door for what he says should be another investigation. how far do you think that's going to go at this point when we're seeing so much turmoil and rhetoric between north korea and the u.s. >> in well, the timing is certainly interesting. look, this is an action that the trump administration i'm told has been considering for a long time and was even prepared to roll out a week or two ago. the fact that they're expected to announce this just a week after china agreed to go along with u.n. sanctions against north korea, you know, could harm the u.s.' ability to convince china to actually enforce those sanctions and impose penalties on north korea. china is not going to be too happy about, you know, a crack down to intellectual property violations or other trade crack downs that the u.s. might impose on them. so, look, a lot of people here say those actions are needed. there's not a lot of disagreement on that, but i think a lot o

i think as many world leaders right now, xi jinping is looking at president trump. they have heard a lot of rhetoric, a lot of policy goals stated. at some point, they are going to start taking stock of how many of those policy statements that he is making and policy goals he is trying to set, how many are being realized. if not many are being realized, at some point they are going to begin to discount. one other aspect of the administration, there are not a lot of appointments being made right now. if you go into the ranks of the department of state, department of defense, all those apartments -- departments that are consequential in managing relations with china and all of our partners around the world -- xi jinping does not micromanage chinese foreign-policy. they are not able to micromanage policy. the diplomats, soldiers, intelligence, those are the ones who go out and take the broadvision and implement. right now, the seats are empty. , iget back to xi jinping know he has a bureaucracy telling him that they are not certain right now what the policy is of the u

chinese president xi jinping urged restants towards north korea in a phone call with donald trump.alled for diplomacy. he also said all parties should avoid escalating tensions through their words and their actions. >>> president trump says he won't reel out military intervention in venezuela. a top venezuelan official accuses him of making, quote, cowardly insolent and vile pletts and nicolas maduro asked to speak with the president on friday. he was told he will talk with him when venezuela's democracy is restored. >>> the u.s. might be using trade as a way to force china to do something north korea. a senior u.s. official says president trump told chinese president xi jinping he wants to investigate chinese trade practices. the probe will look into alleged violations of u.s. intellectual property and potentially lead to tariffs. >>> in kenya demonstrations broke out in part of the country after election officials declared friday that president kenyatta had won a second term in office. he's urging peace after that election and said it's time for kenyans to put their differences a

you can see president xi jinping there in army fatigues. they're saying it's the first time he's ever been wearing the army fatigues. is president executive sexi wit this, to the rest of the region and the world? >> absolutely. although the first message in china is always for the chinese people. and it's important to recognize that xi's first and most important position is to be chair of the communist party's central military commission. the party controls the gun. so that's message number one. this is the party's army. message number two is that when china was not so physical, when china's military was not so robu robust, china was preyed upon by others. and the message of the party to the people is we don't let that happen anymore. >> a lot of people don't realize that the military in china answers to the communist party, swears loyalty to the communist party, not to the nation. >> that's correct. >> thank you very much for coming in. >> my pleasure. >>> well, when we come back, venezuela, president nicolas maduro's defiant against u.s.

xi jinping, the secretary general of the central committee and of the, the chairman of the -- [inaudibleuse] and the chairman of the military commission of china. [applause] >> [speaking chinese] >> translator: dear comrades and friends, today we are gathered at this very big gathering in celebration of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the people's republic -- of the people's liberation army. the glorious history of the people's army of the communist party of china and to look forward to the future of the modernization developments of the national defense and the military. and to mobilize the whole party, the whole military and the whole nation to continue to struggle and to gather together strong force to transcend the nation, and it has transcended the military. together to realize the centennial dreams and to endeavor persistently for the realization of the chinese dream of the rejuvenation of the chinese nation. dear comrades and friends, nine decades ago china was many semi-colonial and semi-feudal status as a society. the chinese nation is in an abyss of suffering featured b

and then as you mentioned that call with president xi jinping, he notified president xi that a trade investigation would be started into chinese trade practices, particularly on intellectual property rights. that's something he promised to do during the campaign, but it could complicate things if this north korea -- if these north korean tensions continue and china is called upon to maybe play a mediating role. >> the president again tying those two things together, often saying china will get a better trade deal if they help with the north korean threat. david mckenzie and dan merica, thank you both. >>> right now some of japan's missile interceptors are arriving at three different bases. japanese leaders say this is a precautionary measure if north korea were to launch a missile toward guam, it would fly over japan. kyung lah is in tokyo right now. talk to us about these interceptors that we're seeing this morning. >> reporter: the way they are built and what they're designed to do is to basically shoot down anything that's heading towards you. so the reason why these particular in

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president xi jinping of china has said consistently he hopes the situation will de-escalate.urged for north korea and for the administration led, of course, by president trump, to dial back the rhetoric, so to speak. look, from the china perspect e perspective, they don't want to have a military situation in the korean peninsula simply because it would cause a host of issues for them on their border, including even an immigration crisis. we have economic interests in keeping the status quo. albeit not having dictator kim jong-un having a nuclear weapon. all of that said, if china doesn't play ball and tried to get the north korea to knock this off, the administration has a couple of options. namely economic ones to pressure chinese financial institutions to stop doing business with north korea. >> daniel, some of your colleagues are writing about the impact president trump's rhetoric might have on the u.s. back channel with north korea. how big of a threat are his comments? >> yeah, it kind of threatens that back channel which had been pretty secret until the ap reported abou

they need to signal to xi jinping, this is your last chance.th korea and help bring them in. if not, iwould not with us north korea and help bring them in. if not, i would not be surprised if the president went to the podium in the next few weeks and either imposed sanctions on chinese banks or got more tough on trade, which was supposed to happen this friday, but because of negotiations with the un security council resolution, it seemed like donald trump changed his mind. donald trump has been talking tough on china. so far, we have not seen much action. we have not seen much action. he has been active on his twitter feed. i think the donald trump administration will give us a few more weeks. you will see a much tougher response. keep in mind, the north korean nuclear missile programmes are advancing at a dramatic rate. i spoke to someone this week that told me north korea is 6— this week that told me north korea is 6- 18 this week that told me north korea is 6— 18 months away from a hydrogen bomb. that is a big deal, the most advanced nuclear

now, i would like to give the floor to president xi jinping.audible] [speaking in native tongue] translator: comrades and friends, today we are gathered at this piece gathering in celebration of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the people's republic liberation army. the glorious history of the army under the communist party of china and we look forward into the future of the modernization development of the national defense and its military. we mobilize the party and the whole nation to continue to struggle and to gather together by strong force. the together we will realize the centennial and to endeavor persistently for the realization of the chinese dream of the rejuvenation of the chinese nation. nine decades ago, china wasn't semi- colonial status as a society and the chinese nation is an abyss of the suffering featured by poverty and weakness and the people in domestic and foreign aggression. [inaudible] translator: capitalism, the chinese people have been fighting ferociously under the leadership of the communist party. however, w

tightening, that is a real sign that tightening, that is a real sign that this new regime under xi jinpingt putting any dissent are different view than what it wa nts to are different view than what it wants to put forward. the fact there is this party congress coming up in october, the 90th anniversary of the founding of the people's liberation army, that is contributing to this ideological restriction that some people are hopefully seeing will then be loosened after this is over. i don't think so. i think we have a regime that insists on ideological purity and we will see more of it. you said 45 years, which takes us more or less to the time when president xijinping more or less to the time when president xi jinping took office. very much driven by his prospective? absolutely. and there have been leaks of documents, the notorious document nine which somebody went to jail for a leaking, which was explicit rejection of western values, as they call it, so that included rule of law, it included what they call the nihilistic view of history, which is the freedom to explore history from any an

there is more assertion on the part of xi jinping when it comes to overseas claims.na sea dispute is far from resolved. it could flare up at any point. the focus in the near term remains north korea and china's role in that. -- a vital a violet role in economic sanctions, seen as important putting the brakes on the nuclear program of north korea. some nations thing china could do more on sanctions, in particular the north korean energy supply. north korea is probably going to be the one dominating in the near term. kathleen: thank you so much, enda curran in hong kong. this will be keeping him and many of our bloomberg correspondence busy. the u.s. congress going back to work next year. what businesses will ceos be watching? we discussed this with a pwc partner. he says the debt ceiling may be the number one focus. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ we are counting you down to asia's first major markets open. japan futures up 40 points. looks to be a positive open in tokyo. .12lar-yen, weaker at 110 against the dollar. this is "daybreak asia." kathleen: u.s. congress returns fro

he made that very personal outreach to xi jinping with the hopes that he would actually intervene. i'm told that look for potentially new round of sanctions that could impact china in a more robust and significant way but the bottom line is u.s. policy on this front has failed so far. there's real concerns about the fact that north korea is becoming increasingly a threat. you also heard senator lindsey graham on the "today" show yesterday saying don't rule out military options. and it's clear with this overnight show of strength that that is the thinking inside this administration as well. >> kristen, finally, immigration, there's an immigration announcement i think coming in the next hour or so. what's it about? >> that's right. president trump is going to be joined by two senators, senator tom cotton and purdue. this administration bill that they are going to be putting forward, effectively builds on a past piece of legislation that has been stalled in the senate. it would cut down on the number of legal immigrants by about 50% over ten years. i just spoke to a white house offici

xi jinping needs to show the world that he is the master of all this. he seems to be making concessions to the u.s. on this point. worry in alle big of this, they don't want to see american influence spreading north beyond the borders of south korea. it is an obvious how china should play this as well. mark: thank you for joining us, john fraher. markets cautious today. havenors moving into assets like gold -- james athey is here. management -- the markets and a remarkable propensity after an initial blitz. down. are they tend to move quickly to these flashpoints. james: i don't think it is just. -- just a geopolitical risk. to be large degree, yields have exhibited the same characteristics. it's very much about the at and flow of sentiment and positioning and liquidity means we can see bigger reactions in some cases to marginal news and in other cases, we can see smaller reactions -- it is difficult to draw any solid conclusions about medium-term outlook. we are in the standard summer characteristic markets right now. futures were hitting the market an

, how does xi jinping compared to other leaders of china? in vision, reform, capacity to have his way? >> he lives in a different period. the leaders you mentioned one phase. mao unified china. now here is a man who is trying to combine some of the elements of the others, and is moving toward a position which if he succeeds will be comparable in influence to mao. >> rose: if he moves to where he wants to go, he will be compared to mao in terms of his influence on society? >> yes, because he is trying consciously to remake this society that he inherited after decades of turmoil, and to put it on a basis of what he calls the two dreams. first dream goes into effect very soon, in 2021, where china reaches the level of the poorer european countries. the second one is at the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the peoples republican where china by his vision be at least as strong, in 2049 as other nations in the world. >> rose: therefore why doesn't he want to do all he can to make sure north korea is not a disruptive factor in the region? >

looks like the honeymoon between president xijinping it looks like the honeymoon between president xi jinpingnd president donald trump is well over. they first met four months ago and it was a very positive face—to—face meeting. president trump tweeted afterwards, tremendous goodwill and friendship was formed, and their meetings led to 100 days of trade talks between the two countries. fast forward to today and the tone has changed. he is disappointed over china's lack of progress on issues like steel dumping and their trade deficit, which stands at more than $300 billion each year. as well as in action over north korea and its weapons programme. so in action over north korea and its weapons programme. 50 now in action over north korea and its weapons programme. so now the trump administration is stepping up the pressure on china. they are believed to be building a case of intellectual property theft, and we could see an announcement about that within days. according to reports, the us might invoke a rarely used law provision which will allow it to unilaterally institute tariffs and possibly

we have certainly seen that ever since xi jinping took control, he has tightened control over the internet more broadly. so even if this seems to be a temporary bump in front of the party congress coming up in the fall, i suspect it will continue in other ways as we push past that. emily: in one of the more bizarre turns, we are also seeing the blocking of online images of winnie the pooh, some online commenters saying there is a likeness between winnie the pooh and president xi jinping. what do you make of that? >> it is an example of the cat and mouse game that happens between chinese internet censors and chinese users. users come up with a way to get around the sensors, either pictures or homonyms for chinese characters. the censors figure it out and try to block it. it does make the chinese leadership look, if not pathetic, then at least insecure that they feel they have to block pictures of winnie the pooh, but it is clearly an example of this kind of arms race that happens. emily: whatsapp was the one social networking chat service, u.s. or american chat service, that was available i

>> this is, i think, a trend that continues i see this as part of xi jinping's power accumulation this leader brought so much power under his own central control over the last five years, since he became communist party leader at the end of 2012. that started with politics, the party, military, he got into the economy, now it's very much going into the corporate sector. on the one hand you have the attempted reform of the state-owned enterprises, which seems to be building bigger national champions, s.o.e.s and thinking political control will make management more efficient, but also the party, it is the communist party often rather than the government is extending itself into the private sector, too. you had curbs on outflows, particularly you have a number of prominent business people who are under some kind of official cloud on some kind of investigation was basically xi jinping and his people are saying, yes, we'll give the private sector the leeway it needs to provide jobs and growth, but you better operate according to how we want you to operate and not go off buying trophy assets

trump spoke by phone with president xi jinping of china. state media reports, president xi urged both sides to tone down the rhetoric. when asked iferly jerm me would stand by the u.s., german chancellor angela merkel said she does not see a military solution to the current crisis. president trump said chancellor merkel doesn't speak for the u.s. > perhaps she's referring to germany. she's certainly not referring to the united states. they can tell you. >> reporter: president trump said he is considering an additional sanctions package that, in his words, would be as strong as they get. and today, spoke on the phone with french president emmanuel macron about enforcing existing u.n. sanctions, as well as working together to achieve north korean de-nuclearization. >> ninan: north korea's not backing down from its threat to launch missiles towards the u.s. territory of guam. more than 6,000 u.s. troops and their families are stationed there. vladimir duthiers was recently granted rare access to the base for our special series "cbsn: on assignm

i'm elizabeth, good saturday morning, president trump and chinese president xi jinping have spoken overthe firm. the white house confirms that both discus making the korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons, president xi called on u.s. and north korea tone down rhetoric and avoid action that is could increase tensions. the judge ruling that the radio host failed to prove the singer personally set out to have him fired, however the judge is allowing suit against mother. i'm elizabeth prann in washington, now back to bulls and bears. dagen: protestors hitting a little too close to home for minnesota republican congressman jason lewis because they were literally at his home. he says that is way out of bounds but the group behind it says it is necessary because he will not hold town halls, gary, you think this went too far? >> absolutely. look, i think this is a slam dunk in the video the people are on his porch for crying out loud. if i'm the guy, i'm barricading myself in the house because you know what happens if he steps outside, someone throws a brick at him or hits him over the head,

in that phone call, xi jinping speaking to president trump. on all sides to really show restraint, pointed criticism in diplomatic terms of the u.s. president. china has recently signed up to harsher sanctions against the regime in north korea. that shows that on at least some level they're willing to play ball. but president trump has repeatedly said that china could do more. >> we as we look at 48 hours from now, president trump is going to be back in washington. that will be monday. announcing that he will direct his administration to investigate china's trade practices. how do you think china will react to this? >> well, the chinese will be expecting this, i think. there's no real mystery in the fact that the president trump has repeatedly said that he believes the u.s. gets a raw deal out of their trade relationship with china. you know some economists might beg to differ. but the u.s. officials telling cnn that monday night be the big announcement of an investigation into chinese trade practices. particularly on u.s. copyrights. somethin

calls between xi jinping and donald trump is a positive sign. what happened a week ago about the security resolution getting russia, china, the united states, france, is a good sign but china played a very important role here. 90% of the trade with north korea comes from china. elizabeth: we talk so much about north korea, there could be back channel communications and china plays such an integral part in what happens between the united states and russia and i am wondering can china afford to cross the united states? do we not have the upper hand here? >> it is important to work together. i was in beijing this past april. i met with the premier and we had very good discussions i would say, insisting we would get the help of the chinese, the chinese government with the situation in north korea. china in the united states needs to work together and good communication going on, pleased to see the phone call with xi jinping and donald trump, an important player here getting north korea moved to edina to arise to state. that is the goal here, he assa

chinese president xi jinping is calling for rapid response and recovery efforts. the national weather service confirms a tornado touched down in salisbury monday afternoon. the e-f one tornado flipped cars in the air and leveled trees and utility poles. the national weather service says the twister was on the ground for about a mile with winds of around 100 miles-per-hour. incredibly no one was hurt. today we're getting a routine update from noaa on this year's atlantic hurricane season. the peak period is generally mid august through october. in the first nine weeks of this season, there have already been six named storms - including this one. tropical storm franklin is hitting mexico's gulf coast right now. the storm already made it's first landfall. today it's expected to pick up speed over open water and hit mexic this time possibly as a hurricane. authorities in texas today are working to piece together how an infant died --- accidentally strangled by a portable car seat. john norris was found dead in the car-seat inside a walk-in-closet monday at a fort wort

that's going to be dependent on the diplomacy between president trump and xi jinping. plus a lot of other things that the united states can do to push china in a better direction because we haven't really tried to do that to the extent that we need to. >> i want to read you a quote from mac thornberry the chairman of the armed services committee in the house. he just joined us five minutes ago. i said to him do you want regime change? he said if kim jong-un is going to continue to threaten us, then, yes, their regime is in danger. what are your thoughts about the u.s. taking out kim jong-un? >> well, we shouldn't be doing that now. we have a lot of nonkinetic options that we can employ and indeed we have to do this because war on the korean peninsula would be horrific as secretary of defense mattis has said. we would have casualties perhaps in hundreds of thousands in the first hours of a war. so clearly we need to do everything possible to avoid that. and we do have the tools, maria. you know, we can sanction chinese banks for money laundering for the north koreans. w

that's going to be dependent on the diplomacy between president trump and xi jinping. that the united states can do to push china in a better direction because we haven't really tried to do that to the extent that we need to. >> i want to read you a quote from mac thornberry the chairman of the armed services committee in the house. he just joined us five minutes ago. i said to him do you want regime change? he said if kim jong-un is going to continue to threaten us, then, yes, their regime is in danger. what are your thoughts about the u.s. taking out kim jong-un? >> well, we shouldn't be doing that now. we have a lot of nonkinetic options that we can employ and indeed we have to do this because war on the korean peninsula would be horrific as secretary of defense mattis has said. we would have casualties perhaps in hundreds of thousands in the first hours of a war. so clearly we need to do everything possible to avoid that. and we do have the tools, maria. you know, we can sanction chinese banks for money laundering for the north koreans. we should be stopping the fl

we learn from chinese state media about the phone call between xi jinping and donald trump in the lastuple of hours. president xi jinping told donald trump that all relevant parties, that does include the us, i thinkfairto parties, that does include the us, i think fair to assume, should be showing restraint in their words and actions, not trying to exacerbate the very tense situation here. the white house also saying that they acknowledged that china's role is very important in trying to bring about a lasting, peaceful solution here. the us and china also agreeing that north korea should stop what it describes as its provocative actions. interestingly the white house saying the relationship tween these two men, who met in florida a few months ago, is an extremely close one. as for north korea, there are reports that 3.5 million people they are, youths and older men as well, have requested to be enlisted and re— enlisted in the army. as for south korea, just very briefly, people here have lived for a long time with the potential for a conflict and frankly many of them ignore much of th