Good morning and welcome to way too early. I'm Jackie Alamini in for Ali Vitale on this Thursday,

May 14th. We'll start with the news. President Trump's two-day summit with Chinese leader

Xi Jinping is underway in Beijing. The two world leaders sat down for high-stakes bilateral meeting

overnight. Both presidents projected a positive relationship between the countries, with Trump

telling she that it's an honor to be your friend.

You and I have known each other now for a long time. In fact, the longest relationship of our two countries

that any president and president has had.

And that's to me an honor.

We've had a fantastic relationship.

We've gotten along when there were difficulties.

We worked it out.

I would call you and you would call me.

And whenever we had a problem, people don't know.

Whenever we had a problem, we worked at it. Whenever we had a problem, we worked out very quickly.

We're going to have a fantastic future together.

Such respect for China, the job you've done, you're a great leader.

I say it to everybody, you're a great leader.

Sometimes people don't like me saying it, but I say it anyway because it's true.

But it's an honor to be with you.

It's an honor to be your friend and the relationship between China and the USA is going to be better than ever before.

She mirrored the president's positive tone in his remarks, at least in public, saying in part that China and the United

States both stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation. We should be partners,

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