The Japanese prime minister is visiting the White House Friday for a bilateral meeting with Trump and a working luncheon
Last Updated Feb 10, 2017 1:37 PM EST
1:37 p.m. The press conference has ended.
1:34 p.m. Mr. Trump said he had a “very, very good conversation yesterday with the president of China.”
“It was a very, very warm conversation,” he said. “I think we are on the process of getting along very well…we had a very, very good talk last night. It was a long talk.”
The president said “we’ll have an incentive-based policy” for tax reform and said he’s working with Republican leadership in Congress on a plan.
1:30 p.m. The president said that ever since he won the election last November, he said he’s been telling many companies to come back into the U. S.
“They’ve been coming back in,” he said, adding that “big announcements will be made” soon. “We are a nation of tremendous potential.”
1:22 p.m. A reporter from the New York Post asked Mr. Trump what he thought about the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal’s ruling to maintain the stay on his travel ban and whether he has plans to sign new executive actions like a new travel ban.
The president criticized the reporter for asking a question that’s unrelated to the press conference.
“We are going to keep our country safe. We are going to do whatever is necessary to keep our country safe,” he said, adding that he will be doing “something” that would involve “additional security for our country” that will be unveiled “sometime next week.
