President Obama, Chinese President Meet
WHITFIELD: President Obama returning to the White House after a two- day summit with China's president. A lot on the agenda. Everything from cyberattacks to North Korea to climate change. So how much was accomplished? Here is CNN's chief White House correspondent Jessica Yellin in Palm Springs, California.</s>JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: President Obama and Chinese president Xi wrapped up their Sunnylands summit with a late-morning stroll in the California desert. President Obama declared the visit --</s>BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Terrific.</s>YELLIN: Over two days, the leaders met for a total of eight hours.</s>OBAMA: I'm very much looking forward to this being a strong foundation for the kind of new model of cooperation that we can establish for years to come.</s>YELLIN: The summit held just four months after Xi took office, meant to launch a close new relationship with the Chinese leader.</s>XI JINPING, PRESIDENT OF CHINA (via translator): And at present, the China-U.S. relationship has reached a new, historical standpoint.</s>YELLIN: The backdrop was unusual, and not just because temperatures soared above 110 degrees. They met at Sunnylands, a private estate of the Annenberg family, better known for hosting Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, and Ronald Reagan for New Year's Eve 18 times. Aides say it offered them a quiet space to work through a range of issues. Among them, North Korea. The leaders agreed to keep up pressure to reign in its nuclear ambitions.</s>TOM DONILON, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: I think we have quite a bit of alignment on the Korean issue, the North Korean issue, and absolute agreement that we would continue to work together.</s>YELLIN: Cyber attacks. According to the White House, the Chinese acknowledged they're a problem, agreed to investigate, and work out rules of the road.</s>OBAMA: I believe we can work together on this rather than at cross purposes.</s>YELLIN: And climate change. For the first time, China agreed to work with the U.S. to limit the production of greenhouse gases. President Obama gave the Chinese leader a parting gift, this bench made of California wood.</s>RHODES: The bench was made out of a redwood. The two leaders were able to take a walk and were able to sit on what became the bench that the Chinese will be taking with them.</s>YELLIN: Throughout the summit, the president and his aides were peppered with questions about new revelations involving government surveillance programs. White House officials had strong words about the consequences of these leaks.</s>RHODES: It's frankly doing an assessment of the damage being done to U.S. national security by the revelation of this information, which is necessarily secret because United States needs to be able to conduct intelligence activities without those methods being revealed to the world.</s>YELLIN: During the summit, President Xi publicly invited President Obama to visit China. White House officials say the president agreed to come, and now they're looking at holding a similar informal summit outside of Beijing in the not too distant future. Jessica Yellin, CNN, traveling with the president in Palm Springs, California.</s>WHITFIELD: Prayers offered around the world today for former South African leader Nelson Mandela. We'll update you on his condition and hear about his powerful legacy from another civil rights icon who knows him, next.