LEMON: President Obama cancelled his trip to a major international summit to try to deal with the government shutdown back here at home. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Meeting has drawn major leaders from 21 nations including China. The president sent Secretary of State John Kerry instead. And there Mr. Kerry right there on the ground. Let's bring in CNN International's Anna Coren. She's covering the APEC summit in Bali, Indonesia. Ana, what are leaders there saying about the president's absence?</s>ANNA COREN, CNN INTERNATIONAL: Don, look, I think everybody is very disappointed that the president of the United States is not going to be here in attendance. But the feeling is the show must go on. And that's exactly what will happen here at APEC. There's a certain level of understanding that obviously Barack Obama has a lot on his plate here. He has to deal with the huge domestic challenges facing his government. But unofficially, Don, I think there's real concern as to America's commitment to this part of the world. You know, Asia is the fastest growing region. And you know, the United States made it perfectly clear that its foreign policy was really going to change. That it was going to take on this pivot to Asia to rebalance after years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. The focus was to be here in Asia. Obama made that perfectly clear when he came and visited, you know, several years ago. So I think the feeling is that if America cannot perhaps influence what's going on back home, can't manage its business, what sort of influence is it going to have in this part of the world?</s>LEMON: All right. Thank you. Anna Coren there, beautiful, beautiful Bali. That beach is amazing. We appreciate your reporting. Enjoy it while you can there. We're going to get back to our top story in just a minute here. We're going to break and regroup because we have some breaking news. Our Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr has some new information concerning those missions carried out overseas yesterday. Don't go away. A quick break.
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