DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: China is making progress in its bid to join the World Trade Organization. Today, negotiators from Beijing and the European Union reached an agreement on opening their markets to each other. Meanwhile, here in the U.S., President Clinton is lobbying hard for normalizing trade relations with China. Our senior White House correspondent John King joins us live now. He is at the White House. Good morning, John.</s>JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you, Daryn. The key House vote on this issue due next Wednesday and Thursday. The president's lobbying, you will see some of it in public, but much of it will be done in private. Mr. Clinton left the White House a short time ago. He's en route now first to Andrews Air Force Base to deliver some remarks, then up to Philadelphia. You see him walking here with his deputy national security adviser, Jim Steinberg, one of the president's point men in the China trade debate. Publicly, the president will, at almost every event these days, put in a plug for the legislation. He'll also deliver a televised addressed to the American people from the Oval Office Sunday night. But much of the work will be done in private. One of those on hand when the president is in Philadelphia later today will be Congressman Chaka Fattah, one of the undecided Democrats. The White House says there are now about two dozen undecided Democrats. If they can get 10 or 12 of those votes, the president is confident of victory next week -- Daryn.</s>KAGAN: John, we're going to interrupt you there will quickly. We want to go to the Justice Department where Attorney General Janet Reno is holding her weekly media briefing. She has a statement on the computer virus.
President Clinton Lobbying Hard for Normalized Trade Relations With China