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Meeting you would love to be able to sit in on, because these two presidents have had a lot of very tough dealings on a whole range of issues. and theres no love lost between them, certainly, on the -- on the agenda would be syria. reports this morning of attacks that destroyed the last remaining hospital in eastern aleppo, the area thats rebel-held. the united states blamed syria and the russians for that. there is also this cyber hacking. and the allegations by the united states that the russi...

From other administrations and you have this connection. its the same way with the former ambassadors. there is a sense of understanding of the pace, the pressures, and the joys and excitements of the job that you share. so we would be more than happy to do that and just wanted to make sure that everyone understood that. >> that messaging has been consistent. interestingly, one of emersons message is trade agreement that merkel and obama hoped would happen. not going to happen now. merkel made t...

That you need to step forward into a democracy and be a citizen in a republic and be a very active citizen in a republic because thats what it means to live in a democracy. >> reporter: unified message coming from here, now in the air on air force one and apec, with yet another trade deal to happen in the new administration. when we come back, kanye west bringing classic kanye controversy to the 2016 election. he was worried that we werent talking enough kanye so he had to get in the mix.

Some things pro putin i didnt like. hell be national security and dealing with donald trump and powerful. a lot for me depends who the secretary of state is, who the secretary of defense is, who the head of cia is. those people if they run the agencies will database its a foreign policy i wont agree. it will be a bit of a mess. but it makes a huge difference who has those heavyweight positions. >> thank you as always. president obama moments ago arriving in germany one of the stops on his final ...

Where weve made real progress, and where we have not. on paris a lot of the discussion out here both at the g20, apec and finally here at assinian we have to get a strong deal. im confident we can. 160 countries have put together plans for how they can reduce emissions. that accounts for about 90% of the worlds emitters. and the key to a strong agreement is gonna be that although theres going to be differentiation between countries, the united states doesnt expect that our obligations are identi...

The right venue to appear. theres backlash against it. why? >> well, hes been trying to speak in multiple venues this time. rather than doing last time and going to apec and the very pro-israel lobbying group and that really very deeply offensive to the white house speech to congress opposing the presidents signature iran deal, the centerpiece of what he hopes will be his legacy some day, in terms of foreign policy, but this is the first time hes speaking to the center for american progress and ...

>> yes. hed have to -- what are you going to do when he sits down with president li. what are you going to say to him. what policies are you going to put in place. and also remember you have the wto to bear in mind, the g-20, you have apec, you have asean. most of them i happen to think are a bunch of waste of time, but what is he going to do besides bellicosity of saying -- >> he says ive made all these business deals with china, et cetera, about you thats so different, its so different. i want...

Curve for them as well. the president has been out there over the last couple of weeks and theres been a lot of interviews he is doing, trying to support his case for this nuclear deal. one of the key points that he wants to make is whats the alternativ alternative. >> the question has to be there a better path in preventing iran to get a nuclear weapon than this one? ive repeatedly asked president netanyahu and others to present me a reasonable, realistic plan that would achieve exactly what th...

House thmajority leader. its part of a trip that comes every two years from freshmen congressmen from apec. they have lobbied strongly against the deal. benjamin netanyahu will meet with them today. he has been one of the most o outspoken critics. benjamin netanyahu will have his chance to push against the most critical part of that deal which is congress, president obama trying to make sure he has the votes to get this through. some congressional delegation goes every other year to israel. bu...

Likely to vote against the deal than other swing votes. this group is a group of freshmen congressman brought over every two years by apec. >> thank you so much. as congress meets with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu about the deal, president obama is defending his remarking earlier this week at american university when he made his case for the iran deal. his remarks outraged both democrats and republicans. fareed zacaria sat down with president obama. >> in your speech at american u...