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His officials have said they want the $20 million offered by the seven richest nations. amazing that that is all they could put together to deal with the crisis. bolsonaro said hang on a minute, i didnt actually say i didnt want the money and seems to be saying that the french president macron should apologize for calling him a liar and then hell consider whether or not hell take the money. now the french and the brazilian presidents have been engaged in a spat because initially brazils policy w...

>> the first couple is taking in the scenery. it is a beautiful setting indeed. the president is looking at it and is thinking maybe we could do a good golf course somewhere out there. but they have some serious matters on the agenda, including for the french president macron who says that climate change is the number one topic and called the amazon fires an emergency, a global emergency. the president, of course, of the united states is dealing with the trade wars that he has brought upon himse...

Anniversary of d-day and we extend a warm welcome to the president of the french republic, emmanuel macron and his wife, bridget macron. [applause] >> into our president and commander in chief, donald j trump and first lady milania trump. [applause] >> to our many disinterest government and military leaders and families of our honored dead who travel to these now peaceful and how the grounds to bear witness to the sacrifice of their family heroes resting here. [applause] >> to the more than 160 ...

As well. raising all sorts of questions about the commitment to the nato alliance right now. kate bennett is our white house reporter in brussels for us right now. kate, talk to us about the first lady right now. shes there. shes made this trip. theyll be going from brussels. theyll be going to the uk. then going to helsinki for the summit with putin. a lot of travel right now. >> thats right. the first lady today had a much more cordial afternoon with the spouses today at a nearby music academy...

That ivy league club. i think its important to break up that ivy league club. there are ideas and attitudes shaped in the ivy league that i think are distinct to the ivy league or excessively colored by the ivy league. i think america would be better off if we had a court with perhaps a broader range of experience. >> again, a live look at brussels. the class photo has wrapped up. the family photo is done. now the spouses have been invited onto the podium there, the partners of the world leaders...

Policy belief and that is to get out of multi-lateral deals not get back in to them which is why macron is trying to convince the president here today to do. you only need to look at senate democrats, macron might want to talk to them when hes on capitol hill later this week to get a sense of how tough it is to negotiate with this president. he might seem open when hes talking to you as senate democrats said he was on immigration and we got to watch him, you know, bringing up ideas on gun contro...

Saying they would support pompeo and expecting one more democrat to break ranks. so not a comfortable margin for pompeo to get confirmed for the post but at least hell get confirmed. still open question on whether the white house will get two other nominees that are awaiting action, gina haspel to be the cia director and ronny jackson to head veterans affairs department. well see if those get confirmed in a matter of weeks. >> thanks very much. so it looks like pompeo will be confirmed by the ...

Stay in syria, despite other -- differences over trade and tariff and despite differences over the paris climate agreement, on a personal level, they seem to have a good relationship. >> i would say what youve seen over the last say week is the two foreign leaders that donald trump has developed the most personal rap ort with, shinzo abe at mar-a-largo who donald trump -- american and japan donald trump has not been overwhelmingly positive or good for japan. but abe has a good relationship with ...

I guess the two presidents have done what they are going to do as far as planting the tree. and a nice gesture. certainly underscoring the close u.s.-french relationship. theyre going to be boarding, rebecca, marine one shortly to make a quick little helicopter trip to mt. vernon. now that is where theyre touring mt. vernon and have dinner at mt. vernon as well. tomorrow night they have a formal state dinner at the white house. so you see them standing with the shovels and moved dirt around. i c...

Suspicious. >> a lot of people believe that. and on top of that were learning that the president is increasingly using his cell phone to make calls to whoever he wants to sort of skirt around his white house chief of staff who had been monitoring all of his calls. >> yeah. this is the most predictable thing possible in the donald trump presidency which is it doesnt really matter who the chief of staff is or who the communications director or who any of the people are, because donald trump will n...