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In my opinion about going to make any money. i dont want to make money, i dont care about making money. >> want the big questions asked president trump to part of the summit today, will russia be back in the fold? president trump raised the issue of resurrecting the g8 and claims while some leaders said no, some said yes. >> i think that having president putin in what was the g8, he was a member of the g8 and i heard he was a good member of the g8. having him and i think is more of an advantage....

In the past because of the great wealth. we cant let that wealth be taken away. clean air, clean water. thank you very much, everybody. i appreciate it. thank you. thank you very much. well, there you have it. it was a wide ranging news conference. shall we say there, president trump initially going by the president of france emmanuel macron, and president macron yielded the microphone, so to speak, to president trump there and we heard a lot on iran, on china, on trade, on his property in mia...

Would like, you know, his g7 next year to be even bigger and better. its a g8! you know, he just wants to do something thats his. >> and, of course, one of his properties. nick burns, the fact that this president would re-engage vladimir putin during an election year, when other parts of the government are trying to, you know, counteract anticipated russian interference again with our elections is just so stunning. you have vladimir putin in miami on a trump property being, you know, reinvited i...

Bring russia into, into the fold once again, what if that is the objective here? >> yeah, i mean, it could be a gigantic quid pro quo. that is the thing that putin would have wanted more than anything else to kind of normalize himself on the world stage. as you said, he was kicked out of the g7 for violating the boundaries of a country that was not theirs by annexing a country illegally really for the first time since world war ii. it was a gigantic thing. it meant a huge amount to europe. ukrai...

Iran. and we see trump as sort of a problem that all of these leaders need to deal with rather than as a consistent ally. >> even when you see boris who is a laughing stock condescending to the president and saying the u.s. economy is great, theres a week when he said that before bringing in his criticism. and i think thats tremendously humiliating for the u.s. on a global stage like that. >> olivia, do you think it speaks to the increasing u.s. isolation we saw? we saw jim describe what he saw ...

The u.n. general assembly next month. zarif will be here. will there be meetings then between u.s. officials, secretary pompeo, senator paul and maybe the president himself. >> the president of the united states also looking ahead. next year, the u.s. would be hosting the g7. the president would love it to be g8. this is what he had to say about the idea of bringing russia back into the fold. >> i think its a work in progress. we have a number of people that would like to see russia back. i thin...

There are a lot of things to do binationally and its what the president laid out. hes been very clear and consistent on that. >> you may hate to be at the meetings but thats why you need to go. >> lets talk about russia and all of this. this is the g7 because russia was kicked out for annexing crimea in 2014. the president said he wants russia back in the fold for the g7 -- would be the go8 next yea. lets take a listen. >> i think thats a work in progress. we have a number of people who would li...

Russia back in the fold for the g7, which would be the g8 next year. lets listen. >> i think thats a work in progress. we have a number of people that would like to see russia back. i think it would be -- i think it would be advantageous to many things in the world. i think it would be a positive. other people agree with me. and its something that were discussing. >> all right. russias meddling in the election still, in the upcoming election. in the past midterm election. obviously 2016. nothing...

Confidence the only second thoughts the president was having was whether to be tougher and more aggressive. this comes straight from him when i tell you the president was saying maybe we should have gone even tougher on china. >> one other big issue that was rumbling around here at the g-7 which when may see manifest itself. president trump talking with the other leaders of the g-7 bringing vladimir putin and russia back into the fold, and making it the g-8 again. dont forget, next year the g-7 ...

Business with china. also insisting he has under no pressure from g7 allies to end the trade war. president trump: i respect the presidents and administrations allowed them to get away with taking hundreds of billions of dollars out every year, putting it into china, so the answer is nobody will tell me that. reporter: in his first meeting with president trump since becoming uk prime minister, boris johnson mildly voicing his descent. >> the uk [indiscernible]. reporter: as the trade war with ch...