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Wouldnt weigh in? >> well, well know in his twitter account the moment that he is supposed to be sitting there listening to all of them. but there are three subjects here where we have reason to believe that there is going to be a significant difference of opinion. sam mentioned climate change. the iran deal will be a second. it is pretty remarkable that this is the third g7 the president has attended and they are no closer it a common grounds for dealing with iran, dealing with the sanctions th...

Domestic affairs. this president tends to think about everything as domestic policy. well, you know, our greatest presidents have understood that there are foreign relations requirements and there are needs of international security which sometimes involve expending a little bit of domestic capital to achieve. this president is not willing to expend any domestic political capital for the sake of international economic or political security. in light of that, the other six countries have a dilemm...

Challenge with all of this of course is that the leaders are trying to avoid what happened last year when he was the one who refused to sign the communique at the end. so the solution to that has been have no communique at the end. and the interesting question is how big a solution is that. because it enables the -- [ inaudible ] may not close the gap on any of the issues sam was discussing especially iran where the u.s. is in -- [ inaudible ] >> and this is the first to not have this communique...

Presidents. but in many ways donald trump is the outlier at these sorts of summits now. the g7, nato summits. because he just strikes a very different tone than the rest of his counterparts on the world stage. also he just has a different point of view when it comes to trade, when it comes to russia and these national security issues. the iran nuclear deal for example. the president made a very abrupt political decision as he came into office to pull out of the paris climate accord, to pull out ...