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id be coming. its so good to be back in ireland. forgive my poor attempt at irish. im at home. im at home. after my aged, as you can see how old i am, i have a little wisdom i have more experience than any president in american history. doesnt make me better or worse, but it gives me few excuses. >> president joe biden bringing some jokes with him during a speech yesterday to the irish parliament the president wraps up his visit to ireland today, marking 25 years since the good friday ...

Say, given how much aid the united states is sending to ukraine. in which france very much has a dog in the fight also, given the degree to which china is backing russia. maybe not directly with arms supplies, but with diplomatic support. macr macron, as a lot of french presidents do, is wanting to create an independent foreign policy, and he wants to speech for europe but the response from other european leaders was really to pour cold water on what he said. not just the baltics, not just the o...

>> ed, we had some interesting comments coming out of china, out of beijing, when macron went there. some critical comments, actually, about the united states and behind the scenes mainly talking about how france and the rest of europe should work harder to build bridges with china there certainly was the undercurrent that they should do that without the prodding, without the assistance of the united states. talk about macrons meeting with china and the growing trends there. >> yeah, so macron w...

The eu wouldnt impose additional service tax. a very unusual tax on revenue. it is retroactive in the eu is uncomfortable with it but france is plowing ahead which is why our trade representative is taking action. a great report on it, and outrageous tax, good luck with that. heather: angela merkel said macr macrons remark was dumb. respond to what the president said about that yesterday, but france needs nato more than the united states. >> france does. this is the heart of europe but france sp...

Queen. tell us what youre hearing at this point in time or certainly what the anticipation has been like from white house officials ahead of this? >> reporter: yeah, brianna. were waiting to see what the president has to say about the schiff report. theyll have a response i think in due time, but i will tell you the president in addition to throwing his weight around with some of these world leaders today, we saw him getting into a back and forth with emmanuel macr macron, the french president e...

As we watched g7, what would be a win for president trump at the end of the day, wesley? >> thats an excellent question. i think that one of the things people are patiently awaiting during this summit is to see basically president trump -- to see if president trump overturns things as weve seen time and time again. the president is out of step with many of the leaders from the other g7 duncountries, whet on issues of hate, the climate, economy. now this back and forth with france over whether or...

But russia certainly has made no effort to try to annex eastern ukraine. russia could make steps that would allow a settlement of the conflict there and restoration of the ukrainian sovereignty. but t but russia has done none. that. >> more broadly, what is achievable this weekend? french president macron said a communique to effort that would be pointless. thats basic agreement of principles. what is in within reach for the seven member states? >> its going to be i think a difficult decision. i...

He called many of the g7 leaders his friends for the most part. but behind the scenes, hes been questioning why he even has to attend to his aides. he says he doesnt believe its a productive use of his time. that in the past two years, he hasnt had the opportunity to out to his accomplishments as much as he would want to. now we are told that president trump is expected to have a bilateral with french president macr macron. during the meeting, the president is expected to bring up the digital ta...

Else. well be taxing their wine like theyve never seen before. >> reporter: the president has talked about taxing french wine publicly before. this would be the first time that he will be confronting the french president on taxing french goods, including wine. now for macrons part, he is expected to bring up climate change, he is expected to bring up the wildfires in the amazon. of course, there is this looming threat of auto tariffs on european imports. this is expected to be discussed. hes goi...

First he said that we have to protect ourselves with respect to china, russia and even the united states. when i see president trump announce hes quitting a famous disarmament treaty, who is the main victim? europe and its security. we will not protect europeans unless we decide to have a true european arm ey. how do you take those statements? >> first statements by president macr macron are tremendous concern. i would say ouch. especially today. the centennial celebration of the end of the grea...