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In which they agree, preventing iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. but talk to me about the dynamics of these potential upcoming dialogues when the president, president trump has already set the stage for such unease among these other g-7 nations? >> reporter: youre right. several times since he has been president he has treated his allies like foes. youll recall at the last g-7 it was very ak ri moan ycrimonious. going into this, the president is the outlier. hes sort of the wild card here. t...

Will have an enormous pushback from within his own republican business base. so he has some tools in his economic quiver to pull out. if he does this one, he is creating i suppose his favorite place to be parked at, controversy. if the impact is going to hurt consumers here more than anywhere else. >> pamela, from a white house standpoint, what are the hopes of the potential outcomes for this weekend? because while there is a calendar of events, there are, you know, photo ops. there are dinners....

Escalate a trade war with china and threatening to hit france with a tariff on wine. >> i dont want them doing anything having to do with taxing unfairly our companies. those are great american companies, and frankly, i dont want france going out and taxing our companies. very unfair. and if they do that, well be taxing their wine or doing something else. well be taxing their wine like theyve never seen before. >> cnns senior white house correspondent pamela brown joins us now from southern fran...

>> the economy, global situation, how to fix the situation in terms of trade because i think we fix that situation. >> reporter: one of the key issues for president macron is climate change. hes been very focused on the wildfires in the amazon. its unclear how receptive president trump will be. after all, last year during the g-7 he skimmed the summit on climate. he is really coming into this weekend with the economy top of mind, and weve learned from a white house official that the president sp...

Get involved. this coalition was phenomenal. you go, we do do this together. we need coalitions an friends and partners. >> which would bring that alliance and bring, you know, the allied forces to victory 11 months later. it was so striking to me, you know, looking at all of the tombstones and looking at the president with president macron today, with theresa may earlier this week, and just thinking about there is a lot that divides even allies right now and the presidents comments on nato, et ...

Canada. but because this president is different he doesnt even have that this time around. >> no. and in fact he did meet with macron today and macron is awkwardly embracing him to come on november 11th, armistice day, back to paris because we know the president loves parades. hes not going to have that parade that was too expensive even for secretary mattis and for the city of washington to absorb, which is what he was looking forward to, so hes going to paris for a parade. but no meeting with ...

Other members on the hill. better deal to put america first? is this something he could get support for on the hill? >> absolutely. i have said, 99% of congress voted for additional sanctions against iran in regard to their ballistic missile violations and their support of terrorism and human rights violations. we clearly want this agreement enforced. we are prepared to give the president additional tools to enforce the agreement. what i think congress will not do is not legislation that would v...

What we can in syria. here i think there is a higher probability of a condominium of views between the united states and france, and lets try and pull nato along into it. thats our best hope of remaining engaged in syria and we should seek to do so, because we have vital national interests at stake there ranging from countering the weapons of mass destruction, dealing with the humanitarian crisis, trying to prevent iran from really running the table in that region. these are important, big issue...

He will welcome french president emmanuel macron and later this week german chancellor angela merkel. nbcs kristen welker is live at the white house. that is just part of what is going on. its not a secret the white house would want to welcome macron first. the president does have a closer relationship with macron than he does either ally leaders. >> he does have a close relationship with macron, no doubt about that, stef, youre absolutely right. this is going to be the presidents first official...

Curious what your thoughts are about what we just heard from macron today, and that is that he convinced the president to keep troops in syria to not withdraw. >> ana, before i answer, if i can just say i speak for all my colleagues that our thoughts are with barbara bush and the bush family, she really epitomizes grace and civility. to your point about president macron, my question is, what is our strategy? the problem here is that the president shouldnt be consulting president macron, he needs...