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Global affairs analyst and former spokesperson for organization of security and cooperation in europe. good morning to both of you. i want to ask you, david, youve covered summits like this before. you get the sense allies are handling the president with kid gloves in president, loathe to exacerbate any differences or embarass him in public but in private making it clear they have real differences on national security challenges. is that the dynamic youre seeing play out here? >> thats my sense....

Him. here hes giving support to macron on zarif talking about the joint statement that may come out about iran at the g7 shortly. so i think this very much feels -- its been very heavy on spin. i dont think its until the dust settles afterwards that we get to really know whats going on behind the scenes. mst diplomats here dont come out and speak about what happens. >> lets for a moment drop kick the phrase narrative well into the stands, forget narrative and lets talk about facts, whats actuall...

Buffoonery. the biggest problem the allies dont know what the veal thing is. inviting rainy foreign minister is a sign that europe is starting to go off on its own, with or without the united states. also very, very legitimate concern about the situation escalating relatively close on their doorstep. the other kind of behind the scenes thing we saw here, macron is stepping up, becoming european statesman perhaps ahead of angela merkel retiring, and i think he really likes to play that role and b...

Whole host of issues, russias readmissi readmission, resumption of trade talks with china and others. from the ground and youre speaking with diplomats participating in these talks here, what is the real g7 summit thats taking place? >> reporter: you know, i think its a different one to one that everyone came here to expect for a number of reasons. one is there was more communique, said days in advance it wouldnt be. thats a kind of mostly preagreed roadmap to where all the discussions will end ...