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Responded. but if you heard more, you tell me. >> reporter: i can tell you what was asked. we had the hepthelicopter ess a the presidents car he travels in. they were asked if he felt the breach had been fixed with the relationship, what the state of the relationship currently is. it didnt appear he could hear us or if he could, keep in mind, kate, some of us are on this side of a group of hedges and some of us, the u.s. pool, the press pool that travels with the president, is about 15 feet away...

Four years prior to president biden, questions about the u.s. overriding focus on china and where that leaves europe, questions about collective defense. and they have asked clearly for more counterterrorism assistance in africa. those are things that the united states could potentially put on the table as they seek to mend the rift between the two countries. its definitely a possibility. its been part of discussions ive been told. from a substantive side of things, that will be the thing to kee...

Mr. president! >> how do you think the relationship is right now? >> hows the alliance right now? >> all right. there is the arrival of president biden meeting with emmanuel macron. can we go over to phil mattingly? phil is ready i think. hopefully he could hear more than we could. with the helicopters overhead, it was hard for us to hear what was asked and what the president -- how president biden

What the u.s. offers or is willing to provide to the french given their concerns over the last several months will be the most interesting take-away and most substantive take-away from this bilateral meeting long awaited. >> lets stick with this control room because i lost phil for just a second. i dont know if we lost his audio or if it was just mine. just flagging that for the control room. phil, on a basic level when it comes to these very important meetings of world leaders, there is this st...

Compared to that last one we saw at the g-7 summit. >> ill just add at this point, kate, when it comes to china, yes, there was irritation on the part of french and other european allies as far as the withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan. yes, the submarine deal caused a lot of pain in the u.s./french relationship. but right now theres a lot of difference in the way the u.s. is dealing with china and the european am lies, especially france and germany for that matter. they want to have thi...

At all. thats my personal opinion. its a direct relationship between armorer and actor. and the actor has to trust the armorer. thats the way it works. >> richard, thank you so much for your perspective on this. i really appreciate it. i want to get back over -- lets go back overseas, back to rome. phil madingly joins me from outside the french embassy. were awaiting the arrival -- tell me where we are in this. i believe were stating the arrival of president biden to meet with french president e...

Away from the house republican members as tonights health care meetings wrapped up. cnns dana bash. what have you heard? >> i want to report to you something that phil madingly was told with direct knowledge of the strategy. he was told this came from the white house. the white house said the plan they thought to go forward was to try to grind them down. accident the 1 serve aticonservt came out of private conversations with white house aides as well as aides here and the president. this is inte...

Chris christie over the last three or four weeks the polling has shown him move firmly into that top tier of candidates not named donald trump. but i asked chris christie earlier in a press moment with reporters whether or not how he would kind of rank his candidacy. what would be success in new hampshire? he said its too early, ask me in a couple weeks. but very clear his campaign has stated that they need to do well here, wolf, or theres not likely going to be much campaign left afterwards. >>...

State getting the candidates attention right now. the new hampshire primarys only five weeks from tomorrow. lets welcome cnns newest correspondent here to "the situation room," phil madingly, on the campaign trail with the new jersey governor chris christie. phil, tell us more about the governors pitch today that hes actually an outsider who can get things done. >> well, its a delicate dance, wolf, right? try to harness the anger thats really coarursing through the republican electorate but cour...