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More attacking his predecessors, saying he doesnt blame other world leader s for this. in fact, he says, he congratulates them for having taken advantage of the u.s., for having gotten such great deals. now it is his predecessors that have done the damage and he wanted to mention not just obama. what really stood out to me, though, was on russia. he started out by saying the reason russia is not in what was the g8 is because something happened a short time ago. i mean, luckily, one of the report...

Warriors or whatever the fad of the day is. >> so, tim, i wonder, does the president get, you know, fellow g-7 members attention? does that language of the relationship is a 10, you know, the relationship is very good, does that translate or are these g-7 members listening to his vernacular where he says hes blaming his predecessors for what he calls, you know, unfair trade, hes going to clean things up? this is how he put it. >> and from the standpoint of trade and jobs and being fair to compan...

Theyre not interested in the same issues that he is, tpp, the iran agreement, climate change. and my summary is basically this. you claim success. you blame your predecessors, you flatter the allies with respect to how good the personal relationships are, and then you get out of town. and you go to the one issue that will separate donald trump from all of his other predecessors, the one issue that becomes his bus ride into the history books and maybe even a nobel if he can pull it off. thats wha...

This is an insult to the europeans, the u.s. pulled out of the paris climate accord, it threw out the iranian deal after europeans begged them to stay in it. angela merkel has to look strong to german voters, you know, leaders in france and the uk have the same pressure, so this bluster, this bullying, backs these european allies into a corner and they have to stand up to trump and it could lead to a trade war. so its just crazy, your hon kn. the russian economy is the size of italys economy. it...

Some strained relations over trade. the president starts it out in a meeting designed to bring people together by kicking out russia over crimea. when asked by a reporter he said something happened. not mentioning, until our cnn colleague pointed out to him it was the russian an ex-ation of cri crimea. then said i dont blame my g7 counterparts. i blame the problems of trade on my own predecessors. its not stunning but really stark. >> what about that? the something happened a while ago means tha...

Going to do. he went out there, blunt policy, blame his predecessors, board a plane and got out of town. thats exactly what he did. once again, i agree with his policies. this is what hes always been saying, america first, not america alone, but its the tone and tactic. and, again, suggesting that russia should be put back into the g-8. i think that is something he should have had in private conversations with the other members of the g-7 before rolling it out. without any conversations with the...

A strong message have been sent with the president, his early departure being late for the, you know, gender equality breakfast, and then we see those photographs and then we hear him talk about, you know, relations are good, but then blaming, pointing blame on his predecessors for why trade relations arent, you know, what he thinks would be optimal. >> i think this whole situation is a good example of sort of the president trump playbook. he wants to dictate his own terms, come and go as he ple...

>> all right, julian, michelle, thanks to all of you, appreciate it. >> thank you. all right, coming up, blaming obama and other predecessors. he did say plural. president trump is pointing the finger at his predecessors over the russian invasion and annexation of crimea, this as he doubles down on his call for russia to rejoin the g7. thats next. whoever came up with the term "small business," never owned a business. theres nothing small about it. are your hours small? what about your reputat...

Fundamental one. so i dont really see what the summit thats going to happen in singapore really has anything to do with that. >> thank you both very much. coming up, president trump blaming his predecessors has he trying to quiet concerns of u.s. allies, ranking them at the summit. >> i blame our past leaders. in fact, i congratulate the leaders of other countries. im really into this car,

Rule. and he wants to sit down at the table with china and russia. and he is not comfortable with the more consensus, multilateral, internationalist approach that really most of the predecessors had in recent years. >> is the order he is more comfortable with, does he share that vision with vladimir putin? is what hes pursuing in terms of this disruptive toward our allies in the west, is that putins agenda >> listen, the ends are the same, right? the ends are the same. i dont know what is in tru...