home and what it meant here. so the united states president meets with the french president, and absolutely owns a mistake. kind of threw his team under the bus. but said with the submarine deal we handled it in a clumsy way. was that planned going into it? did you get a heads-up from the white house that he is going to apologize, basically, the president? i was surprised how candid the president was, especially in front of cameras. maybe if cameras weren t in the room, maybe they were going to knowledge it didn t go the way% they wanted to, but president biden says, yes, this was clumsy and there should ve been consultation with the french. he said he genuinely didn t know the french were so unaware they were cutting this deal with the australians and u.k. to give them these nuclear-powered submarines, cutting off the french deal with the australians to give them the diesel submarines, and a multimillion-dollar deal, and he
. welcome back to the g20 summit in roma. i m chris cuomo. you know, it is a time of questioning trust right now, even within the g20. forget about america for one second. remember, the g20 was born in 1999 as an extension. g-7 because they believed you needed to have more influence, you needed to have more players. and now they are questioning whether or not 20 is enough, whether or not this organization is doing what it meant to do. now, you have to build all that into the instability or the questions about stability that are surrounding the united states with its new president, president biden. so he s come here, had a great meeting with the pope, yukked it up, met with the french president, and now he is starting to make the rounds, germany, france, the united kingdom talking about the nuclear program in iran and what
path forward in negotiations with iran, and they re not there. it s also an opportunity, fred, for biden, though, to be the focus of attention at these g20 meetings. and i think they want to take full advantage of this global minimum tax on corporations, is one of the elements of that. he wants to get something done on the pandemic and global action on pandemics. he wants to get something done on climate. so he wants to be pushing those, and he wants to come away as showing american leadership there. it s easier when you re not competing with others. that s a whole other sideshow when those leaders are there. so i think there s some advantages to that. but on this one issue of iran, they re going to need the others in order to chart a way forward. russia is chiming in via videoconference in some
which he saw everything, but in terms of actually impacting on iran. the one thing is, the critics said expand this was too narrow an agreement, it should go to missiles and so on. it s interesting that in this statement they agreed on that. this is going to make a difficult negotiation because iran just elected a new hard-line leader there. so we ll see how this goes. it s a very complicated issue. last word? you re talking about the flip-flop between presidents, between obama, trump, biden on this iran deal. look at the messaging here from the german chancellor. angela merkel was supposed to bring her replacement, and that s demonstrating continuity and intent from the germans. that s how a lot of countries would hope the united states would act, that you would have this continuity and who we are
capacity, so that s still an element and could present some element of surprise. absolutely. so let s talk about security. obviously very tight at a summit of this magnitude. we ve already seen there have been protests in rome, climate crisis is on the mind of so many and even driving with a passion at some of the demonstrations. the u.n. cop 26 summit just days away. what does that white house hope to achieve this weekend to address climate change, particularly when climate change, climate crises provisions are part of the president s agenda, which are not moving at all on capitol hill? i expect that they ll probably move forward, you know, in the coming days on this. they didn t get it done in time for him to have it in hand when he arrived. and i think that they re going to have to spend some time explaining that these things are actually going to happen, that