Understaannounced Visit News Today

We have been waiting to see what is going on here. the french president tapping his one time bff, the president of the united states, right there as they get together. they had a surprise lunch yesterday. were not sure what was discussed but we know there was a surprise visit that took place today from the iranian foreign minister. it was a very brief visit. he sat down with the french president for about less than two hours and just moments ago flew out of there. weve been waiting for this even...

Echo that angry at the french president. emmanuel macron wants to be able to say, look. im making progress on this significant issue ive been working on. trying to ratchet down tensions with iran in the middle east. look, heres some proof in the pudding, if you will, im trying to get something done with iran. the iranians were just in town in france the last week or so having similar conversations. the challenge is, this is apparently not sitting well based on our reporting with some white house...

Couple of moments ago as the two get ready for the dinner here. you can see the video on a loop. the president interacting there is interesting because remember it was macron who invited the foreign minister to not the g7 but to g7 adjacent to have that conversation. macron wants to show hes working to make progress. that is not, based on our reporting, sitting well with some of the presidents advisers who are concerned about the fact that there was not more advance notice given to them by macro...

For an understaannounced visit. it seemed to blind president trump. nonetheless he headed straight to the buildings where the world leaders were debating how to handle irans nuclear program and other ambitions and it was very unexpected. just this morning the press core in iran had been told that zarif was due to embark on a tour of asia today starting in china to try to sure up support for the nuclear deal. now we know that over the last week, the french and iranians have been speaking. zarif m...

Mplgt were back with breaking news from the g7 summit where a swift visit took the trump administration by surprise. the iranian foreign minister is back on his way to tehran. irans foreign minister tweeting out these photos of his round table discussion there with the french president. did we see this coming. did we know this visit was going to happen? >> reporter: no. it took everybody by surprise. him jetting into the g7 summit

His wife welcome many guests there. and were going to continue to keep an eye on the pictures there. we dont have any control over it, i should point out. well continue to keep an eye on those photos and well look for president trump and other g7 leaders. by the way, that whole event is running late. and perhaps this is why. irans top diplomat is leaving just moments ago after making an unexpected appearance there. the u.s. delegation including the president were told caught by surprise. a spoke...

It was a quick visit from the iranian officials. >> reporter: yeah, a quick visit. a surprise visit. and now a dispute between the u.s. and france on who knew what and when. so irans foreign minister jahvid zarif rived on an iranian government plane. he spent a few hours here. principally he met frances president, the host of the g7, emmanuel macron. in fact, he even tweeted out a couple of photographs of that meeting. all smiles as you can probably see from these photographs. then underneath he...

>> it sounded, from the reaction like this was a surprise to the united states that they were not expecting this visit at all. >> as they walk away right now, they are heading towards the hotel which is very historic five star. beautiful hotel right there on banks of the atlantic ocean right next to the light tower as you can see right there. they are planning to have an extended dinner. we dont expect to hear from the president any time soon. i want to bring in ambassador christopher hill who h...