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Geneva, where reagan and gorbachev met in 1985. and were expecting the president talking to russia and saying he does not seek conflict with them. but if president putin continues malign activity, the u.s. is prepared to respond in kind. were going to see this happen over different kinds of working sessions. the first one will be smaller with secretary blinken there, in addition to minister lavrov and translation, of course. and then each will give their own solo press conference, a striking con...

The need to uphold the rule of law and the critical importance of achieving a future for international trade that works all the time for all the people. in addition to the working sessions, we had a lot of working sessions. many of you were at the working sessions. i had tremendous bilateral meetings with the heads of state. and just some of them are australia, japan, india, germany, russia, brazil, saudi arabia, china, turkey, the u.k. and i met with mexico, also with the representatives of mex...

>> were working on tariffs and making it fair for all countries and we made progress today. well see how it works out. it could be nafta could be a different form. a relationship is probably better than its ever been. >> reporter: before leaving for the summit the president shook things up as you said, shannon, by suggesting russia should be allowed back in after being kicked out for the immigration to ukraine. >> russia should be in the meeting. why are we having a meeting without russia in the...

Werent quite true. a little bit accurate, perhaps. they have a little test once in a while when it comes to trade the united states has had a very big trade deficit for many years with the european union. we are working it out and emanuel has been very helpful in that regard. >> meanwhile, a full day for the world leaders at the g-7 yesterday, including important working sessions. the importance obviously being global cooperation. earlier by the way ought that family photo, all smiles. i to show...

U.s.? totally unfair to our farmers, workers and companies. take down your tariffs and barriers or we will more than match you." this is happening on a day that saw the president suggest russia should be here taking part in the conversation. that did not go well in terms of our relations with some of the allies overseas. you saw the u.k. saying you have to be careful when it comes to russia. they have been disruptive around the globe. so the idea of including them in the g8 is something that wou...