as president. biden is hoping at the same time as he's in new york to have a phone call with the french president in the coming days in an effort to ease the very serious tensions that have been created over the security deal that the u.s. reached with the uk and australia that undercut a lucrative deal that france had already made or thought it had made with the aussies. we have the very latest on this hour. arlette, a phone call seems a simple thing to schedule if they want to get on the line. what's happening with this? >> reporter: president biden is hoping to soon schedule that call with french president macron. that call is not expected to happen today but the scheduling process is in the works as the u.s. is really trying to smooth over the tension that's arisen after that security agreement they announced with the uk and australia. the french have been rankled by this disagreement because it's