>> all right. we're listening to the president of the united states with the australian prime minister scott morrison. reporters at the end trying to sneak in a question. cameras get shaky when they are being knuckleballed out of the room. cnn's jeff zeleny is standing by for us tracking the president as he visits new york. the president talking with a friend there, talking about unity and about an alliance but just the fact that he's with the prime minister of australia on the one hand that's a friendship and on the other hand it reminds us good relations with one friend causing testing relations with others. >> reporter: john, it absolutely does, and i cannot recall a time where a bilateral meeting with the u.s. president and the australian prime minister had so much attention on it, not because of what we saw just there, but because what have happened last week. the surprise announcement that australia and the u.s. and the uk have formed this new alliance and it undercut france, so this is something that is lingering here at the united nations in new york, that relationship