the deep divisions then between the president and those world leaders who are among america's most important personal allies, but they had splits on issues like trade, the environment, and foreign policy. and if anything, those divides are deeper today than they were last year. one of france's main objectives as host of this weekend's group of seven summit is simply to minimize the chances that president trump will blow it up. maybe he already did. so to be clear, the leaders of the world's greatest democracies, some of those the most powerful people on the planet are meeting for what are the world's most complicated issues including this potential for a global session. but they may be tip-towing on the toughest topics because they don't want to upset the volatile american president. and as we have said the president is especially volatile this week, and no one knows what's about to happen. let's bring in a really good group of experts this friday to break this down and try to make some sense of today's news.