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Seeming too close to president trump. he has made remarks that will further that unpopularity. one that comes to mind is he's a nationalist, considers himself to be one. that is what the french president macron is trying to combat, this idea of nationalism and a populism. he is trying to warn of the dangers of that. so two very different ideologies from the world leaders on that sense. now president trump says he's a nationalist in an economic sense, he wants to put america first in that sense. that is certainly something that has made him open to this criticism. certainly you can see from the...

We've heard from the white house officials saying that president trump has arrived here in a somewhat sour and testy mood. we've seen that in his body language with the french president in that bilateral meeting yesterday. president trump didn't make it out to the graves of american service men just 60 miles outside of paris. weather prohibited his attending that. president macron drove out by car to a different event to a different location. so president trump when you stand him next to president emmanuel macron does seem like a very, very different leader with a very, very different view of ...

Something very important to the -- that has become very important. he really -- president trump in many ways it would be hard to imagine him coming to a country whose leader does not stand a polar opposite of where president trump positions himself. somebody who wants to take down some of these global institutions. world war ii was a consequence of a failure of the ultimate peace agreement after world war i to stick. these institutions that came into play so that the world war i, there would never be such a war again. you know, president trump stands at the opposite poll to president macron. i...

Looking at the pictures of his chief of staff, former general john kelly, and you have to wonder the excuse that the white house gave was that there was too much rain. clearly john kelly was not prevented from going by the rain. >> yeah. president trump of course brings his frustrations and his ambivalence towards europe at a cross for these commemorations. he's also, as we know, not staying on to join other european leaders and apparently putin and erdogan all attending the inaugural paris peace forum where macron is tremendously important. >> i'm going to jump in. you said the magic word the...

To another cemetery a little bit closer to where he's staying here in paris and where over 1,000 american soldiers are buried. so he will have another chance to go and do that, but the white house didn't provide a lot of explanation for why there was no backup plan for yesterday leaving the president open to a healthy amount of criticism for some people here in europe. >> we have not seen him arrive yet here at the palace but we'll be waiting to see for that. meeting with world leaders that mr. trump had was described as testy. do we know what the contentious issues might have been? >> reporte...