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But mr. trump is still drawing the royal share of attention in london. >> would you like some nice isis fighters? >> reporter: in a tense exchange, he offered the president of the france captured isis fighters. >> let's be serious... >> reporter: drawing a not-so- subtle rebuke from emmanuel macron, the once-budding bromance between the two leaders. >> now tinged with bitterness and backhanded compliments. >> this is why he's a great politician. that was one of the greatest non-answers i've ever heard. and that's okay. >> reporter: just hours earlier, mr. trump laid into macron's recent critic...

Presidency sort of getting used to him and taking, you know, and you moving on without trying to let him dominate and change everything to suit his own needs. he's a presence. they have to deal with him the way he is, but they're not going to allow him to be the only player on the stage. >> peter having covered this president nearly every day throughout his term, have we bumped into a seminole moment in his presidency overseas when president macron turns kbrie eyeball to eyeball to donald trump and says let's be serious. i mean, no one's ever done that to this president before, and he is nonco...

>> let's be serious. >> ah, president macron, i'm sorry but president trump doesn't know how to be serious. there are a few intersecting factors that leave donald trump stranded as america's clown on the international stage as he was once again today. donald trump is first and more most the most ignorant person ever to hold the office of president. he has never publicly spoken with any authority on any serious subject, any presidential subject. donald trump's lack of real information combines with what appears to be gravely limited intellectual capacity. so that when donald trump as president ...

To resolve that conflict, and so it's simply allowing him back in according to the europeans, would be to embolden him and embolden others who would say, yeah, this didn't actually cost him anything. he's able to use troops, use force without any ramification. >> so david ignatius, beyond the grudge is beyond the snippy side remarks, beyond the press conferences, beyond the mutterings at buckingham palace that are picked up on tape, let's talk about the issues that nato has to address and looking forward how are they addressing them, and will we move forward positively on areas like iran who o...

And they're all under lock and key, but many are from france. many are from germany, the uk. they're mostly from europe. and some of the countries are agreeing. i have not spoken to the president about that. would you like some nice isis fighters? i can give them to you. you can take every one you want. >> let's be serious. the very last numbers of fighters on the ground are the fighters coming from syria, from iraq. it is true that you have foreign fighters coming from europe, but this is a tiny minor ut ity of overall problem we have. it's not yet finished. the goal is to get rid of isis and...