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Discussions now around the iran deal, the risk of unraveling agreements that obama signed up to and which american allies signed up to also, but also in terms of the bigger picture. if you take a topic like trade, for example, lots of obama's positions reflected positions america has held for decades. so the current administration is unpicking positions on big issues that america has always held. this is a deeper level of concern for european governments. >> to quote your article, these diplomats are saying that trump has no historical view. he's only dealing with these issues now and seems to...

Didn't specifically address that. they said they have been very transparent and have been available to answer our questions. it's described as a gaggle on air force one. you witnessed, what was strikeing is that the g20 this time around felt a lot more like the g 19 with the u.s. the sort of odd man out as it were specifically on topics like trade and perhaps more notably on the issue of climb change. >> that communique is the sort of shared statement the countries put out on a shared set of principles. at the end of it, it singled out the united states for it pulling out of the paris climate ...

China will continue to take the position that dialogue is the way to go. this is an old page of the chinese pay bolay book. they continue to push it and position china as a broker between the u.s. and north korea. but this idea that there is a moral equivalency doesn't wash with u.s. officials. they see pyongyang's weapons ambitions as the problem, as the reason for the deterioration of regional security, not the u.s. and south korea. while there are a number of issues that are on the agenda for presidents trump and xi, like trade, north korea is likely the one to test the u.s./china relations...

But we are going to provide assistance to the british government at this time but it would be at this time highly irresponsible to get ahead of the british officials. >> if the plan fails, if the bill fails will the president move on to other issues he's concerned about like trade and leaving obamacare in place and if so how long is he comfortable leaving it? >> well, as i mentioned he's not comfortable, it will be voted on and he will sign it. and we can see the enthusiasm moving in our direction. we're not looking at plan b, we have plan a. >> do you have when they will announce the dates of...

Extent that's possible. but we are going to provide assistance to the british government at this time but it would be at this time highly irresponsible to get ahead of the british officials. >> if the plan fails, if the bill fails will the president move on to other issues he's concerned about like trade and leaving obamacare in place and if so how long is he comfortable leaving it? >> well, as i mentioned he's not comfortable, it will be voted on and he will sign it. and we can see the enthusiasm moving in our direction. we're not looking at plan b, we have plan a. >> do you have when they wi...