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The agreement. white house readout of the phone call saying the two leaders agreed that the situation would have benefitted from open consultations among allies on matters of strategic interest to france and our european partners. president biden conveyed his ongoing commitment in that regard, closed quote. biden and macron will meet end of october and the recalled ambassador will return to washington next week. joining me, ashley parker, white house bureau chief for "the washington post," phil rucker, correspondent for "the washington post." david ignatius, "the washington post" columnist tha...

President trump meeting with francis president macron today. i watched it live today, there was a lot there. >> it was absolutely remarkable. and it was the second 45 minute plus bilateral that they had together. usually you expect disagreements between leaders to be kept behind closed doors but not in this case, they both spoke openly about the respective differences and opinions and they defended them. you had president macron being pushed on nato and you remember recently he said nato was brain-dead and needed to be revisited. russia soviet union had died down and he also fought back and sa...

Digital tax. but today during the lunch between president macron and president trump, there was an exchange of pleasantries. the president seemed to put a positive spin on things, calling macron his friend. he didn't make mention of the digital tax at all, though he did sort of reference and hint at some of the disagreements that lie beneath the surface on some of these key issues that the g-7 is really all about. that would be, you know, climate change, on trade, on iran, so we'll have to wait and see what came out of that lunch, but here's what the two leaders said at the very beginning. >> ...

Making it again the g-8 i don't think they really trust that. if you look at the statement by the spokesperson for the foreign ministry, she said if this is serious, let's have a formal, you know, legal proposal and take it off, as she put it, the social media sphere. so they're not really, you know, buying this because i do believe that president putin thinks that he could be hurt if he jumps on board and then it doesn't happen or president trump doesn't follow through. >> you know, pam, this is really a very prickly g-7 because when you look at the list of, you know, all of these industriali...

Times, good to see you all, and pam brown still with us here. lynn, the president is following a similar routine for these meetings with global lead ers. first he issues some sort of threat against them. and then he sits down with them this weekend and at least for starters with macron today says very nice things. so what do you make of, you know, this kind of approach that the president has, even though people in the white house have said he really doesn't want to be there right now? >> well, my analysis is that this approach means that he could be taken by the world leaders a very unstable. ...