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In which they agree, preventing iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. but talk to me about the dynamics of these potential upcoming dialogues when the president, president trump has already set the stage for such unease among these other g-7 nations? >> reporter: you're right. several times since he has been president he has treated his allies like foes. you'll recall at the last g-7 it was very ak ri moan ycrimonious. going into this, the president is the outlier. he's sort of the wild card here. there's still a lot of uncertainty about what can really be accomplished here, and we just saw tha...

Will have an enormous pushback from within his own republican business base. so he has some tools in his economic quiver to pull out. if he does this one, he is creating i suppose his favorite place to be parked at, controversy. if the impact is going to hurt consumers here more than anywhere else. >> pamela, from a white house standpoint, what are the hopes of the potential outcomes for this weekend? because while there is a calendar of events, there are, you know, photo ops. there are dinners. we all know it's usually the sideline meetings that could produce the most -- what's the potential ...

Escalate a trade war with china and threatening to hit france with a tariff on wine. >> i don't want them doing anything having to do with taxing unfairly our companies. those are great american companies, and frankly, i don't want france going out and taxing our companies. very unfair. and if they do that, we'll be taxing their wine or doing something else. we'll be taxing their wine like they've never seen before. >> cnn's senior white house correspondent pamela brown joins us now from southern france. pam, trump and macron have already met this morning over lunch. what more can you tell us ...

>> the economy, global situation, how to fix the situation in terms of trade because i think we fix that situation. >> reporter: one of the key issues for president macron is climate change. he's been very focused on the wildfires in the amazon. it's unclear how receptive president trump will be. after all, last year during the g-7 he skimmed the summit on climate. he is really coming into this weekend with the economy top of mind, and we've learned from a white house official that the president spoke over the phone with the new british prime minister boris johnson yesterday. the two leaders a...

Get involved. this coalition was phenomenal. you go, we do do this together. we need coalitions an friends and partners. >> which would bring that alliance and bring, you know, the allied forces to victory 11 months later. it was so striking to me, you know, looking at all of the tombstones and looking at the president with president macron today, with theresa may earlier this week, and just thinking about there is a lot that divides even allies right now and the president's comments on nato, et cetera. but there's so much more that united us still. >> absolutely. the foundation of the relatio...