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Global affairs analyst and former spokesperson for organization of security and cooperation in europe. good morning to both of you. i want to ask you, david, you've covered summits like this before. you get the sense allies are handling the president with kid gloves in president, loathe to exacerbate any differences or embarass him in public but in private making it clear they have real differences on national security challenges. is that the dynamic you're seeing play out here? >> that's my sense. president macron of france is running this. he informed zarif was going to be there to avoid som...

Him. here he's giving support to macron on zarif talking about the joint statement that may come out about iran at the g7 shortly. so i think this very much feels -- it's been very heavy on spin. i don't think it's until the dust settles afterwards that we get to really know what's going on behind the scenes. mst diplomats here don't come out and speak about what happens. >> let's for a moment drop kick the phrase narrative well into the stands, forget narrative and let's talk about facts, what's actually happening. this is trump's third g7 summit. on the key issues, trade war with china, russ...

Buffoonery. the biggest problem the allies don't know what the veal thing is. inviting rainy foreign minister is a sign that europe is starting to go off on its own, with or without the united states. also very, very legitimate concern about the situation escalating relatively close on their doorstep. the other kind of behind the scenes thing we saw here, macron is stepping up, becoming european statesman perhaps ahead of angela merkel retiring, and i think he really likes to play that role and be the leader on initiatives right now. >> david, we know that the one thing president trump really ...

Whole host of issues, russia's readmissi readmission, resumption of trade talks with china and others. from the ground and you're speaking with diplomats participating in these talks here, what is the real g7 summit that's taking place? >> reporter: you know, i think it's a different one to one that everyone came here to expect for a number of reasons. one is there was more communique, said days in advance it wouldn't be. that's a kind of mostly preagreed roadmap to where all the discussions will end up. that allowed everything to get into more of a free flow. then you have the fact macron did...