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A minister and i must say the way he developed over a month from all of a sudden the french leader then a flick of a month the european leader and now he has brought himself in the position of the global leader it's amazing and it's very very encouraging for europe all in all this was a very good day for europe anyway we saw him on american all saying francis back he wanted to promote business obviously but he also wanted europe to move forward with a set of reforms which one was the most striking to you both i mean the announcement from his back was very credible but at the same time he could...

Or north korea, what is he bringing back? >> well, on north korea, there's no change. i believe that the situation is, there's mutual constraints against all countries. the north korean nuclear program, the solution of that goes through pyongyang, not through washington or beijing as many people claim. so that is in deadlock. we probably have to play the long game until there's some revolutionary change in north korea, so there's really no change there. but on trade policy, i would say that i think the president's abandonment of multi-lateralism is a mbig mistake. and his pursuit of bilateral ...

Disputes between all the other g7 members and the united states on climate, on trade, on nato's article 5 and on those kinds of things. so this was not unexpected to highlight those kinds of things. i think some of the words angela merkel used have been ignored. she said, you know, after these last few days, i feel we can no longer fully rely on the united states, and she added the uk. at least to some extent there were all these words. she then turned it back towards what she's long wanted to do, say we must as europeans take our destiny more firmly into our own hands. that's sort of the big ...

To the forefront and in such an iconic location, do you think it has an effect? >> well, chris, thank you for having me. it is very disappointing that the president would be calling out a violent terrorist attack as a motivator for an electorate to vote in potentially a very far right candidate who could lead to the breaking apart of the european union. we have to be very careful at these moments to ensure that we as americans and our elective leaders are demonstrating empat empathy, coming up with solutions for how to defeat terrorism. terrorism is going to be defeated through cooperation, th...

Meeting with the german ambassador to the united states, peter widig, in which he was speaking a very derogatory message about the e.u. calling it a flawed organization, saying the u.s. preferred to have bilateral relationships with these countries. and kind of along the lines of what he has said before and a little bit about what president trump has said on the campaign, that you look at what's happening in europe, these populist nationalist movements. they're not really into this kind of european union experiment where they're dealing with multi lateralism. so, european diplomats very nervou...