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Chris, let me start with you. maybe to put this in bigger picture perspective, these g7, g8, whatever it happens to be called in any given year, these meetings have been going on for decades now. this one produced for all of the noise and for all the sort of chaos that's been stirred up by the president's various comments today and actions over the last few days, this didn't produce any broad-based agreement on on major issues between the participating nations. how different is the g7 under trump versus past presidents? >> i'd say it's almost worthless under trump. it was never worth that much...

That. people don't actually check data enough. the fact is data don't lie and they don't tell you what to do next. you can check all of the tax cuts and hikes of every type. capital gains, income tax. do the mall. death tax. no information there. >> neil: stick with the market stuff. you seem to know you're talking about. good having you. i think we all needed a big picture perspective.

Amy pope. amy under former president barack obama but now an associate with chatham house. joining us at this hour. glad to have you. >> thank you. >> so, from a big picture perspective, you have a u.s. president who seemed to be actually painted into a corner to act on this strike and risk war. or not to act, and signal to adversaries that the u.s. will blink. what do you make of this suggestion that president trump took this approach to effectively have it both ways and come off a hero for calling it off? >> it's hard to see these actions as heroic. what they've done is they've escalated ten...

It doesn't affect morale? >> again, it may affect morale. it depends on somebody's own personal views. a lot of people would be upset at seeing admiral mcraven treated that way by the president. and senator mccain certainly, and some of the others. but at the end of the day, from a approximate big picture perspective, they're going to carry out the orders. along those lines i would say this may be news to the president, but not everybody who is in the military today voted for donald trump to be president, but ladder regardless of whether they voted for him, secretary clinton or didn't vote at ...

It should be fascinating. we are also expecting shortly after the elections, we're expecting this president trump's national security adviser, mike flynn will learn how much time he is going to get in prison, if any. it's sort of amazing from a big picture perspective. we are heading into the first election after president trump was elected, and at the time of this first midterm election, it is less than two years since he was elected. already his campaign chair is convicted on multiple felony and is awaiting sentencing. his deputy campaign chair plead guilty to multiple felonies and is awaiti...