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Of course, she's meeting with former president obama. she already did. she had breakfast with him this morning in berlin. so a lot of context and a lot of symbolism in what happened today, despite the fact that there will be still disagreements between all those leaders and the united states. but they want to reset on a positive note. >> ron brownstein it was very much point-counterpoint. >> yes. >> first, angela merkel says don't build walls, that's not the way we move forward together. then the president, president trump comes up and says thousands of people pouring into our country. >> abso...

Was next to him. >> he did ship maintenance before becoming ship navigator. in fact bannon was at the helm as it companied the crew of the doomed rescue mission of the iranian hostage crisis. this was a symbol of military humiliation and some say it changed the way steve viewed president carter. >> very much so. steve lost confidence as a lot of the nation did. >> when he got back home and especially here at the pentagon his friends say he became more politically aware and politically engaged. so you ended up watching the presidential debate with carter that year? >> it was a point counterpoin...

I think that's considered a lot to americans some religious test on coming into the country even based on geography, it will still end up being islamic people and a lot of islamic americans who are quite rightfully scared about that. >> when he said that, the first reaction was that would be unconstitutional by the elite. i guess that would be us or anyone who is familiar frankly with the constitution but the concept itself of stopping people who may have bad intentions who may be muslim from attacking us, that had broad support because then you started to read the poll numbers and then you st...

That they simply cannot achieve, donald trump's ad talks about this wall that he's going to build that mexico is going to pay for. again, clinton not naming trump but i don't think it takes a genius -- >> it was very subtle but i did, look, i think -- here's my guess at what happened. somebody went to him and said hey, we don't want you to proactively be point-counterpoint with donald trump today. the media is desperately going to be looking for anything so be careful with what you say, mr. president, because anything is going to be grabbed as we want to make this trump v clinton. i don't thin...

Switzerland last week. in an video with npr president obama acknowledged there's a lot of work to be done on the proposed deal. >> we have a period in which we've got to see if we can button down all of these issues whether it's the issue around sanctions, issue around advanced centrifuges and how and when they are deployed and kind of research and development that is still being done. those are the areas where there's probably been the most contention and where we have to work very hard in order to complete a deal. >> joining me now is secretary of state kerry's wing man at the talks, energy ...