nd tiredness. with hep c behind me, i feel free... ...fearless... ...and there's no looking back, because i am cured. talk to your doctor about mavyret. welcome to "inside politics." i'm phil mattingly, john king is off today. we begin this hour in france where we just heard from the president of the united states. it included a collection of woe if true claims on trade that right now have the markets feeling pretty good. the president today touted what sounds like progress on the china trade war. take a listen. >> china called last night our top trade people and said let's get back to the table, so we'll be getting back to the table. i think they want to do something. they have been hurt very badly, but they understand this is the right thing to do and i have

great respect for it. i have great respect for it. this is a very positive development for the world. >> so here's the thing with that. chinese foreign ministry says that call did not happen, or if it did, they didn't know about it. but at a press conference last hour, the president says he's not making it up. >> we've had many calls, not just one. this isn't one. and these are high-level calls. they want to make a deal. and by the way, i think a deal is going to be made, oers than president xi. the vice president, the vice chairman, it's like the vice president. the vice chairman made the statement that he wants to make a deal, that he wants to see a calm atmosphere. he wants it all to happen. that says it there. i don't have to talk about it. you know, you folks who were reporting, well, we can't find any phone call, he released a statement. i didn't release it, he released a statement. >> but there were phone calls, sir, mr. president? >> numerous calls. not only with steve, there were calls with other people too.

>> so there was indeed a statement. but i want to get straight to pamela brown. pamela, you've been watching this all play out. what's your read on where things actually stand right now? >> reporter: that's a really good question, because it's really unclear. president trump we just heard there doubling down on this idea there were these phone calls overnight with china. steve mnuchin wouldn't say whether there were calls, would only say there have been discussions over the past week. and what has really changed remains unclear. the president clearly trying to restore confidence that things are back on track after what he saw of the markets, this roller coaster ride with the markets starting in asia. but what really changed is sort of the unknown here, phil, because china, the vice premier only said that he wanted things to be resolved with the united states and he wants calm. the president turned that today they want to strike a deal and they want to come back to the table. but here's the thing, phil, the negotiations were already set to

resume in september. so it's really unclear at this point what is going on besides the president sort of putting a positive spin on things after these confusing mixed signals over the weekend here at the g-7. initially the president said he had second thoughts in escalating the trade war. then the white house played cleanup saying the only regrets h had was that he didn't raise the tariffs on china. so you had that aspect of this press conference and then you had iran. first french president macron said he's working to set up talks between iran and president trump and rouhani is open to that and president trump seemed to suggest he would be open to that as well if the conditions were right. so that is certainly a new development here. >> certainly a head-spinning last 72 hours. we know you'll keep an eye on all the things happening right now. in the meantime with us to share their reporting and their insights, cnn's nia-malika

henderson, rachel bade and julie pace. i want to start with china, obviously, pause we were all paying attention over the weekend because we have no lives. but this is also very, very important. we've seen kind of the topsy-turvy go-around. i want to play what president trump said about chinese president xi jinping. take a listen. >> frankly, i think that china cannot -- i don't know, maybe they can, maybe they can't. i don't think they can do that. i think they're very smart. and i think president xi is a great leader who happens to be a brilliant man and he can't lose 3 million jobs in a very short period of time and that's going to be magnified many times over and it's going to break down the chinese centimeter of trade -- system of trade and he can't do that. >> there's two pieces of that sounding. i want to start with how he's referring to president xi which

on friday he tagged him with the idea of an enemy and now he's a brilliant man. we go back and forth. this is a cycle we've repeated so many times. what does it all mean? >> a good question. the past couple of days in particular have been so volatile both with trump's actions and his rhetoric on trade. it is unclear whether he sees xi as a great negotiating partner or whether he sees him as an enemy. he must see him as a little bit of both. trump, when he enters into these types of negotiations, he sees his own unpredictability as an asset. that is true. he's trying to keep the chinese off balance. he's trying to leave them a little bit confused about his own standing in this. i do think, though, one thing is clear over the last couple of days. he is hearing from a lot of different corners within his administration, from other leaders, from others within his party, that he does need to have a little more clarity publicly about where we're going with this. the markets are not going to

withstand weeks more of the instability that we saw last week in part because there are other factors at play here. there's weakness in the german economy, other factors that are contributing to this and he's going to reach a point if he continues to be this unpredictable where he's not going to be able to pull it back. >> you mentioned the unpredictability and friend of the show mike shear asked him flat out the strategy of going back and forth and changing your tone, why is it happening and what does it mean. this was the president's response. >> sorry, it's the way i negotiate. it's the way i negotiate. it's done very well for me over the years and it's doing even better for the country. and i do think that -- look, here's the story. i have people say, oh, just make a deal, make a deal. they don't have the guts and they don't have the wisdom to know that you can't continue to go on where a country is taking $500 billion, not million, $500

billion with a b. >> so the $500 billion number is still wrong and always has been wrong but he's making a broad point here. rich, i want to go to you with this. i talk to republicans on the hill who obviously are opposed to what the president is doing on trade generally although they like he's standing up to china who often think, well, maybe this will work. that's the question. this is his strategy, who knows maybe it works. is that -- >> he was able to renegotiate trade deals with canada and mexico. a lot of republicans came out against that when he terminated nafta and he was able to renegotiate that so i guess they're trying to give him a little space but obviously this goes against republican orthodoxy. when it comes to the negotiating strategy, perhaps maybe there isn't one. it seems like he's caught between his gut and wanting to be tough on china and having this sort of belief that tariffs can really be good for the united states and what he's hearing from everyone else.

republicans, people here in the u.s. being afraid of the recession around the corner in part because of the trade war. macron a few hours ago was saying the trade tensions is creating uncertainty in markets and creating tensions in their talks. he's hearing it from all around and it's clear he's feeling that pressure. >> to the second point, from the initial sound we played and that second one, there is an economic theory to the case which is the united states is in a better position economically right now than china is, and i think that's true invariably when you look at the indicators. as such, the u.s. can outlast china if you want to have this fight. and if you want to restructure the trade, this is the pain you have to deal with. the question begins is the country, is the party, are the voters willing to sustain that pain? >> the answer is of course it can work. china is much more dependent on the u.s. economy than the

reverse. can it work? of course. the question of political pain is a little more complicated pause we have more and more voices in the agricultural sector saying this is not a sustainable course of action. i'm not a chinese politics expert, but the chinese have pressure as well because some of the big economic stakeholders there, a group of very powerful families are also watching their bottom line and saying this is not all that sustainable, guys. we've come up to the threshold of a deal a couple of times but every time they come out and say they want to do a deal, we're really close to a deal, you hear something along the lines of the only thing we have to address is the relationship between china's government and its economy. obviously this is the central piece of all of this. suggesting everything is done except for that is always problematic. >> yeah. >> to say the least. >> nia, i want to pull back 30,000 feet. you've been paying close attention to the summit throughout the course of the weekend. what's your takeaway -- we had a lot of theories on takeaways

going into the press conference. we've now had the press conference. what's your takeaway with what the president came out with? >> the only word i could think of was nishigas. he was all over the place. i think we went into the press conference specifically thinking there would be some clarity that would come out of his press conference because of all the lack of clarity leading up to it. remember, we led up to this press conference or this g summit with larry kudlow essentially saying the g-7 had lost its way, sort of stirring the pot even before you had president trump on foreign soil there. and then him trying to put a good face on it, talking about unity, talking about his meeting with macron which apparently went really well and with this press conference trying to put a pretty bow on everything. but it's unclear. what's happening with the china tariffs? is there a deal or is there not

a deal? does he want to make a deal? does president xi want to make a deal? on climate change, where is he on that? is he willing to meet with rouhani or not. a year ago he seemed willing to meet with rouhani without any preconditions and now he says there would be some preconditions. so that was my sense. it was -- i had the sense of him sort of dancing on stage talking a lot, not necessarily coming away with clarity about the path forward on a number of really, really big issues. >> if you operate by what the last g-7 summit was, low bar, kind words exchanged. >> we're talking about g-7 summits, guys. this is an international summit. these are the events that george w. bush used to describe as small talk and big rooms. it's amazing that we are once again talking about summits -- they're not wrong to say that they have lost their way. this used to be an economic summit trying to forge consensus on the economy among big, rich

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big confusion in france over what the president knew and when he knew it about the french president's surprise guest. today emmanuel macron says he wants to arrange a meeting between president trump and hugh saun rouhani. that comes after the french president invited the iranian foreign minister to drop in on the summit. zarif did not meet with the american president and in realtime u.s. officials called zarif's presence a curveball and complained france kept the american side in the dark. the president asked about the drop-in a day later told a different story. >> no, no, that was -- he spoke to me. he asked me. i said if you want to do that, that's okay. i don't consider that disrespectful at all, especially when he asked me for approval. as far as iran is concerned, that was with great respect. and i spoke to president macron

yesterday and i knew everything he was doing and i approved whatever he was doing and i thought it was fine. >> now, macron asked specifically about the timeline and when he looped in president trump said this. >> so the day after i decided to invite at france minister zarif so i informed -- before making it, i informed president trump that it was my idea. not to involve the united states, i did it on my own. i'm informed before making it president trump. he was informed at each minute about the solution. each time i informed president trump. >> it's all very helpful stuff for the tick tocks. i think a lot of focus on china and with very good reason, but the iran piece of this was fascinating for a number of different reasons. what's your big picture

takeaway, julie? >> one, on macron himself, mcron has the head of the summit and he was really trying to establish himself as a little bit of a showman in the mold of trump with some surprises, surprising trump at his hotel for lunch, surprising him, he said, informed, which does not sound the same as asking permission, but surprising him with the zarif visit. i think macron was trying to say, hey, we're players here too. i think on iran it goes to show the difficulty of having the u.s. and its european allies on different sides of this issue. macron was accurate when he said we are france, we are a party still to the jcpoa. we are dealing with iran on this treaty here, on this deal. so it does put the u.s. at a little disadvantage pause you have allies that are having conversations with the iranians and trying to figure out a way to bring the u.s. back to the table but the u.s. isn't going to be at the table and it does

put trump at a bit of a disadvantage. >> it was an interesting play. on the details, olivier, you picked up something that i thought was really smart and i'm going to claim credit for finding it, both something that macron said as to who's running point for iran and also something president trump said. take a listen and olivier will explain exactly what it means afterwards. >> they are out of money. and they may need a short-term letter of credit or loan. no, we're not paying. we don't pay. but they may need some money to get them over a very rough patch. if they do need money and it would be secured by oil, which to me is great security. and they have a lot of oil. but it's secured by oil. so we're really talking about a letter of credit type facility. >> from the u.s. or from the other countries? >> from numerous countries, numerous countries. and it comes back. it would be -- it would expire and be paid back immediately. >> so at this point in the press

conference people's eyes may have glazed over. letters of credit don't get people excited but it got you excited, olivier. >> earlier in the show you alluded to our poor professional and personal decision-making. >> explain to me why that's important. >> the precise mechanism is not that important. we know the contours of any final -- any agreement with iran will involve limits on their nuclear ambitions in return for some easing of the economic pain. don't get hung up on the letter of credit. what is so striking is that the conversations behind the scenes have gone so far so fast that the president of the united states is talking about this precise mechanism that would be part of a deal, preliminary deal, final deal, i'm not sure yet. i thought it was fascinating they got into the weeds to that point. so macron is saying i want to arrange a meeting in the coming weeks between the president of the united states and the president of iran. that suggests to me the u.n. generally assembly, but don't

hold me to that. on the letters of credit, it's amazing they have gotten this far, that the president can say it would be backed by oil, it would be from multiple countries, not just the united states. that suggests more progress behind the scenes than i honestly had expected on this dossier at this summit. >> take everything with a grain of salt, you don't hold everything the president says immediately, but sometimes he says things told to him in private and says them publicly as well. i want to shift over to a minor issue but still is a major one and that's russia and the idea of the president inviting vladimir putin to the g-7 plus one maybe, perhaps in florida next year. take a listen to what he said when he was asked about this. >> i think it would be better to have russia inside the tent than outside the tent. do we live either way? yes, we live either way. is it politically popular for me to say that? possibly not. i do nothing for politics. i know a lot of you will smile

at that. i do nothing for politics. i do what's right. president obama was pure and simply outsmarted. they took crimea during his term. would i invite him? i would certainly invite him. whether or not he could come psychologically, i think that's a tough thing for him to do. >> i can confirm rachael bade was smiling when the president said i do nothing for politics. what's your sense of the president's thinking or strategy related to president putin and the g-7. >> i think it's hilarious that he's blaming obama for crimea. he has the bully pulpit. this is not surprising. trump has had friendly overtures to russia since the 2016 election. mueller has already come up to the hill and democrats were not able to land any blows on him when it came to that hearing and mueller and russia and the president and so he's feeling more emboldened.

you saw with macron inviting iranian leaders to this meeting, trump is feeling like if we're going to have this in my country, i'll do my own inviting even if this causes some heartburn to some leaders. >> and also picking the place. he went on and on about the bungalows at doral and the acreage and every country could have their own bungalow in detail. this idea that they have been vetting all of these other sites, 12 sites and the military involved, all of which i think was probably news to a lot of people. it seems like he's settled on having this at his golf course that he says is very close to the airport. there are other places that were four hours from the airport, why would you want to have them there. and florida is going to be a very important swing state in 2020 and this would happen right before the election. >> can i just jump in on that? democrats are going to have a heyday on this. they have lawsuits trying to

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conservative radio host joe walsh deciding to take on goliath in 2020. the one-time republican congressman announced this weekend he's joining the 2020 presidential race and challenging his own party's incumbent president. walsh acknowledges it's definitely a long shot. >> the bet i'm making with this campaign and our slogan is be brave, which is come on out. say publicly what you believe privately. they're keeping their mouth shut. they know that trump at the top of the ticket is going to be a disaster in 2020. they just want him gone and then they think the party can get back to normal. that's a bunch of bull, by the way. if we don't challenge trump now, the republican party will never get back to normal. >> the odds are not exactly stacked in walsh's favor. he's known for his own

incendiary opinion, including calling president obama a muslim. he's apologized for many of those comments, but walsh is facing a new bulletproof presidential data point. according to the latest poll, president trump has an 84% approval rating amongst republicans. so i guess the big question -- first, let's start with this. who is mr. walsh? who is the former congressman walsh? i want to pull up some of his tweets from prior to now joe walsh which include on november 8th i'm voting for trump. on november 9th if trump loses i'm grabbing my musket. obama is a muslim, happy new year. on january 12th, 2018, to say it's racist to call haiti a blank hole is like saying it's racist to say chicago has a

violence problem. >> he's sorry for all of those now. >> so it's all good. >> i think on the "new day" interview today, he said he was trump before trump and a lot of his rhetoric was only elevated and amplified by trump. trump obviously much more successful than joe walsh is. you know, i don't know what he's doing. i don't know if this is just a campaign to elevate himself and to, you know, bring, you know, himself attention, but yeah, i don't know -- he knew who trump was when trump was campaigning, and he backed him very vehemently and echoed some of his rhetoric. so i don't know now. it's like, oh, my bad back then and now he's a different person. it's incredible. >> he's starting to make this case that you've heard from a small handful of people, including someone like an anthony scaramucci that i thought trump would be different in office. i knew who he was.

i thought something would change when he got into office. something about being president of the united states would change him. obviously that hasn't happened. i think that most people didn't actually expect that much would change. i think the fact that joe walsh is jumping into this race shows us very little other than the fact there are not a lot of credible options to primary donald trump. he has strong standing within the republican party. most of the leaders of the party, the influential leaders of the party are on his side. the rnc has taken steps to try to block out a credible primary challenge. could a combination of joe walsh and bill weld and maybe something else ding him a little bit in maybe a new hampshire primary, for example? sure. but trump is going to be the republican nominee. that is what is going to happen next year. >> i think the question is can he throw trump off his game. people who are close to the president worry that this guy is going to get under the president's skin. he's not afraid to throw bombs as you saw from these controversial tweets that he's

now expressing regret about. but he is going to go after the president and attack him. two things, it throws trump off his message, potentially if trump responds it could throw him off his message and not what he should be focusing on and it takes trump away from his other top target which is the democrats and going after the opponents that he's eventually going to face. it also gives independent voters who typically vote republican, it reminds them why they don't like the president. they have someone on tv saying we can't re-elect somebody who has no morals and who talks like this. it reminds republicans who actually voted for democrats and helped democrats flip the house and gave it to nancy pelosi why they don't want to support him again. >> yeah, it's interesting. if the president engages with joe walsh, his advisers will, i assume, jump off a building because there's no reason to do it. but yet that's the pinch. he's the guy who can pull him into the morass to some degree.

>> he engages with tv programs, he's going to engage with joe walsh. i will hunt down any news outlet that spends a news cycle reporting on the president's nickname for sdwrjoe walsh but that's where we're heading. sad little joe walsh or whatever. i think your point is reminding people about why they might not like donald trump is really good. i keep forgetting your point, that the rnc has taken so many steps to block a challenge, which based on the data is kind of a curious thing to do. so the question is after joe walsh -- right now it's sort of a veritable who's that. but what if someone with a compelling story, get justin amash in this race, see what happens there. >> one of the reasons that the rnc and some states as well have taken these steps is because there has been this concern. we all know, everyone in washington knows that republicans privately worry about what happens to their party if trump gets a second

term. that is a real conversation that happens. so there's always been the possibility that a john kasich, justin amash, there's a lot of talk about maybe mitt romney jumping in and launching a really credible challenge but that is largely a suicide mission for one of these people to take on and so far no one has shown a willingness to want to do it. >> one of the things i've been struck with, i've been so struck i threw my pen. the people who have gotten behind joe walsh, the never trump folks, some of them who have gotten behind him in a major way, if this is the best you think you can do, all due respect to joe walsh, this is not a player. this is not the name. if you're willing to commit to him and you don't think anything else is coming, president trump is in pretty good shape i think in the republican party. up next, the former arizona sheriff who made inmates wear pink underwear wants his old job back.

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topping our political radar today, joe arpaio wants his old job back. the former arizona sheriff and ardent trump supporter says he's running to make maricopa county safe again. arpaio served 24 years before being voted out in 2016. and this, he was convicted of criminal contempt for making immigration arrests after a court ordered him to stop, but president trump pardoned him before he was sentenced. a source says the house judiciary committee is subpoenaing former white house staff secretary rob porter. porter was a key witness in robert mueller's investigation into possible obstruction by the president. he would be the sixth trump aide subpoenaed by the democrat-run

committee. the white house would almost certainly try to block him from testifying. republican congressman sean duffy just announced he's resigning september 23rd. the wisconsin lawmaker says he loves serving in congress but he and his wife are expecting a child that will need extra love and attention for medical complications. and supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg is speaking publicly for the first time since being treated for pancreatic cancer earlier. the 86-year-old spoke last hour after receiving an honorary degree at the university of buffalo school of law. she acknowledged the elephant in the room, her health, which is a subject of keen public interest. she has had four bouts of cancer and she told the audience that her health problems didn't stop her from appearing. up next, the scramble to make the democratic debate. remember, you can tweet your questions using #insidepolitics. we will answer them. we'll be right back. we reaiden making it easy for you to get your windshield fixed. with safelite, you can see exactly when we'll be there.

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welcome to deadline week for 2020 democrats. wednesday is the final day candidates can qualify for the next debate in september. as of now, these ten will be in houston, having met both the fund-raising and polling dnc criteria. while at least three other candidates still have at least some shot of qualify, one thing is guaranteed, this debate stage will be the smallest we've seen this cycle. over the weekend, amy klobuchar tells her supporters why she

sees real opportunity in just that fact. obviously that was not amy klobuchar. but i think the idea here is slimming down the field. you were with in iowa, we're all talking to democrats. many of whom on the national level of been freaking out about the fact that there's 23 people there, there's two nights of debates. is this really finally the winnowing down of the field everybody wants? >> we're starting to see that happen because some have dropped out of the race and not making the stage for some still in will be a real decision point for i think people like kirsten gillibrand or steve bullock. i think for voters having a smaller stage, ten people, could be really clarifying. one, there are some front-runners we haven't seen have to face off against each

other. joe biden and elizabeth warren are the two candidates that everybody is talking about right now. they have not been on a debate stage together. how will they fare when they have very different philosophies? how will they fare in head-to-head competition? and it does give beto o'rourke or amy klobuchar an opportunity to get a little more time. to be seen as in this final pack. it will be challenging, i think, still for them to break out but it does give them the opportunity. >> in some ways it's a relief for voters too. voters didn't necessarily like this unwieldy field as well. you see it in some ways reflected in the polls. they settled on a top five. some of the numbers sort of change in terms of who has what. but that core top five has remained. perhaps that will change. we'll have a slimmed-down debate stage. so if you're cory booker, can you jump into the top five? if you're andrew yang, the yang gang van jones is so excited about those folks, we'll see

what he does on the debate stage. we'll see who else qualifies, right? it's ten now. is it going to grow to 11 or 12? then do they have to break it up into two nights of six people or do 12 altogether. it's abc's debate. >> every print reporter on deadline hopes there's not. the other three that could qualify are tom steyer, the billionaire, tulsi gabbard, kirsten gillibrand. rachael, you're tied closer to democrats in terms of your reporting and are totally plugged in on where they are on things. what's your sense right now? there's five and a half months, but is there a sense we need decisions now or we need to let this play out? >> democrats want a smaller field because of these reasons that we're talking about so each candidate can stand out and make their case and discern who is going to be the best candidate to stand up to trump. someone like steyer, he just jumped in but has put a lot of money up already and has endless

amounts of cash. so if he can't make this next debate stage then a lot of democrats i think would like to see him and some of the other folks drop out to narrow that field. >> one interesting thing over the weekend, and i know we were both in iowa last week, julie, bt take a look at elizabeth warren's crowds this weekend. one in seattle, one in minnesota. if we're going to show the video of this, this is just seattle. there are 15,000 people here. i think the immediate contrast that comes to mind, at least from what i was hearing in iowa, joe biden is holding events with 100 people, 150 people. elizabeth warren is having thousands of people show up on an august saturday and sunday. do we read too much into crowds? i feel like we did this in 2016. >> yeah, we did. >> yeah, i think we do. i think we do read a little too much into crowds. but we also give -- we also shortchange them because what we don't do is explain why a crowd

matters. we don't sit down and say, look, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the internet age. it's a vital organizing tool and fund rae-raising tool but these people who will leave and tell family and co-workers about what the experience was and what the message was so they are very traditional amp li fires. >> and they're going to donate money. could anybody match not only sanders, the crowds that he had last go-around, but that grassroots army of people that donated money. we saw with warren's big numbers she's been able to do that. >> bernie sanders has huge crowds too. biden's team makes clear their locations are strategic. we've got some time. up next, we answer your questions. not kidding. tweet them now. stay with us. have moderat evere plaque psoriasis. now, there's skyrizi. 3 out of 4 people achieved... ...90% clearer skin at 4 months...

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that's right. get one samsung galaxy note 10 for free. so a wasn't actually kidding. we are quite literally answering your questions that you submitted on the twitters. i'm going to start, olivier, with you. do you think we can expect to see put enat next year's g-7 or g-8? how do you think it will affect trump in the election? >> i'm not sure whether putin will be there. is trump going to invite him or not? what does vladimir putin gain

from being at the g-8 if anything? so we've got to answer that question yet. the impact on the election neglible because a lot of this stuff is baked in. maybe it will remind people about the trump's position with russia. with this seeming diplomatic that you with iran should we assume the influence of john bolton is over? >> i think we've got to wait to see what the terms of a deal might be. but certainly john bolton was brought in in part because he appealed to trump as an iran hard-liner. he's been one of the chief opponents of the jcpoa, the deal struck under obama, and he has really been pushing trump to take an even harder line against iran than maybe even he wanted to. so if trump is softening on this, i think we'll have to look to see if john bolton stays or wants to be in an administration that's willing to do that. >> nia, will the rnc hold primary debates with trump, weld

and walsh? >> no. >> that will do. where will the democratic candidat -- >> they have to figure out how to keep the government open. they'll talk about gun legislation. and then the third thing is trying to get momentum for impeachment. a lot of the impeachment cheerleaders, the numbers have passed 130 democrats who want to impeach the president. they'll try to have a bunch of high-profile hearings to move the public sentiment to supporting it. >> apologies to steve holland who asked about ohio state football. i need at least an hour to walk you through all of that. thanks for participating in that and thanks for joining us. alex marquardt is in for brianna keilar today, and he starts right about now.

i'm alex marquardt in for brianna keilar. under way right now, he's increasingly isolated on the world stage, but the president defending his trade war, wanting russia back into the g-7 and the possibility of hosting next year's summit at his golf club. one picture completely disproves the white house's excuse about why president trump didn't show up for a meeting on the climate crisis. plus, why the president's purported idea of dropping a nuclear bomb into a hurricane isn't a good one. and just in, a new poll shows the 2020 race tightening and becoming more volatile as two rise and the front-runner falls. president trump is wrapping up his time at the g-7 summit in the south of france. we just