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america will be the arsenal of vaccines. u.s. president joe biden delivered a message to the world. he spoke after meeting prime minister boris johnson. ahead on the g7 summit, both will attend in england a few hours from now. i'm bianca nobilo in cornwall, england. >> and i'm kim brunhuber at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. welcome to all of you watching here, in canada and around the
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world. secret subpoenas targeting democratic lawmakers involving abuse of power by donald trump's department of justice. plus, covid vaccines and kids. u.s. regulators are now considering new trials on children as young as six months. ♪ the g7 summit is set to get under way here in cornwall england in the coming hours. it's the first time in almost two years that the leaders of the world's richest democracies have talked face-to-face. this is joe biden's first overseas trip since taking also, also his first real chance to convince america's allies in-person that the trump era ask behind him. one of his first orders of business was meeting with g7 host boris johnson who formally welcomed president biden and his wife to the sea side resort. the president and the prime minister sat down to talk about a number of issues important to
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both countries. the pandemic remains a top priority and mr. biden says the u.s. will provide half a billion doses to the global vaccination effort. >> this is about our responsibility, our humanitarian obligation to save as many lives as we can. and our responsibility to our values. we value the inherent dignity of all people. in times of trouble, americans reach out to offer help and offer a helping hand. that's who we are. and when we see people hurting and suffering anywhere around the world, we seek to help as best we can. >> cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson joins us now from the summit site in it
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c carbis bay. do you think there will be enough tangible decisions made in this summit to make that dream a reality? >> reporter: boris johnson has also said that the uk will contribute 100 million doses of vaccine across -- to poorer countries across the world. certainly there are critics of what the g7 appears to be working towards, which is sort of a figure of potentially a billion doses of vaccine to be given to poorer nations. you know, there's a group of former leaders and gordon brown the former british prime minister has been something of a spokesman an advocate for their position which says actually if you want to vaccinate the whole world by the end of 2022 you need another 11 billion vaccines and to achieve that you need to give guarantees of funding to encourage vaccine manufacturers to increase their production
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capacity and capability, to increase their supply and it's that kind of really deeply significant economic help and commitment that the critics would argue the g7 perhaps isn't going to achieve. now, we have to wait to see what they come up with. the aspiration is that for a fairer more equitable global economy that will be part of the discussion points of the g7 this morning, that's the white house's view pandemic recovery, greener recovery is what we've heard from downing street. the exact metrics of what they come up with in terms of commitments of vaccine, a billion will sound like a big number, but the critics are going to say that doesn't go far enough and this group, the world's richest democracies, has the capacity to go further and i think that will be what we will be looking for later today to see if that's achieved.
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>> and, nic, we've been speaking a lot about the u.s.a. and about the uk because a lot of focus was on that meeting between johnson and biden, but what about the other countries in the g7, what are their key priorities going into this summit? >> reporter: we heard from the french president emanuel macron speaking about some of his priorities for the meetings over the coming days, nato as well, and, you know, he questioned some of the planning, you know, for what nato proposes in coming years and he seems somewhat critical of the position the united states has taken on that so far. he is also talking about providing additional vaccines, but making sure that there's -- you know, requesting that the w.h.o. and the world trade organization wto makes sure that vaccine manufacturers and moneys paid to them doesn't stand in the way of vaccines reaching the
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world. now, is that going to be directly in keeping with what president biden has suggested about waiving the patent rights for vaccine manufacturers because we know that's been a point of contention, certainly german chancellor angela merkel has suggested that that isn't the way to go, to waive -- you know, to waive essentially moneys that would be going to vaccine manufacturers. so it won't be -- it won't be everyone exactly on the same page. i think the target place -- everyone has the same target place they want to reach but there will be differences of opinion around the table for sure. >> nic robertson at the summit site, thank you so much. david sanger is white house correspondent for "the new york times" and cnn political and national security analyst and he
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joins us now from plymouth in england. great to have you on the program, sir. >> good to be with you, bianca. >> so i'd love to get your thoughts on what president biden will be thinking going into this summit because we speak a lot about how the u.s.a. is the most powerful player in the room in all of these discussions so it's quite clear what the uk, what german, france, italy, japan, et cetera, can get out of strengthening their relationship with the u.s.a., but why is it so important for the u.s.a. to strengthen their relationship with all these other countries? >> well, bianca, i think coming into this you saw president biden talk about three different priorities, the first is simply to show that the united states is back, and his announcement of the new atlantic charter or a revived atlantic charter with the british prime minister, prime minister johnson, yesterday i think was sort of an indication of his desire to do
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exactly that, be able to show that the united states and its allies have an internationalist agenda. i think the announcement on the vaccines that you were just discussing with nic is a second example of trying to do that, to show that there is a bigger project here as there usually have been with the major allies and in this one -- this case a humanitarian one, although i would say humanitarian one that's also got significant global political advantages for the united states if it can, in fact, get these vaccines into a billion or so arms. and then i think the third objective is to try to go rally the allies in what he calls this growing conflict between democracy and autocracy and by that he means mostly russia and china. >> and, david, when we think
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about president biden and boris johnson, the optics are very good, biden is definitely playing ball and giving the prime minister everything that he could want in terms of the chumminess of the relationship and being so complimentary about the host and the host site, but what do you make about their personal chemistry? what challenges can you see in their relationship? i'm thinking about brexit and how invested president biden is on the good friday agreement and peace process on the island of ireland. >> it's interesting on the campaign in 2019 then candidate biden essentially accused mr. johnson who was not yet prime minister of being a clone of donald trump, and so i think you saw the prime minister yesterday at the meeting in all that he did and all that he signed, doing everything he could to move sort of toward the internationalist view of mr. biden. that's not entirely a false move, i think that, you know,
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boris johnson having grown up in the atmosphere that he did in britain was always a little uncomfortable with the america first part of the trump agenda, but it's also not clear that a year ago he would have been willing to sign on to an agreement that called for such major moves in climate change or such an internationalist agenda. i think the two are going to be a little bit wary of each other for a while. they have to be, particularly after their differences on northern ireland, as you point out, and their differences on brexit which are significant. >> and, david, the point you made before about how president biden wants to get across the power that the west can still have in a backdrop of increasing autocratic tendencies, they want to reaffirm the power of democracy. so i'm curious to know what you think these countries can do. when we do see a back sliding of
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democratic norms, whether it is, you know, in belarus, in hungary, in poland, even in the u.s.a., in many parts of the world, what can the countries who when they say democracy really mean business and it's not just something they're presenting, what can they do to combat those trends? >> well, i think this is going to be the big point of tension. i mean, you already saw president biden begin to back off a little bit on his opposition to nord stream 2 and to decline to sanction the german companies. you can imagine why he was doing that, relationship with germany is so critical, but at the same time if you are really going to make a point to vladimir putin, you're only going to do it by getting at his oil and gas revenues. similarly with china, china is a case where the united states feels as if it's in a truly existential struggle. last week president biden issued an order that actually restricts
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americans from investing in chinese companies that not only do business with the chinese military but also that sell surveillance equipment. you have not seen the europeans sign up to that because they recognize that it would begin to separate china as a major trading partner. and so i think this is going to be the really big challenge because many of the europeans are concerned that biden's rhetoric is going to push us into cold war-like action, and they are not entirely wrong with that. i think that biden sees this very much as a new largely digital cold war kind of environment. >> david sanger, thanks so much for joining us this morning. appreciate it. >> always great to be with you. well, kim, now i'm excited to get into the nitty-gritty of the rest of the summit meetings as david sanger outlined, the
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threats that are posed to these countries and try to figure out what they can do about it. we will have a lot more from you on that later today. >> yeah, it was a fascinating conversation. thanks so much, bianca. it's being called an egregious and unprecedented abuse of power. cnn has learned the u.s. department of justice under donald trump subpoenaed apple for information from the accounts of democrats on the house intelligence committee. "the new york times" first reported that prosecutors were hunting for sources behind stories about contacts between russia and trump associates. the subpoena was sent to apple in february 20618 and included a gag order that was renewed three times before expiring this year. along with house intelligence members and staff, records of family members, including at least one minor, were also collected. one of those targeted was adam schiff, the now chairman of the intelligence committee, who ultimately led the prosecution in trump's first impeachment. he says it all shows an incredible abuse of power by the
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former president. listen to this. >> certainly looks like they were going after records of the committee, including my own. what they were looking for i still don't know, apparently they didn't find anything, but when they wanted to close down the investigation barr wouldn't let them. it's just another terrible abuse of the rule of law, the department of justice and so many norms were broken in connection with this. the norm of a president not involving himself in specific cases. here you have the president calling on his opponents to be investigated. the norm of the president seeking records from a member of congress and staff and doing so on a partisan basis. going after a committee that was investigating him. you know, one guardrail after another just smashed by this unethical former president. >> schiff is now calling for an
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investigation into the doj's actions, a move which house speaker nancy pelosi supports. in a statement she said, the news about the plit si zags of the trump administration justice department is harrowing. these actions appear to be yet another egregious assault on our democracy waged by the former president. cnn spoke with former deputy director of the fbi andrew mccabe and cnn legal analyst norman eisen about the department of justice's hunt for leaks and how it reflects on former attorney general william barr. >> 21 years in law enforcement i served at every level you can possibly serve at as an agent in the fbi and i have never seen activity like this on the part dictated by the department of justice. i think that william barr will go down in history as the person most responsible for undermining the justice department and using it as a political weapon, more so than anyone who has sat in that chair in the entire history of this department. it's an absolute disgrace what
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he did to that institution. >> it is completely without precedent. it's ground breaking and earth shaking and there are going to be consequences. they even went after the child of one of these targets on the hill to get information about a child's account from apple and then there's the question of bill barr, as andy says. we've already had two judges criticize him for a cover up in connection with protecting trump from obstruction charges, now people are going to be looking at his law license a fresh. so expect a lot of legal fallout from this. >> a bipartisan group of u.s. senators say they've reached a deal on infrastructure spending. a $1.2 trillion deal, in fact. the spending is said to be focused on core physical infrastructure, but it still faces obstacles from both
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parties. the five republican and five democratic senators say they worked in good faith to form a realistic framework to modernize the country's infrastructure. now, they didn't offer specifics, but several sources tell cnn the package includes a total of $1.2 trillion of spending over eight years at a cost of $974 billion in the first five years and $579 billion in new spending. the plan includes no tax increases. with so many americans 12 and up at least partially vaccinated against covid, what does that mean for younger kids? we will see where the vaccine authorization process stands next. also coming up, the leaders of the united states and the united kingdom hold their own mini summit ahead of the g7. boris johnson said speaking with joe biden was, quote, a breath of fresh air. stay with us.
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help vaccinate the world against coronavirus while here in the u.s. fda vaccine advisers discuss what it will take to green light covid-19 shots for children 12 and under. cnn's erica hill reports. >> reporter: half a billion shots heading to nearly 100 countries around the globe. >> this is about our responsibility, our humanitarian obligation, to save as many lives as we can. >> reporter: the first doses set to ship in august. back home a focus on children as an fda advisory panel decides what should be considered before authorizing the vaccine for kids 11 and younger. >> what they are talking about today is the nitty-gritty, the logistics and practicalities of doing clinical trials in children as young as five or seven as young as six months of age. >> reporter: moderna just filed for emergency use authorization of its vaccine for 12 to 17 year
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olds. pfizer's eua was expanded for 12 to 15 year olds late last month, about a quarter of that age group has now had at least one shot. >> susceptible -- >> reporter: more than half the residents in these eight states are now fully vaccinated. nationwide it's just over 42%. >> we knew it was going to get harder as this effort went on but one thing we have learned more clearly than anything else is that this vaccination effort will moved at the speed of trust. >> reporter: trust with dose of incentive. >> mark, you won the million dollars. how are you guys doing? >> it was pretty surreal, you know, from the moment we looked out and we saw you on our doorstep. >> reporter: if cash isn't enough to encourage more americans to roll up their sleeves, officials hope their warnings about the fast spreading delta variant may do the trick. >> this variant is even more
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transmissible than the uk variant which was more transmissible than the version of the virus we were dealing with last year and there's also some concern that it may be more dangerous as well. >> reporter: good news for j&j's single dose vaccine, the fda just said it can be stored for four and a half months, that's six weeks longer than previously allowed. the news comes days after ohio warned some 200,000 j&j shots would soon expire. one other note on that johnson & johnson vaccine, former fda commissioner dr. mark mcclellan who is on the board at j&j telling cnn the reason they don't know exactly how long she is doses will last is simply because everything has happened so quickly as part of the emergency, but says those studies are ongoing. in new york, erica hill, cnn. the uk is struggling to curb the spread of more transmissible covid variants. there are growing concerns that hot spots linked to these strains could jeopardize plans to further lift covid restrictions.
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cnn's phil black joins me from essex county in england. boris johnson facing some pressure to put the brakes on the plan to ease covid restrictions, you've been looking into the facts find the growing alarm there. what can you tell us? >> reporter: indeed, kim, it is frustrating timing just as the uk was prepared to move beyond the pandemic, throw off remaining restrictions, these cases and infections are now spiking because of a new highly transmissible variant. scientists agree a new wave is building, but they can't be sure what it's going to look like in a country where the vaccine program is advanced but not yet complete, so it does mean boris johnson the government face some difficult political decisions in the coming days. in this corner of northwest england coronavirus anxiety is peaking again. here british army soldiers walk the streets handing out information and test kits. mobile vaccination teams work to get doses to all willing adults and masks are still everywhere,
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even outside, a rare sight in the uk. >> are you worried about what's happening around here? >> oh, yeah, definitely. if you are not there's something wrong with you then. >> reporter: the signs explain why, the town of bolton is the uk's leading hot spot for a highly contagious coronavirus variant. >> i know a lot more people who have had it in the last three weeks than i did -- well, the last four weeks compared to the last 12 months. it's a lot of people have caught it. >> reporter: first discovered during india's recent devastating wave, also known as the delta variant, it has quickly become the dominant strain in the uk. the british government says the data so far suggests it is about 40% more transmissible than the uk's previous dominant variant. an early analysis conducted by public health england shows it is twice as likely to result in hospitalization. it's also driven an increase in school outbreaks since children haven't been vaccinated. 80-year-old moving soldier lives
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in blackburn, a community where cases of the variant are growing rapidly. >> i don't know how i caught it. >> why was he tested? >> it was just a routine test? >> routine test. >> the trends suggest that we should be alarmed. >> reporter: adam fin is a professor of pediatrics who advises the british government on vaccine policy. >> because children tend to get this infection less and tend to transmit it less than adults do. certainly seeing cases amongst children is another canary in the mine, if you like, it's another sign if it goes on going up that we're dealing with a highly infectious variant. >> reporter: the uk's vaccine program has made huge progress with more than 50% of all adults now fully vaccinated and around another quarter of the adult population covered by a first dose, but some scientists fear this new variant could tear through the remaining unprotected population in a wave of cases that would once again place huge pressure on the
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health system. the government had hoped to lift all remaining social restrictions and reopen society on june 21st, whether to pit road with that plan is looming as one of the most difficult decisions of britain's pandemic experience. >> opening up and having a big further wave and having to shut down again would be worse for everyone. >> reporter: the government is blamed by critics for moving too slowly to stop travel from india, allowing the variant to take hold here. the government says that assessment is unfair, but what it does next will be fiercely scrutinized in a country that has sacrificed much and is desperate to move on. so the government will announce on monday if it's going to proceed with its plan to reopen society. the key test is what's happening in hospitals. do lots of infections still mean lots of people falling seriously ill and being admitted for treatment or are the vaccines already doing their job, disrupting the connection
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between those two things. many scientists believe it's simply too early to tell. they think the situation is finally balanced and they're urging the government to be cautious and move slowly, kim. >> we will be following that story. interesting report. thanks so much phil black in he is ex. a linchpin of the special connection between the u.s. and the uk now updated for the 21st president and uk prime minister sign their names to a new atlantic charter. we will have those details when we come. stay with us. spin class was br. well you can try using the buick's massaging seat. oohh yeah, that's nice. can i use apple carplay to put some music on? sure, it's wireless. pick something we all like. ok. hold on. what's your buick's wi-fi password? “buickenvision2021.” oh, you should pick something stronger. that's really predictable. that's a really tight spot. don't worry. i used to hate parallel parking. [all together] me too. - hey. - you really outdid yourself. yes, we did. the all-new buick envision. an suv built around you... all of you.
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soon meet in person for the first time since before the pandemic. the g7 is happening here in cornwall because the uk holds the group's rotating presidency for this year. the big focus of today's sessions the global economy. members will talk about making it more fair and inclusive. also on the agenda, the global tax rate and aid for countries in need. leaders are scheduled to visit a bio dome rainforest project and attend a reception with members of the british royal family. ahead of the summit u.s. president joe biden sat down with g7 host boris johnson to discuss issues of mutual concern. we get more now from cnn's kaitlan collins. >> reporter: a british prime minister's legacy is often defined by their relationship with the u.s. president. >> it's wonderful to listen to the biden administration and to joe biden. it's fantastic, it's a breath of fresh air. >> reporter: so the world was watching as british prime minister boris johnson sat down with president biden.
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>> we affirmed the special relationship, it's not said lightly, the special relationship between our people. >> reporter: it was biden's first trip to the uk since taking office. >> i've been to your great country many times but this is the first time as president of the united states. >> reporter: and it was also his first time meeting johnson and his new wife. >> i told the prime minister we have something in common, we both married way above our -- >> i'm not -- i'm not going to descent from that one. i'm not going to disagree with the president on that or indeed anything else. >> reporter: the two leaders have disagreed in the past. biden once referred to johnson as donald trump's clone and was critical of brexit which johnson not only campaigned on but negotiated. >> you saw what happened in england with brexit. it was about immigration, it was about losing identity, those moments of instability that present opportunities for the most maligned forces in any of our countries and around the world to be able to gain power. >> reporter: biden and johnson
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looked ahead to the future, renewing the atlantic charter to emphasize their alliance. >> today we build on that commitment. >> reporter: biden and johnson also agreeing to work on restoring travel between the two nations shut down by the covid-19 pandemic. but one of the biggest points of tension between the two leaders is the status of northern ireland where brexit-fueled tensions have broken out and in the past biden has insisted on maintaining the good friday agreement. >> we do not want a guarded border. >> reporter: johnson denied reports biden pressured him to keep the agreement in place. >> there is complete harmony on the need to keep going, find solutions and make sure we uphold the belfast good friday agreement. >> reporter: biden will meet with several world leaders while abroad including a high stakes showdown with russian president vladimir putin and first lady jill biden says he's been studying for weeks. >> i think he's so well-prepared. i mean, he's -- you know, he's been studying for weeks, you
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know, working up to today. of course, he knows most of the leaders that will be here and joe loves foreign policy. this is his forte. oh, my gosh, he's overprepared. >> reporter: kaitlan collins, cnn, traveling with the president in cornwall. >> with me now is david hasslehorn. great to have you with us. >> great to see you. >> this almost fine morning. things are improving weatherwise. >> so yesterday we had quite a lot of optics from prime minister boris johnson and president joe biden. what do you think both leaders are hoping to get out this have relationship and what do you make of their personal chemistry? >> well, you know, that special relationship, you know, has been a little bit iffy because of brexit. there is a lot of concern that boris johnson has -- he's happy that there is a chance for kind of a new start, a little bit more predictable than with
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donald trump, but obviously biden making his first trip and in the back of their minds is this u.s. support for ireland, for making sure that the terms of the brexit deal are upheld so there is underlying tension. for johnson he is the host at the g7, this is the big coming out party for global britain so he has pressure to put on a good show, for biden his first trip abroad as president. these are guys with things to prove for their home audiences. seemed they got along well, they were on good behavior yesterday, nobody talked about brexit too much. they were supposed to meet in this dramatic island castle but too much rain and the helicopters couldn't fly so they redirected. it is a good moment to see where this special relationship goes now that brit season not in the eu and the u.s. has to be careful about picking and choosing among its friends. >> exactly. previously when that special relationship has been strong the uk has often acted as a channel for the u.s. to europe. so now that that isn't the case, what do you think biden sees as
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his main sort of real politic advantages of a very close relationship with the uk? >> well, it also has worked the other way which is the uk has been how the u.s. often interprets europe because they read the british press in english and they understand or did used to understand europe that way and now they realize they can't do that, but biden is perhaps the most experienced u.s. president in modern times on foreign policy. he knows all of these leaders. they've all had pictures taken with him before. whether it's angela merkel or emanuel macron, mario draghi as the italian prime minister former president of the european central bank these are familiar faces and he knows how to interact with all of them. keep in mind that things are a little bit tense especially between them and the uk but also sometimes between the u.s. and brussels as we saw biden making a dramatic announcement, donating 500 million doses of vaccine, the eu has been applauding that but they are also a little annoyed because
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for more than a year they've been exporting vaccine dose waiting for the u.s. to lift barriers in place and suddenly biden is the hero. in each of these relationships you will find a bit of tension. >> what's the sense in europe approaching this summit because obviously there's still -- well, i get the sense that there is still an element of trepidation when it comes to the leadership of the u.s.a., even though it seems like we've returned to pretty much the status quo, there's now a figure head who completely complies with democratic norms in president biden, but there's still a concern that maybe the u.s.a. might not be the most reliable partner going forward. do you think that biden can reassure them this week? >> biden will do his best to reassure them but you are asking a central question on their minds about how durable the things they talk about and the agreements they make will be. i think they're trying to build in some resilience that before trump they didn't necessarily feel was so essential. we do a little bit of recent g7 history, remember in quebec
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trump signed on to the final communiqué, gets on his plane, is headed off to asia and suddenly rejects it and turns around and blows the whole thing up. because of that when macron was the host of the g7 he decided not to do -- doesn't exist, you can't blow it up. the problem there was when the g7 go into a meeting and come out without a written description of what they've talked about you get eight different versions of what was said and what was agreed on. last year there was not each a g7, they refused, they literally rebuffed trump's invitation, merkel refused to go, the pandemic was a bit of an excuse but they were worried about being used as a prop in the u.s. presidential election so g7 effectively went dark. so all of that history what we call tie toon trump when this happened in "politico" when this happened in quebec was on their minds when they look to talk about climate change, about the pandemic and can they end this health crisis by next year when
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they talk about global tax, minimum global tax. really tough problems that this shrinking club and it's an aging shrinking club of g7 very rich countries can solve on their own. they have a bit of luck? that draghi and italy have the fall g7, they might be able to build on that agenda. even from there you have to go into the u.n. as these problems are now global not just limited to the elite seven. >> when it comes to emanuel macron, you know, i've read in your publication and others that he was obviously committed to the idea of strategic autonomy. so is there a sense that even though there's palpable relief that president biden is a reliable partner, is there a tiny bit of a different emotion where upon may emanuel macron quite liked being a powerful adult in the room and now that's not really the case when you look at the dynamics. >> there is no question that emanuel macron likes to be the
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powerful adult in the room. there was an aspect of trump that catapulted a lot of these leaders more to the en center. people were talk being angela merkel as the leader of the free world. >> her last summit. >> this dramatic picture from quebec when trump is there with his arms crossed and she's leaning across the table. france does miss trump's unpredictability in that it let's france come in and play the responsible grown up, especially on security matters. he's still pressing macron for strategic autonomy. it will be interesting to see how biden positions himself of course from here we go back to brussels to a nato summit and that will be front and center, how much the u.s. is willing -- is it willing now to encourage eu military cooperation or do they still want everybody to pay in but let the u.s. handle the hard stuff. >> well, we will be keeping an eye on that. david, thank you so much for coming on with us today. kim, back to you in atlanta. >> all right. thanks so much. coming up on "cnn
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five families have been awarded nearly $15 million for the loss of their frozen embryos, a crucial storage tank in a san francisco fertility clinic malfunctioned three years ago destroying the embryos, a jury ruled the equipment manufacturer and the pacific fertility center were negligent. the verdict is the first of its kind to award damages to victims who have lost their chance to have biological children due to freezer tank malfunction. an arkansas woman is suing a state trooper saying the way he pulled her over on the highway was dangerous and reckless.
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he's alleged to have used what's called a pursuit intervention technique known as a pit maneuver and she says it put both her and her unborn baby in harm's way. amara walker explains what happened. >> reporter: a traffic stop in arkansas turning dangerous in minutes. the driver, janice harper, was allegedly speeding in a 70 mile per hour zone on highway 67 in pulaski county when state trooper rodney dunn activated his emergency lights. you can see from his dash cam video harper turning on her blinkers, slowing down and then moving into the right travel lane, then dunn appears to bump her suv causing her to lose control. harper's car flipped over. you can hear the distress in harper's voice telling the trooper she's pregnant. >> i'm pregnant. >> well, ma'am, you've got to pull over. >> i had my flashers on.
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>> it doesn't matter, ma'am. >> reporter: last month harper who was two months pregnant at the time of the wreck sued the arkansas state trooper, his supervisor and the director of the arkansas state police calling dunn's pit maneuver a reckless attempt to engage in conduct that created substantial risk of physical injury to her. the lawsuit also points out what the dash cam video appears to show, there were no exits or shoulder for harper to safely exit the highway before defendant dunn negligently executed a pit maneuver on plaintiff's vehicle two minutes and seven seconds after defendant dunn initiated his overhead lights. >> why didn't you stop? >> because i didn't feel like it was safe. >> well, this is where you ended up. >> reporter: and it appears harper acted in accordance with the arkansas driver license guide. it instructs drivers to activate their turn signal or emergency flashers when being stopped by police to indicate they are seeking a safe place to stop and pull over to the right side of the road. arkansas state police declined
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to comment on the case to cnn because of the pending lawsuit. >> and that was cnn's amara walker reporting. cnn reached out to trooper dunn and haven't heard back yet. the driver of the car explained to our chris cuomo why she didn't pull over that night. listen to this. >> i never would have thought the police would hurt me. >> so you didn't pull over just because you thought that it wasn't easy enough to do on that road. >> right. i didn't feel like there was an adequate amount of space on the side of the road for my car and the officer to be standing beside it. >> now, harper did suffer injuries that night, but delivered a healthy baby in february. she's seeking at least $100,000 in damages. just ahead on "cnn newsroom," a special get together on the sidelines of the g7. the u.s. first lady and the uk's duchess of cambridge will meet
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bidens go on their first international trip since the election n a few hours she will meet with the duchess of cambridge for the first time. the white house says the two women will join a round table about early childhood education at a school in cornwall. on sunday the first lady and his husband president joe biden will meet with the queen at windsor castle. jill biden has already been making a slash. she turned heads with this jacket emblazoned with the word love on the back. she says it highlights the summit's theme. >> can you explain the message on the back of your jacket, ma'am, if you are willing. >> oh, the love? >> yeah. >> well, i think that we're bringing love to america. i think that this is a global conference and we are trying to bring unity across the globe and i think that's important right now, that people have -- feel a sense of unity for all the countries and feel a sense of hope after this year of the pandemic. >> we should em blazen more
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things on the back of our blazers, kim. back to you in atlanta. >> all right. pleasure having you on again. we will see you again tomorrow. thanks so much. well, it's a bonanza for soccer fans, a final for two first timers at the french open and an under dog's fight in the nba playoffs. >> two major international football tournaments are about to kick off this weekend but the copa america was in jeopardy until the supreme court in brazil voted to let it to proceed. the tournament was supposed to be played in colombia and argentina. the first game will be played on saturday. the european football championships will be on later in rome. both these tournaments had been played by a year because of the coronavirus. >> we're all set for an unexpected french open in paris.
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both women are into their first grand slam singles finals, they will play each other for the first time on saturday. and in the nba playoffs a big night for milwaukee bucks who just edged the nets in game three. the nets lead the series 2-1. game four will also be in milwaukee. back to you. if you were in the right place at the right time you may have seen a ring of fire in the sky. a solar eclipse appeared in the northern hemisphere as the moon crossed between the sun and earth partially blocking the sun's raise creating a glow around the edges. people in green land, northern russia and canada got the best views. sky gazers in the u.s., parts of europe and asia were able to see a partial eclipse. this incredible image comes courtesy of nasa. that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber.
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democratic lawmakers their staffers and their families the latest known targets of a trump justice department weaponized to find leaks. a bipartisan infrastructure plan is on the table. what's included, what's not and what the white house thinks about it. and covid cases found on the first major cruise with americans on board since the start of the pandemic. >> that's not good. >> no. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, this is "early start," i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. it's friday, june 11th
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