other house. >> you miss him? >> i miss him a lot. >> you're a pretty strong kid, aren't you? >> yeah. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. good morning. i'm jo ling kent at msnbc headquarters. >> i'm kendis gibson. 3:00 a.m. on the west. noon in france where the president is meeting with others and making an unusual admission. plus the one topic off the beaten path. president putin had a lively discussion but really a good one. it's certainly possible. it's certainly possible. we'll see. >> also on the march, protesters demanding action from world leaders. >> the president says the economy is great while some talk about a looming recession.

what's the truth. on the campaign trail, joe biden's bloopers. whether slip-ups are happening too often or is all the attention purely political? but we begin with breaking news this hour. president trump expected to hold a bilateral meeting with the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau in southwest france. that's expected to happen at any moment now. just a few minutes ago, actually, the president met with japanese prime minister shinzo abe and claimed the u.s. is close to reaching a major trade deal with that country. before that, the president joined a working session that he requested to discuss a global economy. >> earlier, trump had his first meeting with boris johnson. the president again arguing that he has the quote, right to order u.s. companies to stop doing business with china when he first tweeted that on friday. you'll remember the dow dropped about 600 points.

>> are you concerned about how the market is reacting? >> no. the market is doing great. our country is doing great. everybody was telling me yesterday people are trying to copy the formula. people want a recession because they think maybe that's a way to get trump out. maybe that's the way we get him out. i don't think that would work. if there's anything, we've got to go into trade negotiations to get it right. ultimate ultimately, it will be many times what it was before. >> the president said a trade deal with the uk will happen very quickly. but listen to what the prime minister johnson advised president trump on trade. >> on the trade war. [ inaudible ] >> in favor of -- >> we think that on the whole, the uk massively last 200 years. that's what we --

>> how about the last three years? >> last year the g7 sum ilt was contentious. how is this one going? president trump hayes progress is being made officials are accusing the host, president macron of not giving enough attention to trade and the economy. macron wants to focus on inequality, the theme of the gathering, climate change. to go over all of this, kelly o'donnell traveling with the president. bill neely monitoring the protests. carol lee covering the president in france and david leventhal reporter with the center of public integrity. >> let's start with kelly in southwest france. kelly, the president made somewhat of an admission on an important issue. what was that about? >> well, it was striking. because we're so accustomed to the president taking a very tough talking style and in a back and forth with reporters,

one. questions that came up was -- it was the phrasing of the reporter, do you have any second thoughts about ratcheting up your trade battle with china and the president said he might and he might have second thoughts and then another reporter followed up again, again, using the phrasing second thoughts and he said i have second thoughts about everything. we don't typically hear that kind of a mind-set from donald trump who usually be is usually the puncher, the fighter, talking about moving forward. this is a note al concession, at least in tone by the president. saying the trade war is high risk and he's getting a lot of pushback. we've seen the market go up and down. he pushes back on that continually. he hears from corporate america on this issue. certainly hears from other world leaders about concerns of instability, global economic pressures and impact because of

the kind of tariffs that he's tried to impose. threatened to impose and so on. very notable from the president. at the same time, it was also striking that, because we have heard from other leaders that they do not believe in the use of tariffs in this way and they would like to see the u.s. not take such a position with china and they believe in free trade, that the president responded also notably when asked if other leaders present at the conference told him to back off-ois pugilistic stance with china. he said, not in the conversations he's having. that is notable. you would expect that's what they would be talking about. it may be in the way that it's phrased. as we heard br is johnson talking about, the benefits to the united kingdom for free trade. he didn't say directly, president trump you shouldn't do that. it was plain what he was trying

to say. president trump answered that question a short time ago. >> your allies pressuring you in the trade war with china? >> no. not really. nobody would tell me that. >>. [ inaudible ] >> for sure. >> second thoughts. >> might as well. >> do you have second thoughts about he escalatinescalating -- >> i have second thoughts about everything. >> i could declare a national emergency. >> the last part of his answer there deals with the 1977 law, the economic powers act. the national emergency that he would have to declare if there was a threat to the country on economic terms. this is an obscure part of the law and the president is asserting that if he believes that china was such an economic threat that he could then require private u.s. companies

to change their work with china, doing business with or in china. that, of course, is part of what set the market into a turbulent state on friday in particular because private companies have supply chains in china, they do business in china. that is not the typical american open market, free capitalist way of dealing with this kind of an issue. the president seems to be backing off from this. at the same time, asserting that he has the authority to do so. but, of course, he has not said that there is such an emergency. he's just citing this power. might be another instance where he's using different levers to try to compel china to come to the negotiating table. that appears to be one of his tactics, one that has had blowback. jo, kendis. kelly o'donnell, thank you so much. now to bill neely, who is there taking an eye and keeping a track on the protests. bill, we saw some arrests and some action.

what's the latest for the protest front? >> yeah. good morning, kendis. we should say straight-away, there are no protests itself. it's a tone in lockdown so the g7 leaders will hear or see no opposition whatsoever, no protest marches. there is a march this morning in the nearby town of bayonne. at the moment, several thousand people and it's entirely peaceful and it says much about the policies of the french president, emmanuel macron as the policies against the g7 itself. several other protests have been canceled today. organizers telling nbc news that they canceled the protests at around seven sites because they couldn't guarantee that there would not be trouble. there was a little bit of trouble last night in that town of bayonne. there was a protest march by

15,000 people. again, it was entirely peaceful. at the end, a few dozen, maybe up to a hundred broke away and started firing -- throwing stones and rocks at police. they fired tear gas, they used water cannons. it was all very brief. the pictures may look significant, may look like it was a big event, in fact it was nothing compared to the example of the protests we've seen over the last year by the so-called yellow vest movement. the police are really well-prepared for any trouble. remember, they are looking to stop any terrorist action and france, of course, has been rocked by as much terrorism as any country in the european union over the last few years. so they're looking at that. they're looking at anti-g7 protests and the protests against the policies of president macron himself. remember these protesters think that the g7 is a gathering of

rich nations that simply doesn't care about inequality. that simply doesn't care about the environment. president macron tried very hard at the beginning of this summit to say this g7 will be about combatting inequality. he says the amazon is on fire. we must do more about climate change. president trump or at least his aides saying that those are niche issues and they would far prefer that this g7 concentrate on things like trade and the economy. so far guys, today, the protests entirely peaceful. >> place kept on lockdown as well. bill neely, our thanks to you. joining me now, carol lee, correspondent, at the g7 in france and dave leventhal, senior political reporter. carol, first to you. do you know if anything came out of that working session on the global economy that president trump was asking for? >> well, we noah cording to the

president that there was a large discussion about trade and other issues. in terms of his meetings, his bilateral meetings ro boris johnson and prime minister abe of japan, he signaled that they're close on a trade deal with japan, bilateral trade deal with japan and said that they're making progress towards a trade agreement with the uk as it looks to exit the european union by the end of october. overall, generally the president has taken a far more softer tone than we saw when he was heading into this summit. he was very lamb bass particular. he's been critical of the summits. he's gone in and been a disrupter on the stage. so far he's been very kind. he said perhaps his best meeting yet ever with president macron

france. his 90-minute lunch they had yesterday. you can see a lot of, at least in the beginnings of the summit under way, friendly overtones here. whether or not that holds remains to be seen. >> yeah. that indeed -- the optics so far seemingly very positive. david, to you. because some administration officials actually tell the "washington post" that the president, quoting here, was prepared to disrupt the meetings carefully planned script with his trademark bottom baas. you heard what carol said. he wanted to criticize several allies for their slow growth. what are you hearing from your contacts and sources and the readout of what's happening behind the scenes? >> there's still plenty of time for trump to be disruptive. oftentimes, you'll see him show up to a meeting of any sort, domestic or foreign, and be the

back slapping donald trump he can be and by the end of the party, he's playing discus with the bone china. expect him to be somebody who can change on a moment's notice and not necessarily be the calm, cool, donald trump but be bombastic donald trump. this is on the homefront and in france. donald trump has gone back and forth oscillating between hey, do we want to have tax cuts, do we not want to, do we have to have them again? are we going to go into a trade war with china? are we going to throttle back? >> a lot of uncertainty. markets hate uncertainty. it's going to be curious what happens on the stock market front on monday given what's happened and we have a whole day to go. >> the president saying he has second thoughts about everything. are you surprised that he expressed regrets about back and forth with china at all and he did it in the spotlight of the

g7? >> yeah. jo, as kelly said we don't hear the president talk in those terms. he doesn't usually express regrets. he's the president of no apologies and he's having second thoughts about this massive step that he's taken in terms of trade war with china that has jitters among world leaders, and elsewhere that's going to drag down their economies. it's part of this broader image he's putting forward so far at the g7 of being a little bit softer and not as much of poking the leaders in the eye as we've seen him do either on twitter or before he took off to come here. one interesting thing about his meeting so far today, he met with boris johnson of the uk who he considers a good friend and prime minister abe of japan an he has spent a lot of time and they've tried to forge a relationship. both leaders gently disagreed with him in the public portion of their meetings. you saw boris johnson say that

he didn't think tariffs were a good way to go. he said it in very gentle terms. you heard prime minister abe saying that north korea violated security council resolutions with the recent missile tests and the president at the same time, saying while he's not happy about them, he didn't think that they violated any sort of understanding that he had with kim jong-un. everyone seems to be playing nice so far. it's just we don't know if that's going to hold over the next 24 hours. >> reading those tea leaves, just imagine what's og gn privately. the president at one point appeared to have second thoughts as we mentioned about the trade war with china. but he also says that he's not concerned about how the markets are going to react to the tariffs. then he tweeted that the u.s. economy is, quote, the talk of the world. a lot of people laughed at that. how those comments going to play

out dough mess cli? >> they're going to play out anyway the market wants them to play out. donald trump is tweeting constantly about how great the stock market is, when it reaches new highs, he's tweeting about that with lots of capital letters and exclamation points. doesn't do so much when the market that begins to take a nosedive, now, of course it remains to be seen whether the market will react in a significant way to the events of the past couple of days. but donald trump, of course, is trying to lower expectations or really tried to just soften expectations for how the market is going to operate for the next few months. of course, we're entering the peak of political season right now. donald trump wants to have any strategic advantage that he can as the democrats fight it out intramurally with themselves. yea, i think everyone is guarding for the worst and honing for the best. that's where we're at right now, which is not the position of strength that the president would like us to be in, even if

there are headwinds mixed in with some positive signs as well. you have to underscore that as well. >> carol, we also saw boris johnson advising donald trump, talking about how he should dial down the tensions in this g7 situation as it relates to china and trade with the u.s. i mean, this meeting, though, was also supposed to be one of the brighter spots of president trump's trip to france. so what do you make of this feedback from a brand new prime minister to a president of the united states who already seems to have good positive rapport with him? >> well, i say two things. one is boris johnson is also, while he need the united states right now, his biggest asset in terms of moving toward a brexit deadline of october 31st, he's got his own domestic politics to mind while he's here. this is his first turn on the world stage as prime minister and donald trump is not popular

in britain. so he's kind of navigating that. at the same time, if there's anyone who can offer criticism, however gently, to president trump, any g7 member, it's boris johnson because they're considered such good friends. the president and his team have gone out of their way to say that this is a relationship that is close, that is far better than it was with boris johnson's predecessor, theresa may. they expect it to pay dividends. they're putting a lot of emphasis on that. boris johnson took care to criticize what the president is doing in very, very mild sort of terms. you know, if anybody can do it, probably it's him. >> carol lee on the ground for us and dave leventhal, thanks for joining us this morning. great discussion. president trump says the u.s. economy and stock markets are doing great. really? is all the talk of a recession just that, talk?

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the economy front and center for president trump today as he sits down with g7 leaders in the south of france. >> this morning, the working session covered economic issues, including trade and tariff at the president's request. at breakfast, he had had to say. >> the market is doing great. our country is doing great. everybody was telling me yesterday, people are trying to copy the formula, we cut taxes

way down. we got rid of regulations, large numbers, more than any president has gotten rid of. we're doing very well. our country is doing fantastic as well. you people want a recession because you think maybe that's way to get trump out. maybe that's the way we get him out. >> all right. joining us now senior analyst and commentator for cnbc and a senior adviser to schroeder's na. >>let get into it. >> fact check all of that. the market is doing great. it's a model for other countries. >> the market is fine. averages down 5 to 6% from the recent highs. there is concern in the trade war escalates and the president expressed regret about that. we'll see if the futures bounce back a bit tonight. the risks are not today. the risks are three years from now when the economy could and i said yesterday here, the economy will go into a recession if this

trade war continues at the current pace of tit for tat. he said they want to copy the u.s. in terms of economic structure, the way we run things here. is that fair to say? >> not on the regulatory front. the rest of the world does not see the united states a model in that regard. they've made that pretty clear. france is looking at taxes u.s. technology conditions. that's not something we're contemplating here in the same manner they are. look, the u.s. economy is a model in many ways tore the rest of the world. whether or not that's being expressed this time around at the g7 remains to be seen. given that most of the rest of the world is opposed to first the trade war with china and second leaving the iran agreement, never having joined the paris accord. i think there are a lot of areas where the g7 or dpchlt 6 would be critical of the u.s. >> we're not looking to

fraction -- >> the president said he would if the french taxed tech companies. sorry if you're so incollide. california and long island still available. >> good hampton's line. he talked about the trade war. he mentioned we're going to get to that. listen to what he had to say. >> for sure. might as well. >> do you have second thought about escalating -- >> i have second thoughts about everything. >> not often we hear that, where the president is having second thoughts about everything or anything. what's the significance of that expression right there? >> wall street interprets it as a window opening. to him dialing back some of the things he said friday, including trying to order u.s. companies to cease doing business in china a. then you might see a rebound rally. we go through this every day. >> right. >> every day it's a different

comment on taxes, on the trade war. although he said the trade war is still necessary. now whether or not he sticks with the notion of increasing the tariffs on chinese goods, that's more important to the markets than a brief reprieve that these comments might represent. >> i'm so sorry to interrupt you. but we want to take a quick look at prime minister trudeau meeting in his bilateral with president trump. >> more of around the world. always a pleasure to talk about the broad range of global issues. we can see how -- for bilateral -- [ inaudible ] >> so we're going to be significantly expanding our trade relationship when the u.s. mca gets completed. the farmers love it, the workers love it, manufacturers love it.

everybody everybody likes t i think most democrats like it. hopefully that will be put to a vote very soon. it's got tremendous support by democrats and republicans. it has been signed and finalized essentially by canada, essentially by mexico. we're waiting for that by the united states. we have great support. i think it's a very special agreement. it replaces nafta, which is perhaps the worst trade agreement ever done. i can think of one worse. it's not within our country. it's outside of our country. that's the w.t.o. that's a beauty. we're very happy with the agreement. i congratulate you. i hope it gets done. we should save the congratulations for when they vote. but hopefully that will be put to a vote pretty soon. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you, press.

we're leaving now. thank you, press. >> thank you guys. >> press, thank you very much. >> it looks like the press is being ushered off of that quick bilateral spray was bee we call it. what's your reaction ron an san a. saying the new nafta will be in place soon and everybody is happy about it? >> i'm not sure that's the case. i'm not sure the democrats agreed to approve it in its current form without modifications. vice president mike pence said the effect of the usmca to replace nafta will create 170,000 new jobs and $70 billion in new investment. that's one-month's increase on average. $70 billion and $21 trillion economy is a ripple in the pond. most economists who look at usmca see a very minor improvements in nafta. a half percent increase in the

canadian dairy market. that's not going to move the needle in a way that too many people notice. >> or have a big impact. as you look at what he's gotten done in the 36 hours there, what he's been saying -- >> we don't know what's been done. particularly given the divisions among g7. last year was deemed a failure in canada. this looks more like a lot of conversations going nowhere. i've covered several meetings over the course of my career. 20 g-20 meetings. it doesn't seem like the agenda was set for directly addressing the economic problems that the global economy faces. there are nine major economies in or near recession. they haven't talked about structural ways to reform the global economy so we see greater growth across the planet and avoid the u.s. trade war taking

everybody down further. >> one last question for you. we expect the holiday retail shopping season to be affected by the trade war with china. right now. what do you expect to happen? >> consumers are in pretty good shape. they're spending reasonably well. they are gravitating towards walmart and target. their earnings have been strong in the last quarter. if you're looking at value, convenience and bargains that may suggest that the consumer is dialing down a little bit or moving down the price scale. if the shocks continue, if we see more and more concern about the trade war, not only will businesses retrench, but consumers might as well. it depend whether the president pulls back from leading us right to the brink of -- >> he can't afford to blink, can he? >> there would be a lot of political damage for him with his base if he doesn't stay strong. but he faces a recession with respect to the trade war with china. >> it's not something the federal reserve can fix.

>> that's right. >> thank you. appreciate it again. call it a slip of the tongue or a biden gaffe? is this becoming a problem for the front-runner. yesterday's pga tour championship, lightning strike and injuring several people.

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shocked after andrew luck confirming last night that he is retiring. stunning fans, the 29-year-old suffered several injuries throughout his career and was expected to miss the start of the new season in two weeks. >> even worse about all of that as he walks off the field giving them so many years, fans booed him it was the insult that he didn't need. >> that's a bummer. to the race for 2020. joe biden slipping up on the campaign trail yet again. mixing up new hampshire with vermont. >> love this place. look, what's not to like about vermont in terms of the beauty of it. what a neat town. i mean, this is sort of a scenic beautiful town. >> okay. so the former vice president's latest misspeak after reports earlier this month that he revealed biden advisers are growing worried that it may become a problem.

joining us is rashad richie and ned ryan, ceo of american majority and former speech writer for george w. bush. >> welcome. >> good morning. >> rashad, does it really concern you, the slight blunders that joe has had? >> it concerned me when he was vice president. of course it concerns me as he's running for president of the united states. there was absolutely no mistake in the fact that we knew joe biden would be a gaffe master. he has done this from day one, even when running for president unsuccessfully. let's compare the reality. 10,769. you know what that number is? that's the number of lies and misleading statements the current president of the you united states has said and this is based on a fact check study of june of 2019. so that number has increased since then of the you have a president of the united states who does more than just make

gaf gaffes. he goes out of his way to lie when the truth will do. in the comparative model, joe biden's gaffes is the rubber and glue. it bounces off president trump. >> biden is raising eye browbro when he said this to voters? >> i graduated in 19968. martin luther king and bobby kennedy were my political heroes. my senior semester, they're both shot and killed. imagine what would happen if got forbid, if barack obama had been assassinated after becoming the did he facto nominee. what would have happened in america. >> rashad, why bring this hypothetical scenario up, something that did not happen? >> yeah. once again, i think it's the wrong scenario. he provided could text for the statement. the context was in 1968, these two great men were heroes of his and they made him awaken to a

political reality. because of that tragedy, because of what happened, he became the man he is today. he was saying what would have happened if a president barack obama if he got the nominee and was assassinated. what would have happened if that took place. well, yeah. a lot of people would have awakened to a new reality also. trump has done something similar in this narrative. he's awakened a lot of individual to the reality of our country. >> a president known for gaffes, get me into the mind-set of how this happens. you have the teleprompter plenty of times. >> or the stump speech you memorize. >> and reading from it. are you the speech writer behind the scenes, the curtain going, what happened? it's right there. how does it happen? >> yeah. there's certain expectations that certain people are going to slip up more than others. i mean, i agree with rashad. there's no mystery here. joe biden has been a gaffe

machine for years. i think the real issue has been not becoming everyday. but i have to say it's not necessarily the gaffes with biden. i think there are two premises that i never agreed with as to why joe biden should not be the nominee. i'm not convinced the only guy who will be the strongest nominee for the democrats. number two, somehow americans in both parties have this yearning for a return to establishment normalcy. i don't see that in the republican party and quite frankly, not in the democratic party as well. so as the gaffes start to add up and become more and more frequent, i think people start to ask questions, is this inevitable. if joe biden somehow inevitable to be the nominee or do we start looking elsewhere. once the entire premise for joe biden, he's the only guy who can beat trump, you see the bottom

drop out. you look at small donor base, lock at cash on hand. i think there's a lot of problems in the joe biden campaign. >> ned, you said there may be a better democrat to take on president trump. who is that in your view? >> i have to be honest, jo, i'm at the point where democrats are up against history and incumbent president if the economy continues to do well. it's almost impossible to beat trump. >> what happens if the economy starts to falter in the next thee to six months? >> that's the big question mark. do you hit something in say, summer of 2020 in which democrats wake up before the final we get to the final nomination, the final convention. do they wake up and think the economy is starting to sink, we can actually put an elizabeth warren or a bernie sanders and think we can beat trump. if they think somebody else is beat donald trump, i think the bottom drops out on biden. >> i'm curious.

do you have a favorite memory of a gaffe from george w. bush? >> no, not one off the top of my head. no. i mean at a certain point, you accept the fact when you're in the public, you're always speaking. there's going to be slip-ups. >> it's hard out there. >> bush had and trump had, there's a lot of pressure and focus and scrutiny. at some point everybody is going to screw up. it just happens. >> the problem with all of that, rashad, it begins to become a narrative. the lead story on fox and friends was biden's blunders. it's not the sort of things that the campaign would like to have at all. >> right. it's basically a self-inflicted wound. but i will tell you as far as the marketplace is concerned and ned points about the economy, president trump moves the economy and the stock market based on the tweets he sends. for example, what happened on friday. on friday you had the federal recertificate chairman give a

speech, trump didn't like the speech. so he decided to start tweeting. 15 seconds after trump sweettwe the dow went downment within an hour, the dow was down 500 points. over the course of that day, erratic tweets from president trump, you had it drop $500 billion of investment was lost, equity was lost and the stock market on friday because of trump's tweets. while we can talk about the gaffes of joe biden, let's talk about the actual marketplace trends that are happening because of the direct language that the current president of the united states is using. to me that's way more serious than a gaffe. these are real people with real money losing it paced on the president's remarks. >> ned one last question about possible signs for trouble in the 2020 campaign. according to the latest nebs news "wall street journal" poll, about 50% would support the democratic candidate and 43% say they with go for trump.

ned, what do you make of the numbers? >> jo, i have to tell you, at this point, we're in august of 2019, i'm not sure i put much credence into polls. that all to say, let's not forget, donald trump was at 36% approval rating overall in the gallup poll when he won in 2016. it's the big question, jo, going back to the economy, people might not like somebody, but if the economy is doing well, they're doing better in life, they're still voting for that person. am i concerned? yes, i am. do i think president trump performs well in polls? no. except for the one that counts on election day. >> ned, rashad, thank you very much. let's get to breaking news from overseas right now and hong kong. protesters on march in the rain once again. one day after clashes with police. we have a reporter on the scene. janis mackey frayer is there. >> like the protests yesterday

and what seems to be a change of tactics on both side, neither side is afraid to back away from confrontation. ha started as a permitted protest today ended with bricks, tear gas and the first use of water cannons by hong kong police. they were using thim to try to clear the streets of barriers. what we're seeing now is that some of the protesters have been pushed back, some dispersed. there's another group over there. they've been throwing something at the police who is now repositioned just behind us. this is a change from what we saw a couple of weeks ago when it appeared that both sides were wanting to take a step back from the violence that had seemed to rattle people at hong kong airport a couple of weeks ago. now it seems like both sides are changing their tactics, they're both digging in and they're not afraid to confront each other. i saw that yesterday with the

protester. they were advancing on the police and ignoring the warnings to step back. so, again, we had that sort of sense that each side wants to test the other heading into this protest today. >> janis do you get a sense that the clashes on the ground will advance the cause in striking any sort of agreement with the chinese government? >> reporter: that's the dilemma for both side right now. particularly for the protesters. it started 12 weeks ago as opposition to the extradition law. now it's expanded into this widwide set of concerns about hong kong's economy and chinese rules. what started as a protest movement is rebrands as an evolution of sorts. the preservation of economy and pushing back against chinese rules. the big question, of course, guys is what is china's next

move. beijing's patience is wearing thin. they have a number of ways that they can crackdown here. we've seen pressure built on businesses that are dependent on the mainland as well as multinationals. in particular, over the past week, this cranking up of the state propaganda machine. so the big question, of course, will china be willing to use force? this is a global city. china's economic hinge to the rest of the world. beijing is hesitant to proceed that way, but it's also telegraphing in many ways that these protests will end and they'll end in a timely way. >> unbelievable that it's been going on some 12 weeks. at least 29 arrests overnight. thanks to janis mackey frayer in hong kong where the protests continue. stay safe. why in the world does president trump want russia readmitted to the g7?

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move when the group hosts here next year. >> the president introduced the idea that he might invite russia to the meeting in 2020. >> do you think you will invite putin to next year's g7 summit, sir? >> i don't know. we did discuss it. a lively discussion, a good one. it certainly possible. it is certainly possible. we'll see. >> joining us now, bloomberg opinion editor and retired army leader. what is your interpretation of what he's suggesting here. is that a good idea? >> clearly something he wants to

make happen. that somehow putting him inside the room would improve the discussion. pretty much everybody else is opposed to it. macron came out and said, if putin did come in, it would be under strict arrangements. i can't imagine other partners would quietly go along. if trump would go so far as to invite putin, the real question is how will the europeans respond. will macron develop a sudden flu and not turn up. will prime minister johnson decide he doesn't want to come. >> what is the graph vety of th?

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generally don't work. >> we saw trump was asked about it again. he said having russia back would be add ven tajiou >> he's been open about his admiration for the russian president. he has never said why that would be good. as with so many other trump statements and policies, there has been an actual attempt to explain why he thinks it would be a good thing. >> let's back up and say why russia and putin was kicked out of the g8 at the time.

it was because of kicking out crimea. trump has blamed obama for that. putin invaded ukraine. where does the truth lie with this? >> putin did nothing than invade crimea and the polite idea that putin did nothing but involve crimea. it is true that we didn't have then and still don't have viable ways of understanding the cumulative effect. we have the ability of confirming tactically what happens on the ground.

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