so, going into it, emanuel macron much clearer about what he wants to get.ore cooperation on that indo-pacific region, and more help with the ban to the south of the sahara the french have been fighting to try and clear the area of vying groups affiliated to al qaeda, others affiliated to isis. it's been arguing, campaigning for american support for years and it's one of the things he's going to be raising with joe biden today. in terms of restoring the tryst that was lost, that will be a tall order from this meeting. all the more so, wolf, because emanuel macron has the reason to play the strong mind. he's facing reelection in a few months. what he's been arguing foreis a stronger european defense policy and one that he wants to get joe biden's support for. the idea being that it shouldn't be incompatible with the strong nato. >> it's interesting, melissa, because as much as the u.s./france relationship is strained, all of a sudden the french relationship with the uk has been strained as well, right? >> reporter: that's right. they're in the middle of a spa

president biden looked to rebuild trust with america's oldest ally, meeting with french president emanuel macron for the first time since france recalled their ambassador from washington, furious the u.s. took a multi billion dollar submarine deal away from france without notice mr. biden admitting to macron his administration made a mistake. >> i think what happened was, to use an english phrase, it was gone without a lot of grace. >> macron looking to move passed the dispute. >> what really matters now is what we will do together in the coming weeks, the coming months, the coming years. >> reporter: the president arriving in europe without the win he had been hoping for, despite pushing democrats in the capitol yesterday to get behind the $1.75 trillion framework for his social spending and climate plan, even arguing his presidency is on the line but while progressives endorse that plan, they still refuse to vote for it or the trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill until they are convinced moderate holdout senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema are onboard, too. >> we need a little bi

but in front of the cameras today, it was hugs and slaps on the back with french president emanuel macronave to apologize, mr. president? >> to whom? >> i was under the impression france had been informed long before. yoha >>epter: not entiran apology, but a p >> so i want to get something clear in front of all the press, we view you as an incredibly serious valued partner. you'll be there for us, we'll be there for you, there's a lot more work we can do together. >> fascinating day to watch unfold. cecilia vega with us from rome tonight and, cecilia, i know the president while overseas, he's very aware of what's going on. the debate back here at home among democrats on his domestic agenda, the cuts to the plan, progressives holding up a vote because of those cuts but tonight in d.c. late word the leader of the house progressives, the caucus sounding optimistic? >> reporter: yeah, she is, david, washington congresswoman camilla jayapal says democrats will do something in the coming day, but, david, here's the reality. as of tonight there is still no deal. democrats still finalizing the la

the president and emanuel macron, french president are working diplomatically together. wasn't so sure that was going to be the case after the president came clean yesterday, the u.s. made a mistake in leaving france in the dark that wound up costing the french money. [away from microphone] peter: the treasury secretary janet yellen is here in rome too talking to unanimously support a tax up to 15%. yellen say this is deal will remake the global economy into a more prosperous place for american business and workers rather than competing on our ability to offer lower rates. america will now compete on the skills of our people which our ideas and our capacity to innovate which is a race we can win. the president attended mass in rome this evening. there's the leader, dinner with all the leaders in the g20 countries here in half an hour and we know that the president is just looking ahead despite what's going on here to tuesday when we are told capitol hill leaders are set to take up both his spending bills, eric. eric: more on that in a few moments with john bussey, peter

compare this to emanuel macron, a breath of fresh air not tied to any establish party or tradition butal in the political sense, he tried to stifle the economy, made it easier to fire workers so companies are less likely to hire them in the first place, slashed taxes on the wealthy for entrepreneurship. but moves like that with his haughty air tagged him for the rich. he failed to build support for his policies and sparked a ferocious backlash, the yellow vest movement. macron was forced to scrap a gas hike and buy protesters off with subsidies. when covid hit, he hit things like pench reform and the man who vowed to rein in the bloated welfare state embraced big spending to keep the economy afloat. he covered people's lost wages and handedouts on everyone from college students to farmers. the economists observed macron has turned into something of a closet socialist. macron can still flex his technocratic muscles from time to time and is effective. he made headlines in july by instituting vaccine passes for many leisure activities in france. and who should quickly follow but mario dra

serves emanuel macron's case he has been making a long time, it is time for europe to act alone and independentlyar more forcefully than it did, isa. >> impressive like you said, melissa. do stay with us. i want to go to christie. also happening today, we have u.s. secretary adviser jake sullivan meeting with the chinese, senior chinese diplomat. what can we expect from this meeting? how much do you think the conversation will be centered on the in curses of china on taiwan we have been covering almost daily on the show now? >> reporter: it will certainly be raised in discussions later today. during the deepening rivalry between u.s. and china, we know talks are taking place today between the national security adviser and china's top diplomat taking place in zurich, switzerland. this is the first time they will be meeting face to face since that previous summit that took place in alaska in march which descended into the scenes of confrontation that were caught on camera. now, these talks today in zurich coming at a time of high tension especially in regards to taiwan in recent days, china has bee

president biden spoke yesterday to french president emanuel macron and acknowledged that the u.s.

had his hands full with a warm reunion with the pope, a repairing relationship, he's focused on emanuel macron, but certainly the italians after the afghanistan decision. all of this manifests itself tomorrow most clearly when we see the president embark on the formal start of the g20 meetings. those are going to involve a lot of discussion about things like a global corporate minimum tax. the president had hoped to be able to come here saying the u.s. was on track or even had moved towards realizing that back in the u.s. but clearly coming here empty-handed. and that's going to make things somewhat more difficult on a very different second foreign trip, geoff. >> ali on capitol hill, when it comes to the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the social spending plan, is this a matter of when these bills pass and not necessarily if? i ask the question because there still seems to be a lot of mistrust from progressives after those statements from senators manchin and sinema didn't explicitly endorse the reconciliation, the social spending package. >> i think you're right to touch on both those thi

president biden spoke yesterday to french president emanuel macron and acknowledged that the u.s.hould have consulted with france before announcing a new security pact with the uk and australia. but let's be honest, france has done some crazy stuff without consulting us. she is 150 feet tall, france you don't just get someone that without asking space is hard to come by in new york president biden hosted three different groups of democratic lawmakers at the white house yesterday to discuss his domestic agenda and democrats were split in progressives, moderates and republicans. a former fda commissioner said in an interview yesterday that the up coming flu season will be a quote, whopper apparently it's going to be so bad as much as 60% of the country will think it's real president biden had lunch today with vice president kamala harris. unfortunately the menu was one of those qr codes and it took him 45 minutes to order. florida governor ron desantis yesterday named his pick for the state's new surgeon general and i guess, the good news is, he is technically a doctor a group of ho

we are heeding that france's president, emanuel macron, has told the british prime minister that he wantsbeing told. and that the british and french leaders have agreed to a de—escalation of the fishing row and have agreed to work in the coming hours towards a de—escalation of that dispute over fishing. it has caused a bit of a souring of the atmosphere at the g20 summit in rome, as far as britain and france are concerned and potentially, it was worried there might be some overshadowing of any cop26 climate summit as well, even, but it looks like those cheerleaders, present macron of france —— those are two leaders have agreed to de—escalate that row over fishing. we are going back to annita mcveigh in glasgow on the latest on cop26. thank you very much. apologies for our technical issues here in the middle of my conversation with scott talley, an organiser with glasgow calls out polluters and a spokesman for the cop26 coalition. those are just two of the many environmental activist groups that are here in glasgow to make their voices heard as we expect the arrival of those g20 leaders he