trade organization the meeting between younger and trump was aimed at averting an all out trade war marja group. and for more on this let's bring in our washington bureau correspondent our bureau chief in fact alexander phenomena who joins us now and alexander i mean we know that these two men they both pride themselves on being deal makers with a personal touch you were in the room was it a warm welcome between these two well i wouldn't say a warm welcome i would say that what i saw was a quiet friend the atmosphere in the oval office at one point president even put his hand on the curse like demonstrating that the men understand each other respect each get along too well but at the same time both leaders appeared to be quiet or a bit tense and the u.s. president once again said that the u.s. is losing money and your car seems to be lecturing. stressing that the u.s. and the european union are close partners and not enemies. but meantime i mean there was at least a bit of a sense of optimism because the u.s. president donald trump he said that he expected something very positive to take