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If youre on the go listen to our live coverage using the free cspan radio app. And we are live this morning from biarritz, france. Theyre running a little behind. Its expected to feature President Trump and Prime Minister macron. Well have it live here on cspan2. The summit has been taking place through the weekend. Here is a look at events from the conference beginning with comments from President Trump and the indian Prime Minister modi today. Thank you very much, its great to be with Prime Minister modi of india, an incredible country and incredible man. Its been a tremendous election victory. And he really is a man who is loved in this country. Were talking about military, were talking about many Different Things and weve had some great discussions. We were together last night for dinner and i learned a lot about india, fascinating place, beautiful place. Its an honor to be with you. [speaking in native tongue] thank you. Mr. President , can you clarify your position [inaudible] oldest democracy in the world, President Trump, an important meeting for me and whenever we had the opportunity, as you know, the largest democracy and we had elections recently where 700 million indian voters chose, and President Trump telephoned me to congratulate me and [inaudible] thank him for that. India and the United States are countries who have which have shared Democratic Values and he works for and whatever contribution we can make in common values and we work toward humanity for the world, for the continuous we have continuous discussions on these issues. India and the United States, we have been discussing on a continuous basis, on many of these issues we have welcomed u. S. Traditions. Together to take this forward. The India Community in the United States has made substantial investments over the years. They have taken part actively in the Development Part of the United States and the United States has for that i would like to thank President Trump, his administration, and the people of United States. Mr. President , can you clarify your position on whether you will meet the kazmir . We spoke about with pakistan and im sure that they will be able to do something that will be very good. Talked about it last night. Mr. Modi, do you want to add . Add . [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] in pakistan there are many issues, the Prime Minister of pakist pakistan i told him that pakistan needs to [inaudible] so together lets join let us Work Together of the people of pakistan and this is the message that given in pakistan. Along with President Trump hes talking about bilateral issues. Mr. Modi, would you like to have President Trump be involved in negotiating between pakistan and india . [speaking in native tongue] india and pakistan have all the issues are of bilateral nature and we do not want to give to any country in the world to in fact try to do anything these issues are bilateral. And i one country that even afterwards we can find solutions. Mr. President , is that offer still on the table . Im here. We have a very Good Relationship with both gentlemen, but i think they can do it themselves. They have been doing it for a long time. Mr. President , the chinese have said today publicly that its more low level that happened and down playing the significance of the i dont know what you mean by that . Low level, the vice premier is low level . I dont think so. What is the position of the gentleman that [inaudible] the vice premier came out with a very significant statement and we have been communicating through vice premier of china, hes not low level. I understand, there is a statement by the, not aware that its happening at the highest level, at the hi highest level. Can you clarify the call . Look in the meantime, our country is doing great. Were doing great. The Prime Minister just congratulated me, everybody ive met has congratulated us on the job were doing in the United States with our economy. Our economy is phenomenal. Best its ever been and thats despite the trade deals. When the trade deals get done like we did with japan yesterday, we did a tremendous trade deal with japan and we have others coming and were negotiating now in earnest with the European Union they want to do that, they want to do that and i do, too. When we get these deals done, our country will be transformed. It will be monetarily transformed, such a difference between the horrible, horrible, onesided deals in the past and frankly, past administrations should be ashamed of themselves for allowing that, but we have many of them, one of them is the u. S. Mca, u. S. , mexico, canada and hopefully loaded on quickly and everybody wants it to happen. Hopefully we can make it a bipartisan bill and we have trade deals doing well, including china and i think its necessary to go through this, you would say a rough patch, but id say maybe much more than a rough patch, but thats okay because weve been paying billions and billions of dollars and we know that prices havent gone up, no inflation and put money in the treasure. Tens of billions and ive given a lot to the farmers that were hurt and able to give a lot of money complimenements of china farmers that r hurt. 16 billion and we give them 12 billion a year before and made them whole. That was the amount of money that china didnt invest to our farmers, give to our farmers. So theyve been amazing, but happy with the job were doing. Eventually theyll be the biggest, one of the biggest beneficiaries. Mr. President say it. Did you make. Thats our next session. We havent had it. No, i want clean air and clean water and were right now having to clean this air and clean this water on the planet, but thats what i want. I want absolutely clean air and clean water. Mr. President , comment about wanting the call clarify what you meant by the call. Weve had calls, calls at the highest level. But the vicechairman put out a statement that saying he wants to make a deal and i think its a very good word to use [inaudible] but a good word to use and i think that one of the reasons its a great country and they understand. I think that helps with respect to hong kong, i really do. I think it makes it easier for hong kong could do something and i think that president xi will do something with hong kong. I really think that message is a good message with respect to what the ultimate outcome is in hong kong. Very, very positive message and we appreciated it. We appreciated it. What else . Anything else . Mr. President , what are your latest thoughts on pulling out of the wto and if you do, can i also ask, mr. President modi, how your response is in effect for that strategy . Were not happy with the wto. We have been winning cases, the airbus case, that was a recent victory and were winning cases now and treated more fairly, which we appreciate it. [speaking in native tongue] you actually speak very good english, you just dont want to. [laughter] [inaudible] mr. President , russia has recently said they have no intention of asking to be readmitted to the g7, however i wouldnt expect that. Why would, hes a proud man and real job, why would he ask. Its something we discussed and discussion, no votes or anything. I would be inclined to say yes and so would others, and some probably wouldnt be, but its just a discussion. No, i would think that he wouldnt do that because hes a proud man. He wouldnt ask, but if something would happen, he would be asked and im sure he would say yes to that. Do you have any indication from them that they would accept . No, i think it was a very good discussion, an initial discussion. I think it would be appropriate and good for russia. He think it would be good for everybody. I think it would be a positive, but its just a discussion that we had, a very interesting discussion and very i think pretty i think ultimately people like the idea. Mr. President , what would be your message to the American People in terms of what is your biggest achievement at this g7 . Well, weve had a lot of achievements. We have an achievement with president modi. Trade with india. And obviously the japan deal a tremendous achievement bun the biggest trade deals and affects your farmers. Even the fact that hes taking the excess corn that china didnt take, and hes buying that, japan is buying that corn at a fair price. That was very important. I also think that [inaudible] there is no resemblance what took place. You saw me with chancellor merkel and you saw me the relationship was great with seven nations, in addition other nations like india and others that came in. Australia came in, we have a lot of people came in and i tell you, its been total unity. What would be the area of most unity, sir. No fights or arguments, no anything. I mean, we have its been great unity here and honestly, the papers havent reported how good its been. So what would be your most Common Ground . Is it climate change, is it we have a lot of things, but i think, really the unity, the fact that were all getting along so well i think is one of the big takes from this. We really have Good Relationships and were doing a lot about a lot. Just so we give our reporting right, were going to give it one more did you mean to say there was a call last night or last night and before and before last night. [inaudible] they want to get something done ive been saying that. Why, why wouldnt they . They want to get something done. Theyve lost millions of jobs. Their supply chains are being hurt. And once the supply chains go, you can develop new supply chains, you cant get them back to china. China is run by really a great leader. I think hes a great leader. He wants to do something. They lost over three million jobs in a short period of time. A lot of companies have left china and leaving china. They want to get it done. I knew that. I could have told you that without talking, but we are talking. Would you still like to see u. S. Companies leave china . Depends on whether or not we make a deal. If we dont make a deal id like to see them leave china. If we make a deal id like to see them stay there and do a good job. And the timeline for no timeline, were a peacekeeping force more than anything else, frankly, so we could win that war in a short period of time im not looking to kill 10 million people, okay . And we are working along with the taliban, with the government and other people, too, and well see what happens. Thank you very much. We are going to be doing in a little while just one thing. You need one . I cant imagine any other question. I want to thank the Prime Minister. Hes a great leader right here. Election results. Would you allow him to have Nuclear Weapons, sir. Would you allow him to have Nuclear Weapons . [inaudible]. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] thank you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] flaud naude [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] weve been working on a deal with japan for a long time that involves agricultural and it involves ecommerce and many other things. Its a very big transaction and weve agreed in principle. Its billions and billions of dollars. Tremendous for the farmers and one of the things that Prime Minister abe has also agreed to is with excess court in various parts of our country, with our farmers, because china did not do what they said they were going to do. And Prime Minister abe, on behalf of japan, theyre going to be buying all of that corn. And thats a very big transaction. They are going to be buying it from our farmers. So the deal is done in principle. We probably will be signing it around unga. It will be around the date of unga, which we all look forward to. And we are very far down the line. Weve agreed to every point, and now we are papering it and well be signing it at a formal ceremony. And i just want to thank Prime Minister abe and the japanese people. Youve been a fantastic friend, and we very much appreciate it. This is a tremendous deal for the United States. Its a really tremendous deal for our farmers and agricultural ranchers, and also involves other things, including as i said, ecommerce. So its very big and we look forward to it. And thank you very much. [speaking japanese] [speaking japanese] [speaking japanese] [speaking japanese] [speaking japanese] translator with regard to the japanu. S. Trade agreement, a series of intensive negotiations have been conducted between minister motegi and ambassador lighthizer in line with the japanu. S. Joint statements on september 26 of last year. And by now, how we successfully reached consensus with regard to the core elements of both the agricultural and Industrial Products of our Bilateral Consultations on august 23. I certainly welcome this development. [speaking japanese] [speaking japanese] translator and now, as mr. President pointed out, next month at the end of september both of us are going to attend the u. N. General assembly. And on that occasion i do think that well have the bilateral summit meeting. We certainly would like to set the goal of signing this japanu. S. Trade agreement, seizing that opportunity. We still had some remaining work that has to be done at the working level, namely finalizing the wording of the trade agreement and also finalizing the content of the agreement itself. But we would like to make sure that our teams will accelerate the remaining work for us to achieve this goal of realizing the signing of the agreement on the margins of the u. N. General assembly at the end of september. [speaking japanese] translator and im very happy that both of our teams have been working on the specific issue in a winwin manner, bringing both the benefits to japan and the United States. And if we are to see the entry into force of this trade agreement, im quite sure that the will be the immense positive impact on both the japanese as well as american economies. Perhaps you may want to discuss the additional purchase of all of that court, becausee have a tremendous amount right now. And weve been working with farmers and making very, very large payments for the unfair way they were treated by china. And the farmers are very happy. They like, they like the president. They are very happy but i think its even better and the think theyre even happier when you hear youre actually buying their products. So perhaps you could say a couple of words just about the hundreds of millions of dollars of corn, existing corn, thats there, that you will be buying. [speaking japanese] [speaking japanese] [speaking japanese] [speaking japanese] [speaking japanese] translator with regard to the potential purchase of american corn, in japan we are now experiencing inspect passed on some of the agricultural products, and there is a need for us to buy certain amount of agricultural products. And this will be done by the japanese private sector. That means that japanese corporations will need to buy additional agricultural products. And we believe that there is a need for us to implement Emergency Support measures for the japanese private sector to have the early purchase of the american corn. Of course, there is something that is already a shared understanding by the japanese public, japanese private sector as well. Thats why against such backdrop i do think there is a possibility for us to cooperate to address this issue. And with regard to further details, i would like to continue discussing with you, mr. President. And the japanese private sector listens to the japanese Public Sector very strongly. Im not sure. Its a little different than it is in our country perhaps, that they are, they have Great Respect for the Public Sector. So when i hear the private sector has agreed to this, we are very happy about that. I just like to ask perhaps bob and your counterpart, if youd like to say a few words. [speaking japanese] great. Thank you, mr. President and Prime Minister, and minister motegi. Well first of all, what we have is an agreement on core principles. It has three parts, agriculture, industrial tariffs, and digital trade. And from our point of view it is extremely important to our farmers and ranchers and those people who work in the digital space. Will get into the details at another time, but generally japan is our Third Largest agricultural market. The import about 14 billion worth of u. S. Agricultural products, and this will open up markets to over 7 billion of those products. [speaking japanese] [speaking japanese] [speaking japanese] in the agriculture area, it would be a major benefit or beef, pork, wheat, dairy products, wine, ethanol, and a variety of other products. [speaking japanese] it will lead to substantial reductions in tariffs and nontariff barriers across the board. And ill just give you one example. Japan is by far our biggest beef market. We sell over 2 billion worth of deep to japan, and this will allow us to do so with lower tariffs and to compete more effectively with people across the board, particularly the tpp countries and europe. [speaking japanese] [speaking japanese] so its very good news for our farmers and ranchers, but its also good news for those who work in the digital ecommerce space where it is the Gold Standard of an international agreement. This is an area that nelly has been important to the president but been of particular importance to the Prime Minister. [speaking japanese] [speaking japanese] so were very excited about this agreement. We look forward to finishing the additional work and having it be implemented as soon as possible in japan and the United States. [speaking japanese] would you like to Say Something . Thank you very much thank you. Mr. President and reimers hobby. [speaking japanese] translator as Prime Minister mentioned, based on the japanu. S. Joint Statement Released by the two leaders on 26 on the 26th of september last year, myself and ambassador lighthizer had a series of Ministerial Association on the japanu. S. Trade agreement. [speaking japanese] translator as we all know, the United States is the largest economy in the world, whereas japan is also ranked third in terms of the total gdp. And also among the we are the very first and the second largest economies. And with this milestone of achievements we now have the full concurrence on various issues covering the agricultural as well as Industrial Products, and also the digital and ecommerce. And the significance of this achievement cannot be over emphasized. And im very happy to share this important achievement with you. [speaking japanese] translator and on this occasion, myself and ambassador lighthizer had a chance to present what we have agreed to at the ministerial level, and successfully both obtained endorsement from President Trump and also Prime Minister abe. So the key mission for both myself and ambassador lighthizer is to complete the remaining work as soon as possible. Of course i have my own team which will focus on completing the remaining work. And i sort help that by working handinhand between myself and ambassador lighthizer, and also between the japanese and american teens, we will like to complete the remaining work as soon as possible. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Mr. President . Yes, cohead. Will be auto tariffs ring a place . Are you talking about with regard to china . With regard to japan. There are a series pardon me. You are series of industrial tariffs that are being reduced. Auto tariffs are not in that group. Said they remain . It depends. Are you talk about japan or are you talking china . China is a very different situation. I love to hear your answer to both. Well i can tell you, i mean on china to remain. On japan they stay the same. They are staying the same. This is a massive purchase of meat wheat also, in addition to everything else. This is a very Large Purchase of wheat, and the very, very large order of course will go quickly. But importantly, it something that wasnt in the agreement that we may not even, we may do that as a supplementary agreement. But we appreciate that very much. We just agree to that on the other side of the door. So i just appreciate that very much, and will do a great job and the farmers are very thankful. Thank you very much. [speaking japanese] [speaking japanese] mr. President , on a separate issue there are reports that the Iranian Foreign minister is coming to biarritz. Can you confirm that . Are do you plan with him . No comment. Okay . Thank you very much, everybody. [inaudible conversations] were watching portions of the various News Conferences and events held during the g7 summit in biarritz, france. We are now and we have been waiting for the start of the closing News Conference now this morning. It was expected to start at 9 30 a. M. Eastern, running well behind, almost an hour behind. We will have a life when it gets underway here on cspan2. The News Conference will feature President Trump and french president macron, and we are hearing and we are seeing the incoming tweets that after they make statements they will take just a couple of questions. President trump may take a few more and that should wrap it up. We will now watch and wait for the start of this News Conference. Now we think just a couple minutes away live here on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we are hearing some of the meetings at the g7 summit are running a little bit longer than expected and we think that is a reason this closing News Conference is delayed. It was expected to start at 9 3. We will have it live when it starts here in cspan2. If you missed any of the News Conference or any of our coverage from the g7 in biarritz, france, you can find in the cspan video library. Note to our website at cspan. Org and type g7 g7 in te search box. Also we will be reentering the closing conference this afternoon and this evening at eight eastern on cspan. [inaudible conversations]