commitment to each other. they both used the same phraseology, we're very good friends. that's not surprising. >> that is the type of optics you would expect to come oust a diplomatic meeting like this. at the same time, you're right. president macron not backing away from his comments. but i would say president trump sort of down playing the controversy swirling around it. i think the question first put to the president was specifically about that tweet that i mentioned before the two leaders started speaking the tweet that president trump sent out yesterday saying it was very insulting that president macron would suggest building his own military. he sort of pivoted and said, look, what we are talking about here is fairness and burden sharing and the need for everyone to effectively pay tear fair share when it comes to burden sharing. so he pivoted. he tried to sort of redirect the conversation back to his big talking point, really, whenever he's here in europe, meeting