connection." i'm jason johnson in for tiffany cross. we have a lot of trending topics to get to but first we begin in jolly old england where president biden is attending the annual g7 summit meeting. he just met with french president emmanuel macron and has more meetings before his meeting with russian president vladimir putin. i'm joined by nbc news white house correspondent mike memele. you have the best background i have seen this morning, mike. i've got to start with this. this is a key part. as a political science professor, i have long studied the sort of special relationship that the united states has had with the u.k. i want to play a montage of joe biden's interactions with boris johnson. >> the special relationship, it is not said lightly, the special relationship between our people. >> our special relationship is