has been behaving of late domestically, the entire week leading up to the g-7 summit was a number of flip-flops on key economic policies, beginning with the payroll tax cut idea and other steps that really mar business leaders in the united states as well as people in the government pretty alarmed about the stability of this president and his policy making. that continued obviously overseas with a number of steps. one thing that stuck out in our reporting, i wasn't on this trip but helping report on the fall-out from heren washington, the president's private discussions about vladamir putin, he was an advocate on behalf of the russian president in those private sessions with the other leaders of the g-7 group. it just further illustrated the gulf between the united states and its allies. >> i was going to read from some of your great reporter about these imagined phone calls.