complained that friends don't treat friends the way the united states treated france. you look between the americans and the australians, and you see that the french were kept in the dark until the very end. that they were going to lose an extraordinary generous defense contract with the australians. and one wonders why this was handled the way it was. why our oldest ally wasn't let in on these discussions earlier. >> joe, i think this was a self-inflicted wound through the biden administration. the french should have understood that there was a problem with their $66 billion subcontract with australia. the australians had been complaining. the australian prime minister went to paris in june largely to