accurate. i ve never gotten a read on that. i m not sure if it was accurate or not. she s not shy about criticizing him ever in public. for somebody who makes her living by criticizing this president, you would think she would want every camera in the room. if she is so certain he is saying fossils, then put all the cameras in the world of the room and get everyone to report on it. it seems utterly bizarre, take it back from partisan politics but from a campaigning standpoint which is what she s doing here, you would want that if you believe you were in the right. you only want that if you don t want that if you don t believe you re in the right. i think she gets fat. laura: horned democrats always against a lot of republicans were against the back room deals. smoke-filled rooms where the decisions are made and people come out and say this is how you dumb little people are going to live because we already made the decision. backslapping. were going to tell you how to live. thes
bilateral meeting yesterday. we watched it on camera, and you can see between their body language, it just really portrayed the tension between them truly is despite the warm words they were saying. very little eye contact, no back slapping, none of the typical camaraderie we ve seen before. and it did seem that president trump was in a sullen mood while he was here. now whether or not we see a different version of president trump today, that is largely up for question because we have not seen him since he went to that dinner last night. no public remarks from the president but he is expected to speak today so we will see what he says then. all right. we thank you. caitlyn collins for us in paris as well. talk to you again. fareed zakaria sat down a few hours earlier with president emmanuel macron. in his exclusive interview he asks about the tweet president trump sent arriving in paris criticizing macron.
there was so much touching, back slapping, public displays of affection and friendship. it is a very different tone today. thank you. let s go back to melissa bell. she s right outside the palace where they just met and you did get a sense that mr. macron was trying to reach out and smooth things out but mr. trump didn t seem to be having much off it really. so here they go from here. reporter: that s right, natalie. reaching out to his arm shs almost trying to cushion the blow he was expecting. already this had become much testier after that visit to the united states. tr that was still when the french president was hoping to reason with his american counterpart on the question of trade tariffs towards europe. and after that the united states decided to reimpose tariffs mark
president macron of france just suggested europe build up its own military in order to protect itself from the u.s., china and russia. clearly saying that perhaps if europe should first pay its fair share of nato which the u.s. subsidizes greatly. that set the stage for the first talks this morning, meeting one on one. that very awkward interaction where there s no warmth between the two leaders, even though typically there s back slapping. president trump once remarked in the oval office he thought president macron was perfect. that s not what we saw this morning. instead it was a stiffer interaction, much more wooden, between the two leaders. now, we are told by sources they did discuss those comments during the bilateral meeting later one on one and with their staffs and tried to clear the air there. this afternoon, president trump is supposed to visit a cemetery where americans are buried after world war i. instead, the white house cancelled that, citing bad weather in paris becaus
because these two have had a relationship that s been so close. it s been described as a bromance. you remember macron s visit to the white house. there was a lot of back slapping, smiling. yet, it s also a relationship that has been deteriorating because the two have clashed on a range of foreign policy matters, everything from iran to foreign climate change. so this clash that we saw when president trump touched down really underscored the state of that relation. it s really setting up high drama as we head into this week some we will be watching for the body language between president trump and macron. here s the other big thing we re watching for. darragh, will president trump meet on the side lines with russia s president vladimir putin? as of right now, the president says there is no expanded bilateral meeting planned between the two leaders. we know the two will be at the