the issue is do we want to spend the money to get it done? i think if you talk to, you know, the average american is exactly how you started our story. fix our roads, did you really not run across potholes driving across countries? i m married to a european who is now a european-american. on that trip i was going through germany, switzerland, austria, i didn t hit a single pothole or chewed up road. if i took a off beat road i probably would have, but those are the main highways and infrastructure, roads across europe, they re in very good shape by and land in the big g 7 countries. i will also say, and i reported from italy a few weeks ago and drove from rome up into the center of italy. same thing, you know? the major roads were in pretty
tuesday night. the plane with the president onboard is obviously air force one. but there s also a huge cadre of the white house press corps that is going, too. and for the press corps, they charter a big plane, a big airbus 330. and the press goes out to dulles airport, just outside of d.c. they are set to take off at 9:00 p.m. tuesday night, ahead of the president s plane flying to europe for the big g-7 trip and it turns out the press plane can t go. it can t go because cicadas. you might have seen one landing on president biden s neck as he was leaving the white house to go start his leg of this trip. that s a giant cicada on him. but it was more than one. it was many more than one that apparently invested the plane that the press was supposed to travel on alongside the president. a spokesperson for delta, which operates the press plane in this case told usa today that these bugs infested and overran
smart, it is it is unsettling for our allies who, you know, in the diplomatic community, which you covered for years, you know, there is a certain consistency, there is a dependency. you can have aberrations where you know people color outside the lines, but that s all trump does is color outside the lines. so for the diplomatic community, whether it is merkel or foes like china or russia, and probably less russia because he tends to be more favored towards them, there is this sense of where is this president going with this foreign policy what does it mean when he says, okay, well, we now know there is not going to work with china, let s move on. move on to what? that s the question. i m reminded of ronald reagan s first big g-7 meeting here in 1983, the first one on home soil in williamsburg. and the big meeting on monday
ambassador to nato back in the 1970s, he said i gave the exact same message about our allies needing to step up, and i asked him, i said did you get secured by the media for doing that? he said no, because it was the right message to send then and right message to send now. i have got to tell you if i see one more headline whether president obama was holding melania s hand i m going to freak. there has been so much policy and diplomacy as part of this trip and the headlines i have read so many of them have been ridiculous. sorry, i can t. clayton: 6:00 a.m. on a saturday that s what you get with abby. 6:00 a.m. on a saturday the president of the united states is awake and tweeting at this hour and had this to say. he said the big g-7 meetings today, lots of very important matters under discussion. first on the list, of course, is terrorism. g-7 taormina. pete: another tweet after that many countries have agreed to step up payments considerably as they should. money is beginning to pour
in belgium. earlier this week he spoke in poland. here s chuck again with more from warsaw. chris, the president is wrapping up day two here in poland before he heads off to br brussels for the big g-7 meeting. he gave a speech to mark poland s first set of free elections as they found their way into freedom in the 90s. what was interesting about the speech was the president gave a very muscular defense of the nato treaty, the nato alliance. he talked in a very hawkish way, ways you don t usually hear from the president. i came to talk to the nato