what president biden is working to try to restore when they are meeting. so we ll also be looking really closely at the joint statement that these two sides issue afterward. often that is a side, a statement that is agreed upon by both sides. i m told they spend days working on that statement, sending back and forth edits and what not. we ll be waiting to see what it says, do they make concessions toward the french side, any concrete things coming out of that as a way to heal this relationship. i think we have some video of the french president, emmanuel macron, arriving. i would assume he s arriving at the french embassy. there s the french first lady. arriving ahead of this meeting. wolf, your final thought on this. kaitlan was talking about the joint statement afterward. you ve seen so many of these high-profile, high-stakes, whatever descriptor, and there s
a lot of jockeying and back and forth before those things go out. absolutely right. i don t know if they ll say it s fruitful, productive, whatever they say will be diplomatic. no doubt that the strained relationship exists. it s not just ly say this, kate, it s not just because of the deal, the nuclear-powered submarines deal with australia that caught the french completely by surprise, it s also other issues including the chaotic and deadly u.s. withdrawal of troops from afghanistan. the french were not happy seeing what was going on, the way the u.s. withdrew. they were certain and france was deeply involved in afghanistan as we know. so like the other european allies, there has been serious questions raised about u.s. diplomacy since june. i was in geneva at that summit when president biden met with
you can often read between the lines and see how the meetings went. but when this happened, the white house was asked if biden had apologized for it, because there were those two subsequent calls between the two leaders after this trying to mend those because they were seeing these public statements coming out from the french that were incredibly fiery about their feelings on this. they did not try to hide it auto v at all. they did not say the president apologized, but jen psaki, the secretary, did acknowledge there could have been greater consultation between the u.s. and france on this issue. that in and of itself maybe doesn t sound like an apology, but when you talk about the different diplomatic speak, that is something you don t normally see between two nations. they still believe the essence of this deal will help greater deter china when it comes to australia, it will help, but the way it was handled of course is something they are going to have to defend and maybe not publicl
you think? well, i just don t agree with it at all. you know, the armorer is completely responsible for the on-set security of the actors, of the crew, and the armorer is responsible for making sure you only have blank ammunitions on the set and no live ammunitions. so this is a colt revolver and so you should check that you re only loading blank rounds and nothing else. so live rounds shouldn t be on the location, on the set, at all. it s an absolute no-no. and this all goes down to the preparation of the job in the first place, so when they re back at the armory base, they should test the firearms, test fire the batch of blank ammunition for the sound and the flash and so on. so that all works well. then you go out to your set and, you know, there s no way there should be any live ammunition there at all. the other thing the armorer is
compared to that last one we saw at the g-7 summit. i ll just add at this point, kate, when it comes to china, yes, there was irritation on the part of french and other european allies as far as the withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan. yes, the submarine deal caused a lot of pain in the u.s./french relationship. but right now there s a lot of difference in the way the u.s. is dealing with china and the european am lies, especially france and germany for that matter. they want to have this economic relationship with china, and there s a serious issue and a strain of sorts, and i m sure that issue will come up in this meeting between president macron and president biden as well. china, china, china. right now it s really important, especially when you see the tensions going on involving taiwan. there s a lot of concern the europeans have, the u.s. have, and they want to get their act together. absolutely. please stick with us, everyone. wolf, kaitlan, and phil are standing by