Officially welcome the duchess of sussex to the royal family. You are in the cnn newsroom. Any moment now, President Trump is set to speak at the g7 summit. This was unexpected to most of us. Didnt know it was going to happen. Interesting to see what he would have to say. The president meeting with some of americas closest allies. He did arrive late to the breakfast on gender eequality. He did, indeed, show up. He sat through that meeting. Now as you can see, theyre setting up at the podium there, as we wait for the president to speak. Were told seconds away. We know trade, of course, has been a major focus of this summit, despite publicly sparring with the leaders of france and canada on twitter at the end of the week. Day one, there were no major fireworks. No major fireworks on the second day. Were still waiting to hear what the president has to say. After that, were expecting him to leave the summit, skipping the rest of it to fly to singapore ahead of his historic meeting with kim
There is a Massive International effort to sway President Trump about the decision on whether to stay in the Iran Nuclear Deal. We saw french president macron and Angela Merkel talking with President Trump. And now Benjamin Netanyahu is weighing in and a staunch opponent to the deal. He said it is a mistake to sign the agreement. He said it was a mistake to sign the agreement. He is along with many israelis concerned about Irans Nuclear ambitions for the region but ambitions for the region and their involvement in syria and yemen and other places. What we are told from israeli officials, there is a significant statement made by israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. About the iran nuclear activities. We are told that the masoud is in the process of briefing the United States and United Kingdom and other countries in europe as well. This is new information that is just uncovered. But we dont know what the information is, we are waiting to hear from the israeli Prime Minister Benjami
Group of eight once it was kicked out. That group now known as the g7 is gathering today in canada. And despite the smiles for the camera its being widely characterized as the g6 plus one as trump and by extension the u. S. Becomes increasingly isolated from everything from Climate Change to trade. Trump just recently imposed steep tariff on imports from the European Union, canada and japan. Trump kicked off the morning by arriving late not just to the summit but olalalso to a breakf focused on equality of women. And he reportedly said, quote, he does not want to be lectured by his counter parts. Which might explain why hes snubbing our allies by ducking out early. In just a few minutes he will take off to prep for the summit hes really into, the one with north korean dictator kim jongun. Joining me now is david corn of mother jones, malcolm nance of the terror asymmetrics project, and john hardwood of cnbc. You wrote a piece for cnbcs website and its entitled trump is helping putin wi