what the president is saying during the reign of barack obama, russia invaded crimea. i think a lot of the reason was ukraine did not join nato. and if you look at the warsaw pact countries, the baltics, they all joined the eu, or they joined nato, and ukraine hesitated and when they did, russia, who felt like he gave away crimea, it s ours anyhow. it s putin acting like russia. okay, well, alice, will these g-7 allies believe that too? is that how they see it? that, you know, president trump s predecessor is to blame for this? clearly, they do. there s been pushback by them at the initial suggestion of bringing russia back into the g-7 and i don t think it should happen. i don t think they should be a part of this summit. these are our allies. russia is not an ally.
used by protectionists to pick different industries that they want to help politically. so i think the american people are being deeply misled. i thinkf understood that when they go to target, when they shop in t future, they re going to be paying more because of the trade war launched by this protectionist president. they ll realize they ve made a terrible mistake. but tim, you would agree that there are nontariff barriers and patent issues which china and some other countries have played games with yes. and that is also a threat to the united states of america? yes, but that s china, that s not the g-7. by the way, g-7 includes the united states. yes, we have a problem with china. but don t annoy the europeans and go after canada and go after japan because you re mad at china. we will leave it there. thanks to all of you. thanks so much. all right, coming up, a one-shot. president trump setting the stakes as he heads to singapore to meet face-to-face with kim
i think the relationships were outstanding. but because of the fact that the leaders of the past didn t do a good job on trade and again i m not blaming countries, i m blaming our people that represented our past. it s going to change. it s not a question of i hope it changes. it s going to change. 100%. and tariffs are going to come way down. because we people cannot continue to do that. we re like the piggy bank that everybody s robbing and that ends. cnn s boris sanchez is live for us in quebec city. so, boris, too early to tell how that message was received by his fellow g-7 leaders? that s right, we should be hearing from them. several of the g-7 leaders have press conferences coming up in the next few hours. i m sure they will react to