global minimum tax, which has been in the works for quite a while and janet yellen and president biden deserve credit for that, and g-20s are usually long on words and short on action, and i suspect that will probably remain the case as we approach glasgow, but i think for biden on balance it s probably going to bump up his numbers a few points back home. whether or not that makes a difference given the fraught climate is highly uncertain. what about this very strained relationship between these two nato allies, the united states and turkey right now? the president did have this separate meeting with the turkish president erdogan just a little while ago, and the u.s. made it clear in a formal statement as you heard, aaron, that the u.s. is not happy with turkey s, a nato ally, to purchase these russian air defense missile systems? you know, wolf, we continue to use the word ally when we
call on iran to come back to the table saying the sanctions they re willing to relieve would be a big boost for their economy if they re willing to come to the table. thank you so much, mike for that. also in rome security on high alert with the protest of the g-20. let s go to kir simmons with that part of the story. how intense have the demonstrations been and what are they protesting specifically? reporter: we ve certainly heard them alex across this skyline at times. honestly the protests have not been as substantial or impactful as we ve seen at other g-20s. there s always a rag tide of protesters here. opposing vaccine passports and another protest over climate change. there are protests, perhaps not
trump will have this document. he says they re over there investigating, this guy s a crook, just totally fabricating the reality. and writing the draft is key point there. we ve probably covered a million g-7s or g-20s. in this particular case it was supposed to be a statement from ukraine, a press release or something like that, and you ve got these american officials, u.s. officials some who worked for the government, another giuliani who s working directly for the president in a private capacity giving advice and sort of having editorial control over what ukraine government admits or puts out. and what the president thinks, giuliani started this poison pill. he was the one that started filling the president s ear with all this corruption about ukraine and then the ukrainians reached out to him to say, hey, we re not corrupt, we re a new government, we re fighting corruption and he said, okay, prove it, put it in a statement where you say you re going to investigate this company
the administration to impose sanctions for the murder of jamal khashoggi. a very remarkable tableau of the president praising enemies really of the united states and not similar praise for traditional allies. we ve seen it every time the president goes overseas on every one of these trips. if it s to a nato or the other g-20s. this, i think, was just framed in a book-end. really in a weekend period as americans were enjoying a summer weekend here, their president, our president, was watching was doing things he s done individually but sort of this 100-hour block of what he s done, it is a vast departure from american foreign policy in any recent time. you ve heard mitt romney, one of the only real republicans of stature out there speaking. you know, it is a summer holiday but that does not mean that things should take a break. so i m a little bit surprised again by what is, a, becoming this republican party. this is not a republican party that even looks the same as the
he does. i guess so, we got a call very quickly. a lot of people follow it. but you know, they have contacted us and they would like to see we re not talking about for, extended, just a quick hello. oh my god, he follows me on twitter. will there be friendship bracelets? joining me is author of the targ targeter. malcolm nance and sarah, scholar of authoritarian states and former state department advisor niara hawk and nbc news senior international correspondent kirsten. what s the take away from donald trump at the g 20? well, this are so many, joy, i guess. i think one of them for me is just a shamelessness. i remember previous g 20s when president putin left early because he was shunned by so many leaders. you ll remember last year the