i think it s possible sometime in the coming weeks we ll see such a meeting, but under the right circumstances is a very tricky clause in any diplomatic statement. what the president sees as the right circumstances, what president rouhani sees as the right circumstances is quite different. the president did seem to be a little bit unhappy with reporting that president macron arranged for foreign minister zarif to come as a diplomatic gamble. take a listen. president macron told me every step he was making yesterday. a lot of you said he came. he told me long before he came in what was happening. i didn t think it was appropriate to meet yesterday. too soon. and things have to be worked out, first, but president macron told me exactly what was happening, who was coming, what time they were coming, where they were going to meet, and after the meeting he told me exactly what happened. what do you make of this back and forth about who told who
how does it look? it s another self-created crisis that the president walked into his own. barack obama used camp david to host the g7 when he was president. i want to get to the president s claim that he s a leading environmentalist. he was asked after the climate meeting and didn t directly answer two questions. he didn t answer whether he harbored skepticism about climate change and what he felt the u.s. and other countries should not do about it. he did not answer those questions, right? reporter: he did not. it was also striking that earlier in the day, before the major news conference, he was absent from the planned leaders meeting on climate and reporters asked him about that and he said, oh, no, i m going. it s later. and it wasn t. and then another event he was asked again and he said we re still going. so either he was intending to go and had the calendar wrong or was simply trying to defer and deflect. then later the white house acknowledged he did not attend and they se
and author of not for the faint of heart. lessons in courage, power, and per sis assistance. good to see you, ambassador. i m sure you watched this press conference with great interest and there s a lot of global news to deconstruct after it and the g77. let me start with iran. because president macron would like to set up a meeting with president trump and president rouhani. trump said he would be open if the circumstances were correct or right? what do you see the chances of that happening? did you take anything positive away from the statements? oh, i certainly think that at the g7 there were signals, as you point out, chris, from all sides. and certainly president macron wants to see the meeting happen with the french, the germans, the european union, russia, and china who are partners in this playing a role in this, france, of course, and great britain.
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