Pleitgen live in moscow with the breaking details. Reporter good morning okay. Looks like we have lost his feed. Technical gremlins from russia. I wont draw conclusions. Never fear. We have nick. How is this going to play out at the g7 . We have Nic Robertson to pick the ball up. Enlighten us. Reporter john, look. One of the issues that have been discussed is President Trump has been at the forefront of this since that summit last year where he failed to sign the communique at the end it. Got into a staring match with angela merkel. But back then he was saying russia needs to be at the table of the g7, make it back to the g8 again. President macron, the french leader whos hosting this summit here said, okay. I can work with that. But only if russia agrees to the peace deal terms in ukraine. All of thats going to be on the agenda here. But i think this will thrust, again, russia and the issue of russia being part of the g7 and getting it around the table and getting Vladimir Putin aroun
quite a stir over the last couple of weeks. he revealed publicly he had a romantic relationship with mariia butina that spanned a couple of years. he gave the fbi information about her, he said. she tried to infiltrate political groups here in the u.s. including the national rifle association. she also pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign resident. now, patrick byrne is taking this is step further and saying he didn t just cooperate with the fbi but feels like he was part of some political espionage. and the fbi was actually directing him to have this relationship with mariia butina. here s how he described it to cnn. they said we want to be clear, this never happens in the united states. we are the good guys. we don t work like the bad guys, but we need to ask you to rekindle a romantic relationship with mariia butina. i was specifically told this