Russian aggressions. Cnns abby phillips, John Williams of the new york times, john kirby and politico. There is no question these two leaders have a personal bond, a personal friendship. There are lots of handshakes, lots of talking how great they get along, but First Talking past each other on policy. President macron has said repeatedly the world must stay together, must Work Together to maintain the Iran Nuclear Deal. The president used the word insa insane, he used the word ridiculous, and anywhere you look in the mideast, iran is the bad actor. Wherever there is trouble, yemen, syria, no matter where you have it, iran is behind it, and now unfortunately, russia is getting more and more involved. Theyre not going to be restarting anything. If they restart it, theyll have problems bigger than ever before. If they restart the nuclear program, they will have bigger problems than theyve ever had before. John kirby, you dealt with this from a state perspective. If youre the president ,
Crisis in syria. International trade. And whether or not the u. S. Will remain in the iran nuke deal. Heres the operate that. President trump we will be talking about a lot of different subjects. But the iran deal will be one of them. People know my views on the iran deal, it was a terrible deal. Should never, ever have been made. We could have made a good deal but that is a herible deal. We paid 150 billion, 1. 8 mill billion in cash, actual cash, barrels of cash. Insane, ridiculous, never should have been made. But we will be talking about it. White house correspondent john roberts is live at the white house where more is about to get under way with the two orlando leaders. Good afternoon. Theyre running substantially behind. We thought we man midway through the press conference at this point scheduled for 11 45 eastern time, its been delayed, some 45 minutes to an hour because the meetings the president is having with president macron are going long. When the president opened up tha
Restart their Nuclear Program. Youll find out about that. Were not going to be restarting anything. Bigger than theyve ever had before. You can mark it down. They restart their Nuclear Program, they will have bigger problems than theyve ever had before. Joining me now is Kristen Welker and peter baker. Julie smith and msnbc contributor christopher dickey. I have to ask with all of your experience, peelter, in the ova office when given a chance the president could have said were about to go into our meetings. Well have a News Conference and meet you later. Thats been done time and time again. He launches into his denunciation of the Iran Nuclear Deal without giving macron a chance to make his private points in the meeting. Hu hugely embarrassing to the french leader. This is how he holds the meeting. He has three question and answer beards. After the president s had their first oneonone meeting in the oval office the president addressed iran and this time rather than taking the more sha