plus get $250 back when you buy a new samsung note. click, call or visit a store today. welcome back to hardball. after escalating the trade war with china and inciting chaos here at home, president trump now takes his road show across the atlantic. tonight the president departs for france and the g7 and our allies brace for a stormy summit. french president emmanuel macron now wonders how to handle trump. the washington post reports france s main objectives as host of this weekend s group of seven summit is to minimize the chances that president trump will blow it up. there may be troubles ahead as world leaders talk global trade, iran, and climate change, including the fires raging right now in the amazon rainforest which is really scary. on top of all that, president
vice chairman at mastercard and a former u.s. trade rep in the obama administration. thank you all. this is going to be very powerful. let s talk about i m a big believer that the trade deficit with china has to be dealt with because china keeps making money off us, which they do by selling us great goods, no doubt about it, we love their stuff. especially their cotton goods and all that stuff, but they use all that exchange they get from us to buy the rest of the world, especially africa. i don t like it, ben. your thoughts about what should we be doing if not this? but let s start with trump. what s he doing? what s he up to? the problem is he doesn t really know what he s doing, chris. he s gotten into this, and the only play he s had is to escalate this trade war with the chinese. i don t think anybody knows where this is leading. and the chinese have clearly decided to dig in and to match him move for move. and the risk is that he s not only raising prices on americans, hurtin
boris is a performer like trump. i knew him a little bit when i was in london. he was a journalist then. boris. he was. a hack, actually, but he was he wasn t reliable on facts, was he? he was not reliable on facts. but you know, he s a performer. a politician performer, like trump. and so they will get that. he s also a nationalist. you know who else was a journalist and started that way? benito mussolini. but boris johnson is basically a european. he s not going to agree with trump on a lot of things. he doesn t agree with him on bringing russia back in, for example. he knows about this little unpleasantness in ukraine. he s read history. he wrote history, a great book of churchill. yeah. if trump thinks he s coming, you know, to meet a mini me, boris isn t exactly going to be that. the guy down in brazil is. anyway, the rain forest. ben, here s this, your line.
i have to tell you, trump acts like if they don t have the dossier on him, if they don t have video of the hotel scenes, why is he acting like this? why is he going over to france with a number one goal of getting russia back in? why has he got this lobbying job for russia? chris, it s absolutely mystifying. or not. well, yeah. i was there when we kicked russia out of the g-8, and i can tell you, that was a unanimous decision of all the other countries because they invaded and annexed crimea from ukraine. the fact is you go to these summits, i went to eight of them, to meet with your allies and make strategies on the issues around the world that you agree with these countries about, and you re trying to figure out how to solve problems. russia would be a spoiler in that mix. the only thing i can think of, chris, is obviously he s carrying putin s water, doing exactly what putin wants, which is trying to divide the west, trying to divide the democratic world so that russia can tak
really is important to the whole globe, it s burning up. foreign leaders are calling it a global crisis, which it is, saying it should be a top priority at the g-7 this week, but the president of brazil, who is sort of mini trump, tells everybody to mind their own business. what happens next? you re watching hardball.