Zarif crashed the party at the g7 today in a move that has apparently blindsided President Trump and other leaders there at the g7. One white house official telling nbc news no one expected it, and it came as a surprise there. Zarif, who was personally sanctioned by the United States just last month, came at the behest of french president Emmanuel Macron. Here is what u. S. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin told my colleague Hallie Jackson about that. Did you have a conversation with him . Should he be here . The president has said before to the extent iran wants to sit down and negotiate, he would not set preconditions to those negotiations. Now zarif did not meet with any u. S. Officials while he was there. Meanwhile, the president s own rhetoric already creating problems for the u. S. Delegation. Any thoughts on escalating the trade war with china . Do you have second thoughts about escalating i have second thoughts about everything. Those comments immediately put the administration