okay. that was emmanuel macron, french president emmanuel macron having a conversation with joe biden and we re going to talk about that and what else is happening at the second day of the g7 summit. joining me to discuss, chris jansing and bobby ghosh, editor and columnist for bloomberg opinion. chris, i ll start with you. i m going to bring up the poll numbers. the poll numbers seem to show that globally america is back, that the rest of the world is more comfortable with us as joe biden is president. from what you re picking up and what you ve been hearing and talking with people, is that just because he s not donald trump or is there some specific level of comfort and trust that europe seems to have with joe biden? well, look, i think it s a little bit of both. if you look even deeper into that poll you see for example in germany it s 80% trust the president to do the right thing
of course, saying congress just has to pass a law is a little like saying in a couple of weeks in a gym i can be simone biles. although there is a bill to expand from 9 to 13 justices, it has little chance of success because you can be sure mitch mcconnell will do anything not to give president biden a chance to appoint new justices and ruin the conservative majority that mitch has worked so, so hard for. first, by stealing a supreme court seat from president biden when justice ka she a died. then by helping getting a man accused of sexual misconduct onto the bench, then by jamming through amy comey barrett s confirmation just eight days before the election of 2020. you ll remember that around barrett s confirmation the calls for the next democratic president were getting louder. he wasn t a fan of the idea of actually expanding the court and refused to come down strongly one way or another. this april he created a 36 member chamber, a commission to study possible structural changes to
in culture. that s the special relationship. we are so bound together that nothing s going to impact the emotional and cultural and intellectual affinities of our two countries. america and great britain have a special relationship. we both have pledged to keep the relationship as special as possible. and i m convinced it will continue to be. now i don t know if we could describe what s going on right now as a special relationship. if this were facebook it would be like, it s complicated. how are things between joe biden and boris johnson? clearly boris got along great with donald trump. they both sort of rose to power in a similar way being on reality television. has biden been able to build a bridge? is boris johnson even interested in maintaining that special relationship with the new
that s biden s problem. on the one hand he needs the europeans to be firmly behind the united states but the europeans are not that firm at the moment. they ve used the trump years as an excuse to some degree to say, look, the americans are not reliable but the fact is that these energy connections pre-date trump and will continue long after all the people who posed for those pictures on the beach have passed from the scene. the straddling that you mentioned, the difficulties actually on the side of the europeans. biden can take a firm position. putin can take a firm position. it s the europeans who are in a complicated situation. they need the american security umbrella through nato. they need the american economy and the access to the american economy but at the same time they do need russian gas. certainly the germans do, and
connection. i m jason johnson in for tiffany cross. we have a lot of trending topics to get to but first we begin in jolly old england where president biden is attending the annual g7 summit meeting. he just met with french president emmanuel macron and has more meetings before his meeting with russian president vladimir putin. i m joined by nbc news white house correspondent mike memele. you have the best background i have seen this morning, mike. i ve got to start with this. this is a key part. as a political science professor, i have long studied the sort of special relationship that the united states has had with the u.k. i want to play a montage of joe biden s interactions with boris johnson. the special relationship, it is not said lightly, the special relationship between our people. our special relationship is