a submarine deal. you would rather do that than go meet with the progressive caucus in the house. how bad is your life if you prefer that. [laughter] bret: let s turn there, harold, we saw what happened last night on capitol hill, the punt to next week there is still some thought that it might be two weeks. some people are saying some time before thanksgiving where this all gets ironed out. i mean, it s pretty ugly. it may still happen but it s ugly. thanks for having me on and i would agree with you. it s not the way, i m sure, he orchestrated or choreographed it but sometimes big time legislation is not choreographed. is not choreographable in the way you may like. at the end of the day, if they get this passed 1.57 trillion. you have 1.2, $1.25 trillion package for infrastructure, that s $3 trillion he would have gotten in the first year in the presidency. again, to your point, it has not been pretty.
president biden overseas in rome. america s second catholic president meeting with pope francis this morning. then turned to diplomacy meeting with various world leaders ahead of the g20 and u.n. climate summits this week. president biden looking to show the world america is back on the international stage and ared to meet the 21st century issues the world faces despite failing to get to agreement on some of his signature spending agendas back home. he met with the president of france and. in their meeting today the president acknowledged the u.s. could have done a better job communicating with our oldest ally over a submarine deal with australia. h australia.
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tran translator, any of that. it s a world leader one-on-one with another world leader talking about the issues. so of course this issue with this submarine deal, this nuclear submarine deal that the u.s. had not informed the french of, that is what they said was really the biggest affront to them, they were kept out of the loop for so long. it s going to be the backdrop of this meeting that is going to happen in just a few moments from now. there are other issues that are going to be discussed, and the white house seems to have this idea that largely they have moved past this and this is a time to try to mend that relationship between these two very old allies. they are going to focus on other issues that of course are definitely up for debate, counterterrorism in the middle east, talking about technology and trade, and of course all these issues that are important to france, including european defense is another one. so one thing we should note, kate, is that to give you a sense of h
agenda, something they both deeply care about. whether or not those agreements and that framework he got before leaving washington and not an actual deal passed by congress, if that s sufficient enough for those world leaders at the climate summit remains to be seen. i want to bring in nic robertson. let s start with the president s last meeting of the day with french president emmanuel macron. biden himself used the word clumsy to describe his own administration s handling of that submarine deal with australia that cut france out of its own submarine deal with australia. i want to play again part of that moment. i was under the impression that france was informed long before that the deal would got through. honest to god. president biden might believe he s patched up this democratic rift. how is it being received in france? the fallout and the apology?