area. walter isaacson is with us here tonight, distinguished fellow with the aspen institute, former editor of time magazine, veteran journalist and author. biographer of franklinfranklin, einstein, kissinger, dobbs. it s a pleasure to have you. thank you, brian. i want to talk about norms that we have watched fall away. the french finance minister is calling this summit the g 6 plus one, and this is the president of the united states flying into this group. it s totally amazing. for 70 years we ve had this wonderful system in this world where the europeans and north americans stood as bull marks for things like free trade, capitalism, free markets. russia has always tried to break that up for 70 years. now putin has finally scored this victory, and he s gloating
relationship that the u.s. and canada had over the many years and all sorts of other things. let s bring in an expert in this area. walter isaacson is with us here tonight, distinguished fellow with the aspen institute, former editor of time magazine, veteran journalist and author. biographer of frank lilinfrankl einstein, kissinger, dobbs. it s a pleasure to have you. thank you, brian. i want to talk about norms that we have watched fall away. the french finance minister is calling this summit the g 6 plus one, and this is the president of the united states flying into this group. it s totally amazing. for 70 years we ve had this wonderful system in this world where the europeans and north americans stood as bull marks for things like free trade,