in the past because of the great wealth. we can t let that wealth be taken away. clean air, clean water. thank you very much, everybody. i appreciate it. thank you. thank you very much. well, there you have it. it was a wide ranging news conference. shall we say there, president trump initially going by the president of france emmanuel macron, and president macron yielded the microphone, so to speak, to president trump there and we heard a lot on iran, on china, on trade, on his property in miami, and on russia as well. craig melvin here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. president trump just wrapping up that news conference. that g-7 summit there. he continued to signal optimism, a fair amount of optimism on trade talks with china. he talked about the conversations happening with iran. and about inviting russia. back into the fold. i think it would be better to
referred to putin and russia as the original sin of the administration. how was the president during that portion of the discussion? it was interesting, brian. as you know, the president, trump, has been so unwilling to really challenge putin, to criticize his actions or his leadership in russia. but we asked him about russia s seizure of these three ukrainian ships in the black sea overt weekend, the ships and the crews, which has been widely condemned by western allies. and trump said, look, i don t like that aggression at all. that it should be a cause for concern to americans. he was anticipating getting a briefing sometime tonight from his national security team. and said he was considering canceling a planned meeting he has with putin in argentina, where i m going to be later this week covering the group of 20 summit there, the leaders summit. trump said he ll have to see what that briefing from his team is like tonight but that he is considering, he is threaten iin
with the u.n. sorry, the nato secretary-general. but he took a lot of questions on a lot of other things from the press as he s wanted to do in the oval office. especially talking about north korea, the upcoming summit there. as well as a lot on trade. we re going to talk about trade first. let s bring in jon leiber, principal for national tech services. good to have you here. a lot going on on trade. he didn t talk about nafta so much. he did talk a lot about china. and i want to play two pieces of sound for you just to make sure that you heard it and get your reaction to it. let s roll the first one, please. the united states has been ripped off for many, many years by its bad trade deals. i don t blame china. i blame our leadership of this country from the past. we have been ripped off by china. and evacuation of wealth like no country has ever seen before. dana: he also talked about trade not being beneficial to the united states.
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the president arriving for the g-20 summit there. he has a series of big meetings which begin within hours. he will sit down with with the german chancellor, angela merkel today. tomorrow, his face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin. his stakes could not be higher. again, the president touching down here. as for his reception in germany, may not seem as warm as he seemed. angela merkel setting the stage for what could be confrontational moments. as we are watching the plane land, let s go to frederik pleitgen. fred? reporter: there certainly have been. one of the things you have been talking about is the reception by angela merkel and the city of hamburg as well. that certainly won t be as warm as we saw in poland. we are at the place where protesters are gathering not only protests against president trump here, but, of course,