dessert. good evening, peter. it sounds good, early dinner but it s only 4:00 p.m. on the east coast. they are still at that dinner and while they a white house official is telling us there is no date on the schedule for the restart of the talks about the nuclear program even the president biden said today there is debate on this. when would you like to talk? what is the next step? reporter: the president was mistaken as an official tells us officials are just hoping to have something on the books by the end of november because leaders from the u.s. uk, france and germany are alarmed about nuclear activities they don t think are related to civilian nuclear program so they came together saying in this spirit,
very good newsy thursday morning for you. i m jim sciutto. the. i m poppy harlow. at any moment british prime minister boris johnson will greet president biden and the first lady today marking the president s debut on the world stage. the two leaders will then hold a bilateral meeting where they re expected to focus discussions on u.s.-uk relations. this as the president aims to strengthen relations and re-estabilsh our role and democracies role in the world. this week s g-7 summit sets the stage for an even more crucial meeting next when biden goes toe to toe, face-to-face with russian president putin. that will be in geneva. our team all over the uk, following president biden s international debut. let s begin with cnn chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny traveling with the
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson put an agreement with the US at the heart of his plans to revive the UK after Brexit. However, Britain’s hopes of securing a trade deal have recently been dashed following a warning from Joe Biden, the President-elect, that Washington will not sign anything with anyone until the US has sorted out its competitiveness. The UK had been closing in on a trade deal with Donald Trump’s administration but Mr Biden said in a New York Times interview that hi
politicians richard neal who you mentioned on a very important point and richard neal richard name is the head of the u.s. house ways and means committee know the house ways and means committee has a direct say and trade deals they can block ideas and before it even gets to the senate they have to look at it and scrutinize it they have the 1st port of call and that sort of speak i said they could be an awful lot of hurdles coming in the way of a u.s. u.k. trade deal but there is. a possible solution that is called the backstop which is part of the historic agreement that boris johnson and the government in london is turning down why well i suppose it s 1st of all important say that it s not everyone in britain who s against the backstop but i mean bars johnson himself voted for the most recent version of the withdrawal agreement which included the backstop but there is consistent opposition within britain to the back stuff and to put it simply the reason they oppose it is some of the m
president on a trump and he called talks of a deal a needless provocation so there is strong bipartisan support in congress for the good friday agreement and to learn a little bit more about this possible dilemma i m joined by office i live in from t.w. business good to have you here with us other i know that you really. looked into this entire story do you think that the good friday agreement could least in the way of a u.s. u.k. trade deal yet well yes monica i certainly think it could stand in the way i suppose a little bit of history as a starting point so there s a very strong history of strong relations between art in america and particularly in the political dimension there s a very strong irish american lobby group political caucus that dates back more than a century and at various stages virus history it s been very influential but for the purposes of our discussion where it s really important is in the crafting of what you mentioned just now the good friday agreement so the c