on the sidelines of the summit but sounds as though he s going to be meeting with french officials on this visit. it s interesting, jim, potentially this could be an opportunity. the president has said, hey, iran, call me, let s talk further. this opens the door potentially to an opportunity to have some sort of face-to-face conversations on neutral ground. would the white house want to seize on this? i think at this point, president trump, as you know, with president trump, you know, expect the unexpected. we saw this, you know, in seoul, south korea, when he met with kim jong-un, stepping across the demilitarized zone into north korea. the president does like these big splashy moments but it seems as though in this case, fredricka, they weren t ready for that kind of big splash even on the beach here in southwestern france. okay. and also i want to ask you about a conversation you had with the white house adviser stephen miller, that on immigration. that s right. what did h
from annexing neighboring countries, to maintaining war in the eastern part of ukraine, to killing its own citizens on european territory, to, you know, getting involved in other people s elections and holding americans hostage. paul whelen, i m thinking of here, still in a moscow prison. and when you behave like that and then trump turns around and says we re going to reward that behavior by bringing you back in and inviting you to washington next time, maybe, i mean, you just have to wonder why. because next year, washington is hosting that g7. absolutely. and in my mind, it brings back into the back into question the issue of what is it that is going on between trump and putin which makes trump say things like, yeah, despite all of that horrific stuff that you guys did, we ll have you in washington to join this group of democratic economically advanced countries. neither of which russia is. kim dozier, steve hall, we ll leave it there for now, thank you so much. still ahea
the reason you don t have many congressional defections to the president is because there is a fear of crossing that line. he has the he has the base kind of by the throat and until that changes, i don t expect to see the welds, the sanfords, the walsh walshes to get much traction. melanie, bill weld when he made his announcement in april did tell our jake tapper that he would, quote, fear for the republican if the country had trump as president for a second term. former representative mark sanford as i just articulated, you know, also said he s considering a run, but in that latest cnn poll, you know, trump has this more than 80% approval rate, so was there a real li likelihood that anyone stands a chance or if they get into the race that in any way it undermines the president s lead? there is a chance it would bruise trump heading into the general election. perhaps some of these candidates could even court independent or wealthy liberal donors who are
interested in achieving that mission right there. but at the end of the day it s going to be very hard to actually achieve any progress here when it comes to beating him in a gop primary. i would also point out that the white house is clearly nervous about the economy which is supposed to be their strongest selling point heading into the election. publicly, they re expressing confidence but privately, they re talking about ways to shore up the economy through a number of proposals. and so i think you re seeing trump feeling the heat and that s why he s lashing out on twitter and trying to line up scapegoats in case the economy does take a downturn. we ll leave it there for now. good to see you both. appreciate it. thank you. right now, take a look at these live pictures of france, world leaders arriving for the official g7 dinner. we ll take you there live. [music playing] (vo) this is the averys.
goes out and basically just wings it when he wants to. the iran situation is a complex one. i would agree with kim that i think macron has done a fabulous job, a really interesting job, of not only 3 engineering the situation, but also managing the president of the united states to make him feel, you know, where macron wants him to be on these issues and to open up the possibility as kim was indicating that there could be some contact. so we ll just kind have of have see what happens, it s taken everybody by surprise. maybe it wouldn t be trump, himself, who would meet with zarif but possibly mike pompeo or someone else on that team, foreign diplomacy, who would be able to take advantage of the moment. so, kim, you know, what do you suppose is behind , you know, france s motivation to do this and not give the white house, at least the u.s., some kind of advance notice? i mean, yes, you said it was masterful, but is this also, you know, kind of a finger in the eye of the u.s.? is it m