their purposes are. but the president wants to go from there. and the president wants to show he's back at the table, back talking, but we'll see how that goes. there's, as you said, some skepticism with that. certainly, president biden is viewed a lot more favorably than president trump. but he really needs to put some actions behind those words at the moment. >> yeah. as you say, the mood very different now than it was for his european tour in june. again, for our viewers, we're seeing various world leaders coming up and being greeted by the italian prime minister mario draghi. ben, looking back on yesterday, biden's two key meetings, i want to start with biden's meeting with the french president emmanuel macron. do you get that the president accepted the disaster with the submarine as they would see it? >> reporter: i think they would