What s known as the communique, a joint agreement among the leaders. last year he refused to sign it, this year they re not going to attempt to do it. there can still be value, of course, in leaders getting together. the relationship evolve, participation of leaders who are now in office changes, for example, with the united kingdom. we ll see boris johnson in office as the prime minister for the first time, so that changes the dynamic somewhat. we also saw the president dealing with some of the issues that he brings to the table. of course, he had been feuding with the prime minister of denmark, not a participant in the g7, but wanted to sort of get that out of the way, so they had a phone call before he left washington. but he also was not backing away from saying if france is taxing big u.s. tech companies, the u.s. would consider taxing their wine, for example, an important import. he also talked about two reporters before he left the united states, something that got a lot of peop