Them. So if you go back ten or 20 years and add it all up, its massive amounts of money that the United States has paid and stuffed up like nobody. This has gone on for decades by the way, many president s, but no other president brings it up like i brought it up. Many have complained about it. Many have singled out germany for criticism because they are an economic powerhouse. They accuse them of funneling billions of dollars to russia even though they saw protection from the military from us. President trump billions and billions of dollars are being paid to the country that is supposed to be protecting you. Everyone is talking about it all over the world. Well we are supposed to be protecting her from russia but why are you paying billions of dollars to russia for energy . Why are the countries in nato, mainly germany, having a large percentage of the energy paid to
russia and if you look at it, germany is the capital of russia. Despite looking at the american team, they look around
nuclear agreement. that s just one part of the big puzzle here, though. the bigger picture is, of course, that those expectations are playing out and everyone s memories are very clear of what happened at the g7 last year. president trump failed to sign the communiqué, he left early, he had that stare down, now infamous picture with the german chancellor angela merkel and really it s not just president trump and it s not just boris johnson who is potentially very weak at home who are coming here in difficult circumstances. the canadian prime minister trudeau himself faces elections coming up in a few months. angela merkel lame duck leader, out in a couple of years, her economy in germany is hurting. the italian prime minister resigned just a couple days ago. so these big, big issues that the french want to discuss here about about inequalities, gender inequalities, social
in southern france but storm clouds hover over the horizon and the disrupter in chief, donald trump. with uk prime minister boris johnson bringing brexit woes of his own, expectations for the summit are, let s call them low, to say the least. cnn s international diplomatic editor nic robertson is standing by this morning from biarritz. let s call it double disruption in the form of president trump and of course uk prime minister boris johnson. all areas perhaps of contention removed by dumping the communiqué, but what can they achieve here at this meeting? reporter: you know, the french president really sort of sees himself as stepping up to sort out, if you will, the world s problems. this is in the absence of president trump taking that position, so on iran, for example, president macron would really like to see a little concession from president trump towards iran so that he can encourage iran back towards compliance with the joint
inequalities, economic inequalities, trade, deals on taxation in the sort of digital industries, the climate, that s another big issue for the french. the united states under president trump is really an outlier compared to these other six nations at the g7. this is why there won t be a communiqué. this is why the french are playing down expectations and perhaps boris johnson, though, when he gets to meet president trump will have his day in the sunshine of course, he s hoping to hear good words about a future trade deal with the united states. yes. julia. good news will be welcome. we will watch for all those hand shakes, extended hand shakes that always take the attention as well. the optics are always interesting. just into cnn, a boeing super tanker firefighting plane has now arrived in bolivia to help with wildfires. president bolsonaro says his country doesn t have the
donald trump and with uk prime minister boris johnson bringing brexit woes of his own, expectations are low. cnn s international diplomatic editor nic robertson live this morning. good to see you. behind you picture of calm, ahead of you anything but. good morning. reporter: yeah, good morning, dave. look, barely a ripple out on the ocean there but it s known for ferocious waves here, perhaps we will get some of that turbulence when the leaders do sit down over the weekend. everyone, of course, remembers what happened at canada at the last g7, president trump left early, refused to sign the communiqué, there was that face-off between him and angela merkel, an infamous picture. president macron, the french president hosting this event doesn t want any of that and is setting the expectations very low saying that he doesn t expect there could be a communiqué. he says we ve been through a deep crisis in democracy and he