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Have constant exchanges with President Trump. I share his goals, sometimes we say we dont agree on methods. But i want to get there. I want to have an agreement. And i think theres been a true change. This morning president rouhani showed himself to be open to this meeting happening and President Trump has been saying for weeks that hes been demanding, hes been tough, hes put sanctions, but im ready to have a meeting to make a deal. I think were making progress. I want this meeting to happen and i want there to be an agreement between the United States and iran and france will play the role together with United Kingdom and germany and all the other Signatory Powers and the permanent members of the security c ....
And france on taxing digital firms? i can confirm that the first lady loved your french wine. [ laughter ] she loved your french wine. so thank you very much. that s fine. thank you. i will wait for the end of this press conference to have a press conference. i will leave the floor to him. thank you. . reporter: you have recently been saying that china wants to make a deal but you are not necessarily ready for a deal. we ll start now. please sit down. ....
Situation straightened out, jonathan. they re really hurting badly. their inflation, as you know, their inflation is through the roof. their economy is tanked entirely. the sanctions are absolutely hurting them horribly. i don t want to see that. they re great people. i don t want to see that. but we can t let them have a nuclear weapon, can t let it happen. so i think that there s a really good chance that we would meet. jeff, please. reporter: thank you, mr. president. another follow-up from what the president of france said, he said that there might be a need for compensation to iran. would you, given all of the criticism you ve made of the jcpoa and all the money they got, be open to giving iran compensation if it met some of the criteria that you laid out? no, what he s talking in terms of compensation is they are out of money and they may need a short-term letter of credit or loan. no, we re not paying. we don t pay. ....
The white house in a very short period of time. reporter: will you visit aus sta australia? i will, and at some point germany. i just think they re very different and they re going to going at it. they may have to get out. they may not make a deal. the european union is very tough to make deals with. very, very tough. just ask theresa may. go ahead. reporter: thank you, mr. president. i was hoping you could clarify last year you left the summit in canada feuding with the summit host. this year things seem to be a little bit different. you re talking about unity, you hugged president macron on the stage. what is different? and also as president macron said, he s passing you the baton of leading the institution. you ran on the platform of america first. now that you have a mandate for ....
The international community, what are you going to do with it? we had a good meeting. i had it out with one or two people where we disagreed in terms of concept. we had a good meeting this year. i would say this was a big step above in terms of unity and agreement. we have really great agreement on a lot of very important subjects. but last year was good also. i think last year might have been a little bit underrated. reporter: in terms of the g7 presidency, what do you want to do with it? we re going to do something hopefully special. we re going to build on what we have now. we re going to be going in with some great unity. if there was any word for this particular meeting of seven very important countries, it was unity. i think most important of all, we got along great. go ahead. reporter: thank you very much, mr. president. you just mentioned that chinese ....