JUST IN: China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang says has no info on phone calls to U.S. cited by Trump, adding later “I can tell you clearly that I haven’t heard of such a thing”

Pressed further about the calls with China that Trump said happened and the Chinese deny, Trump says he doesn’t want to talk about calls.
 
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Macron confirms Trump never made it to climate session at G7. "He wasn’t in the room but his team was there," he says. He says it's no longer his goal to convince Trump to come back to the Paris accord.
 
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“Asked if he attended the climate session, Potus says ‘we’re having it
in a little while.’ He didn’t appear to hear when a reporter told him
it just happened.”
 
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During a discussion with a senior administration official in 2017, which was logged by a NSC memo, Trump apparently asked if his administration could deploy bombs against hurricanes to stop them.  

@jeffmason1 asks President Trump directly: “Was there not actually a call last night?” Secretary Mnuchin jumps in and says: “There were discussions that went back and forth and let’s just leave it at that.”

Donald Trump has rowed with his fellow G7 leaders over his demand that Russia be readmitted to the group, rejecting arguments that it should remain an association of liberal democracies, according to diplomats at the summit in Biarritz.
 
The disagreement led to heated exchanges at a dinner on Saturday night inside the seaside resort’s 19th-century lighthouse. According to diplomatic sources, Trump argued strenuously that Vladimir Putin should be invited back, five years after Russia was ejected from the then G8) for its annexation of Crimea.
 
Of the other leaders around the table, only Giuseppe Conte, the outgoing Italian prime minister, offered Trump any support, according to this account. Shinzo Abe of Japan was neutral. The rest – the UK’s Boris Johnson, Germany’s Angela Merkel, Canada’s Justin Trudeau, the EU council president, Donald Tusk, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron – pushed back firmly against the suggestion.
 
“On that point … it became a bit tense to say the least,” a European diplomat said. “Most of the other leaders insisted on this being a family, a club, a community of liberal democracies and for that reason they said you cannot allow President Putin – who does not represent that – back in.”

Donald Trump’s empty chair at the G7 talks on the climate emergency on Monday. Photograph: POOL/Reuters

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Pour Macron, la Russie « est européenne »
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Le président Emmanuel Macron a plaidé pour un rapprochement des deux puissances, appelant à retrouver la « confiance » dans un ordre international en « recomposition ».
 
Malgré « les malentendus des dernières décennies, les débats sur la relation avec l’Occident », la Russie « est européenne » et « nous avons à réinventer une architecture de sécurité et de confiance entre l’Union européenne et la Russie », a déclaré le chef de l’Etat français en recevant son homologue russe

Great respect for the fact that President Xi & his Representatives want “calm resolution.” So impressed that they are willing to come out & state the facts so accurately. This is why he is a great leader & representing a great country. Talks are continuing!

« il faut nous atteler à régler le conflit ukrainien ».
« Le sujet étant traité, il ne faut pas multiplier les pré-conditions », a encore estimé Emmanuel Macron. « Le rôle de la Russie est important […] Le fait de réinclure dans ces formats » (de discussions internationales) « est efficace et je pense utile. »