06 16 25 ABC White House Correspondent Karen Travers on the upcoming 50th G7 summit

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is the Monday morning edition of Colorado's Morning News.
President Trump is in the Canadian Rockies for the G
seven meeting. The first international summit of his second term,
comes as the administration continues to face pressure to strike
trade deals with allies and amid growing violence in the
Middle East.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Saturday night, the President attended a parade in Washington, d C.
Commemorating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Army
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ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers and Karen, before
we get to G seven, let's talk about the parade.
Compare and contrast the crowds and the enthusiasm of the

(00:35):
military parade in DC with some of the No King's
rallies across the country.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
I mean, it was kind of a striking split screen
to see what was happening in DC, where you have
this demonstration of American military might, the Army parade that
the President has been pushing for for some time, and
then also these demonstrations in cities all across the country.
I think when it was said and done, the crowd
in DC, he was maybe not as large as what

(01:01):
the White House was claiming it was to be, and
going into what they thought it was going to be.
There was some weather that was forecasted, some nasty storms
that were anticipated, perhaps that kept it down. It was
also really hot here on Saturday. They don't do crowd estimates,
the Park Service, don't. They just don't do that anymore,
so it's hard to get a sense of what it
looked like. But the President seemed to enjoy himself. This

(01:23):
was something he had wanted to do for a very
long time. It was sixty seven hundred soldiers, twenty eight
Abrams tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles. There are fifty military aircraft.
This is the first time there was a military parade
held here in DC since the nineteen ninety one victory
celebration for the Gulf War. So just even doing it
was a pretty significant.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Deal, and I was going to ask did have its
intended and consequences intent for the president? I mean, one
of the nice things I will say is the oath
of enlistment to some of her two hundred fifty soldiers
was given at that parade, and that was a nice moment.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, yeah, And you know, we'll see the like eventual
ripple effect. It's like the President wanted to do this
to highlight the service and sacrifice of the American military,
especially the Army. Of course, for the two hundred and
fiftieth birthday, it was Flag Day, so that was another
thing the President wanted to throw a patriotic event. I
don't think we'll know if there was a bump in

(02:15):
recruitment or patriotism immediately, but it was a mean for
TV type event that the President likes to do.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Hey, Karen, the G seven underway in Canada now. The
one seven years ago in Quebec was very contentious to
ended up in that very well known photo. What are
we expecting this time around.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
It's a lot packed into just two days. So the
President got there late last night. The meetings will start
this morning, where he kicks off with a one on
one meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Kearney, who
he's met with at the White House. They have a
pretty robust agenda that's not surprising for meetings like this.
They're going to be talking about trade issues, energy, but

(02:56):
also they have these moving large conflicts over this with
Russia's war in Ukraine being a big topic for the discussions,
and now, of course the fighting between Israel and Iran.
But I think look for trade talks to be very significant,
not necessarily that the President's going to walk away with
trade deals, but to see what world leaders might try

(03:16):
to push him on, because we've got that July ninth
deadline coming up, where the President had said, you have
this ninety day pause and the stiff sweeping reciprocal terrorists
that he had announced in early April. They're on pause.
But the President told me right after he put them
on pause and if he didn't reach deals that he liked,
they would go into effect. They have announced no deals yet,

(03:37):
no agreements with any countries. So the frantic and furious
negotiations continue. But they've got a lot to do in
just a short amount of time, and there's no indication
of how close they are with some of our major
trade partners. I think you can imagine some of these
world leaders Germany, Italy obviously part of the EU, they
want to see things get closer to.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
The finish line and King of close Karena. Is there
a chance that there may be some smoothing out of
the relationship between Canada and the US. The whole fifty
first state talk the tariffs, like, is there a chance
there may be at least a conversation to kind of,
for lack of a better term, normalize the relationship again, Right, stay.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
June, Let's see what it looks like in maybe about
four or five hours. You know, they had that meeting
in the Oval Office just a couple of weeks ago,
and even as they talked about resetting the relationship and
how much they respected each other and were willing to
get along that the President kind of kept poking on
that about the fifty first state, and Carnei just kept saying,
it is not negotiable. This is not a topic for discussion.

(04:36):
Now the President will be on his turf in Canada
and we'll see how that comes up.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
ABC News a White House correspondent, Karen Travers, thanks so
much for joining us.