G7 Summit Ends in Chaos; Tributes Pour in for Anthony Bourdain
HOWELL: President Trump is due to arrive in Singapore in the coming hours. We'll continue to follow developments there. But he leaves behind a lot of confusion in Canada after he backed out of the G7's formal statement, the communique. And now a trade war with allies seems all the more likely. America's allies had hoped their summit would ease tensions over U.S. tariffs but that was not the case. Nothing was resolved and the summit ended in disarray. By all accounts, the U.S. president didn't even want to be there. This video tells part of that story. He arrived late for the summit and then showed up late to breakfast the next morning. During their meetings, the other members lobbied hard for Mr. Trump to change course on his trade policies and optics are important, as told by two photos. This is the first of one (sic). The official White House photo, it shows members seeming to get along. They're smiling. Compare that to this now, this released by the press secretary for Germany's Angela Merkel. The body language tells the story there, Merkel leaning in to the crossed-arm Mr. Trump. The U.S. leader summed it up like this.</s>TRUMP: I will say it was not contentious. What was strong was the language that this cannot go on. But the relationships are very good, whether it be President Macron or with Justin. We had -- Justin did a really good job. I think the relationships were outstanding.</s>HOWELL: But on the issue of trade, Mr. Trump had a different story.</s>TRUMP: It's going to change. It's going to change. It's not a question of I hope it changes. It's going to change 100 percent. And tariffs are going to come way down because we -- people cannot continue to do that. We're like the piggy bank that everybody's robbing. And that ends.</s>HOWELL: So now follow the timeline. President Trump departed for Singapore. Again, that's where he's to meet with the North Korean leader on Tuesday. At this point everything seems fine. The other members of the G7 believe the U.S. was on board with that communique. But then this happened from the Canadian prime minister.</s>JUSTIN TRUDEAU, CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER: It would be with regret but it would be with absolute certainty and firmness that we move forward with retaliatory measures on July 1st, applying equivalent tariffs to the ones that the Americans have unjustly applied to us. I have made it very clear to the president that it is not something we relish doing. But it is something that we absolutely will do because Canadians, we are polite, we're reasonable but we also will not be pushed around.</s>HOWELL: And when Mr. Trump got word of that, he fired out this angry tweet, backing out of the communique. Then he sent another tweet, calling the Canadian prime minister, meek, weak and dishonest. Then this response from Mr. Trudeau's office, "The Prime Minister said nothing he hasn't said before, both in public and in private conversations with the president." Not much enthusiasm among U.S. lawmakers for President Trump's actions at the G7 summit. Take a look at this from Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer. "Are we executing Putin's diplomatic and national security strategy or America's diplomatic and national security strategy? "After the last few days, it is hard to tell." And a prominent Republican senator, John McCain, was practically apologetic to the members of the G7, saying this, "To our allies, bipartisan majorities of Americans remain pro-free trade, pro- globalization and supportive of alliances, based on 70 years of shared values. Americans stand with you even if our president doesn't." A lot to talk about here. Inderjeet Parmar is live with us. He teaches international politics at City University of London. Thank you so much --</s>INDERJEET PARMAR, CITY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON: Good morning.</s>HOWELL: -- look, Mr. Trump en route to Singapore. We continue to track his developments there. But surely, his counterparts of the G7, they're not singing his praises. The American allies are now looking more likely to face off in a trade war. Where do you see things going?</s>PARMER: Well, I think they're going to get a little bit worse before they get better. I think clearly President Trump's entire style --</s>PARMER: -- is very, very upsetting and has caused a lot of annoyance. The fact that he sort of shifts and moves around in terms of the position that he occupies, I think he is playing a very narrow game of party politics or really personal politics. He sees that his support base wants him to lay down the law to the rest of the world, never be taken advantage of again. And I think he is treating China and his much closer allies, like the Europeans and Canadians, in that kind of way. And I think it's a very narrow game and short-termist game of party politics. And he just refuses to take any kind of criticism from anybody. But in the end, I don't think he is actually serving even his political base. Those people who voted for him in those agricultural states are not going to thank him very much in the longer run for the kind of dispute which is now breaking out, which could get worse. I'm not sure how bad it will get but I think November 2018 will tell us a great deal about the temperature of those particular states as well.</s>HOWELL: It will be interesting to see; time will tell. What results from these possible trade wars, if, in fact a trade war does result. Optics are very important, Inderjeet, as you well know. From the G7, there was that moment where President Trump arrived late. People took notice and then the timeline here is important because initially we heard from leaders who felt that there could be some agreement. Listen to Theresa May from the United Kingdom talk about the summit.</s>THERESA MAY, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: As I've said we have had some difficult discussions, some open and frank conversations around the table at this G7. But the point of being here at the G7 is we are able to do that. We are able, we know each other, we are able to have those full and frank discussions. And by working together, we come to resolution. And that's exactly what we've done. And what you will see in the communique is agreed language in relation to trade. What you will see in the communique is agreed language in relation to Russia.</s>HOWELL: But, Inderjeet, we didn't. President Trump backed out of that communique, just adding to the sense of disarray at the G7.</s>PARMER: Correct. Well, absolutely. And I think we have to look at two big things. One is the domestic base. I don't think President Trump ever forgets the kind of messaging and the way in which those messages are received. And I think he's playing an opportunistic game. One of the things he said was that the Canadians applied a 270 percent tariff on dairy products. And that's an opportunistic use of the dire strait of the dairy farming industry. But the people there are not really looking for that kind of a solution from President Trump. But he plays politics there. The second thing I think is there is a kind of loosening up of the world system that's been going on since the mid-1970s. Each 20 years or so, there's further loosening of it, partly because of its own successes (ph). The whole thing about the postwar system was to get a large number of powers back on their feet after World War II. They did. Bu when world powers get back on their feet, they begin to compete for their own interests. And now what America has -- is in a position, is it's lost position. And I think that President Trump is trying to lay down the law, to try to restore some of those positions. And I think they're doing it in a very nationalistic way. But America is not alone. Germany is doing it, to some extent or other. Russia is doing it. China is doing it. Theresa May is doing it by the Brexit and with this alleged global Britain approach. I think there's a broader kind of shift going on. What does that mean? It is very difficult to say. I don't there's going to be necessarily rival antagonistic blocs but I think the level of competition within the world system and among allies are incorporating.</s>HOWELL: Indeed, Inderjeet. We will see what happens with this possible trade war. Thank you so much for your time.</s>PARMER: Thank you.</s>HOWELL: Now we here at CNN and around the world continue to mourn the loss of our colleague, the beloved chef, storyteller and host of CNN's "PARTS UNKNOWN," Anthony Bourdain. Fans are paying tribute to memorials like the one you see here in New York, fans leaving notes there, flowers, pictures of the building that used to house the restaurant where Bourdain rose as an executive chef. His took his own life on Friday. Anthony Bourdain was 61 years old. At the time of his death, Bourdain was working France on an episode of CNN's "PARTS UNKNOWN." One of his final means was in the town of Colmar. CNN's Jim Bittermann reports Bourdain left quite an impression on one local chef there.</s>JIM BITTERMANN, CNN SR. INTL. CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Chef Julien Schroeder never met Anthony Bourdain until just four days before he died. Bourdain visited Schroeder's restaurant on a side street in the Alsatian town of Colmar. It was where Bourdain had been told he could find a nice choucroute, sauerkraut, an Alsatian specialty. Schroeder now proudly, sadly displays what he think was one of Bourdain's last postings on Instagram, a shot of the choucroute he served the TV personality he instantly liked.</s>JULIEN SCHROEDER, CHEF, LA PETITE VENISE (through translator): He was always very cool and very agreeable. You wouldn't have seen a problem. We had a chance to do a photo with them. There was no problem. They were very down to earth, no fuss. We were very surprised when we heard the news.</s>BITTERMANN: Schroeder runs the kind of place Bourdain loved to find, a small, out-of-the-way restaurant with simple but memorable food. And while Schroeder may not have known much about Bourdain beforehand, he realized the day Bourdain came to his restaurant that he was in the presence of a culinary superstar.</s>SCHROEDER (through translator): For example, when they were shooting their segment, there was a table with two Americans. They didn't even look at their menu. They said, "We are going to eat the same thing as Mr. Bourdain."</s>BITTERMANN: Schroeder has since found out a great deal about the American chef who came to lunch and how much he did to awaken tastes and encourage culinary exploration around the world. Said Schroder, "He was a defender of everyone in the kitchen" -- Jim Bittermann, CNN, Colmar, France.</s>HOWELL: Jim, thank you for the report. Bourdain was not just a great chef and TV host, he was also an accomplished author. He's perhaps known for this book, "Kitchen Confidential." Released 18 years ago after the news of his death, it's taken the number spot on the Amazon best seller list. We'll be right back.