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Quite true, but youre trying to keep the europeans unified, not have them having competing foreign policies. this is very unusual in history to have all these rich countries cooperating rather than competing. thats where you feel trump doesnt seem to see the damage hes doing. >> yeah. some of the presidents comments in this closed door meeting revealed as a veiled threat to leave the alliance but said in his news conference he believes in nato and the u.s. is committed to its western allies. the...

Nothing terrible happens. >> hey, why were you shaking your head when susan was doing the framing of how the president is playing this? >> shes absolutely right, i mean, this is a moment of disaster already for our european allies, and for our nato allies, and susan hit it on the head, hes talking about, hes eager as a school girl to have this meeting with vladimir putin, and hes throwing all kinds of shade and hating on our nato allies, folks that have stood with us for 70 years, and, you know,...

Has been tradition, long tradition, long history where hell berate nato, the members that are not stepping up to the 2% threshold, which is in my view somewhat artificial anyway, and be very solicitous of putin and his berating of nato plays to putins interests. that is what im going to be watching and most concerned about. >> how much does this president have the ability to weaken nato? >> well, i think a lot. just the fact that he constantly berates nato, his at one point his recusal to affirm...

Those comments specifically. he brushed them aside and indicated hes not going to be deterred, hes going to get very tough with them to pay more. look, the real concerns here, andrea, is that hes going to also make some threats, maybe even take some actions to pull out troops from key areas, and that he might not reaffirm the united states commitment to article v, which states that an attack on one nato member is an attack on all. real concerns among americas allies that the president isnt going...

Thank you very much. >> probably it is my turn. >> whatever youd like. ladies first. >> so of course were very thankful for the possibility to be here especially not only because of our anniversary in our region, but because of alliance which we are affirming today with the united states by adopting the declaration where we say that article v is ironic ironclad for all of us and the collective defense issues important to all of us. and we understand how important nato is for all of us. and why w...

Ladies first. >> so, of course, we are very thankful for the possibility to be here. not only pwaoufz because of our anniversary, but because of our alliance we are forming today with the united states, by adopting the declaration. we say article v is iron clad for all of us and the collective defense issues are important to all of us. we understand how important nato is for all of us. and why are we doing our discussions so much about them forming, forming nato. their investment in our defense,...

What does gaslighting mean in this context? >> so gaslighting is the idea you are intentionally bewildering people and theyve gone crazy by presenting them with information that doesnt make sense, that runs contrary to everything they understand, and in this case, i think the white house is making a claim that is very hard to defend and i think people understandably would be very confused. let me just quick laissez, you can fairly criticize barack obama for not having taken more action in respon...

Affirming americas commitment to the nato alliance, article v of the nato treaty which says any one member would come to the defense of any other, basically saying to the russian if you make a move on the baltics, america is going to come and hit you back. sent troops to poland. oversaw the implementation of an anti-missile system that drove the russians absolutely nuts. the list goes on and on. there are those who would like to see obama do more, but, really at this point its not close. it is a...

President moon has been reaching out. hes a conciliatory person, has been reaching out to the north koreans for some time. the north koreans have responded. north koreans are not going to give up their nuclear weapons. these talks are not going to result in a disarmament of north korea. but when the president of the united states responds in this way, it doesnt scare our adversaries, it scares our allies and in many respects thats much more dangerous. >> governor, we were talking about this befo...

>> you have vice president pence on a tour, a reassurance tour of our eastern european partners, and hes going around and saying how committed the united states is to article v, the mutual defense provision of the nato treaty. hes going to ukraine and georgia and saying dont worry, were still with you. the question, of course, has always been from the very beginning, how seriously and credibly do you take the foreign policy announcement ofrs oppose president trump himself? >> were going to keep ...