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Tougher for everybody than the trip to saudi arabia. im sure hell be vigorous in stating his positions and good for the others to hear that. >> shannon: dr. krauthammer wanted to hear more from the president about russia. a real threat along with emphasis on terrorism. what do you think? >> on one of the rare occasions that ill disagree with charles. this was a very brief speech to dedicate the memorial to 9/11 and the berlin wall and specifically the article v issue which the president also add...

Take this whole operation to another level. i think in the near term what these leaders are worried about is how did they get the population that they now govern under control? and how they are able to step up surveillance within their own borders to make sure that their people have a sense of greater security because now they are not living with it. >> thats right, bill. i think to your point there is also concern that the u.s. will always and eternally honor article v and that is any country t...

Committed to article v, the mutual defense clause of the nato agreement. why did the white house need to clarify? >> trump didnt utter those words himself. especially in the east, what they were waiting to hear was a full throated support from president trump saying he supports and committed to article v. he didnt explicitly endorse it. given a lot of his campaign rhetoric questioning the relevance of nato some members were looking for a little bit more from president trump. he has a chance to c...

Even more significant, if our friends and allies cant believe the words of our head of state, particularly when it comes to things like carrying out article v in nato, an attack against one is an attack against all, then in fact we become suspect, and we become uncertain, and we become highly unreliable. and in a world where friends and allies are very, very important to us and for our security, our security is undermined. >> ambassador thomas pickering, ambassador to everywhere, thank you so mu...

Putin or skip to a more conventional american focus on values and international nuance. >> lets bring michael into this conversation. trump is looking forward to a strong and enduring relationship. what do you make of that and is it a bad thing? >> well, look, this is a guy who, even before vladimir putin was president of russia was on record saying nato was a busted flush. donald trump is concerned with the bills, the countries that dont meet the benchmark of 2% spending on defense. we have no ...

Secretary. youre talking right now about unifying the command and unifying the anti-isis effort. given that two of the major players -- three of the major players on that field are the united states, russia, and iran -- and these are not three countries that actually get along, theyre very much adversarial -- how exactly do you propose we unify this command and unify this effort? do you envision iranian and russian forces being under an american command? how does this work? >> no, not really, be...

Think, you know, it would be nice to have the russians be part of that, but im not sure they will, and i dont think iran would as well. my focus would be to have nato countries. ill a little surprised that they havent invoked article v of the nato charter. we invoked article v after 9/11, they should certainly do it now and be able to get nato and its military forces engaged in that effort. secondly, we need the arab countries, the moderate arab countries, saudi arabia, uae, jordan and others to...

Nato. i dont think we should be wetted to that. if they do, we should be fully supportive. we benefited from this ourselves after 9/11. that we asked for natos article v response and nato agreed. and then two years went by. we went for two years in operation "enduring freedom wt without using nato before we asked nato to come in and that was because we preferred a coalition of the willing. i would flly respect that france would think the same thing at this point in time and we should be as suppo...

Bombing missions in raqqah since sunday. >> a short time ago we spoke with curt volcker, ambassador to nato, and we asked him whether france would invoke article v and ask nato to support their fight against isis. >> well, there are two different things. one of them is being at war. the other is invoking your alliance commitments through article v of the nato treaty. i think the fact that france says that it is at war, it has adopted this as a mission for france, that it needs to defeat this kin...

I understand what happened to get us in at that point. but are we in this or are we not in this? five a day makes it sound like were not even in this. >> i think the american people need to know that. rather looking back, we need to look forward from this point on. our commander in chief is at the g-20 summit a wonderful opportunity for him to exercise leadership and for him to lead the free world in making this not just about france but about -- i think we go back to this being a global war on ...