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Embar bargain for the united states. its cheaper than war. and it is the most successful peacetime alliance in history. it has made allies of european states that fought each other for centuries right up to 1945. its helped us. it gives us bases. and so trumps attacks on nato, i think partly he doesnt want to backtrack and admit he was wrong, but also, with trump virtually every trail for me leads to the kremlin. >> and youre saying this leads to the kremlin in what way? >> in the sense that tru...

It has made allies of european states that fought each other for centuries right up to 1945. its helped us. it gives us bases. and so trumps attacks on nato, i think partly he doesnt want to backtrack and admit he was wrong, but also, with trump virtually every trail for me leads to the kremlin. >> and youre saying this leads to the kremlin in what way? >> in the sense that trump is, for whatever reason, and i have my own suspicions, certainly, trump is both enamored and fearful of vladimir puti...

Their fair share, they havent been for years, and they owe the u.s. money. keeping him honest, as youll see, that is simply not the case. its not the way it works. its not even close. it is, however, the way president trump believes it works, and he said so for years. >> number one, nato is obsolete. and number two, the people arent paying their way. >> its obsolete and we pay too much money. >> nato, were going to have the people that arent paying, theyre going to start paying. >> its obsolete....

Years in payments which have not been made. will they reimburse the u.s.? keeping them honest, there is nothing to reimburse beyond a token amount to keep the lights on in brussels, each member nation play pays nothing for collective defense, zero. members have their own defense budgets and have agreed to spend 2% of gdp on defense by 2024. as you can see some have already hit the target. some have not. and yes, the united states does spend far more than any other nato country, and yes, past ame...

Kosovo campaign and he wrote that book called "margin of victory." colonel mcgregor joins us now. we have nato bases, from a military perspective, there hasnt been a invasion and nato is beginning to change its objective. who would have thought it would have been in afghanistan having a cyber unit to it? can you see the positive impact the president is making? >> presidents impact is being positive from the outside. hes delivering a message that is at least two decades overdue. the europeans hav...

That book called "margin of s victory." colonel mcgregor joins us now. we have nato bases, from a military perspective, there hasnt been a invasion and nato is beginning to change its objective. who would have thought it would have been in afghanistan having a cyber unit to it? can you see the positive impact the president is making? >> presidents impact is being positive from the outside. hes delivering a message that is at least two decades overdue. the europeans have been essentially enjoying...

Talking about afghanistan later. germany has more than a thousand troops in afghanistan. yes, theres the contribution of cash and other resources, isnt there had? >> certainly other resources. take a look at the fundamental bases are in germany. we depend on germany, the -- for our principal bases not only the hospitals in germany and frankfort, but the major military bases are in germany. and they pay for us to be there. part of their contribution. its not just about money, its far more than mo...

>> yeah. so he was pushed out of fox basically over allegations he was very high executive there that he had mishandled the sexual harassment allegations against the host of many, many fox news figures that had been accused of harassment. and so he was pushed out probably last year. and now hes with the white house. >> darla shine, his wife, also as you alluded to had controversial remarks on vaccinations. tell us about that. >> so she made a lot of, you know, controversial remarks about vaccine...

Also not -- its an irony that erdogan has put in his son or son-in-law as one of the top advisers, similar to what trump has done. final point, we have a tendency to view nato as foreign policy, good for europe. but remember why we have military bases in nato countries or intelligence apparatus that shares among all the countries or law enforcement and trade, it is to protect the homeland, the united states. more we can deal with threats away from our shores, we benefit. question now isnt whethe...

Country invading and annexing a small country. that is what it did in 2014. those are the facts. and its only since 2014 that nato decided that russia has changed the rules of the game in europe, and therefore, they needed to up their individual defense spending. so, on that issue. why is it that president trump feels this way and acts this way? its very hard to understand. you know, russia has, as i said, done what it did by military force. its also underpinned one of the worst, you know, human...