Right about that. Earlier this morning the president of the United States publicly hounded natos secretarygeneral, repeatedly disparaged germany and wondered aloud why america should be responsible for protecting europe against russia. Vladimir putin wants donald trump to break from American Allies. A few hours ago, that is exactly what he got. Wow. Welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, july 11th. With us, msnbc contributor mike ba ba ba barniccal. And David Ignatius, nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d. C. On msnbc, kasie hunt and former u. S. Ambassador to nato and former state Department Spokesman nicholas burns, professor of diplomacy and International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy school of government. Great group to start with this morning, and, wow, what a start to the trip. What a start to the trip. And lets just play the clip. Heres donald trump actually doing exactly what Vladimir Putin would want him to do. Good morning. In many countries, they owe
he is playing to this politic of grievance as he anticipates protests against him in london. he has to stay out of london because it s risky politically and perhaps for other reasons so he ll be going to windsor pal los a las and other places. his facts are wrong. as you all have been pointing out. and his politics are wrong. and it is just a disgrace for the united states to open the nato meeting like this. yeah. and david ignatius, again, it s important for those that are just joining, it s important for donald trump supporters, it s important for all americans to understand, it s important for people working in the trump white house to understand, actually ignorant of the facts that europe has a bigger defense budget than russia. europe as as big defense budget as china. europe has been a bastien against soviet aggression since