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Guess what. we have here a situation where the president comes out and says i have persuaded all of these nato allies stop their spending. emmanuel macron comes out and says no. we said we would hold to our existing promise. its bluster. >> greg: they are lousy tippers, the french. >> jesse: he likes nato. he just thinks he can get up better price for it. >> greg: maybe i am wrong. this is only my speculation. to get to 2%. >> dana: it is the art of the deal. you know youre going to compromise. ...

Today. this is what your counterpart, senator dick durbin, had to say. >> he doesnt understand the nato alliance which for 70 years has kept europe safe and the world safe. he is trashing our allies who have invested lives and their own resources to make it a success. at the same time, he embraces putin, calls him a fine man. it must be impossible for our allies to figure out exactly what the united states is saying. >> shannon: one of the pieces in "the washington post" said there was a lot of ...

With nato rufflingy. feathers. this is what senator durbin had to say. >> he doesnt understand the nato alliance. and he is trashing our allies lives and their own resources. at the same time he embraces pulte -- putin so it must be impossible for the allies to figure out what he is trying to say. >> the washington post said there was bluster publicly but privately they had a good conversation.rere doeses he not understand nato or better than previous presidents? p mckeague came a in and was loo...

Nbc news white house correspondent kristen walker. also with us, cal perry. chri kris, im going to start with you on this one. the president sat down with german chancellor angela merkel. how did it go? >> by all accounts, yasmin, it went fine. both leaders sort of struck a note of unity, vowing to work together on a range of different issues. so you really have the disparity between the bluster, the language, the sharp rhetoric of president trump versus sort of sitting down, trying to get to th...

Summits. you have seen the president on that stage and from the one we expect to have on monday. how is it different? >> i think it is the president sort of navigating this line between bluster, tough rhetoric, and then really getting down to business and try to hammer out some of the detapils of the policies hes trying to enact at that breakfast, which was remarkable by the way. we rarely see those types of tensions bubble to the surface in these types of summits. the president unleashed on ger...

Which is allied, is strong and is going to increase our deterrent capabilities, that is going to, i think, put president trump in a very strong position with president putin. and i think he will be tough with president putin. >> so, wolf, to thread a very difficult needle there. shes admitting that this sort of discord is not helpful when it comes to a united front against vladimir putin and his actions. and, remember, this whole nato re-engineering of their budgets was because of invading easte...

Nato summit. take a listen. >> gemini is totally controlled by russia. they were getting 60% to 70% from russia. and you tell me if thats appropriate. i think its not. i think its a bad thing for nato. and i dont think it should have happened. >> you have make pam peyo, kay bailey hutchison, and james mattis off-screen. is there a sense that the nato allies will turn to the people around trump for comfort, to see what he actually means, to see if this is just bluster or if this is something that...

Kim jong-un. that didnt happen, and that sent a big message to the americans that this was not going to be quite as expected. >> yeah, its a pretty stunning turn of events if you believed the administrations line about how well the initial meeting went and what the president has said publicly recently. >> i think theyre just trying to emphasize the positive. maybe some progress was made on the big issues, if only in the sense that well talk about these in the future. i mean, it could have been s...

Point there. weve seen the french cancelrus. the president is making points that might have been more valid a few years ago and hes mixing up the details. this is what the nato leaders expect from him, a president arriving here in full force, full bluster, to make the point that he needs more money from them, to up the defense spending to the 2% of gdp to be spend on defense by the year 2024. he wants it sooner than that. the commitment that was made in the nato summit in wales in 2014. lets not...

>> i think theyre just trying to emphasize the positive. maybe some progress was made on the big issues, if only in the sense that well talk about these in the future. i mean, it could have been something like that, but when you saw that north korean statement with all the bluster, the kind of rhetoric and name calling that you saw before the trump/kim summit, you knew something went wrong in there. and when you read the north korean statement, you see that the north koreans expected more on cer...