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Cyber intelligence capabilities. in any event, it was a typical trumpian moved designed to get attention, which is did. i asked macron whether a clash between him and trump was inevitable. >> we had a very good discussion this morning and confirmed in front of the press that it was okay. i think -- >> does that mean that his tweet was a mistake? >> i dont know. im not the one to command his tweets. i always prefer have direct -- or answering questions that make my -- through tweets. but we had a...

Execution or answering questions at making my diplomacy for tweets. but i think we had a very clear discussion. he is in favor of better burden sharing within nato. i agree with that. and i think in order to have a better building sharing, we need more europe. i think a big mistake, to be very direct with you. what i dont want to see is some european countries increasing the budget in defense in order to buy americans on other arms of materiels coming from your country. i think to build our auto...

Important. so thank you very much, donald, for being here. this is our pleasure and our people are very proud to have you here and i want to thank you here for our solidarity 100 years ago and your continued solidarity for our people. >> thank you very much. well, i very much appreciate that, mr. president and we have become very good friends over the last couple of years. we have much in common in many ways, perhaps more ways than people would understand but we are. very rr very much similar in...

Russia and if it better organized its military it can make that obligation to nato much better. this is what president trump understood. he said president macron understood this issue of burden sharing, that europe needs to be much better on. so of course a lot of time apparently spent on that. and not on other issues. the commemoration coming up early tomorrow for the armistice that ended world war i. >> and this just in to cnn, all votes from all of florida counties have been now submitted to ...

With other world leaders. even testy at times when it comes to burden-sharing and defense spending. what is trump trying to accomplish on this trip? >> he claerl dame every came into an agenda on the wrong foot for president macron. it would have been easy for his advisors to hear what he was saying for many months. in a mood for europe to ration ool defense forces to make better use of all that money that their country towards nato to have sort of one european fightser aircraft rather than seve...

View that we need a much better burden sharing within nato, and thats why i do believe that my proposals for european defense are consistent with that because it means more europe was in nato, more capacity, in order to take our part of the burden. i think its very fair and very important. >> i appreciate what youre saying about burden sharing. you know what my attitudes been, and we want a strong europe. its very important to us to have a strong europe. whichever way we can do it the best and m...

Spat between mr. macron mr. trump over defense, defense spending, how much europe was going to take part in its own defense and when i listened to them i dont hear that much disagreement between their viewpoints. >> reporter: you could see that interaction right there. very different than what we typically have seen between president trump and president macron which has been slapping each other on the back. but that is not what you witnessed right there as they were speaking. macron certainly se...

Through overnight, that aggressive, belligerent tone from the american president. and so macron -- as the meeting began -- chose to craaddress it immediately in a way he said it shouldnt be a threat but its about burden sharing. have a listen. >> i do share president trumps views that we need a much better burden sharing within nato. and thats why i believe that my proposals for european defense are consistent with that because it means more europe in nato, more capacity, in order to take our pa...

With french president macron and his wife. they arrived late last night aboard air force one for what will be a solemn weekend marking 100 years since the end of world war i. in a tweet upon arrival, the president accentuated the positive. i am in paris getting ready to celebrate the end of world war i. is there anything better to celebrate than the end of a war and particular that one, which was one of the bloodiest and wors worst of all time. however, it was another tweet that has caused a bit...

Of that? >> first of all there is this concept of the european army or the european military and our position is very clear, that you can do extra things over and above your nato commitment, if you want, but dont undercut nato. dont try to have this as a substitute program for nato. the french are on track or at least they say theyre on track to meet their nato commitments. the germans are not. we still dont have a single politician in germany who has stood up and said "we will meet the nato com...