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Victory and it was total victory. prime minister may and i have just come from a very productive nato summit that was truly a productive summit where my top priority was getting other nato members to pay their full and fair share and the prime minister was right there with me. i want to thank you, prime minister for the united kingdoms contribution to our common defense. the uk is one of the handful of nations, five out of 29, not good but its going to get better really fast. in addition to the ...

The challenges we face and on many we agree. for example the need to deal with the long standing nuclear threat of dprk where the agreement in singapore has set the prospect of denuclearization to which the uk is proud to be contributing expertise or the need to address the destabilizing influence of nearby the middle east where today we have discussed what more we can do to push back on iran in yemen and reduce humanitarian suffering. or the need for nato allies to increase their defense spendi...

>> for years, presidents have been coming to these meetings and talked about the expense, the tremendous expense for the united states. tremendous progress has been made. everyone has agreed to substantially up their commitment. theyre going to up it at levels that theyve never thought of before. prior to last year, where i attended my first meeting, it was going down, the amount of money being spent by countries was going down and down very substantially and now going up very substantially, and...

Which is the exact same commitment they made in 2014, but all of a sudden, trump claims this is a huge victory for his deal making. as he left brussels, although european leaders thought this was a bizarre and erratic performance, they were sort of thinking, well, it could have been worse, at least he left saying something nice about nato instead of saying he would pull u.s. troops out of germany. >> one of them last night called the president a major propagandist calling germany being beholden ...

Substantially. and commitments were made. only five of 29 countries were making their commitment, and thats now changed. the commitment was at 2%. ultimately thatll be going up quite a bit higher than that. so we are -- we made a tremendous amount of progress today. >> now, keeping them honest, the allies did not actually agree to boost their defense spending to 4%, nor did they agree to immediately meet the 2024 target as president trump demanded yesterday. french president emmanuel macron sayi...

Germany of being beholden to russia when he himself is being accused of that, obviously. and then hes claiming he pressured them to up their spending, but really theres no new commitments on that. and they reiterated commitments theyd already previously made. >> you know, its the art of the new york hustle thats being applied to international relations. its bullshit, its bravado. claim that the other side is weak, claim that youve one, claim its the best deal in the history of the world. its biz...

Budget although no other country has as yet confirmed those commitments. paper on the u. case a british government has published the new blueprint for the countrys exit from the ill years before it had minister dominic rogers told parliament its a proposal aims to keep britain in a free market for good sleep with a looser relationship first services the plans prompted the former foreign secretary and directs it minister to resign earlier this week for the u.k. . syrian state t.v. says government...

What as a government we have been doing for a number of years and well be able to continue to do in the future. mr. president. >> you have spent the week taking on nato allies, criticizing prime minister may on her own soil and i wonder if -- are you giving russian president vladimir putin the upper hand heading into your talks given that you are challenging these alliances that he seeks to break up and destroy? >> thats such dishonest reporting because it happens to be nbc which is possibly wor...

We have our a-team now. juan williams and shelby holliday and marc lotter, former special assistant to president trump. welcome, guys. marc, you are the newbie on the travel. if you were traveling with the president and vice president in europe throughout this week knowing you have a layover in scotland today, a meeting with the queen in an hour and then helsinki on monday with vladimir putin. frame it. how do you think its gone? >> i think its gone really well. the president is focused on resul...

Were just waiting for it. its going to roll in just a second. >> the uk is one of the handful of nations, five out of 29, not good. but its going to get better really fast. in addition to the united states, meeting the 2% gdp minimum defense spending commitment. during the summit, i made clear all nato allies must honor their obligations, and im policed to report we have received substantial commitments from members to increase the defense spending and to do so in a much more timely manner. >> o...