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>> what did you see today? >> i think we saw classic trump and his strategies and tactics. he started yesterday with insults, questioning their national sovereignty. then we saw threats, the president saying he would do his own thing if they did not increase their defense spending, and then the signature showmanship gained over his years in business. as far as we know he did not get any specific commitments from the nato allies. so clearly the president today is still casing on some of those

Checked. if there was firm commitments to increase spending. wisconsin is calling to tell president trump that ronald reagan did win there and other things ag well. a remarkable morning in europe. >> it really has been, great to have you on the ground getting the instantaneous reaction there. how is it playing back here at home? how are lawmakering feeling about what theyre witnessing? the u.s. senate also trying to block president trumps policy twice now in the past two days. we will talk about...

A little tough for a little while. leaders were even confronted with a new spending target when trump tweeted that commitments must go up to four percent. but nato allies said they remained committed to a twenty fourteenth. the help of a dutch onto at least speaking for germany has made it clear that we know we have to do no harm and this change of direction started a long time ago at that. leaving the summit trump said he was happy with the tremendous progress that has been made over the two da...

Title of our program which is friendly fire how united is nato and come back to our sort of what tyson barker said to us at the outset when he talked about the threat from with in name with the undermining of democracy by the alliances own members which of course you could argue is very much in the interests of russia questioned hippa how can the alliance defeat that form of friendly fire and insider insider attacks to be quite honest if you look at trumps behavior well nato has to take its own ...

Actually do it is nato he can be discarded and the question this take a listen to that what he said i told people that are be very unhappy if they didnt up their commitments very substantially because the united states has been paying a tremendous amount probably ninety percent of the cost of nato and now people are going to start and countries are going to start up paying their convention so i let them know yesterday actually i was surprised they didnt pick it up it took them today but yesterda...

President immediately repuked those claims aing that the allies simply agreed to keep their portion or their prior contribution commitments and kevin is live for us in london, kevin? >> great to be with you, harris, as always and the president here in the united kingdom and they are mourning a world cup loss yesterday but debating the merits of his visit here and not united when it comes to how they feel about their prime minister teresa may that among the topics we expect the world leaders to d...

News, london in addition, opening monologue. for decades theyve been footing the bill for the safety and security of the european continent and for many of our allies who failed to live up to their commitments. today in brussels, president trump made it perfectly clear that the u.s. taxpayer is not and no longer going to be europes atm machin machine. >> many countries owe us a tremendous amount of money for many years back, where they are delinquent. so if you go back ten or 20 years, you will ...

Not to wait until a deadline date of 20204 to do it but to do it earlier. in the joint declaration statement which is a consensus document, it seems all 29 nato members see the need to increase spending on defense. it says fair burden sharing underpins the alliances cohesion, solidarity, credibility and ability to fill our article three and article five commitments. and now back to british prime minister theresa may who last night at the need of dinner made some comments about president trumps u...

By russia, do you feel thats an effective way to conduct diplomacy and secondly, would you be able to be a little bit more specific about the commitments that you secure today with regards continue to creasing financial commitment? is there an updated time line? are there specific countries you could cite because a majority are planning to meet that threshold by 2024. >> no. in fact germany was going to be in the year 2028 or 2038. i think its a very effective way to deal. but i didnt deal exact...

Thought of before. prior to last year when 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 its going up very substantially and commitments were. only five of 29 countries were making their commitment and thats now changed. the commitment was at 2% ultimately. that will be going up quite a bit higher than that. so, we are -- we made a tremendous amount of progress today. its been about at a minimum, th...