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Now. more coordinated and better spirit for nato right now than perhaps they have ever had. its richer than ever was. the commitments are made at a higher level than they have ever been made and the money to be paid out faster. far faster. the 2% was a range, a goal, it wasnt something that they were committed. to say now its a commitment there is a big difference. the 2% number. thats why so much people werent reaching it or hitting it. it was like this amorphos number out there. now its a real...

Favorite question about mettling. i will be asking that question again. but, well also be talking about other things. we will be talking about ukraine. ukraine was here by the way. its very interesting to hear what they had to say. >> excuse me? what if he denies? >> he may. look, he may. what am i going to do? he may deny it its one of those things. all i can do is did you and dont do it again. he may deny. you will be the first to know, okay? >> robert winner-take-all with the "wall street oka...

And we have john is here. so, if you have any questions for the three of us, mike pompeo just got back from a third trip, as you know, to north korea. he has become a truex pert on the trips to north korea, the best way to get there. best way to get out. and he gets along very well. and he is doing a great job over there yes, maam. [inaudible question] >> i told nato i would be very unhappy if they didnt up their commitments very substantially. the u.s. has been paying a tremendous amount. proba...

Germany was outrageous. this lecturing of these distinguished leaders. were focused on that. and im suggesting to you the average american is saying thats just trump. i am upset about this. theyre not meeting their commitments. >> people just say, oh, thats trump, and overestimate, you know, how big his base is. you have to remember he lost the popular vote. his approval rating in the united states is low. very popular among republicans. but hes not that popular among the broader electoral. >> t...

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 made only five of 29 countries were making their commitment. and thats now changed. >> so president trump not the first president to try to push nato allies to spend more on defense. look at the headline, both of his immediate predecessors also did that. george w. bush, nato sent troops to afghanistan af...

I didnt hear a specific time line, i didnt hear the kind of hard commitments we have been looking for. it is obvious pompeo is in a process of exploring how over time north korea will meet what sounded like a firm commitment at the summit. >> i was going to say, firm commitment this past week when it was repeated made north koreans call us gangsters. it is interesting, you underline the disunity. the president said quote, we are more unified than ever before. i know you make it your practice, it...

Ratner, we can go to your chart, i think it will be helpful, he continually said that barack obama and ronald reagan, past presidents were not able to make commitments to get the europeans to spend more. >> you said 2011. >> june of 2011, bob gates went to this nato summit in brussels and talked about a two tiered system, countries paying in and countries that arent paying in and benefitting from defense of large countries. he started to rattled cage of you have to pay up. >> that was 2011. beca...

As far as overall nato budget goes, wrote a piece for atlantic council that showed they only pay 22% of natos budget, as he wrote in that piece, pretty good investment for what we get out of nato. what donald trump is talking about though overall is not contributions into nato. he kept saying we have 33, $40 million into the conference, just not true. talking about individual commitments. starting with bob gates demand that they pay more to military budgets, lets look at whats happened since 201...

United states and tremendous progress has been made. everyones 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 its going up very substantially and commitments were made. only five of 29 countries were making their commitment and thats now changed. >> actually what t...

Successful summit. i think really that nato is more put together right now, is more coordinated and i think theres a better spirit for nato right now than perhaps theyve ever had. its richer than it ever was. the commitments are made at a higher level than theyve ever been made and the money to be paid out faster, far faster. you know the 2% was a range, it wasnt something they were committed to and now its a commitment. trz theres a big difference. the 2% number. now its a commitment. a real co...