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>> i think it went extremely well on the front end, namely, the visits and re-odd and jerusalem. it went okay, great visuals in rome. it is not go as well in either the nato meetings are the g-7 meetings. and the administration not to pay attention to those and sure those things up. the president was right in making that charge to the europeans, you need to live up to your treaty commitments. i think it would have gone to better if -- much better in private, maybe not been as effective. but it w...

The u.s. support for article 5, the collective -- collective defense and security agreement. colonel, you tweeted about this recently. about time someone holds the europeans and canadians to their nato commitments perhaps, quote, not after 2:00, well listen this time. do you think the presidents actions are effective, especially eliciting a response like this from angela merkel? >> i said its about time we hold the europeans accountable. we tell the germans and the french they need to live up to...

Country, stay in the agreement, because its voluntary, and try to make the world respond to better business practices when it comes to cleaning up carbon. >> hes ee tsengly saying, aaron, youll be going against many members of your own party if you do this. >> thats true. but lets remember that bill clinton signed kyoto in his administration. the circumstances are very different. i made the prediction. i suspect the trump administration is going to stay within the agreement. but, but, since they...

Front there, but second part of the trip so interesting. >> in terms you mentioned they dont have a clear russia policy, theyre back and forth. the paris climate accord, he said he was against them. theyve had meetings and hes had cabinet secretaries go on television because they think thats the best way to lobby the president. now, the pope says stay. listen to the italian prime minister saying we need american leadership if we want india, china, the countries with the developing economies who ...

U.s.s commitments under paris. it will be difficult for the u.s. to meet obligations under paris, even if it stays in the agreement, which i think would be a good idea, and i have to beg to differ in that it would cost a lot of jobs, in fact the presidents own economic adviser apparently on the plane back from cicely made the same point, we are already in an energy transition now. transition to natural gas is part of the paris accord. >> let me come to you with the question about jobs. i want to...

Years, played a lot of allman brothers --gregg: midnight ride- laura: melissa and, yes, his fellow song, im no -- solo song, im no angel. gregg: he will be missed. >> the u.s. is currently paying much more than any other nation, and that is not fair to the united states or the united states taxpayer. so were working on it, and i will tell you a big different over the last year -- difference over the last year. money is actually starting to pour into nato from countries that would not have been d...

Nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker. great to have you back with us. how was this received by other member states. are they reading into it the same way we are, a parsing of words he did not seem to endorse the article 5 backbone of the nato charter? >> reporter: it certainly got a lot of attention, ayman, youre absolutely right. you didnt get that full-throated endorsement that a lot of members of nato were hoping for, were listening for. that was a really key issue yesterday. sea...

There is something to it. one of the things that will live in history as seen from yesterdays speech at nato is when he talked about the european allies meeting the commitments they voluntarily made to spend 2% of their gdp on defense. the smirking prime minister luxembourg to the president of france. you can smirk all you want but if you want a strong working alliance, everybody should pitch in and do their share. not were asking luxe um bourg to carry a lot of water for us. how about spending ...

Then you come back and apologize. you dont apologize for lying, awe pollingize for the act. this is not simply that ordinary people do bad things. its that stupidity is unexceptional. so there is a snens which every day ordinary people are buying into this behavior as a reflection of their own values, as a reflection of their own commitments. so what were seeing to my mind a combination of things. well see this in the next segment. normalization of ignorance and wrongdoing of evil. and that does...

Or not to pull out of the paris climate agreement, hell get a lot of resistance during his talks when the g-7 summit gets under way. you talked about some of those awkward moments, some tense moments at the nato summit yesterday, particularly that headline everyone woke up to which effectively said president trump accused germany of being bad. i spoke to the white house about that. they said he expressed his frustration with germany, theyre not meeting some of his commitments. just moments ago t...