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Band diing of the facts. the president mentioned there were lists of isis financiers he implied recovered during the raid that killed al baghdadi and spoke about that there but i think with macron, i really felt here you had the curtains pulled back from, you know, the sort of covers on the meetings that we dont normally get to see. this was a french president as combative as weve seen him publicly side by side with any other leader. >> yeah, combative, showing some backbone there and notable to...

The next morning, september 11th, america was attacked and australia invoked the treatys mutual defense commitment for the first time ever. in the weeks that followed, as our beloved sons and daughters deployed to defend our freedom, we took comfort in knowing they would have australian warriors right by their side. today on national prisoner of war, missing in action recognition day we pledge to forever honor our service members captured or still missing from battle throughout our history. we w...

Could his tough talk and unpredictable actions undermine not only the transatlantic partnership but the post-war order overall. how united is nato thats our topic this week on quadriga and these are our guests its a pleasure to welcome claudia mind your she is senior associate for international security and germanys institute for international security affairs and she says nato is only as strong as its members make it open conflict undermines its collective defense commitment and its great to ha...

European defense spending is going up. the president is in a good position to take credit for it. nato is putting forces into the baltic. theyre standing strong with us in a number of areas. the president ought to take yes for an answer. lets not forget, defense spending is not the only issue. we were attacked on 9/11. nato invoked article 5, collective defense commitment, and they came to our asis mens. over 1,000 european soldiers have died in afghanistan fighting alongside us, against the tal...

17 years. what ultimately does he want? >> i think most experts believe what he wants is to preserve his familys autocratic authoritarian tick that toauth r authoritarian dicta torie dicta. he looks at saddam hussein who gave up his chemical weapons and lost his regime. i think thats the ultimate goal of the north korean regime. there has to be a regional solution. the chinese and russians here are going to be very important to get involved to leverage, push against the inorth koreans. forgettin...

Pledged to do. that is two percent of their gdp on military. listen to the president here. >> to those who would criticize our tough stance, i would point out that the united states has demonstrated not merely with words but with its actions that we stand firmly behind article five the mutual defense commitment. words are easy, actions are what matters. >> reporter: there it is the mutual defense commitment article five. the president articulated. that. the president articulated what a blessing ...

There are no indications whether the united states will stay in the paris agreement or not. do you get the sense, steward, that any of these leaders have any more confidence regarding where the president stands on climate change and nato and russia and in other words, do they have any clarity on what this president stand force after this trip with them? >> i think theyre getting an indication that this president stands for americas first and last, frankly, it is a remarkable situation where you ...

Know, hes going to reup the u.s.s defense commitment. theres weapons held back in the obama administration, due to rum rights concerns. those concerns have evaporated under this administration. as im watching the pictures of president trump coming to saudi arabia, i covered his campaign. and the rhetoric he used during that campaign, particularly about muslims in the united states, and muslim refugees, to see him in saudi arabia as his first foreign trip is nothing if not striking. the president...

Armed forces as well, which strengthens our relationship. the package of defense commitment and support, saudi arabia and the entire gulf region, the iranian threats which exist on saudi arabias borders and all sides. and it bolsters the kingdom to provide for its own security and contributing it counterterrorism operations across the region, and the important part of this is it, this huge arms sales package reduces the burden on the united states to provide the same equipment to our own militar...