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The wildfire has torched 1 you thousand acres with only 5% containment. that remains ongoing. james mattis is slamming an nbc story for being fake news. the report claims military officials were forced to reassure european allies of americas defense commitments following the presidents tough talks at nato. >> i also just heard about this story that the pentagons in damage control. i love reading fiction. >> fiction. president trump criticized nato members for not contributing to their promised d...

Inauguration. the crowds appear to have reach add quarter million people at their height. tonight on fox news sean called the protesters angry liberal socialists, free loaders. after insulting american allies at the nato meeting trump insulted the british prime minister. when the story came out he apologized to the prime minister but then denied the newspaper interview he gave. he called it fake news even though we can hear the audio recording of what he said in that interview. aside from insauu...

Maybe has much warmer scenes with vladimir putin. if that pattern repeats itself, would put more crack in the trans atlantic alliances. >> shepard: you report the relationship with germany is especially bad. >> yeah, the germans have committed in trumps mind several sins. they know this and they dont know how to get passed them. sin number 1 is theyre not paying enough in terms of their defense commitments, their budget commitments. increasing them a little bit but not enough. point number 2, he...

Much. and then he said eventually hed like to get all troops out of asia. that will send ripple effects across the entire globe to allies not just in japan and korea but nato, australia. i thetary mattis, pompeo, are going to have a lot of work putting that back in the box, trying to assure allies were serious about our defense commitments and maintaining stability. not just vis-a-vis korea but china. so i think not only the denuclearization specifics but clarifying our commitment to allies isma...

Loaded term. >> and look, this is not just about the united states and north korea. because youve got neighbors there, japan, china, south korea as well, they all have a shared interest in denuclearization of this peninsula. for a successful summit, does the president have to take into account the concerns and needs of these east asian countries? can he succeed? he goes in with just an america-first mindset? >> its a really important point. when we used to do negotiations and we got wrapped up i...

Allies that thinks the credibility of our defense commitments arent real or miscalculation by pyongyang who misreads a signal that president trump inadvertently sends. i think these words matter extraordinarily and that they seem to be uncoordinated from any major strategy is concerning. >> do you want to respond to that, major general? >> words matter but in this particular case, actions are incredibly important. if we, in fact, continue to hold and we do, the military option as being part of t...

How do you see it? >> the key considerations now are stability, deterrence, containing and constraining the regime for the long-run. the trump administration at times has looked like it is trying to manufacture a crisis and enough pressure that north korea falls to its knees and voluntarily disarms, volunteers to eliminate its nuclear weapons. thats just not going to happen now. and so we really need to stop being a force for instability on the peninsula and start prioritizing stability. the fir...

Hostilities. >> the secretary of state and a second have to come out and confirm what the commander in chief has already told the world and they have to do it because the presidents chief strategist has given interviews saying that the president was out of his mind, that there would be no military response to north korea acting in a way thats hostile towards the united states interests. >> joe, i think this is the most damaging part of this interview because it undercuts u.s. policy. now, many p...

>> this ceremony is a day for both remembrance and resolve. we remember and mourn those nearly 3,000 innocent people who were brutally murdered by terrorists on september 11th, 2001. our nato allies responded swiftly and decisively invoking for the first time in history article 5 collective defense commitments. >> and yet jack rice he did not reaffirm article 5 himself. he also shoved the representative from montenegro who just resisted vladimir putin and joined nato, which was sort of awkward, ...

Was not reaffirmed on this trip at all. >> jack rice, what he did do was essentially say nato owes us money in the united states. lets listen what he actually did say about article 5. listen to what he said. >> this ceremony is a day for both remembrance and resolve. we remember and mourn those nearly 3,000 innocent people who were brutally murdered by terrorists on september 11th, 2001. our nato allies responded swu swiftly and decisively invoking for the first time in history article 5 collect...