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Series of nato meetings in brussels and con temporary to expectations and expectations by some nato members, he stopped short of explicitly endorsing article 5 which says an attack on one ally is an attack on all allies in reference to 9/11. take a listen. >> our nato allies responded swiftly and decisively invoking for the first time article 5 collective defense commitments. the recent attack on manchester in the united kingdom demonstrates the depths of the evil we face with terrorism. all peo...

Not meeting defense commitments. 2% of the country as gdp. >> if all nato members had spent just 2% of their gdp on defense last year we would have had another $119 billion for our collective defense and for the financing of additional nato reserves. >> well and nick ronts robertson joins us live from cicily where a g 7 summit gets underway shortly given the actions and comments of president trump during the nato summit how is he likely to be received by the other g 7 leaders there in cicily? >>...

Thank you. terrible thing. 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 its history the article five collective defense commitments. the recent attack on manchester i the united kingdom demonstrates the depths of the evil we face with terrorism.

Thank you. terrible thing. 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 its history the article 5 collective defense commitments. the recent attack on manchester, in the united kingdom demonstrates the depths of the evil we face with terrorism. innocent little girls and so many other...

U.s./nato defense commitments. to deflect attention away from ukraine. so in the christopher steele dossier, thats the alleged quid pro quo. russia attacks the u.s. election for its own purpose but also corrupts and collaborates with the trump campaign in that attack and the trump campaign allegedly agrees to take steps to help russia along the way, drop that pro-ukraine platform out of the republican -- the pro-ukraine plank out of the republican party platform, which they did at the convention...

In the campaign and sewing distension and division and hitting this potential sore spot. its not inexplicable why candidate trump might start doing that. i mean, the uncorroborated dossier of alleged russian dirt on donald trump that was published by buzz feed in january after handed over to the fbi by a former british mi6 officer, that dossier made a claim that they were supportive of it and cooperated with it and claims that there was a quid pro quo, that in exchange for russias attack on the ...

Dossier of alleged russian dirt on donald trump that was published by buzz feed in january after handed over to the fbi by a former british mi6 officer, that dossier made a claim that they were supportive of it and cooperated with it and claims that there was a quid pro quo, that in exchange for russias attack on the election to hurt clinton and help trump, according to the dossier, the operation had been conducted with the full knowledge and support of trump and senior members of his campaign t...

Has put a whole bunch of people around who are ideological. obviously flynn and the things hes tweeted on, mattis, hes got a lot of ability to do things on his own as a secretary of defense. he can move a lot of assets around. unless trump tells him differently, i think what youre going to have with mattis is somebody whos essentially at the same time were pulling away from nato via trump, maybe pulling closer to our defense commitments. >> elon goldenberg, i appreciate your time. coming up, w...

If you look at the track record at the white house, trumps team has put a whole bunch of people around who are ideological. obviously flynn and the things hes tweeted on, mattis, hes got a lot of ability to do things on his own as a secretary of defense. he can move a lot of assets around. unless trump tells him differently, i think what youre going to have with mattis is somebody whos essentially at the same time were pulling away from nato via trump, maybe pulling closer to our defense commitm...

>> i know the china daily, global times, english language state-run newspaper often uses colorful, combative language like this. when you speak to diplomats there, et cetera, what does china do if its taking its gloves off? what measures are they talking about china taking? >> well, no one really knows exactly what theyre going to do, but they do have a lot of options at their disposal. i can give you a couple examples. you could talk for starters about china making conditions tougher for u.s. f...