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Slowing chinese economy over the past six month regulators here have really been trying to get on top of this volatility. theyve injected tens of billions of dollars of liquidity to try to calm things down. just today they announced new regulations in terms of being able to limit major shareholders from being able to sell off companies. >> matt rivers live in beijing. reaffirms its defense commitments. high-level phone calls in the past few hours.

Telephone calls with six european leaders on the mounting tensions in crimea. this as russia warns the united states that any sanctions against moscow will, quote, boomerang back on the u.s.. molly haniburg is live in wurg. >> reporter: the white house says president obama spoke separately with leaders of britain, france and italy and noted the strong unified stance of the u.s. and european union in dealing with russia. even though europe has been more receipt sent. the president also spoke on a...

Security and medicare. voters are willing to make sizable and strategic changes in all of them. on national security, for example, we have defense commitments to protect 56 countries around the globe. most americans willing to support only 12 of them. theyre willing to -- >> yeah, 12 out of 56. big savings, you cut back on that by a 2-1 margin, people say its time to bring troops home from western europe and japan. these are sizable savings. when you talk about social security, people are willin...

Nato allies to step up in defense, and thats implicitly about the russia threat. he can take some credit, i think, from the summit, two-thirds of nato members are going to meet those defense commitments by 2024, almost all of them will meet the equipment spending and theres a new focus on readiness and focus on russia as dan said, a lot of measures, i thought it was a successful summit. paul: you go with 2% and suddenly comes out, wait, 4, is everybody supposed to ignore that -- >> i dont know. ...

Country is an attack on all. the president made the remarks at a dedication to a memorial for 9/11. the last time article five was invoked, but he only mentioned it in passing. >> our nato allies responded swiftly and decisively, invoking for the first time in its history the article five collective defense commitments. >> reporter: the president was hardly feeling bashful throwing his weight around, pushing past the prime minister of montenegro and engaging in a power handshake with president m...