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2024. germany is paying 15% of the operating budget to nato. the united states pays 22%. we can keep raising that, thats fine, but the reality is that european leaders around the world today, in germany an italy were questioning whether the united states would still be a global power and questioning our alliance on very specific issues. climate change being one of them. also providing arms in a conflict and the travel ban. those are specific areas that president trump is going to need to change ...

The open. president obama didnt get results. >> president obama did get results n.2014 germany and a number of european countries pledged to contribute 2% of their gdp by 2024. thats in process. right now germany is paying for about 15% of natos operating budget. the united states pays for 22%. should shedo more, yes, and they have pledged to do more over the next ten years but issue here is that german leaders, long been one of our strongest partners in europe, through obama and through bush, a...

Trumps budget proposal will cut more than a billion dollars from the u.s. coast guard. thats where the money could come from. cnns regulation correspondent rene marsh has been looking into this and the details. renee, what more do we know? >> reporter: kate, the trump administration could be making were talking about major cuts here to the united states coast guard as well as the tsa. thats according to two congressional sources. both agencies, as you know, critical to homeland security. sources...

To coast guard would actually happen since it has such an important security role. >> talk about skepticism, maybe not that the cuts will happen but that they will help anything. thank you renee, i really appreciate it. joining me now is republican congressman from california, duncan hunter, thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> youve written about this. you call the idea of cuts to the coast guard budget appalling. your team even called it a joke. why? >> because the entire operatin...

On israeli border a genocide is happening. 500,000 people are dead. there is genocide of christians down the road in iraq and u.n. has done nothing to condemn that and condemning only democracy and safe place in the middle east. >> we can hold our assessed contributions to the u.n. it is about a quarter of the general operating budget and peacekeeping budget. $3 billion. john bolton thinks we should do that to start with. but bret stevens in the "wall street journal" to your point, has aer seein...

At the l.a. county jail, inmates with the most severe psychiatric disorders are sent to a place next to mens central jail called twin towers. >> got him. wherever you want to sit, where there is not another person. twin towers was originally built to house maximum security inmates. but now its filled almost entirely with mentally ill inmates. so most of these guys have a lot of severe conditions. we have a lot of restrictions on us. we cant take the cameras out because in the past cameras have s...

That was a lie -- >> so, youre saying the family did not ask for that strid yoe to be withheld? >> no, they did not. and the same goes with ronald johnson. he was killed eight days prior to laquan mcdonald and his mother campaigned for over 400 days to have that video released. >> so even if the mayor and cook county attorney step down, what is your ultimate objective for reforming the police force? will that be enough, including the justice department investigation? >> no, what we support an en...

Operating budget leads to its lack of political will to enact meaningful gun reform. maybe. just maybe the economic impact of $42.9 billion thanks to the manufacturing and sale of guns in america is playing part in that politics too. it was epic. i cant believe i got it. thats my boy. woah! look! thats my boy. youre proud to give each other your best every day. and at banquet, we want to give you our best.

In total, seven people arrested. the raid comes amid new details about how isis is funded and how it could have pulled off such an advanced plot. a new report outlines the sources of isis cash flow and finds the group could have a much as $400 million at its disposal. msnbc editor cal perry has been going through the new flash point intelligence report. he joins us with the latest. cal, when you ask people about isis finance they usually say oil. thats what has come up in the presidential debate...

Bid to join the court. we have more on this move by the palestinians obviously trying to hit them where it could hurt. ian? >> reporter: thats right, natalie. this chunk of money is a large part of the palestinian authoritys operating budget. with it they pay doctors, security services teachers and so withholding that money really hits many in the west bank in the palestinian territories hard as they wont have that money. israel says that this is just a first step. there is a meeting right now w...