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We know president trump wants angela merkel to pay more of germanys gdp and defense spending, so thats bound to come up. well be along on camera after what we saw yesterday with macron, trudeau, and stalenberg. >> maybe two hours of press availability on a wage range of subjects. well see if hes feeling that chatty today. all right, nic robertson, thank you so much for that. >> as nic mentioned, the president will have that one-on-one with president merkel. caylka kaitlyn collin joins us live. i...

Eelss run. france, criticized the e.u. on trade. he did side with turkey repe repeated repeatedly. he refused to criticize north korea or kim jong-un. >> nic robertson is in london with us. he is listening to the press availability, as well. numerous headlines on important story lines. whats your takeaway, nic? >> reporter: like you, im trying to put them in the right box. the list did seem to go on. it was interesting whenl he was

An extraordinary morning overseas. >> im christine romans. were going to begin with the president. hes in london for the 70th anniversary of nato. he is praising nato and rambling about u.s. domestic politics and impeachment. rick robertson joining us live from london. 52 minutes of press availability where the president covered a lot of ground. whats your takeaway? >> the takeaway is critical on president macron for calling nato brain-dead. an awkward moment when he passed it over tostoltenberg...

On the edge of. this is a will events marking the 70 anniversary of nato. in fact, president trump met with the secretary general of nato. stalinberg. it was a press availability in the president trump style. he talked about domestic issues. calling the impeachment hearings, once again a hoax. saying it was not good for the democrats to run this while he was over here doing important government business. but he talked about foreign affairs as well. saying that perhaps there might not be a chines...

>> the secretary-general, proves work and negotiations increase the budget of countries other than the usa because we are paying more than anybody else and even as a percentage of gdp, but we increased what others are paying by $130 billion. jillian: theres a lot to unravel. you are watching "fox and friends first". rob: heather: president touching on a lot more than budget negotiations during the sitdown. lets get to greg in london. a lot to unpack. >> reporter: donald trump is a little more th...

Look over the last period of time. no one needs nato more than france. the one that benefits really least is the united states. we benefit the least. we are helping europe. europe unites and they go against a common foe, that may or may not be a foe. i cant tell you that. >> now security here in london beefed up for president trumps visit along with all 29 nato leaders over at that terror attack knifing london bridge last friday. there will be added security around buckingham palace tonight. tha...

35 minutes, almost no other president would have done that because now you are opening yourself up to questions and criticism, also it was very -- his colorful language describing al-baghdadi as a coward, somebody who died like a dog, whimpering, crying and others frightened puppies, classic trump, maybe trying to humiliate al-baghdadi and send message to other terrorists or maybe thats the way he speaks. gillian: overall, you dont have to single any one out, do you think they did a good job? >>...

How baghdadis confirmed death, trey yingst, thank you, we want to bring in michael wilner, white house correspondent for mcclatchy. its another moment similar to, you know, the killing of osama bin laden, and the president made that dramatic announcement from the white house, michael. give us your perspective. >> well, indeed, he obviously made an announcement that was quite reminiscent of president obamas announcement of the killing of osama bin laden. and youve seen similar reactions and bipar...

Bidens and china too. >> china. look, so mulvaney in a way didnt even have to say that because the president, we have the summary of his phone conversation in which he said, you know, what biden has done is terrible and, you know, you ought to do me a favor, though, i think the phrase was. so mulvaney today was probably in his -- in his press availability telling the truth about -- about what the president had said, you know, what the problem was about, down, crowd strike and all the rest and th...

I think the phrase was. and so, mulvaney today was probably in his -- in his press availability, telling the truth about -- about, you know, what the president had, you know, what -- you know, what the problem was. about, you know, crowdstrike and all the rest and that they wanted ukrainians to look into corruption. he called it a look back. but i think we would all agree that theres a look back to 2016 component and theres a look ahead to 2020. >> to 2020, sure. and david, i want to play someth...