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>> 1.3. >> 1.4. 1.4 and continuing to move forward. >> theyre getting there. they know its important to do that. and their economy is doing well. theyll get there quickly i think. look, its to their benefit. >> and the president knows as well that canada has been there for every nato deployment. we have consistently stepped up, sent our troops into harms way. were leading in iraq. were leading in nato -- in latvia. we continue to step up like most of our allies. there are some countries that eve...

>> were at 1.3. 1.4. >> president trump: theyre getting there. they know its important to do that. and their economy is doing well. theyll get their quickly. it is to their benefit. >> the president knows as well that canada has been there for every nato deployment. we have consistently stepped up. sent our troops into harms way. were leading in iraq. were leading in nato -- in latvia. we continue to step up like most of our allies. there are some countries that even though they might reach the ...

Those alliances and arrangements that works. it works. >> theres also sort of nowhere to go but up here for the president at nato. >> right. >> if you look at the last two years, right, it was 2017 he refuses to reaffirm article 5 while he is there and last year he threatened to walk away from nato if the europeans dont step up. the key i believe at this nato summit will be russia, russia, russia. >> thats the 800-pound gorilla in the room and it frankly always has been. look, when the soviet un...

Many millionaires growing up. >> reporter: he bought her things, jewelry and that sort of thing? >> well, right out of the gate they bought a very nice home in an exclusive suburb of long beach, bixby knolls. so that was a big step up. >> reporter: mark remembers flying out to see lynn after she got married. >> she was dying to show off her home, show off her new life. >> reporter: lynn seemed happy, said mark. >> she set out i think with special determination, having had her first marriage not ...

Not to mention all the family money he inherited. >> they were able to afford things that none of us growing up could possibly afford. we were blue collar working class people, and we didnt know many millionaires growing up. >> reporter: he bought her things, jewelry and that sort of thing? >> well, right out of the gate they bought a very nice home in an exclusive suburb of long beach, bixby knolls. so that was a big step up. >> reporter: mark remembers flying out to see lynn after she got marr...

Told us. had some color commentary on the outfits, bow tie of mr. kent and indicated that he thought the republicans r were killing it and at the same time, hes been on twitter just now and a lot of, hes retweeting a lot of clips that they think are favor bable to them. so well see if the president gets any in the afternoon in and if we have another chance to talk to him. >> on that same point, what are you hearing from the white house and the president on down about which add vvocates they thin...

Probes, meaning linked, like a bribery plot. now johnson says, according to these accounts, that he actually called president trump to demand answers, that he was pushing back in realtime, and then trump denied it. so again, not casting any aspersions here, that may be a good thing for the senator. that may be a good thing for people who didnt want this to happen. who knows? the impeachment investigators are going to try to figure that out. theyre going to try to ultimately know with enough evid...

Any of those extra details about the request for a biden probe. >> i actually spoke with president trump just a few minutes before he placed the call, and not only did the president call to congratulate president zelensky, but also to begin the collaboration of charting the pathway forward with the u.s.s support of ukraine. >> the pathway forward, though, did not involve him publicly disclosing what we now know, that it was based on getting the investigations trump wanted, that sondland kept the...

End of the alleged bribery plot. and so now we have a special report on sondlands transformation from an oregon businessman to this ukraine confidante of so many senior trump officials. and were going to reveal how some of the traits he exhibited in business, including his appetite for risk and his interest in power would catapult him into this historic scandal. newly obtained emails shows how sondland was acting as donald trumps first-hand person on all ukraine plotting, briefing the white hous...

For mr. sondland, the truth is largely already out there. he helped execute this ukraine plot. he pushed the investigations before and after the incriminating call. he doubled down in other private calls with president trump, and he initially joined the denials on the cover-up. so now that this truth is spilling out, what will he do? thats the evidentiary question hanging over this weeks hearing. will the person who was in the room trying to execute this bribery plot step up and confess? we will...