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Department spokesperson. admiral, heres how my colleague jim sciutto put it on twitter. "the u.s. president just questioning the decades old treaty commitment to defend its nato allies as they commit to defend the u.s. arguably more consequential than defeating his election interference. how do you see it? >> its troublesome. his comments will send a stronger message to putin than our nato alliespy believe if im vladimir putin and i heard that interview to pick up on

The idea they dont spend enough on their own defense. he conditioned that a year ago. basically we will condition our defense of our allies on whether or not they are making financial investments in their own defense. thats the first time any american president has ever sort of given any sense that we would not follow through on our treaty commitment. now whether he means that or a -- or whether its just a negotiating tactic, there had been a big expectation that he would say something about tha...

They had paid up. you heard that theme, of course in his speech today about paying up. the idea they dont spend enough on their own defense. he conditioned that a year ago. basically we will condition our defense of our allies on whether or not they are making financial investments in their own defense. thats the first time any american president has ever sort of given any sense that we would not follow through on our treaty commitment. now whether he means that or a negotiating tactic, there ha...

On their own defense. he conditioned that a year ago. basically we will condition our defense of our allies on whether or not they are making financial investments in their own defense. thats the first time any american president has ever sort of given any sense that we would not follow through on our treaty commitment. now whether he means that or a negotiating tactic, there had been a big expectation that he would say something about that today. he was speaking in fact in front of a memorial t...

Awoken and put more into defense. the norwegians are doing a better job -- >> neil: so these numbers are better than they were? >> oh, gosh, yes. thats the scary thing. at one point, we were down to three. more importantly than that, if you look deeper, theres a large number of countries close to 2%. if they put more effort in it, they would be over the 2% number. that hasnt always been the case. lets be honest about it. didnt happen because of the previous administration. probably didnt happen ...

Ambassador daalder, you were looking to see what he said about russia. there was a lot of talk about terror, a lot of talk. there was lot of talk about immigration, about money. one brief sentence about russia and the threats from russia posed to europe. did you think that was enough? >> no, i dont think so, and i think we saw a president who continued basically his campaign message when it came to nato by arguing with the allies about how much is being spent but without committing. im actually ...

Jenna. we obviously have a treaty commitment to our nato allies. i would sincerely hope we uphold the security commitments there is truth what youre saying in terms of capabilities, not just in europe but also if you look what is happening in asia where you have the territorial disputes for example, the south china sea, very concerning situation going on there there is a question in the mind especially of allies, that will the united states or the west more generally step forward to participate ...