and he's rightly concerned. >> can you give an example of fake news. >> yeah, absolutely. >> reporter: spicer's only example an erroneous tweet that the president wasn't listening to a translation at the g7 what he really was. >> that's the kind of thing that the bbc and a reporter that is joining the "new york times" push out and perpetuate. you're shaking your head, pieter. it's true. >> reporter: but he refruited to say whether report on a pending white house shake-up is true. the white house not backing down from criticism the president lempd at union leader on his overseas trip and the president tweeted we have a massive trade deficit with germany and they pay far less than they should on nato and the military. very bad for the u.s. angela merkel sounded gloomy after the president's trip. >> the times when we could completely rely on others are to an extent over. i've experienced this in the last few days, and that's why we europe ofians must really take our fate into our own hands. >> reporter: spicer didn't see it that way. >> i think the relationship that