united states is a nato country -- should spend more so he has very combative language when talking about nato and we are setting up for a showdown in brussels. quite stunning as the president will be meeting with u.s. allies and then going to meet with an adversary. >> and a number of those key nato members have stepped up their defense spending as a percentage of gdp since the last meeting a year ago but clearly it's not enough for the president. ka thank you. let's go through the headlines with christiane amanpour. how is it playing out over there that the president chose to to say that the conversation on monday, the sit down with vladimir putin, should be the easiest of all of them? >> well, you can imagine from europe and particularly from the united kingdom that doesn't go down well at all because as you know the united kingdom blames the soviet union, sorry, russia of using soviet tactics in the