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European council has a message for president trump. be good to your friends. >> america, appreciate your allies, after all, you don't have that many. >> before heading to the nato summit president trump fired back this morning. >> well, we do have a lot of allie, but we cannot be taken advantage of. we are being taken advantage of by the european union. we lost $151 billion last year on trade and on top of that, we spend at least 70% for nato and, frankly, it helps them a lot more than it helps us. >> right now president trump is in the air set to arrive in brussels in the next hour with the c...

Summit he not only tweeted about his complaints involving nato spending among the allies, he also pointed out once again an top of this, he said the european union has a trade surplus of $151 billion with the united states with big trade barriers on u.s. no, in all caps. so there's a lot of tension right now between the u.s. and its closest nato allies, not only on spending, but also trade-related issues. da now to the very serious war of words that has developed between lawyers for president trump and for his former attorney and fixer, michael cohen. cohen's newest attorney cautioned trump ...

United states and nato allies. president trump has criticizing -- criticized nato countries for not boosting their defense spending. >> i'll tell nato you have to start paying your bills. the united states is not going to take care of everything. we have $151 billion in trade deficits with the eu. and on top of that, they kill us with nato. they want to protect against russia yet they pay billions of dollars to russia and we're the schmucks who pay for the whole thing. $30 billion is projected to be paid by those nato nations. but it's not enough. >> a former nato commander says remarks like t...

>> we have 151 billion dollars in trade deficits with the eu, and on top of that, they kill us with nato. we're paying for the whole thing. so then -- by the way, i have to say this, since i came which was a year and a half, almost 33 billion dollars more is projected to be paid by those nato nations but it is not enough. do they ever tell you that? no. neil: all right. the president making very clear that's got to change, that each nato member, all 29 of them, they have to, you know, fork over 2% of their gdp towards defense, disproportionate of dealing with this, something that even presiden...

States' nato allies. president trump has criticizing nato countries for not boosting their defense spending. >> i'll tell nato you have to start paying your bills. the united states is not going to take care of everything. we have $151 billion in trade deficits with the eu. and on autopsy top of that, thes with nato. they want us to protect them against russia yet they pay billions of dollars to russia and we're the schmucks who pay for the whole thing. $30 billion is projected to be paid by those nato nations. but it's not enough. >> a former nato commander says remarks like that raise concer...