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Trade. they kill us on other things. they make it impossible to do business in europe. yet they came in and sill their mercedes and bmws to us. so we have $151 billion in trade deficits with the e.u. and on top of that, they kill us with nato. they kill us. so we pay 4% of a huge gdp, which got a lot bigger since i became your president. and germany, which is the biggest country of the e.u., european union, germany pays 1%. 1%. and i said, you know, angela, i can't guarantee it, but we're protecting you and it means a lot more to you than protecting us because i don't know how much protection ...

In 1957. by 1968 they had built up tariff barriers that were quite effective and have continued them. the president is right that the trade imbalance with europe is primarily a result of differences in tariffs. >> sandra: he really got into the meat of his argument there in this interview with maria bartiromo which aired yesterday morning on fox news channel. talking about the e.u. treating us badly. and treating us quite frankly unfairly and i wonder what the political implications of this message are. he goes further mere. listen. >> president trump: the european union last year made -- if y...

I love those countries. germany and all of the count ris. scotland. -- germany and all of the countries, scotland. they treat us very badly. excuse me, i can say it in a different way. they made last year 151 billion dollars in trade surplus. maria: on america. >> we had a deficit with the eu on top of that we spend a fortune on nato to protect them. maria: president trump weighs in on the emotionally-charged issue of immigration on next and the push by democrats to abolish i.c.e. much more on my interview with president trump coming up as we look ahead now on "sunday morning futures". from ge...

Maria: if we're trying to stop china from stealing from us, which we know is happening. >> it is true. by the way, 300 billion they say that's a lot of money. maria: exactly. would it be better to actually have our allies together to go against china instead of pushing back on our allies like european nations? maria: -- >> the european union, take a look at the car situation, they send a mercedes in, we can't send our cars in. look what they do to our farmers. they don't want our farm products. they have their farmers they want to protect their farmers. we don't protect ours and they protect t...

Last year with the european union -- and we love the european union. and the european of course was set up to take advantage of the united states, to attack our piggy bank. and you know what, we can't let that happen. last year with european union we lost $151 billion on trade. we had a trade deficit of 151 billion because they send the mercedes in, they send the bmws income if they send the products in. they said no thank you, we don't take your product. that's not the way it works. for all those free traders out there, that's not free trade, stupid trade. [cheers and applause] so i said to t...