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United states is paying for europe's protection. >> this has been going on for decades, for decades. and it's disproportionate and not fair to the taxpayers of the united states and we're going to make it fair. so that will be it. >> okay. in that video, donald trump seems to imply incorrectly that the united states is paying for europe's defense. but when we talk about nato spending, we are talking about the money that each country spends on its own defense. consider the u.s. defense budget for 2018. it was $639 billion. this number generally speaking would not be any smaller if spain or luxe...

United states. >> okay. seemed to imply there, again, incorrectly that the united states is paying for europe. this is the u.s. -- >> that's a straight-up lie that when the president puts that out there, and people watch that in their homes, it enrages them and gets them enthused but it's just a lie. >> $639 billion. that's the defense budget for 2018. this number would not be any smaller if spain or luxembourg or montenegro suddenly spent 2, or 12 or 30% of their own defense. this is what the united states spends on defense. there are direct nato payments set out in a cost sharing agreement. ...

Corporate tax revenues have gone down. most of that is from last year. the tax data and the revenue data tends to be a few months or even a few quarters back. all i'm saying is maybe larry is seeing stuff that -- again, i have no idea. but the publicly available numbers are going up. in fact, 200 -- let me leave your audience with this, stef, $239 billion, you know what that is, that's the amount of interest the government paid on its debt in the first eight months of this year. $239 billion in interest. you know where interest rates are going. i don't need to tell you. they're largely going u...

Welcome back. i'm stephanie ruhle. a new report says the greatest growing threat to the united states is china. a source reveals china has, quote, outlined strategies for 2018, 2025 and 2050, all designed to displace united states as the dominant global economic and national security superpower. we're seeing one of the economic battles playing not realtime with threats of a trade war easing, after president trump puts his call to impose tariffs on china on hold. this all started after president trump claimed the u.s. lost $500 billion on trade with china last year. but that figure, it doesn't ...

Thunderbird pilot was killed when his f-16 fighting falcon crashed in the training range during a routine aerial demonstration training flight. what caused the crash is under investigation, the incident just hours after a marine corps helicopter crashed during a training mission killing all four people on board, not the first accident at the base in recent years. >> there have been mishaps. we had a crash in the city of imperial and there have been others. >> reporter: the same may -- the same day marine corps jet crashed in djibouti. the pilot was ejected and is in stable condition. three inc...