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Quite true, but you're trying to keep the europeans unified, not have them having competing foreign policies. this is very unusual in history to have all these rich countries cooperating rather than competing. that's where you feel trump doesn't seem to see the damage he's doing. >> yeah. some of the president's comments in this closed door meeting revealed as a veiled threat to leave the alliance but said in his news conference he believes in nato and the u.s. is committed to its western allies. the message is like whiplash. >> it is the whiplash summit, anderson and this dr. jekyll-mr. hyde ...

Nothing terrible happens. >> hey, why were you shaking your head when susan was doing the framing of how the president is playing this? >> she's absolutely right, i mean, this is a moment of disaster already for our european allies, and for our nato allies, and susan hit it on the head, he's talking about, he's eager as a school girl to have this meeting with vladimir putin, and he's throwing all kinds of shade and hating on our nato allies, folks that have stood with us for 70 years, and, you know, he's resisting the treaties of the allies and his own staff, to please issue a statement about ...

Has been tradition, long tradition, long history where he'll berate nato, the members that are not stepping up to the 2% threshold, which is in my view somewhat artificial anyway, and be very solicitous of putin and his berating of nato plays to putin's interests. that is what i'm going to be watching and most concerned about. >> how much does this president have the ability to weaken nato? >> well, i think a lot. just the fact that he constantly berates nato, his at one point his recusal to affirm article v,

Those comments specifically. he brushed them aside and indicated he's not going to be deterred, he's going to get very tough with them to pay more. look, the real concerns here, andrea, is that he's going to also make some threats, maybe even take some actions to pull out troops from key areas, and that he might not reaffirm the united states' commitment to article v, which states that an attack on one nato member is an attack on all. real concerns among america's allies that the president isn't going to be tough enough with putin, that he might dangle the possibility of scaling back on sancti...

Thank you very much. >> probably it is my turn. >> whatever you'd like. ladies first. >> so of course we're very thankful for the possibility to be here especially not only because of our anniversary in our region, but because of alliance which we are affirming today with the united states by adopting the declaration where we say that article v is ironic ironclad for all of us and the collective defense issues important to all of us. and we understand how important nato is for all of us. and why we during our on discussions talked so much the reforming, further reforming nato, the investments ...