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It's sixty two percent but where does that approval come from eighty one percent of liberals democrat leaning voters support nato and only forty nine percent of republicans and that's going down so he's really creating a new skepticism for nato within his base and that's really worrying. just to say that a comment on this on these two percent target nato has been trying to find a better measurement for i mean because only looking up on cash is a bit is a bit easy so we have a nato another measure amend which of the so-called sui cease which means cash that's a budget the money you put in that'...

Would has would have been basically proven. and based on russia trying to meddle in the german and french election as we've just heard in this little film there it's quite likely because russia has has always had an interest in putting a wage between. european union countries weakening the nato alliance a weakening of the european union so it's quite likely and have we heard from russia in response may go well actually they haven't commented at least i didn't hear anything they won't probably all they will say all of course we have nothing to do with it they don't have to calm and i mean it's ...

Headline. to your point, john, article 5, is that a bigger issue? because if we dwell on should the president have said something at dinner or during the speech, this is inappropriate, or that, we're never going to get appropriate out of president trump. but the article 5 issue, how unsettling is it for europe? >> it's very unsettling, stephanie. and nick has this exactly right, as i would expect. i was in ukraine and latvia several months ago and i can tell you what these european leaders were hoping to hear from him today was not only an affirmation of article 5, that is everyone comes to ev...

And when you near the baltic countries and you hear that they've been doing this for decades in places like estonia and lithuania, they have seen this movie before, hacking, shutting down internet access, this is a method and a technique and our country does have to stand up to it. and if we don't stand up to it, it's going to keep happening in other democracies across the world. >> senator, donald trump and his team seem to be very cool to the intelligence community's assessment, actually their conclusion, we should call it, that the russians were intervening in the last election. what do you...

Baltic countries just this past week. to say that they are nervous about the russians, to put it mildly, let me also say, as i said last year, nato is important, we intend to keep the commitments that are made in the nato agreement, by any objectives, senator sanders is one of the most successful military alliance in history and i think we ought to approach all of these issues on the assumption that the russians do not wish us well. >> senator mcconnell, is it a problem that the incoming president is sending resource signals to russia that he is and what do you say about his supposed appointme...