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Country. the one country has a couple of points but that's devastating to nato. we'll find out about that in the next few days. with that, i would like to introduce the secretary-general to say a few words. >> thank you, mr. president. it's good to see you again. i look forward to celebrating the 70th anniversary of our alliance together with all of the leaders today and tomorrow. we're making real progress, most importantly, on the burden sharing. and your leadership on defense spending is having an impact. since 2016, canada and european allies have added $130 billion more to the defense bud...

That and i'm changing it fairly rapidly but it is not right to be taken advantage of on nato and then to be taken advantage of on trade and that is what happens and we can't let that happen. we are talking to the european union in various countries but we are talking to the european union about trade and they have to shape up otherwise things are going to get very tough. >> nato is the only place north america and europe made every day and take actions together responding to a wide range of issues and challenges as we do that and have done it for many years. we need free burden sharing. allies...

And see how it works out and what country has a couple points. we will find out about that in the next two days and with that i would like to introduce the secretary-general to say a few words. >> it is good to see you again, looking forward, all the other leaders today and tomorrow. we are making progress, most importantly on burden sharing and your leadership on spending is having an impact, canada and european allies and others added $30 billion more to their defense budgets, and increased $400 billion by 2024.

Country. we'll see how it works out. and actually country has a couple points. the points are very devastating to nato. we'll find out about that next two days. and with that, i'd like to introduce the secretary-general to say a few words, please. >> thank you very much, mr. president. it goods to see you again. and i'm looking forward to celebrate the 70th anniversary of our alliance together with world leaders today and tomorrow. we are making real progress, most importantly on the burden sharing. and your leadership on defense spending is having a real impact. since 2016, canada and allies ...

Complaining about the, quote, unquote, burden sharing. the way he's done it has inif you are -- infuriated everybody. but nato members have met the 2% target spending, bulgaria, uk, lithuania, but the president still casts it as they need to do more as opposed to, hey, we're making progress here. again, you can criticize the tactics, the bullying, but this laz been has been a success. >> but the president has not been very good at pushing success stories. i can't say all success stories, but particularly when there are other distractions at play. now, he's been better at it in the last, i don'...