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What do our allies say about this? >> they have a shared interest. they're getting attacked by isis more than us and graham's argument is we're pulling up but maybe you can help me to convince trump not to pull out all the way if you do burden-sharing and they want to know if trump is on board so they're like if you go we go but if you stay we stay. so for people and graham all over congress they're like that's reasonable but the problem is inside the administration it's chaos and patrick shanahan is an acting deputy, he's awing for the job. he doesn't have the power. the military guys want to...

Own chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. here's what he had to say. >> president trump has made it clear the united states stands strongly behind the nato alliance, but we expect our nato allies to live up to their commitment, to invest more than 2% of their gdp on our common defense. look, the president truly believes that burden sharing means that each of us does our part. i couldn't be more proud of the fact that as we stand here today our nato allies have invested $100 billion more in our common defense. >> joining us now, nbc's andrea mitchell live in wausau. andrea, the v...

It's very hard, in case you haven't noticed, to talk donald trump out of a point of view. after all, he did withdraw from the paris accords, the climate change accords, and so he is sort of stuck out there alone on this. and is not giving an inch. >> as he was being asked about it, it was kind of coming out of some of the news with gm which segued into specifically, when he said, i don't believe it, that was specifically talking about the economic impact, right, the shrinking of the gdp by 10% is when he said, i don't believe it. >> right, he clearly thinks it's overwritten to distress people ...

And they are actually correct. >> like so many breakups in life, there also appears to have been because of money. >> we want to help europe but it has to be fair. the burden sharing has largely been in the united states. >> the root suggested 2% level to 2024 isn't the only factor driving a wedge between presidents trump and macron, men who appeared once as close as any world leaders. >> nationalism is up a the trail of patriotism. >> the suggesting that europe is to build an army to protect itself to from others such as the u.s., that was one punch too many. the president came out swinging n...

Every one of his european drips, burden sharing, he went as far as to threaten he might pull the us out of the alliance. he said on twitter, quote, we pay for large portions of other countries military protections, hundreds of billions of dollars for the great privilege of losing the same countries on trade. i told them the situation cannot continue. he went on to say it is time these very rich countries pay the united states for its great military protection or protect themselves. this comes just one day after the president of france, emmanuel macron ripped into donald trump for his america f...