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View that we need a much better burden sharing within nato, and that's why i do believe that my proposals for european defense are consistent with that because it means more europe was in nato, more capacity, in order to take our part of the burden. i think it's very fair and very important. >> i appreciate what you're saying about burden sharing. you know what my attitude's been, and we want a strong europe. it's very important to us to have a strong europe. whichever way we can do it the best and most efficient would be something that we both want. >> reporter: there was a sense that the fre...

Spat between mr. macron mr. trump over defense, defense spending, how much europe was going to take part in its own defense and when i listened to them i don't hear that much disagreement between their viewpoints. >> reporter: you could see that interaction right there. very different than what we typically have seen between president trump and president macron which has been slapping each other on the back. but that is not what you witnessed right there as they were speaking. macron certainly seemed to be working to get the president's ear by saying burden sharing. that's something the presid...

Through overnight, that aggressive, belligerent tone from the american president. and so macron -- as the meeting began -- chose to craaddress it immediately in a way he said it shouldn't be a threat but it's about burden sharing. have a listen. >> i do share president trump's views that we need a much better burden sharing within nato. and that's why i believe that my proposals for european defense are consistent with that because it means more europe in nato, more capacity, in order to take our part of the burden. i think it's fair and important. >> i appreciate what you are saying about bur...

With french president macron and his wife. they arrived late last night aboard air force one for what will be a solemn weekend marking 100 years since the end of world war i. in a tweet upon arrival, the president accentuated the positive. i am in paris getting ready to celebrate the end of world war i. is there anything better to celebrate than the end of a war and particular that one, which was one of the bloodiest and wors worst of all time. however, it was another tweet that has caused a bit of a stir here in paris today. he called insulting a suggestion from french president macron that e...

Of that? >> first of all there is this concept of the european army or the european military and our position is very clear, that you can do extra things over and above your nato commitment, if you want, but don't undercut nato. don't try to have this as a substitute program for nato. the french are on track or at least they say they're on track to meet their nato commitments. the germans are not. we still don't have a single politician in germany who has stood up and said "we will meet the nato commitment of 2% by 2024". what we heard from the germans is that they will have 1.5% by 2024 so we...