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With numerous countries, all of whom you know about payment, payment and we get along with them very well. but it's not fair that includes nato. as you know, i got $44 billion additional last year where they paid an additional. you can speak to secretary general saltenberg, who is the head of nato, and he said he has never seen anything like it. and this year we did even better. but, when a country is very wealthy and when the united states has been protecting them for many years at tremendous cost. cost like nobody in this room would believe. it's time that they help with burden-sharing and t...

Whether dealing with military challenges or dealing with global challenges, trade, climate, you name it. guess what? we have partners. we can pick up telephones and say work with us. this is the greatest force multiplier in history. we have to stop talking about burden sharing. got start talking about benefit sharing. these are people who are working with us. >> also, just to make a point, it's not just nato to the east, look to the west. it's japan, australia, new zealand, the philippines. little difficult at the moment but thailand. singapore. indonesia. these are friends, allies and partner...

Productive nato summit. from my conversations with the secretary general stolenberg, he said the pro productive that he's been a part of. you talked about the 30 naval combatants ready to go in 30 days. something that nato has not been ready to do in quite some time. we have to make sure that occurs. it would be a great thing to do to deter russia if we can get to that level. you talked about burden sharing. it's important that the europeans are as committed to deterring russia as the united states of america and need to demonstrate that through defense. not only dollars but readiness as well....

I don't think nato is as consequential as ultranationalist parties that are springing up in nato countries, our wealthy european allies. that is a threat to the european unity and democracy. more than russia is at this moment. mike: the president's approach by getting nato countries to spend more on defense, isn't that making nato stronger? >> i think it will. this kind of burden sharing has been a policy of the united states owing back to the obama administration, trying to get allies to chip in more money as well, a different diplomatic strategy in doing that. they were not scolding publicly...

This president of what happened over in brussels and tense conversations that went behind closed doors. we'll see as the president meets with theresa may and queen elizabeth is maybe a little bit of fence mending. we heard from your sources from the president's conversation with the european leaders were tough on both sides, they were given and taking over this issue of burden sharing and defense spending, what we are hearing repeatedly from the british side is that the british as you said john are meeting their commitment of hitting 2% of gdp on defense spending and they're trying almost to b...