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I know about burden sharing. i know how much more the americans do and what we want our allies to do more of over the years. i get all of that, but we started to move in the direction several years ago. the budget that the president is praising for this year were all agreed on several years ago. i get it if we're getting more that that is a good thing. but john, the most important currency is that we review as a benign super power. >> i want to get to both of you here. vladimir putin meeting with the president on monday. he has watched this. i'm sure he has watched this very closely. what is h...

Fraying. this has been a relationship since world war ii where we've invested a lot and worked a lot with our allies that share our values. it's kept the peace for 70 years. i think at times the president has engaged in a wrecking ball diplomacy, which you go in, you wreck everything up, then at the end you declare great things. pushing them on burden sharing is good. there's no increase about what was agreed to a few years ago. maybe accelerating it, give the president credit for that. if you take the withdrawal from the paris accord, the unilateral effort around iran, when you look at the ta...

Their fair share, they haven't been for years, and they owe the u.s. money. keeping him honest, as you'll see, that is simply not the case. it's not the way it works. it's not even close. it is, however, the way president trump believes it works, and he said so for years. >> number one, nato is obsolete. and number two, the people aren't paying their way. >> it's obsolete and we pay too much money. >> nato, we're going to have the people that aren't paying, they're going to start paying. >> it's obsolete. >> they were getting ripped in nato. they don't pay their bills. >> they are delinquent. ...

Years in payments which have not been made. will they reimburse the u.s.? keeping them honest, there is nothing to reimburse beyond a token amount to keep the lights on in brussels, each member nation play pays nothing for collective defense, zero. members have their own defense budgets and have agreed to spend 2% of gdp on defense by 2024. as you can see some have already hit the target. some have not. and yes, the united states does spend far more than any other nato country, and yes, past american president, including the most recent one have criticized nato numbers for not spending enough ...

Let's go to this morning. white house officials say behind closed doors the president was very aggressive with our nato partners in terms of upping their commitment to nato. the president telling them that burden sharing needed to change if it didn't change, the white house was going to make its own changes and it was going to do its own thing. listen to what the president said in a press conference earlier today. >> yesterday i let them know i was extremely unhappy with what was happening. they have substantially upped their commitment. now we're very happy. have a very, very powerful, very s...