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Meeting and discussions with the german chancellor when it comes to german defense spending and also this issue of purchasing energy from russia and secondly, what would you say to your critics that say by creating this scene here at nato you are only enabling president putin in russia to further disturb things in ukraine and georgia? >> well, if you consider putting up tremendously, you know, additional funds at a level that nobody has ever seen before, i don't think that's helping russia i think that nato is much stronger now than it was two days ago. i think nato was not doing what they wer...

>> a strong commitment to nato. that's not a surprise if you have been following the president's tone. what he has been saying is effectively this. burden-sharing is what we are all about, right? you can't expect the u.s. to do everything. i also found it interesting as he prepares to make his way here to london. the president spent a little time talking about immigration. that has been a hot button issue all across europe. listen to how he described what that meant not just to his election but how things are going here in europe. >> i told him today the eu, the european union better be very c...

Secretary. he understands it better than anybody. thank you very much. thank you. >> secretary-general there discussing what the president and he are going to discuss as they go into the breakfast and hitting on the main gripe the president has had from the campaign trail to the white house and on over to europe, that the other partners are not pulling their own weight. admitting there needs to be a greater burden sharing. >> and the president taking the credit, because of me, there's $40 million more committed to defense spending for nato. >> and stoltenburg likes him and he may be the only o...

But four that have not, he sent letters to their leaders including angela merkel to say come on, pony up here. peter brooks on this. what do you make of it? should make for an interesting pow-wow next week. >> yeah, especially after the g-7 and the president goes to russia. remember that? this takes place in the shadow of russia. it's in brussels. so very important. we want to come out of this showing strength and solidarity. but yeah, there's some tensions. the iran deal is out there. the tariffs that you mentioned. concerns about russia. the president is right and nato's spending. the member...

Statement, i haven't examined those tweets too closely. if it's more of a campaign shot, then it should be done from his re-elect account, not from an official account. that's really the issue. if you are talking campaign, you simply cannot use your official resources to do that. it's not clear from that tweet whether that was a campaign statement. >> let me get your take on this. we have about 30 seconds. these letters, according to "the new york times," that the president sent to various nato allies talking about it time to pay up. all of this ahead of the upcoming meeting. what does that do...