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>> and one of the areas where there is a real need for this incoming president to calm the waters has to do with nato. what should donald trump do to ensure our nato allies that he's not going to throw away what's really been sort of centerpiece of u.s. foreign policy in the postwar era since 1945. >> he can do a couple things. first, emphasize that his policy is driven by the principle of allies and partners first. he could signal during this transition he's going to live up to his campaign commitment he made at a speech in april to conduct or hold a nato summit early in his administration. s...

Three times he voted against the defense authorization act. which is a bill that funds the troops. it also, by the way, funds the iron dome and other important programs. i have to assume you vote against it in the senate, you would also veto it as president. he has also supported, by the way, a budget that is called a containment budget. it is a budget that would radically reduce the amount of money you spend on our military. you can't carpet bomb isis. if we continue those cuts that we're doing now, not to mention additional cuts. we'll left with the smallest and oldest air force this country...

Additional cuts. we are going to be left with the oldest and the smallest air force this country has ever had and that leaves us less safe. >> senator cruz. >> you know, marco has continued these attacks and they know it's not true. it is true that i voted against the national defense authorization act because when i campaigned in texas i told voters in texas that i would oppose the federal government having the authority to detain u.s. citizens permanently with no due process. i have repeatedly supported an effort to take that out of that bill and i honored that campaign commitment. but more ...

Down that detention facility. >> yes, it is a campaign commitment he promised to do so in 2008, and promised to do it in the first term, but it has not happened, and we will see if he can achieve that in the final year of office. we want to bring in the anchor of the lead our own jake tapper, and our own correspondent gloria borger, and also our national security correspondent jim sciut sciutto. once he finishes this news conference, he is headed tout san bernardino to meet with the families of the terror attack there, and then he is going on the vacation in hawaii, but he has spent the last w...

this in an interview, cbs's ""60 minutes"," the president challenges the political partisanship. he says republican strategy cuts him off at the knees. >> i think the republicans made a different calculation, which was, you know what, we really screwed up the economy. obama seems popular. our best bet is to stand on the sidelines because we think the economy will get worse and at some point just blame him. so we haven't gotten the kind of engagement from them that i would have liked. all right. a lot of political buzz this morning that's centering on the weekend's gop debate. it wa...