You can take a look. I will be on the daily show with trevor noah, if all my travel goes okay including the many flights ive been taking just about every single day. Im looki ing forward to being back on trevors show. If youre in the area, it would be great if you could come by. I might see some of you in a little bit in seattle. That is all for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show does not start right now apparently. So she is there. There you are. I am here, sorry. It was actually me and a member of our ground crew both here about to start the show together. Perfect. Go to it, then. Thank you very much. Thanks to everybody who works here who has such patient with me arriving at the set usually four seconds before this camera turns on, tonight, arriving four seconds after the camera turned on. Very sorry about that. As you might imagine, as you might be able to tell from my composure right now we have a big show tonight. We have here tonight live the former Secretary General of nato.
on the 25th of may. i would expect a clear signal from that summit where president trump will participate, that the american commitment to the alliance is unchanged but also that the european allies will contribute much more. when we listened to vice president pence, secretary of defense mattis and secretary of state tillerson, they have reassured the european allies about an unchanged american commitment. as britain breaks off from the eu in a process that starts today, a lot of people are foretelling the break up of europe in a bigger way, people are looking forward to elections happening in other cornerstone eu countries. do you feel like those fea are overblown? the centrifical force we see
europe in a bigger way, people are looking forward to elections happening in other cornerstone eu countries. do you feel like those fears are overblown? the centrifical force we see operating on alliances like the eu if t nato itself, those things are as strong as are worried about? i have no doubts president putin opened a bottle of champagne after he learned about the brexit vote because it s in his interests to weaken the west on alliance. however, now, we have to listen to the will of the british people and get the best out of the divorce negotiations. i have no doubt the uk will now feel even more committed to nato and contribute even more to
it in that you seem to be saying you are reassured by people other than the president in the u.s. government, even if you are still worried about the president himself, in terms of his approach to nato. is that essentially what you mean, that you still have concerns about him but not about his team? there will be a nato summit on the 25th of may. i would expect a clear signal from that summit where president trump will participate, that the american commitment to the alliance is unchanged but also that the european allies will contribute much more. when we liened to vice president pence, secretary of defense mattis and secretary of state tillerson, they have reassured the european allies about an unchanged american commitment. as britain breaks off from the eu in a process that starts today, a lot of people are foretelling the break up of europe in a bigger way, people are looking forward to elections happening in other cornerstone eu countries. do you feel like those fears are ove
the world as they did before. and the american people should make no mistake, this is an outward moving terrorist force, they are not going to establish a little state there through sharia law and live happily ever after. this is a centrifical force. this is why i think voices like rand paul are so misguided. an al qaeda situation in the area is a threat for the entire area, even the united states. we ve seen jihadis getting training in places like this. this is al qaeda itself in control. if it is that large a threat, and i agree with you, why not reach out to iran as some in the administration want to do to help mitigate that threat? i mean, where would you put the is that al qaeda stand potential at the top followed by iran, or are they the same?