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17 years. what ultimately does he want? >> i think most experts believe what he wants is to preserve his family's autocratic authoritarian tick that toauth r authoritarian dicta torie dicta. he looks at saddam hussein who gave up his chemical weapons and lost his regime. i think that's the ultimate goal of the north korean regime. there has to be a regional solution. the chinese and russians here are going to be very important to get involved to leverage, push against the inorth koreans. forgetting about the impact on us, which is considerable, the south koreans and japanese are really in the ...

Pledged to do. that is two percent of their gdp on military. listen to the president here. >> to those who would criticize our tough stance, i would point out that the united states has demonstrated not merely with words but with its actions that we stand firmly behind article five the mutual defense commitment. words are easy, actions are what matters. >> reporter: there it is the mutual defense commitment article five. the president articulated. that. the president articulated what a blessing for the world strong europe is. on two fronts today, he answered critics who say that maybe he's not...

There are no indications whether the united states will stay in the paris agreement or not. do you get the sense, steward, that any of these leaders have any more confidence regarding where the president stands on climate change and nato and russia and in other words, do they have any clarity on what this president stand force after this trip with them? >> i think they're getting an indication that this president stands for america's first and last, frankly, it is a remarkable situation where you had the president basically under mind or at least go against the pillars of what has been the wes...

Know, he's going to reup the u.s.'s defense commitment. there's weapons held back in the obama administration, due to rum rights concerns. those concerns have evaporated under this administration. as i'm watching the pictures of president trump coming to saudi arabia, i covered his campaign. and the rhetoric he used during that campaign, particularly about muslims in the united states, and muslim refugees, to see him in saudi arabia as his first foreign trip is nothing if not striking. the president talked about the fact that islam hates us. that's something that the president said in march of...

Armed forces as well, which strengthens our relationship. the package of defense commitment and support, saudi arabia and the entire gulf region, the iranian threats which exist on saudi arabia's borders and all sides. and it bolsters the kingdom to provide for its own security and contributing it counterterrorism operations across the region, and the important part of this is it, this huge arms sales package reduces the burden on the united states to provide the same equipment to our own military forces and strengthen saudi security forces for the future so that saudi arabia is more capable o...