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The wildfire has torched 1 you thousand acres with only 5% containment. that remains ongoing. james mattis is slamming an nbc story for being fake news. the report claims military officials were forced to reassure european allies of america's defense commitments following the president's tough talks at nato. >> i also just heard about this story that the pentagon's in damage control. i love reading fiction. >> fiction. president trump criticized nato members for not contributing to their promised defense spending, urging them to pay more. rachel, now to you. >> thank you, pete. not long ago, d...

Inauguration. the crowds appear to have reach add quarter million people at their height. tonight on fox news sean called the protesters angry liberal socialists, free loaders. after insulting american allies at the nato meeting trump insulted the british prime minister. when the story came out he apologized to the prime minister but then denied the newspaper interview he gave. he called it fake news even though we can hear the audio recording of what he said in that interview. aside from insauults and appearances it already happened in brussels. nbc news reported after the president's departu...

Maybe has much warmer scenes with vladimir putin. if that pattern repeats itself, would put more crack in the trans atlantic alliances. >> shepard: you report the relationship with germany is especially bad. >> yeah, the germans have committed in trump's mind several sins. they know this and they don't know how to get passed them. sin number 1 is they're not paying enough in terms of their defense commitments, their budget commitments. increasing them a little bit but not enough. point number 2, he's very fixated on the automobile issue. he says to angela merkel privately, he said i see german...

Much. and then he said eventually he'd like to get all troops out of asia. that will send ripple effects across the entire globe to allies not just in japan and korea but nato, australia. i thetary mattis, pompeo, are going to have a lot of work putting that back in the box, trying to assure allies we're serious about our defense commitments and maintaining stability. not just vis-a-vis korea but china. so i think not only the denuclearization specifics but clarifying our commitment to allies ismattis, pompeo -- >> thank you. we're going to have to -- >> and one would hope the president himsel...

Loaded term. >> and look, this is not just about the united states and north korea. because you've got neighbors there, japan, china, south korea as well, they all have a shared interest in denuclearization of this peninsula. for a successful summit, does the president have to take into account the concerns and needs of these east asian countries? can he succeed? he goes in with just an america-first mindset? >> it's a really important point. when we used to do negotiations and we got wrapped up in the heat of the negotiations, we always tried to tell ourselves, we can't let our north korea po...