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That the u.s. is committed to their western allies. but the message seems like whiplash. >> it is whiplash, anderson. and this doctor jekyll mr. hyde act, but in particular on article 5. mutual defense provision at heart of the nato alliance this promise if one member attacked other members will come to their defense. to have that kind of confidence, you have to believe that the united states in particular which is the most powerful member of nato is dedicated to the alliance. and whom after this performance can possibly imagine donald trump is dedicated to that alliance? >> fareed, how do you...

Adviser, could do to get trump on his previous nato summit to simply avow he would support nato article 5, the mutual defense provision. now h.r. mcmaster is gone and there's a sense that the axis of adult has lost power in the white house. they can't restrain trump anymore. he's feeling his full trumpiness, as it were. so he's acting on his most deeply held beliefs, which includes this innate hostility towards american trade partners. >> for many, many years has raised serious questions. why does the united states need troops in germany, need troops in japan, need troops in south korea? that'...

In my view. >> and now the democrats are frustrated that the republicans got their side out and are trying to put their side out, but again, why not move on to the things that people seem to really care about? more importantly, which is the mueller investigation, the efforts to try to undermine rosenstein perhaps, and also the dreamers, the lack of a budget spending. >> yeah, absolutely. andrea, here we are, a couple days away from this continued resolution lapsing, and we need a tap steal, a budget agreement. the house later is going to pass a bill until march 23rd, lit go to the senate. the ...

Ahead to the g-20 how he talks about the al lineses. how -- alignses. he got criticism for not talking about the mutual defense provision under nato. the notion that if one country is attacked, that everyone is attacked and would respond. he later affirmed that on u.s. soil. it's the kind of thing that america's allies would like to hear explicitly from the president abroad. and this is just talking about how president trump is going to navigate u.s. allies. that is all before he reaches this highly anticipated meeting with russian president vladimir putin. aides say the president is preparing...

And spicer has come out and criticized the media for calling it a travel ban. and then the president just comes in and undercuts that. but what's confusing is that the president does control the justice department. it is in the executive branch. and instead of tweeting at the justice department to tell them what to do, he could call them and, you know, direct them. so it's all a bit confusing and it's not really clear what his aim is or if he's just simply complaining publicly. >> in the meantime, david, you have this new report that's in politico today that is about what happened at that nato...