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Are back at the capitol. that measure we're told will punt on this defense thing until they with regroup in a couple weeks before christmas. what do you think? >> that's a continuing resolution. two more weeks to keep the government going. we've been operating in a defense department and across the government at large for 11 years, an absurdity. when you have a continuing resolution, there's no new starts. you can only executed what you're doing. you can't execute multiyear contracts. it hobbles the military in terms of its effectiveness and efficiency. we wind up spending more money as a resu...

Thing at the end of the show but the idea of being the free world has been our pride, we're the world's democracy, free elections, self-determination, the values of the west which we've been able to extend through africa and latin america. a lot of countries in the world look to us as a model, and security is at the heart of that. also, the russians never liked nato because it works, because it worked. it kept germany in our hands and eventually got germany entirely in our hands, brought the baltic states in. i don't think we're ever headed for ukraine but i don't know, they don't like nato. >...

U.s. commitment to nato's article five which says an armed attack on one member of nato is an attack on all members. politico magazine is reporting that president trump's national security team was blind-sided by his speech because he appeared to delete the mention three of his advisers spent weeks on that speech to make sure it was included. it was not until he started delivering the speech that his national security team realized trump had failed to include the language reaffirming the so-called article five provision. with major consequence or informing them in exchange. susan, thank you. y...

Repeating that article five, this mutual defense thing, has only ever once been called into action. >> 9/11. >> for 9/11. it was actually in our defense. but what happened -- >> we have a time problem here. i'm sorry. >> i'm just going to say this. general mattis has to run to australia and tell everybody, bear with us, bear with us, bear with us. the problem is people are going to tolerate this now but if it continues, if he continues to say these things about nato, a marriage dies about two years before it's official. at some point we're going to need them symbolically and maybe practically ...

And we'll work with congress to figure out how it's funded. >> neil: the defense thing is curious. in two phone calls, he was able to shave significant sums, hundreds of millions, maybe billions over the years between the air force one contract and a jet fighter contract. that was what he was able to do to trim excess on maybe unnecessary spending in defense just in a day. so why add $54 billion when maybe you can multiply that out and extract more savings? you don't have to increase the budget at all. >> first of all, not only is he the commander-in-chief he's the new negotiator in chief. he'...