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Defense budget as part of the commitment of the 70-year alliance. and since taking office the president has demanded that other countries pay their fair share and committed to 2% of gdp to be on defense. and spending is up 4.6% and the fifth year of grow so started in the last two years of obama and three years under trump and nine allies are spending the 2% of the gdp on defense up from three a few years ago so gains started before trump took office but a lot of gains since. it is something that he deserves some credit for, yes? >> i mean, every u.s. president has demanded nato allies do some...

Of course it was just last week where the jury heard that the chairman of that bank had approved that loan at the same time that he was talking with paul manafort about potentially securing a high ranking position within the trump administration. so now the prosecution has laid out all of their evidence and it remains to be seen exactly what the defense will do here. jim. >> we have the defense up tomorrow. do we know on the key question will manafort take the stand? >> reporter: that is the big question here. so judge ellis has said that he needs the defense to lay out their plan first thing ...

Juan, will still pay for it. there's about a 2,000-mile border with mexico in the united states. because of the rio grande in the mountains, the virtual fence, you only need about 800 miles of border wall. there is already 500 miles constructed. they want to improve upon it and add an additional 300. the sector chief says when they put defense up, illegal crossings dropped. it pushes it down to another sector. pushed it to the yuma sector. prototypes look good. 24 to 30 feet high, they are impenetrable. you had u.s. special forces tried to scale them, blowtorch them. they couldn't do it. the t...

It's thick. it's 32 pages including a cover sheet and signature page. but 32 pages of yes or no questions. i was surprised it took this long. i'm expecting we'll get meat and potatoes. that's common parlance for a death phase of why this man does not deserve the ultimate punishment as afforded in the united states justice system. >> were you surprised that the defense in this particular case really didn't put much of a defense up? they acknowledged he was there. they acknowledged that he was part of this two-brother team that was involved in the killing of these three people the injuring of so...