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Take credit for a strengthened nato and for european partners and spending more on defense. what else do we know about his trip? >> reporter: successes is how the white house is framing it. nato has increased its spending by $130 billion since 2016. and that, only three nato nations back in 2016, made that 2% of gdp spend on defense spending. that's a nato thraeshold was three countries and now is nine countries. the white house will say, we can expect president trump to claim success there, his narrative that nato needs to step up and pay more, that's actually working. some of the big issues ...

From the time bill taylor expressed concern about the quid pro quo and when gordon sondland got back to him. >> there are real questions about whether that call happened. he was specific. it happened in between those two tects. one after midnight and one at 5:00 a.m. which is strange to think about it. he's calling the president at 1:00 a.m.? 2:00 a.m.? the testimony of two other witnesses was different about that call. they say it happened three days earlier. he told us about it. we have contemporaneous notes about when he told us about it. what was stated was much worse for donald trump. it ...

Say, no, wait a second here. these regulations are perfectly reasonable. we went too far in 2008. >> john roberts is the person who will answer that question personally. because i don't think there's any doubt that four justices will say this gun regulation is perfectly appropriate. the four more liberal will say this is appropriate. and the four more conservative, thomas, alito, kavanaugh, gorsuch will say this is impermissible. i think this will be decided by john roberts. john roberts voted with the majority in 2008. so he is the second amendment supporter. how far does he want to go with i...

Merits a enthe facts. better to boycott it and claim to be victims than engage. >> is sondland in danger of having misled the committee? this phone call he claims to have with the president, whether it happened here. >> he was in danger in his first deposition which is why he had to file an addendum and correct it kbagain. but democrats treated him with kid gloves because they needed his testimony. i think now he's in serious jeopardy. that he may have made this call up. to say the president i want nothing, i want nothing. that is the kind of thing we may see in the intel report. that we may h...

>> today the u.s. supreme court will take up the first gun rights case in nearly a decade. handgun owners are challenging a new york law that limits the transportation of guns. that law has since been amended but the case is moving forward with some gun rights advocates framing it as a test of the second amendment. joining me now jeffrey toobin. the circumstance of this, new york has amended this law, take it out of the legal pipeline here. will the supreme court likely declare it moot or take it up? >> that will be part of the argument. one of the arguments new york city is making to the just...