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Trump's message, to channel president trump and his message was a very direct one. his message, for example, on nato and for the nato european allies to make good on their 2% gdp commitment. this is something we've heard a lot about. but he rather gave the impression that it was the united states that achieved the ability to get commitments from these nato allies sitting in front of him to make good on that commitment but by 2024. of course, that was all agreed at a nato summit in wales in 2013. so former vice president joe biden when he spoke about needing to uphold existing global institutio...

Its gdp commitment to defense, 1.24% right now going up to 1.31% this year, later this year. that falls way short of the 2% that's expected of nato partners. so, president trump pushing that point. jens stoltenberg, secretary-general of nato, not really expecting to have this put in his face over breakfast on camera right at the beginning of this summit. everyone here was expecting it to be rocky, but perhaps not this rocky. stoltenberg saying look, the key thing here is that we have unity. we have differences, but we can work them out as we have in the past. and the reason he's saying that is...

It seems she flipping the script. everybody is saying he is too close to vladimir putin in russia. he is saying it is germany who is signing this big energy deal with russia. in terms of pressuring allie, he does want to see them increase their defense spending. the way he characterizies is no quite right. it is true a lot of members are not leaving their 2% of gdp commitment. >> let's talk more about german and the allies. we saw the back and forth between the president and the nato secretary general. what else do allies feel might happen? you heard from bob corker a moment ago, talking about...

Here. the president is likely to reaffirm the u.s. commitment to nato. he will probably talk about the fact that poland is one of the countries that meets its 2% gdp commitment to nato. as you know, this is something he has lashed out against other leaders for not meeting that commitment. of course, it helps to have a small economy. when you are poland, to be able to meet that commitment. but i think a lot of people in poland will be watching to see does the president talk about the threat from russia. that is something that concerns a lot of folks here. he then heads over the g-20, as you kno...

Unfortunatable, that the ueu is criticized, other allies haven't put in the percent with the way nato lays out specifically germany. >> that's certainly part of it. trump's push to have nato members meet their 2% of their gdp commitment to defense spending, that's aimed largely at countries like germany that have failed to meet those commitments. it seems like the catalyst for chancellor merkel's comments was president trump's refusal to endorse the paris climate accords at the g7 meeting. if there was a time and a place for president trump to reaffirm america's commitment to the deal, the g7 ...