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By 29%, not over three years, in one year. that's a major cut at a time when diplomacy and continued engagement in the world is very important. we see secretary tillerson out in asia trying to engage with our allies, and the chinese on the issue of north korea. we have a problem in the middle east that requires not only military force, but diplomatic engagent, the same is true with russia. so cutting the budget at this time is troubling. the second part is that there are no people. right now there are three people in the state department who have an confirmed by the u.s. senate and secretary t...

Come up, those policy positions specifically in these talks, craig. >> stand by for me if you can, hallie. i want to bring in the former u.s. permanent representative to nato under president obama, currently president of the chicago council on global affairs. ivo thanks for your time this afternoon, sir. you wrote a column in "the financial times" that caught our attention. you called, you talked about, wrote about the white house's troubling deconstruction of diplomacy. what are the chief concerns in europe about this administration's approach to diplomacy and foreign affairs so far? >> well ...

All countries including germany to spend 2% of gdp by 2024, and you are now seeing the increases in defense spending coming along, this started before president trump has made this an issue but it will continue, i expect, because the threat posed by russia is one of the reasons that europeans are looking to increase in defense spending, and the need to have a fairer burden sharing is something all american presidents recognized and it's time and finally for europe to recognize the same thing. >> ambassador ivo dalder, thank you, sir, for your time again. left side of your screen, that is a liv...