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Accepting of the basic principles of nato than he is in public. >> "the wall street journal" michael, is up with an editorial. berlin deserves the trumpian embarrassment over its pipeline follies. the main regret over his comments is that he undermines their diplomatic impact with his many other, less helpful fulminations on europe affairs. does he have the money going to russia? >> reporter: dave, that is not something that the trump administration has criticized, but that is something that the obama administration was unhappy about, too. it is something that they have been very worried about...

Ukraine. it is still something to be seen. >> busy day for you. thank you, michael. fbi agent peter strzok testifies publicly today and former lawyer lisa page could be alongside him. strzok and page were having an affair during the presidential campaign. texts fueled the claims of anti-trump buy yias at the bure. page defied the subpoena to appear privately before the committee yesterday. >> mark meadows says the committee plans to give page two options. appear for a closed-door int interview or testify alongside strzok today. no confirmation if she will take up either offer. the president ...

Have a certain level. they are not there yet. i will say the bully pulpit has pushed the countries to say yes we will pay more and will be doing that. >> why not go and take a bow and say iv pushed spending -- say i have pushed spending. he is confrontation. >> let's talk about this. joining us from washington is michael burnbaum. michael, is he as confrontational as he was on tv? >> reporter: not at all, christine. he has taken confrontational approach when on camera and twitter. apparently when he is met in the closed-door meetings, he is calmer. same messages that allies need to pay more fo...

>> we heard this man might have had flammable liquid with him. when you went through his satchel, did you see anything that resembled that? >> i went through his satchel, and there was nothing, just magazines, and, like, a few little things in the front. there was no container of liquid or anything like that. >> all right. let's try to limit it to two more. is that fair? yes, sir. >> thanks. michael burnbaum from the "washington post." spencer and alek, i wanted to ask you based on your military training, as you saw the shooter operating the guns, did he seem to be trained, did he seem to know...