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>> neil: you know, fred barnes is a brilliant writer. when he said earlier in the week in a great comment, talked about republicans who are nitpicking over details, that something essentially is better than nothing, that by not moving when they could have moved on a fix and replacement for obamacare what they ended up leaving in place was obamacare. only he said it far better than i ever could. fred, good to have you. >> good, you said it pretty well yourself. >> neil: what happens now? they're revisiting this again, what happens now? >> i don't think there's any future in this congress, anywa...

Wrapped up, i was lucky enough to spend a few minutes with her here in our new york studios and ask her about pmerkel's reactio. angela her kell saxiou angela merkel said we can't trust old friends like we used to. and since your job requires shoulder to shoulder diplomacy, how the president's reluctance to apffirm our commitment at th nato summit affects your job. >> i think that article v is something that we have always supported. >> do you support it today? >> yes, absolutely. >> you are willing to say that america's policy is to support article v? >> yes. there are a lot of things he didn...

Germany will see in time that we have the backs of our allies. and all of our allies are starting to see that and that is our job is to show them that we have their back and when the time comes we need them to have our back, as well. >> do you think angela merkel is nitpicking donald trump? he is escalating a war on twitter with her criticizing german policies on trade and dues paying. >> there are obviously differences of opinion, but at the same time i think i know that we believe in nato and how we strongly we believe about those alleyieallies. >> most people thought it was stunning that he...

Why do we even need to say that? is that nitpicking? >> jesse: it could be. it's not something you are supposed to say as you address nato? and make the allies feel a little bit? y maybe he should have said that. i think it's understood. i think it's important for nato to start brushing up. s we had nato deployed in afghanistan for a little while. there were problems communicating, different rules of engagement. air to air communication issues. some countries weren't even getting off into the air because they didn't want to do certain air raids. >> kimberly: some didn't have uniforms. >> jesse...

It is important why we understand why leaks are dangerous because we want those people out in the field that are our assets or our ally's assets to know what they're doing is going to be protected. >> nitpicking or are you seeing a pattern in the behavior of the president and the white house that should be a legitimate cause of concern? >> you know, tweet storms is not a sustainable strategy and the president has picked a lot of good people. they are smart people and honorable people in this president's white house and they have a really, really hard job because it feels like kiddy soccer most...