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Russia. i think that's very inappropriate. the former chancellor of germany is the head of the pipeline supplying gas. ultimately germany will have almost 70% of their country controlled by russia with natural gas. so you tell me, that appropriate? i mean, i have been complaining about this from the time i got here. it never should have been allowed to have happened. but germany is totally controlled by russia. >> let's go live to london to national correspondent cal perry. i would imagine in that sum briefing book, there wasn't much mentioned about this pipeline deal. . here you have the pres...

Summit. >> reporter: look, if the goal of the nato meeting whats to sort of reassure america's allies that america is still their allie, then this was the worst possible start. if the goal was to break down this institution like he's broken down so many of the traditional institutions that exist, this was the perfect start. this was the thing you don't bring up until the ends, until have you made your exit from the house you grew up in. you drop it on your parents and you leave. for him to bring this up, to a man who has gone from nation to nation around nato trying to raise money so that he c...

Horizon for the changes as we watch. what could the legacy of this be? >> internationally, trump isn't alone on these things. particularly england and the eu. working on brexit plan. broader trends at work here. interesting to continue to watch this nato summit unfold, if that was on opening negotiating gamut by the president to set the tone for the summit. comes back to agreeing the article 5 mutual defense pact standing against russia. part of a trend, a much longer multigenerational trend sweeping the world, changing institutions that formed a lot of the backbone of world government over th...

His arrows aimed at angela merkel and she can squeak by and have as undramatic a summit as possible in the uk. >> dave, that last big summit the g7, a few moments ago, we saw justin trudeau arriving in brussels. we saw how that ended and last year's nato summit went in brussels as well him help us how this is epitomizeing or shaping the way foreign policy works today. >> so i was talking to a former top nato official just yesterday. he said trump likes to keep us on our toes, so we think this will be aster. he comes out and all he las to do is say good nice words. he gets good headlines out of...

Frankly, both leaders very aware of the fact that every move is being scrutinized, their tone, every word that they utter. and if there are going to be disagreements, those disagreements take place behind closed doors. this was the opposite of that a break with property come, not spriekdz given president trump, he is known to break with protocol. but really taking the nato secretary general to task. the alliance to task, germany to task as you pointed out, reviveing that criticism that he has that nato countries don't pay their fair share in defense spending and so it was a very tense start to...