forces threatening to tear europe apart. >> translator: it is about our security that is at stake, and nobody can solve our problems for us. it rests solely in our own hands. >> speaker after speaker indicated the growth has not seen this much insecurity since the end of world war i and world war ii. >> these are dangerous times, but you should not count america out. we must be prudent, but we cannot wring our hands and wallow in self-doubt. >> america's new secretary of state, for his part, was in a listening mode. vice president mike pence also left for his first overseas trip. he will address the munich security conference tomorrow. the european ministers were looking for reassurance as they tried to make sense of some of the statements made by president trump on the campaign trail. mattis and tiller since job was to try to ease those fears. traveling with the defense secretary in munich,