opportunity to solve the crisis on the korean peninsula. so once again, thank you so much for your strong commitment to our alliance. and i look forward to continuing our discussion and to address these issues and many others. thank you very much. thank you. mr. president? sir, could you clarify the context of your use of the word animal yesterday in yes. well it has nothing to do with this meeting i m referring and you know i m referring to the ms-13 gangs that are coming in. i was talking about the ms-13. also, if you look further onto the tape you will see that i m actually surprised you are asking this question. most people got it right. but i m saying the ms-13. you don t have that where you come from. ms-13. these are animals. they are coming into our country. we are getting them out. they come in again. we are getting them out. we need strong immigration laws. we have the weakest laws in the entire recalled would. we have laws that are laughed at on immigration. so when
dollars. so i think that s something we will be discussing later and we will be discussing that in our meeting and probably long before the meeting. we are going to successfully confront the full range of threats, and we are going to need every member state to honor its obligation. so as we ve just said, some do and some don t. today, the united states reaffirmed our commitment to article five and the mutual defense pack. we renew our call on nations to demonstrate their commitment to the alliance through their actions including by increasing their defense contributions under article three requirement for preparedness and military capacity. you have to be prepared. never know what s going to happen. i have also called on nato to improve its counter-terrorism capabilities since the founding of the alliance, terrorism has claimed more lives in nato countries than any other security threat. think of that. this was something that years ago wasn t even a subject.
lot also. i think we ll actually have a good relationship eye sassuming have the meeting and eassuming something comes out of it. he ll get protections that are very strong. syria never got protections. or anywhere around the middle east. iraq. you look at libya. with libya, certainly they didn t have protection. they had the exact opposite. that was absolute decimation. and that s what we planned to do and that s what we do. would you raise u.s. troop levels as a possibility? we re not going to say that. we will say he ll have very adequate protection and see how it all turns out. i will tell you this the best thing he could do would be to make a deal. i have a feeling though, for various reasons including trade. because they ve never had this problem before. china s never had this problem with us. it could very well be that he s influencing kim jong-un. we ll see what happens. meaning, the president of china,
about the suspicious activity reports that we were discussing before we went to the white house. but first let s go to nbc s hans nichols who is standing by for us. hans, there was a lot in that discussion right there with the president in regards to north korea. break it down for us. well, number one, president trump seems to suggest that china has somehow influenced kim jong-un and changed his thinking on what he wants to do in terms of negotiations with president trump. the president seemed to be going both ways on whether or not in meeting would take place, that june the 12th meeting. at one point he said that the north koreans were even negotiating about the location of the meeting. unclear if the president was talking about the location inside singapore, on what sort of back-and-forth there. i think the most significant thing in there was this idea of making distinguishing comments about the libyan model. remember, the libyan model is what john bolton, national security advisor
not, indictments about russians from meddling in the election and donald trump jr. admitted to holding a meeting when he was promised russian dirt on hillary clinton. so, if you want to use, you know, a small collusion, that happened, that happened, robert mueller hasn t weighed in on it just yet. wait, i disagree. what was the collusion? donald trump held a meeting with russians because they promised dirt on hillary clinton. so i guess it was attempt at collusion by your definition. i think that was a mistake to hold that meeting. but nothing came of it. absolutely zero. worthless meeting. no follow-up. so that s not collusion. let s wait and see what robert mueller has. you know, christine, to you there is one interesting thing the president gets to at the end of the statement, he says that president obama did nothing on election meddling. you obviously were big hillary clinton supporter during the campaign. as you look back, do you wish the obama administration had done more