u.s. trump. become a little bit less something that europeans want to rely on at least we have had a debate in the past about how. we have our own defense or security interests which we also need to be capable of achieving by ourselves what is the european defense interest of outside of nato well we have a much closer. border for to russia for example so we when we look at defense we of course needs to think about. how will we be able to protect ourselves even if the u.s. were to decide for example to leave nato this is not something that i m expecting however this is something that trump has already raced in the past that this is an option. how do you think this is going to go down with what you want call the squad
spending. nato ambassador kay bailey hutchison appearing on fox news sunday arguing that the president is already reshaping the alliance. nato really is making progress and they are doing it really at president trump s insistence, and i think that it s very clear, and he s been very direct about the europeans needing to do more for their own security. mike: for more on what to expect, we go to gillian turner in washington. reporter: president trump heads to brussels in just a couple of days, a meeting intended to bolster the transatlantic alliance and underscore the common defense interest of the 29 member countries. president trump will spend time with the leaders of america s closest european allies like france, britain and germany as well as canada and turkey. going into the meetings, the administration focusing messaging to the american people on cost sharing. and we go away on monday.
gnatn national security is not just the military, it s department of homeland security, it s treasury, energy, attorney general. so it s going to be a much broader scope in some ways than he s operated in. do you worry at all about this kind of game of footsie we ve seen with russia about his ties in his private life and private business to the nation of turkey that have been reported? do you worry about outside entanglements? i think all of this ought to get exposed. we need good insight into who people are doing business with in their background but mike flynn is a patriot, he s a tough guy, it s hard for me to imagine he wouldn t always have the defense interest of the united states first and foremost in his mind. i think, again, the problem with general flynn was that he got fired by the obama team because he was stepping on a narrative
we ve seen with russia about his ties in his private life and private business to the nation of turkey that have been do you worry about outside entanglements? i think all of this ought to get exposed. people are doing business with in their background but mike flynn is a patriot, he s a tough guy, it s hard for me to imagine he wouldn t always have the defense interest of the united states first and foremost in his mind. general flynn was that he got fired by the obama team because he was stepping on a narrative that says isis is the jv and he saw them as a growing threat to the american people. by and large he was right but he wouldn t join the consensus so now he s angry, he s rebelled
decade. and my reporter says that is the problem, and for republicans and democrats, on the committee. how so? reporter: absolutely, it is a problem for every politician in washington would has been here for any length of time. there was some data crunching and the biggest contributor for the 12 members of the committee and lo and behold i look at the list this morning what jumped out at me was the biggest special interest contributors were trial lawyers giving 96 percent of money to democrats. neil: the democrats will not want to, on the committee, would not want to go after trial lawyers. the republicans who were beneficiaries of a lot of money from defense interest, lockheed and some of the others they would be loathe to go after