and cheat our companies. not fair. and yet you re an american company employing americans. you re on track to lose $1 million because of this. when he says doing very well and reclaiming our heritage, what s your reaction, pat? well, i can only speak for my company, so i don t know how it affects all the companies in the united states. maybe in the balance, it is good for american manufacturing. i can only speak for my company. we don t move the cog of american economic commerce. we re small. but it is hurting us. and i don t know that that message is known in washington. so part of the reason why i agreed to the interview was to help get the message that it s not helping everyone. there is a section of us that are being hurt by it. so you, obviously, did vote for trump. and now, you know, you re talking about losing this money and you want people in washington to be aware of it. are you if the re-election vote was tomorrow, pat, would you vote for him again? you know, i
here during the news conference? i think the two most important issues are going to be on security and trade. security, clearly the threat from russia which is continuing to wage a war in the ukraine and is threatening nato allies in eastern europe. i think chancellor merkel is going to want strong assurances from president trump that the unitommitted to nato. the comments he may direct the campaign of it being obsolete, making american support for nato conditional upon the amount of money its members paid on their militaries, that was very worrying to our european allies, and she s going to want him to come out and say the u.s. stance by nato because it is the bedrock of our alliance. and then on trade, germany a huge export economy, 50% of all german jobs derive from exports, german companies employ over 600,000 americans, and she has brought with her the heads of some very big german corporations, b&w, siemens, all of which have supply chains here in the united states. the protect
coming out of the administration over the past couple weeks is also very worrying to germans, so she is going to want a commitment that we are going to keep open trade between europe and the united states. leland: is going to be somewhat of a comp heated conversation for president trump who loves american jobs, think about portion of the huge factory here, mercedes-benz, bmw, all have factories inside the united states, employing americans, so it is not as easy as shutting off the border to say we re going to put a tariff on this car or that car. now onto this personal relationship. we know angela merkel and president obama had a very close relationship. kevin corke talked about that earlier. now we roll the tape of the first time that president trump is with the german chancellor, and shall we say, the body language is frigid. a kind of reminds me of president obama and benjamin netanyahu sitting there. let s not forget donald trump
identity of americans during foreign surveillance peer chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge lift from our d.c. bureau with what this all means. thank you. with today s deadline looming, the house intelligence committee wants the cia, nsa, and fbi to explain who in the administration identified among americans whose phone call conversations were tapped during foreign surveillance? they call this incidental collection which is when a foreign element like the russian ambassador is tracked and then the foreign messages or text messages of an american is picked up, based on our reporting, that is how michael flynn s communications were captured paired with this letter, the committee is asking if others from the trump team and clinton campaigns were involved. i have been very clear about my concern about number one, the incidental collection, how that was put into a product, how it was unmasked, how it was leaked to the public, several crimes
growth, america first that worked so well for him during the election here. absolutely. donald trump supporters love the things that angela merkel is the exact opposite of. when it comes to support for nato, donald trump supporters disproportionately thought that belonging and nato was a negative, more than 30% according to most research post compared to 60% of overall americans who thought nato was hurting the u.s. donald trump supporters tend to want to pull away from the global leadership role. and angela merkel has come to stanford taking in so many refugees and immigrants, not only do downtime supporters but even many more americans were supportive of the travel ban, and you do not necessarily want to see donald trump bent on it the way and go over to angela merkel s side. what is interesting about listening to him talk right now is that he did, albeit in a less enthusiastic way, talk about german unity.