he received some assistant from ronald reagan s speech writer who wrote the evil empire speech. there s a lot roff history that president trump packed into this speech and sought to connect the united states and poland, but also a broad defense of the west, as you say. shannon: press conference before this he talked about north korea. he said that he s considering very severe consequences. they ve done very very bad behavior. he talked about the fact that it is time to get something done on that front. now, we know that china and russia have met together and called essentially on this bilateral standdown. they say north korea stop with the testing and the nukes. and south korea stop with their military exercises. he will see those two leaders this week at the g-20. that will be extreme. i don t think president trump is likely to take them up on that offer. the real question going into the g-20 meetings is what does he say to the chinese leadership? what does he insist on from the
they believe they can acquire this icbm capability, capable of reaching the united states. that is their strategy. clearly they re about it. leland: well, check mate, as you say, brings up a lot of questions strategically. move on now to the second part of this trip in terms of talking about the president s commit phpbtd to nato. there were a lot of questions. he talked about article v in his speech. no doubt that speech was on polish soil, a country that s meeting the 2% threshold set by nato. listen to what the president said. we are grateful for the example poland has set for every member of the nato alliance by being one of the few nation that actually meets its financial obligations. as you know, i have been pretty hard on some of the members of nato. money has been pouring in in the last year. far greater than it ever would have been. it is past time for all
coming up that speech where he was very well received, as well as the first lady. he heads into a different situation at the g-20. one of his first meetings will be with chancellor merkel. they have had differences, to say the least. it is very expected to be a, quote, uncomfortable meeting, we re told. they are both world leaders. for merkel, the region s interest, as she has talked about. her decisions regarding immigration in germany. they also have on the agenda climate change, something they know president trump is not on board with most european nation and those in the g-20. they ll have conversations there. leland you know the big meeting we re all watching for is the one he ll have with vladamir putin. their first face to face. he called them out, called russia out today during that speech in warsaw, talking about efforts to destablize ukraine. lot of folks are wondering
what they can get out of it. number one north korea. number two syria. coming off what was really a successful speech and delivery and tone and message in poland, we ll see how this g20 plays out. shannon: do you think secretary tillerson in any way is young weighing expectations going into this? saying, listen, the most important thing is for these guys to have a good interchange. the president s going to do what he wants to do. we know about essentially the dossier that is prepared for the president, psychological workup of president putin. as a former kgb agent, we know he is meticulous about studying his opponents, about showing up at the meetings with a very specific agenda. all of that has been prepared for this president. but as we ve said repeatedly, he does things his own way, he trusts his gut. in many cases it works for him. do you think secretary tillerson is downplaying expectations on purpose?
president to go to the western wall, this is the man who rekindled and channeled ronald reagan s evil empire speech. the 20th century was the story of evil ideology threatening the whole of western civilization. it took america defeat them. we defeated with our friends and allies the nazis, and thanks to margaret thatcher, john paul ii, ronald reagan, the soviet union. the key moment was in 1987 when the president said tear down this wall, mr. gorbachev. the president today went into the heart of this region and went to the land of mecca and medina and said we have a problem. you have to help us. get the terrorists out of your place of work to.