that is untrue. president george w. bush pressured countries to spend more on their defense spending, and barack obama brought it up as well. and then these countries, all the nato members have been paying their dues to the nato budget itself. that is not behind at all. there was a voluntary commitment. he talked about years and years of not paying. there was a voluntary pledge by countries in 2014, three years ago, to try to spend 2% of their gdps on defense. some countries have not done that, but that s only since 2014. and you re right, as david sanger said, it s for their own defense budgets. the nato dues are being paid and have been paid, you know, year after year. and they don t necessarily have to spend it on military, either. it can be spent on equipment, office personnel. it doesn t need to actually be spent on artillery. yeah. the president also spoke about the fight against terror and what s going on with qatar. watch this. the nation of qatar, unfortunately, has hist
all of that money back. i ve got to ask you, david, i mean, does he understand how nato works? as the new york times david sanger said earlier, these are not he said it s not country club dues. this is what is spent on your own military. right. what do you think? yeah, that s correct. there were sort of two, frankly, false statements the president said. he said no president had dared say this before. that is untrue. president george w. bush pressured countries to spend more on their defense spending, and barack obama brought it up as well. and then these countries, all the nato members have been paying their dues to the nato budget itself. that is not behind at all. there was a voluntary commitment. he talked about years and years of not paying. there was a voluntary pledge by countries in 2014, three years ago, to try to spend 2% of their gdps on defense. some countries have not done that, but that s only since 2014. and you re right, as david sanger said, it s for their
placing on that as he picks a diplomat to speak on behalf of the u.s.? well, you know, calling exxonmobil a business is almost a little bit like, you know, calling walmart a hardware store. exxonmobil, with something like $269 billion in revenue, would rank as the 44th largest nation in the world if you weighed it alongside the gdps of other nations. bigger than finland, bigger than portugal. i think that s really what president-elect trump was getting at, this is somebody who has been in charge of a massive global organization that has interests that are akin to managing the foreign policy of a nation. steven, to you, we ve heard from senator mccain that some of his concerns about rex tillerson s affiliation and affinity for possibly president putin and his association with russia, the oil company there in russia, let s listen to what
right now there are 32 countries mr. trump wait a second. they had a cease-fire three weeks ago. a cease-fire. united states, russia, syria. and during the cease-fire, russia took over vast swatches of land and then they said we don t want the cease-fire anymore. we are so outplayed on missiles on cease-fires. they are outplayed. she wasn t there. i assume she had nothing to do with it, but our country is so outplayed by putin and assad and, by the way, iran. nobody can believe how stupid our leadership is. mr. trump, secretary clinton, we need to move on to our final segment and that is the national debt, which has not been discussed until tonight. our national debt as a share of the economy, our gdps now 77%. that s the highest since just after world war ii, but the nonpartisan committee for a responsible federal budget says, secretary clinton, under your
how about that? i can see here it is white and gold. does that look white and gold? this looks black and blue. has there been this much controversy since anything. it was dividing people. nev this much controversy over an item of clothing, maybe j. loat the grammys. this is white and gold. done. white and gold. you have all decided. i m in the other camp. star wars. i think there was a huge sigh of relief when the movie was released and it was actually really good. it was the only thing bigger than donald trump this year. it was amazing made over a billion dollars so far. it made more money than certain gdps of small countries. friends going home to their parents attic to find toys from their youth. it was amazing and fun.