i think the message from the president is, i want change, i want europe to pay more, but we are not uncommitment ted to nat are committed to nato but it needs to be more in the u.s. s interests. article 5 states any attack on an ally is an attack on one of us in the nato alliance. the first and only time it has been invoked was to help the united states after 9/11, the nato secretary general noted. that s right. i guess as a reporter covering all this, i m a little puzzled at times. either you have an unshakeable commitment to nato or you have one that s vulnerable and shaky. there isn t a lot of in between. and i think one of the things that wasn t answered at this press conference was the what-if, the what-else. if these nations don t come up to the 2% gross domestic product spending on nato, which is the
sweden and many others are scratching their heads, trying to figure out what exactly he meant, because there was no attack or anything in particular that happened the night before. a lot of questions about what the president meant and where he s getting his information. the president pushing back, tweeting, give the public a break. the fake news media is trying to say that the large scale immigration in sweden is working out beautifully. not! jeff zeleny, the president did come out yesterday and say his comments about sweden were in response to a fox news report the night before. but now he s saying, look, the news media what s it wrong and this is a severe problem in sweden. what more can you tell us? reporter: he is indeed, poppy. donald trump often said this throughout the course of his campaign, talking about something he read somewhere or saw someplace. this is yet another example, when you re president of the
no, it s a standard part of their oversight. over last eight years, one of the central criticisms that congressional republicans had of the obama administration, they were too accommodating on their national security and foreign policy policies towards russia. russia is essentially a geopolitical threat around the globe that we need to take personally. what you re seeing is an emerging flashpoint between congressional republicans and this white house. there is widespread unni eeeasi about this administration s alleged contacts with russian officials. i think this is going to emerge as a key flashpoint between congressional republicans and the administration. they re aligned on a lot of issues, they re aligned on border security, wanting to get tax reform done, repeal obamacare. but this is an issue where there is a lot of tension between the white house s allies on capitol hill. guys, we re just watching in
incident. the foreign minister went on to say, quote, the ministry of foreign affairs and sweden s embassies work to disseminate an accurate and fair image of sweden. unfortunately we re seeing a general upward trend in inaccurate information. surprisingly pointed words coming from a diplomat here to a very close ally of sweden, that is the u.s. in response to this. of course there has been a lot of mockery, hashtag last night in sweden, the swedish chef from in the muppets. the former prime minister said, quote, last year there were approximately 50% more murders only in orlando orange in florida where trump spoke the other day than in all of sweden. sad. poppy? thank you, ivan watson, for
this modern age of information, right? where you just grasp one clip here, one clip there, and you don t know if it s a single sourced story. it s really important for him to get it right this time on this new executive order. so, you know, we ll see what happens from today on. so paul, to you, the president did tweet yesterday that his statement as to what s happening in sweden was in reference to a story broadcast on fox news concerning immigrants and sweden. and that s fine, that the president is watching cable news. we are cable news, right? however, is it problematic that he is apparently not fact checking or saying, i saw this and here is the data to back it up, because a lot of the people that go on fox news are commentators or people with opinions, it s not just journalists reporting factually. well, and this was apparently