Good evening, im chuck todd here in washington. Welcome to mtp daily. We begin tonight with the unraveling of 30 years of Republican Party orthodoxy on nato, russia and trade. Much to the benefit arguably of one person, Vladimir Putin. At todays nato summit in brussels, President Trump trashed our allies, cast the u. S. As a financial victim of the nato alliance, he doubled what he wants nato countries to pay for defense, he slammed germany for being of all things too cozy with russia and he suggested the alliance is no good because of it. Heres the president this morning at a meeting with natos secretarygeneral. Many countries owe us a tremendous amount of money for many years back where theyre delinquent as far as im concerned. Its an unfair burden on the United States. I think its very sad when germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with russia where youre supposed to be guarding against russia and germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to russia. Were s
Ignatius joins us and host of kcdc on m srsnbc kasie hunt joi us as well. She does her show sunday night and up bright and early monday morning. Thank you, kasie. What a trooper. Let me ask, we need sort of a wheel of fortune here that we can spin. Ill play vanna. We can actually spin it and i can ask richard and David Ignatius, what dysfunctional Foreign Policy faux pas would you like to start with . Oh. First, we could start with north korea. I like that one. North korea continuing to develop Nuclear Weapons and longrange Missile Technology that, yes, could kill all of us while we were sleeping at night with a Nuclear Weapon. We had that wall street journal and others reporting that yesterday. Donald trump said two weeks ago the north Korean Nuclear threat is over. You can sleep well at night. Well, we all knew he was lying and now we have proof. Or, the president wants to completely unilaterally withdraw from the World Trade Organization. Theres that. Thats a bad one. Uhhuh. David i
Diplomatic meetings, donald trump in brussels, blafkt allies saying its delivering went and saying its not them but germany is controlled by russia. Germany is controlled by russia. As im concerned, theyre captive to russia. It certainly doesnt seem to make sense they pay billions of dollars to russia. Now we have to defend them against russia. The pushback came back swiftly from americans in both parties. Nato is indispensable. Its as important today as it ever has been. To weaken the alliance is not in our interest. What the president is doing is antagonizeing our allies and embracing our tra dirnl enemies and foes. Putin made a great investment in the 2016 election. Its paying off for him in brus sells today. Foreign experts know there are plenty of critiques about nato. Donald trump is calling the entire project obsolete as he did during the campaign, which reenforces russias interests. Putin wants a weaker nato, that means a weaker military pushback against russia in europe. There
What dont we have to talk about this morning . Well begin with President Trumps new comments this morning on the continued escalation of his trade war with china. Speaking earlier this morning in france amid the g7 summit, the president said that beijing has signalled it wants to try and reach a deal. China called last night our top trade people and said lets get back to the table. So well be getting back to table. I think they have been hurt very badly but they understand this is the right thing to do i have Great Respect for it. I have Great Respect for it. This is a very positive development for the world. This comes after President Trump on friday announced that he would be hiking tariffs on most imports from china following beijings decision earlier that day to place new tariffs on 75 billion in american goods. The white house says it will raise existing duties on 250 billion in products from china from 25 to 30 on october 1st. Meanwhile, tariffs on 300 billion of goods will incre
Did he say he supported john kerry. Im a democrat. Did he say sort of seemed a little embarrassed. Heres the things about him. Elise, bless his heart. Bless his heart. Real southerners like us and not yankees like him that go to oxford, i mean not ole miss. Oh, no. Exactly. Did he not go to the real oxford, mississippi. Thats right. He went to the one overseas, like sir john where they i dont know did you think had he tea at 4 00 . I went to two Southern State schools, you know, so i didnt even know what he was talking about there. Do people at oxford like him really drink goat milk . Like i dont understand this. With scones. With scones. What did he do when sir john kennedy of oxford had tea at 4 00 every afternoon . What type of scone support do you think he had. Do you think he wear the robes . You know he did. He cleans up very well. He looked very again, this is just 2004. I mean, willie and i, so we were out of turkish prisons. Shoved out by 2004. Ineligible to vote. Ineligible t