and removing these killers and extremists and, yes, losers. they are losers. reporter: the president stuck it to nato, chastising member countries he insists aren t meeting their financial obligations to the alliance. but 23 of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they are supposed to be paying for their defense. this is not fair to the people and taxpayers of the united states. reporter: he even seemed to mock nato s new headquarters as extravagant. and never asked once what the new nato headqurters cost. i refuse to do that, but it is beautiful. that s sure to worrisome of the alliance s smaller, more vulnerable nations, the president did not express support for article five that mandates an attack on one
partners you do run a risk that some piece of information could have stopped another attack won t get through. reporter: president trump today vowing to get to the bottom of the leaks. trump in the past has repeatedly slammed the intelligence community for leaks about him. i think it s a disgrace. reporter: but the president himself is also blamed for alleging disclosing this month to russians. israeli defense minister asked if an israeli s life was put in danger but israel made a correction. we took the measures needed, some measures to defend whatever assets it was but israelis will be concerned about whatever asset they had and they ll think twice about sharing it. reporter: the president claims he never identified israel by name. i never mentioned the word or the name israel. reporter: president trump is also under fire for alleging
there was a presence of these dock utilitie documents. he would not say a word about that. reporter: the fbi decision is the latest example of the russian investigation stalling on capitol hill, blamed in part on mueller s new investigation. i think we have the exact same rights to proceed with mueller as special counsel as we had with rosenstein as acting attorney general and that we should take advantage of that. clearly there are decon flick sh raised the prospects following comey s abrupt firing earlier this month when he tweeted, james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. cnn has learned the white house has yet to tell the senate committee if the tapes even exist, and witnesses including former national security adviser
this is a major development. reporter: that s right. they now have blanket authority to issue spp of subpoenas without the committee voting on them. this as lawmakers are frustrated they ve not received any documents they ve asked for since robert mueller was appointed special counsel last week and they re concerned his investigation will hamper their own probes. tonight the fbi is refusing to share with congress former director james comey s private memos about his meetings with president trump. in a letter to house oversight chairman jason chaffetz, the department of justice blames the new special counsel robert mueller as well as other considerations. tonight chaffetz, who spoke this week with comey, has set a new deadline of june 8 for the fbi to turn over the memos, saying in a letter he hopes the bureau will make the right decision. i m skeptical and want to see them ourselves, but director comey was he would not answer that question. he would not confirm where they are
appropriate the culprit should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. president trump has more trouble waiting at home as the special prosecutor investigation into russia is getting under way. the white house is preparing a war room rapid response room to deal with the inquiry with one official saying, this is the reality of the new world we live in. it could bring corey lewendowski back into the fold. [[ inaudible ]]. reporter: so far mr. trump is refusing to follow presidential tradition on overseas trip, declining to take but a few questions from reporter. thank you. thank you all. reporter: contrast that with his fellow leaders. fielding questions from reporters from nato. asked to explain the president s comments here at nato, one senior administration official told cnn they are the president s own words. asked whether the president will at all take questions from a reporter at a formal news conference on this overseas