what is next for her ex-lover. we are here to weighe in. hello fox news that night i am shannon bream. american first is riling up europeans and american democrats and republicans but what about everyday republicans want americans? taking aim at germany to explain the russian pipeline deal and also asking allies to up their contributionsy to 4%. that is a lot so we have team coverage tonight. first looking at the history of the u.s. russia meetingsh but first john roberts is live in brussels tonight. good evening. good evening where the sun is just about ready to come up and and eight hours the president will board air force one and working with prime minister teresa may that last
here in london, i can tell you people are taking what president trump is saying very, very seriously because the united kingdom is one of those few nato member countries that does meet its 2% gdp and we want everyone else to do the same in terms of defense spending. laura: which is in part why theresa may was so muted in her reaction to this, not only her problems at home but these numbers don t look great for european contributions to the military budget of nato. let s check it out. here are the countries that actually meet the 2%. we have the united kingdom, united states, estonia, greece, and my half polish side says poland. go, poland. everybody else can t make it. you don t even have germany with all its money, including the money it s making off this russian pipeline deal. we have to wait until 2024 get 2%? most americans watching this
, he is upset they do not pay toll the gdp but the united states pays 3.5 but that you double down and then yesterday tweets the country should pay as much as 4% of their gdp. the president is also critical of germany because it is wrapping up a pipeline deal and we will get a lot of more and his whole upset opposite with that it was the germany with going up against russia them pay millions of dollars to russia for its energy supply. there is a couple of quibbles that could come up began this morning but the morning meeting and what.
president claiming that germany, of all countries, is a captive and totally controlled by russia. i mean, nothing could be further than the truth, given the fact that germany is the strongest european nation standing against russia, has led the call for sanctions, has led the call to keep crimea, for instance, out of the russian sphere, and russia to roll back the annexation of crimea. and this pipeline deal was one that was done 15 or more years ago. it has nothing to do with nato spending whatsoever. it s total apples and oranges, and this is what the german defense secretary said to me. first of all, this is a pipeline, this economic project started i think back in 2002 or 03. so, way before russia changed its behavior in 2014. we have a very diverse mix of energy supply, so the president hasn t to be worried that
i think the leaders are looking forward to your thoughts about the meeting with president putin, later on. i have to say, i think it s very sad when germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with russia. and germany pay billions and billions of dollars a year to russia. we re protecting germany, france, all of these countries. and then, numerous of the countries go out and make the pipeline deal with russia, where they re paying billions of dollars into the coffers of russia. we re supposed to protect you against russia but they they re paying russia. and the former chancellor of germany is the head of the pipeline company that s supplying the grass. germany will have almost 70% of their country controlled by russia with natural gas. you tell me. is that appropriate?