martha: so this morning at the nato meeting the president laid it out the table right away. he said germany is basically a captive of russia because they are going to do this pipeline deal. that got a lot of attention. he kind of put it in perspective in that russia is one of the big adversaries that kind of nato was set up to defend against. so having buying 30% of the natural gas from russia and then sending euros back to russia was confusing to the president. not really confusing to the president. he saw it as something that was in conflict with what nato was all about. martha: it looks like he s getting countries to pay more and to commit more military resources. he is. up 80 billion in the couple years. he s making significant advance
leaders are also looking forward to your thoughts about that meeting with president putin. i have to say, i think it s very sad when germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with russia where you re supposed to be guarding against russia and germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to russia. we re protecting germany, we re protecting france, we re protecting all of these countries and numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with russia where they re paying billions of dollars to the coffers of russia. so we re supposed to protect you against russia but they re paying billions of dollars to russia and i think that s appropriate. and the former chancellor of germany is the head of the pipeline company that s supplying the gas. almost 70% of the country will be controlled by russia with natural gas. you tell me, is that
immediately. sandra: chief white house correspondent john roberts is live for us in brussels. good morning, john. good afternoon to you. good morning to you, good afternoon to you, whatever it might be depending what clock you with on. the president came the brussels and is shaking it up. he just had a bilateral meeting with angela merkel after the president this morning in his bilateral meeting with the nato secretary general really slammed russia as you mentioned really slammed germany, rather, for crafting this pipeline deal with russia. the pipelines that will bring oil and gas directly to germany from russia. the president suggesting this morning that germany will literally be controlled by russia because it is getting 70 to 80% of its energy from russia. after the meeting the president said they talked about the pipeline, he and merkel.
that natural gas, russia has a lot of natural gas. it is all over europe. i don t know if germany has alternatives to get other natural gas from somebody else. i mean, this is a political energy reality in europe. sandra: here is the president speaking directly on that hypocritical relationship that he sees between germany and russia. listen. president trump: we re protecting all of these countries and then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with russia where they are paying billions of dollars into the coffers of russia. so we re supposed to protect you against russia but they are paying billions of dollars to russia and i think that s very inappropriate. sandra: do you agree with the president there taking on russia taking on germany? no, i don t. i think that russia i worry about the summit with russia. i think we re giving up too much with russia. russia is squeezing our allies on natural gas.
and he will deliver that message personally. accusing nato countries delinquent for many years. they must pay more and the united states must pay less. the president has been blunt so far. president trump: in germany we re protecting france and all these countries and then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with russia and i think that s very inappropriate. you tell me, is that appropriate? that should have never been allowed to have happened. blunt is a way of putting it. sessions could be contentious. folks at nato headquarters are getting ready for possible fireworks. sandra: that sets it up for us. we re keeping our eyes on a lot of events happening at this hour. a busy hour ahead. we have our a-team on tap at america s newsroom. a-team josh holmes former chief of staff to senator mitch mcconnell. mo elleithee is a former