and donald trump started his whole conversation about nato during the campaign was how nobody else pays their way. the u.s. is done with paying for all of this. obsolete. it s objecto obsolete. he moved his messaging. mike pence went and visited with nato and said we are committed on nato. we are going to keep going on nato, but everybody should be paying their part. but this has been going on forever, other presidents said everyone should pay their part. some say the mechanisms of nato are out of date and should be revisited but donald trump agreed nato is relevant if not foreign and nato agreed that we have got a u.s. president who is going to take us to task, better not get under his skin. the government is full of potential briefers, the state department is full of experts. there is real concern this is a president subject to flattery wanting a close personal relationship after every encounter, that he could agree to things that he shouldn t. well, he is very transactional