remember about this tomorrow when we meet at the nato summit. but above all within you meet president putin in helsinki. it is always worth know who can is your strategic friend and who is your strategy problem. as far as nato spending goes, five of 29 nations have met their commitments set for 2024 the rest still have years to meet that target. joining us from brussels, belgium, white house correspondent kristen welker, and kyle perry for us. chris, i m going to start with you on this one, set the scene for, kristen, how out of the ordinary was it to see not only what took place in i d that breakfast but how contentious the exchange was? reporter: it can t with overstated. it is remarkable. i have covered a number of these summits. typically, what you see in these public events are pleasantry,
when our own peter alexander asked if putin was a foe, he wouldn t go that far. he said he s a competitor, andrea. you referred to what european council president donald tusk had to say, take a look at that. it sorts of sets the stage. dear president trump. america does not have and will not have a better ally than europe. please remember about this tomorrow, when we meet at the nato summit. but above all, when you meet president putin in helsinki. it s about knowing who is your strategy friend and who is your strategy problem. christine, where do we stand as the president goes from meeting with the nato allies and making all these threats about downgrading our involvement, about pulling back troops from germany and basis es in europe,d
you can see the list up there. i m joined now by michael steele, a republican strategist. whose fault is this? it s not just conservatives. doctor, fairly unanimously aren t happy with this. whose fault is it you ve got to look at the republican leadership and the calculation they ve made. bottom line is this is not lost on anyone. you ve had at least six years to get to this point. it s not like all of a should obamacare came on the table last year and now you re dealing with it. you had the rupp way to set this up. so when you roll it out, you would think in listening to the speaker say we vetted this for 18 months and had all these meetings and everybody was behind it and for it, if that s the case, why are so many republicans, particularly conservatives upset about it? they ve got an internal strategy problem. the white house is adding pressure on top of that because the president is like i m not going to go ahead and sell this on my own, you guys have got to
going to get a lot of criticism. and just the tone of the president s remarks, he was talking about going after isis leaders and warning the ones still alive they are next. he reeled off a long list of leaders the u.s. has taken out. i think the palpable frustration in the white house that what they see as an intensified effort over the last few months is not get. ing through to the american people and the president is getting a lot of criticism. the white house believes they have a communications problem on isis as much as a strategy problem that many of its opponents see as really the issue here. as you point of the the day before this debate this is also the first debate in the wake of paris. when you imagine the main stage, who has the advantage when it comes to really debating
it was more or less he was held without bail. back to politics and the question posed by our first read team. what do republicans do next in their battle against president obama s health care law, and are they beginning to run out of ammunition? joining me live now, senior political editor mark murray, it was one of the first reads that noted that part of the strategy problem for republicans regarding focusing heavily on the website was if it was repaired or if things start to run a bit more smoothly, where would they go here? we re seeing that strategy at least from speaker boehner s team saying that they plan to highlight what they still fear are low points regarding coverage for people. tamron, one of the biggest developments in the health care debate that everyone is running in place. resuscitate a lot of argument