because with increased investments by the europeans and with the deployment of european and american troops flashed forward in eastern europe, we have bolstered defense and we have a stronger and more capable nato. last question here. i want you to look at this summit in concert with the one that comes after it, being president putin. writing in the new york times about how this could be an effective meet fg he took the winds from the summit, and rode that into helsinki. if there was a unified voice he used with those allies, that would be a different things entirely. how optimistic are you with that second summit t o, the one taki place in helsinki? it depends very much on how he manage the first summit. if we come out of the brussels meeting with the allies fully united and the president claiming a big win, which he can by saying the europeans are
urgently point to some sort of progress. remember, this went from the goal of they need to show some historic action before we have a summit to, oh, well, the summit is the deliverable. there s the accomplishment. secretary pompeo, he s not a neophyte to washington, a long-serving member of congress. he led the cia until very recently. is he more skeptical of north korea s motivations here than the president? i would say yes. i would say he presents himself as that. when the president says something that is vague or nobody understands what he means or what is the goal here, pompeo goes out and explains it point by point and tries to make some sense around it and build up some boundaries around it. to some extent. but i think we re repeatedly seeing these tweets where the president wants to he s using the talking points of the rival to say we have some accomplishments here, and how destructive is that in your
there, to hold the summit, to bring the south koreans to pave the way for the summit to, re-establish our strong relationship with japan. you know, prime minister abe took some hits when he wasn t. do you think this is a moment where donald trump has u.s. foreign policy headed in the right direction? with north korea, yes. but i think it s important that he establish his team. that he get his secretary of state and the state department in the lead on the north korea situation, that we don t have nikki haley with a flap where the white house is going one direction and nikki haley on russia sanctions is going in the other direction. it s been a year. he should get his foreign policy team in order, ready on the same page and that still hasn t happened. my thanks to bill richardson and apologies for the short time we were on their timeline as well as congressman eric swalwell for joining the special coverage of that joint press