guys, kompromats. the question as a little taboo. not so taboo a little longer after that news conference. well, it s hard not to at least ask the question. if you re not asking the question, then we can only conclude that you re not reasonable, right? i perversely i would almost prefer that there be kompromat, because then why an american president is trashing nato and praising a russian dictator would have would be something you could understand, like the behavior of the last 11 days has been so inexplicable that, you know, bribery and, you know, standard issue human weakness would at least be something that would make more sense. here s my question. what could donald trump possibly be embarrassed by? we ve seen so many things come out. he s never embarrassed by anything.
the united states, by the way, is actually paying around 22% of nato s principle budget, not 90%, as the president says. let s go to our white house correspondent joining us live in brussels right now. the president is way off on his numbers on nato spending, but he s still going to be that s going to be his main message to the nato allies. you have to increase your defense spending. reporter: that s right, wolf. the numbers don t always matter much to president trump, but that language is going to be the same when he shows up here in brussels tomorrow. he seems to be spoiling for a fight, judging by his tweets this morning, trashing nato, singling out germany specifically, saying they aren t doing enough for their defense spending. this has long been a complaint of the president. that those countries are not living up to that 2014 agreement to spend up to 2% of their gdp on defense spending. now, that has also been a complaint of presidents in the past, to be fair. this isn t just
potentially at the very least clued with the russian government during the campaign. if putt putin had either personal leverage over him as we have heard some allege or financial leverage. much the same could be said on the international stage. when donald trump meets with vladimir putin and as donald trump has fulfilled his duties as commander in chief over the past year and a half or so why is it that he is consistently cow toed to the wills and whims of vladimir putin, which interests certainly do not align with ours. despite that we have seen the trump administration a just about every turn give vladimir putin what he wants, from trashing nato, to starting trade wars with our allies, to removing ourselves from international agreements. donald trump is fulfilling putin s agenda. at the core of all of this is the question of why. i think we can see here if that is a conflict of hainterest tha
they don t. they will have conservatives upset if they do this and you ll have moderate voters and moderate republicans who don t like the bill at all because they don t think it goes far enough. but, willie geist, what is so has to be so frustrating for people who are working for donald trump, 30 days ago, they would have been scared to cross donald trump. they are not scared of donald trump today. i ve talked to them. they are frustrated by him. the constant tweets. he s wearing his own supporters down. i mean, i hope that tweet three weeks ago was worth it to him, because by trashing the fbi, the last president, by trashing great britain, by trashing angela merkel and by trashing nato, and by tracker all of our allies he has a lot of conservatives in places where i m from going, wait a second. what is he saying? and it s hurting him right now on the vote count. i don t think he rois that maybe some of the people in the