melissa bell joins me live from warsaw with the latest. remind us why the wording of donald trump s speech is just so critical. well, because as you were just reminding viewers, hannah, this is really all about nato. you really need only to look at the geography of poland, to look at its 20th century history to understand why perhaps for this country, more than any other in europe, the idea of that famous article 5 clause within the nato trea treaty, which essentially means when one country is under attack, the others come to help it, you can understand why it matters more here than it does in many other countries. we are hear in warsaw, after all, only 300 kilometers from the russian border. as you alluded to, donald trump has not been terribly forth coming in his support, in his clear recommitment to that article 5 clause, failing to mention it at all when he was at
russian plan to say what would you like the american president to do to destroy nato, it would be to go to nato headquarters and publicly, you know, highlight divisions, berate the countries and refuse to affirm article 5 which says we will come to your defense. trump did all of that. the white house has pushed back on the fact that he didn t mention article 5, the nato trea treaty, which is obviously the bedrock section of the nato alliance. they said, you know, that he was speaking at the september 11th memorial and he did mention the article 5 at that september 11 isth memorial. how hard would it be for him to do it again? the whole world was waiting to hear him say it. all european countries were waiting to hear him say it. communicated this to the united states that this is what they wanted to hear from trump, instead they get a lecture about dollars and cents and who s paying 2% and who s not. by the way, a point that president obama made, his defense secretary robert gates m
the tutelage of roy cohen and he s making his way to manhattan to become a rich playboy, his owe persona meshlged with t mer image of the business and he has trouble separating the two even know. donald trump s lawyer worked infamously for joe mccarthy back during the red baiting days. and years later in 1984, trump pitched himself to the government as an arms control negotiator with the soviet yuchb and here s what kohn had to say about the role donald trump hoped to play with the russians. is it arrogant of donald trump to even suggest the idea or think about negotiating a trea treaty with the russians? no. if you know donald trump, you would know that it s not
secret facilities. buying the stuff they need. the nicer we are to them, the more offensive they are to the rest of the world, including the kinds of things ahminedjad said about president obama within the last week or two. i don t think they re taking the rest of the world including the united states, seriously, on the question of nuclear weapons and it seems to me unless we make clear to them we can and will stop them from becoming a nuclear power, they re just going to go right ahead and do it. that will become a history-changer. that will decimate all the efforts that are being made. the s.t.a.r.t. treaty, which reduces a number of nuclear warheads. the entire system of nonproliferation, globally, will collapse if iran becomes a
desirable goal, but as we reduce the number of nuclear warheads, we in the united states have in a world where nuclear weapons are spreading, we have to make sure they work. some are decades old. there has, in my opinion, been a debate within the administration about whether they want to commit to modernizing in some places, whether they want to commit the modernizing and in some cases, replacing nuclear warheads. there s some sense that secretary gates lost one of those arguments. i don t think there s going to be 67 votes for the s.t.a.r.t. treaty unless there s a clear commitment from the administration that they re prepared to do what s necessary to keep our stockpile working. secretary gates said over the