first face to face meeting. the president sort of setting the agenda in a press conference earlier today. clearly syria s going to be on the table, as well as russia s destablizing behavior, as he eluded to. also be talking with putin about north korea. the president has said in the past he would like to have a constructive relationship, more constructive than in the past with russia. but clearly russia s behavior is getting in the way of that. could be a fly on the wall at that bilateral meeting tomorrow. would be an interesting place to be. leland: it certainly would be. we re waiting to hear what your sources say that are inside the room, john. first presidential trip overseas that you ve reported on. lot of questions in terms of how this president approaches nato. did he clear any of that up today? reporter: the president, the last time that he was in europe, which was back at the end of may, going to that nato summit, getting a lot of criticism for in a ceremony dating an arti
they believe they can acquire this icbm capability, capable of reaching the united states. that is their strategy. clearly they re about it. leland: well, check mate, as you say, brings up a lot of questions strategically. move on now to the second part of this trip in terms of talking about the president s commit phpbtd to nato. there were a lot of questions. he talked about article v in his speech. no doubt that speech was on polish soil, a country that s meeting the 2% threshold set by nato. listen to what the president said. we are grateful for the example poland has set for every member of the nato alliance by being one of the few nation that actually meets its financial obligations. as you know, i have been pretty hard on some of the members of nato. money has been pouring in in the last year. far greater than it ever would have been. it is past time for all
v memorial for not coming out and mentioning as other presidents have in the past. the united states firm commitment to article v. the president said, well, it was an article v ceremony. didn t feel the need to specifically mention it. he put to rest any criticism of that day today when he said this. listen here. to those who would criticize our tough stance, i would point out that the united states has demonstrated not merely with words, but with its actions that we stand firmly behind article v, mutual defense commitment. words are easy, but actions are what matter. reporter: tough stance that the president was talking about then was to call upon nato countries to live up to the commitment of 2% of their gdp toward the military capabilities within nato, praising poland earlier today for committing 2.5% of its gdp, which would put