Your number is 2027488001. Ask and if you think the Trump Administration has had no impact on nato, we want to hear from you at 2027488002. You can always text us your response on twitter. Com cspanwj and at facebook. Com cspan. Host here is President Trumps talking about the nato conference. President trump the relationship i have with other countries is really good. Yeah, they cant totally love me when i say you are not putting up your money. Youre not spending the kind of money that you are supposed to be spending because were giving you protection. Youre getting the protection of the u. S. And the greatest military force in the world and youre not paying youre delinquent. So i tell some people theyre delinquent. Theyre not going to love that. Otherwise, theyre going to be the way they are in the last 15 years, not paying and not pay up to the 2 level which frankly isnt that high. 2 isnt that high but i had a lunch yesterday that was great. I call the 2 ers the people that were at that level. Theres a total of Nine Countries and we had that lunch and a lot of countries are close and getting closer and some are really not close and we may do things strong do with trade. Its not fair. That they get u. S. Texas and theyre not putting up their money and theyre really, i call them, i use that term delinquent. Thats what they are. We had tremendous success in london and nato this very, very good shape and the relationships with other countries are extraordinary. Host now heres how the New York Times summarizes the trip to the nato conference. President trump arrived on monday evening playing the tout of Foreign Policy accomplishment. Successfully pressuring allies to pay more towards the cost of running nato. Lest less than 48 hours later after he was put on the defensive in front of the cameras and then was the subject of gossip at a private reception of World Leaders, a moment caught in a viral video mr. Trump counciled a planned News Conference before heading back to washington earlier than planned. The timing was not perfect. Mr. Trump had hoped the 70th anniversary of nato might provide a flattering stage even as democrats trotted out sober legal scholars to testify as the House Judiciary Committees first impeachment hearings. But instead of creating a split screen, mr. Trump failed to rate host now mr. Trump reacted wednesday when asked about the caught on camera moment involving canadian Prime Minister justin true dome. Heres what mr. Trump had to say about that. I was with ump and him and he was a very nice guy. Hes not paying 2 . And i guess hes not happy about it. Hes not paying 2 and he should be paying 2 . Its canada. They have money. And they should be paying 2 . So i called him out on that and im sure he wasnt happy about that. Ook, im representing the u. S. And he understands that. He should be more than hes paying. I can imagine hes not happy but thats the way it is. Host now, democrats have been quick to take advantage of what they see has a Foreign Policy slight for the United States and President Trump with democratic president ial candidate intending to run against President Trump and searching for the democratic nomination. Joe biden putting up a campaign a. D. That ad that points out to that nato conference. World leaders caught on camera laughing about President Trump. Several World Leaders mocking President Trump. Theyre laughing at him. My administration has accomplished more than any administration in the history of our country. Didnt expect that reaction but thats ok. World leaders mocking and ridiculing him for being completely off balance. Allies are deeply worried and they say hes becoming increasingly isolated. The world sees trump for what it is. Ninseer and corrupt. Incompetent. If we give donald trump four more years, we will have difficulty in recovering americas stance in the world to ring nations together. What are has been President Trumps impact on nato . Lets go to the phones and talk to leslie who is calling from jackson heights, new york. Leslie, good morning. Caller yes, good morning. I would say that President Trump has made nato at least at this point much weaker although ive come to understand that with this president , they have to stand on their own because they cant depend on the good faith of the of america anymore because this man lies and he cheats. And hes a laughingstock. Host now, leslie, one of the things that President Trump has been pushing is for the nato allies to contribute more to the nato military alliance. One of the things that weve soon is weve seen some of those alt lice start putting a little more money towards nato. Does that mean that hes been successful . Caller i dont think so. I dont think so. These alliances have been strong and in place since after world war ii. Weve stood against russia and now were pandering to russia because i dont know what hes beholden to putin for, exactly, parrotting putins talking points and really betraying this country. Host lets go to david whos calling from barb, massachusetts. David, good morning. Caller good morning. Hey, i believe that trump has done just a marvelous job. We have been sucked so many millions of dollars from all these other countries and theyre not paying their fair share. Theyre not paying a penny for it. You know, as about time someone get into that office that did something and straighten this out. We cant even watch tv anymore. Abc, nbc, all of them. I cant even watch cnn. The only channel i watch is fox. Its the only place where you can get the square truth. More power to trump and hes got four more years. 2020. Thank you. Host lets go to glen who is calling from connecticut. Glen, good morning. Caller good morning. Yeah, so this definitely making nato stronger. I mean, you got to put them into place. If they dont understand, i mean, you go over there and youre nice with them and you dont tell them how its really going to be, you know, youre just catering to what they want. Of course theyre going to act like youre ally and when you tell them what they need to do, so, you know, essentially make their country safer and they need to pay for that. You know, its like were working. Were paying our tax dollars. 1. 3 trillion trumps putting into the military. So why shouldnt they pay . Their taxpayers pay. Host now, glen, what did you think about the reaction that we saw from the videos of the World Leaders talking about President Trump . Did you see that as a positive or a negative thing or do you see that as a reaction to President Trump trying to get them basically upset the applecart by talking about finances and trying to get them to pay more money . Caller oh of course theyre going to be upset. They dont want to pay more money. Theyve had it easy for how long . You know, they havent had to pay their share and still have the security of the u. S. Military. And of course theyre going to be upset. They dont want to pay more money. They rather put more money into whatever else they want, you know . While our economy is booming and our deficit is getting higher, we need to crush that deficit by taking more from nato instead of just spending more on military. He needs to get the money from nato to offset our spending. Host glen, one of the reasons nato exists was the encroachment of the soviet union. Do you see that now that the soviet union has collapsed and we deal with russia, do you see that nato is less useful than it was in the past . Caller no, because if they do end up being, you know, were not friends with russia. Were far from friends with russia. And if they act in a bad way towards one of our nato allies, were going to have step up and defend that country. And they have to pay their share and if our military is depleted like under obama, i mean, he was getting rid of nukes, he was getting rid of missile defenses and, you know, trump had to put all that back in place, you know . I mean, so he had to double up the spending on it. So hes only asking for what they need to pay. So if russia does become aggressive again, we do have to defend ourselves against russia. Lets go to mariel who is calling from sarasota, florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. I feel that President Trump is making nato stronger. Right now, its an antiquated alliance and its based on the soft ioan soviet union which s no more. Making fun of americans is casual sport for the europeans. Ive lived there under bush and ive lived there under clinton and they made jokes about us no matter whos president. Thats what they like to do. Host now, mary ellen, where in europe did you live . Caller i lived in ireland but i also spent time in france and in italy and its just their way, you know . They love to make fun of it but they all shelter under the umbrella of nato, which we pay for and its been a disproportionate share for too many years. Russias not our biggest threat. But there are real threats from the middle east and from china and we do need an alliance of allies to address the modern hreat, not the host soviet union. Host lets go to patricia from minneapolis, minnesota. Good morning. Caller good morning. I love what President Trump is doing in regards to nato. Im sick of america being considered a chump and made fun of. They need to pony up the welfare queen europe and canada. Also i wish you would stop using the so biased, so unfair New York Times and all those articles you read. Its 90 negative on President Trump. Its ridiculous. The economy is booming. We need a lot of shows about the economy, whats actually happening and you folks are just nonstop attacking our. Its ridiculous you never did this with obama. Never. Host did you see the video coming out of the nato conference of the World Leaders talking about President Trump . You think that should have any effect on the u. S. s nato allies . Caller you know, look at i dont respect those leaders. Trudeau, he likes to dress up in black face. Hes always got costumes on. Who the heck is he . His economy is in the tank. I dont respect them. Theyre chumps. Theyre the chumps. Host lets go to sharon whos calling from beaverton, oregon. Sharon, good morning. Caller hello. Hello . Host go ahead, sharon. Youre on the air. Caller ok. Thank you. I kind of have just two points. One has to do with, you know, our relationship with nato. My husband and i years ago planned a trip to britain. First trip, you know, towards europe. It happened to be the year that america bombed gaddafi. Some of your viewers may not know but we used Margaret Thatcher supported it and let us fly out of heathrow, a nato ally. When we flew over there, we flew in one of those airplanes with fie rows in the center, etc. There were approximately 20 people on the plane. The whole time we were in britain, no tourists. Because gaddafi said he was going to bomb heathrow and he was going to terrorize england because they allowed us to fly out of there. That nato ally paid dearly that year with their economy. Reagans ing us and idea to bomb gaddafi. The only time natos kicked in has been when we were attacked with the twin towers without a sneeze. Many nato countries went in to afghanistan and later iraq. Never questioned it. They had no they had no dog in that fight. They were part of nato. They did it because they were part of nato. Thats a strength of nato. So thats what we are jeopardizing, you know. Just money. An its being there when they need you. Also, weve got bases in those countries. Took off o was they land and we have bases and we wanted those bases because we wanted to be closer and have spots where our military to take off and get closer to the fight. Weve got bases in germany. Weve got bases all over. They gave up that land. You know . You dont see german bases in america, you know . We wont give up that land. So theres more to this than just, you know, an youll dollar bill amount. And thats where i think people miss. And the second thing and then ill move on. Is for years, i was a teacher. Ou dont get anything by being sarcastic and rude. You really dont. You know, with an equal, if i wanted cooperation on something that at trial, i didnt humiliate their parents when they came in. That didnt get them on my side and have us working together for their child. It doesnt work with a kid, even if you have a power you assume you have a power as a teacher over your class. You dont get more cooperation by humiliating the kid in your classroom and acting like a jerk. You get cooperation by being respectful and that host lets try fort plain, new york. Good morning. Caller good morning. How are you doing this morning . Host just fine. Go ahead. Caller ok, yes. I feel like the president of the United States has no impact whatsoever and the reason i really believe that because what had just seen and the prior things that ive seen about our president , hes a laughingstock and i feel like the people that surround him is not help, him. They are just allowing the president to do and say whatever. But one thing i will say is he has a small point that they needed to pay a little more. But still, donald trump is not really a good president and a lot of people just being blinded because they want to be blinded and theyre just allowing this guy to do whatever he wanted to do. And its sickening. You know what im saying . Our fore parents, fathers would have seen this. Theyll turn over in their grave. Host lets look at a chart here from cnbc that looks like at the defense expenditure of share of g. D. P. One of the things that President Trump is pushing is for countries to spend 2 of their 2 as a defensive expenditure of the g. D. P. And here is the chart from cnbc where we see the United States is actually going back down but other countries like bulgaria, greece, romania, lithuania, latvia, poland are going up, moving up. Theyre spending more money, with more of their defenses increasing their defense spending for the nato guideline of 2 . So we see some countries going up. The United States, u. K. , croatia, albania, belgium, spain going down. But other countries like greece, estonia, poland, turkey, havent quite made that 2 but we see their defense expenditures are going up. Now President Trump made remarks at a luncheon for with leaders of the countries whose defense expenditures are going up and theyre meeting natos goal of 2 . Heres what President Trump had to aat that luncheon. President trump these are countries that have met the goal of 2 . We have unfortunately large number that havent met the goal. Some are very close and they will be. Received an additional 130 billion a year and i guess if you go back three years, its perhaps even more than that but ive been doing this for three years and the secretary general will tell you in a few seconds. Hes going to say a little bit about it but when i first came, it was like a roller coaster down, not up. Down. It was all the way down at the lowest point ever. And since then, weve gone up massively. We will be by far the highest point ever. Its a Great Organization and we owe a lot to the secretary general. Hes been fantastic. Hes been doing a fantastic job. We think what will be up within three years, it will be up to 400 billion more. But in the meantime, these are the countries i said i want to take the 2 ers for lunch. We call them fedex natalie the 2 ers. So this is a lunch its on me. Host we want to talk about other news this morning. We have a tweet coming out from the state department where we see theres been a relief. Heres a tweet from secretary mike pompeo that says another american is coming home. Wanging who has been held in false charges in iran for over three years has been released and on his way back to the United States. Mr. Wang will soon be reunited with liz wife and son who have missed him dearly. We will not rest until we bring every american detained in iran and around the world back home to their loved one. We thank the swiss government for facilitating the return of mr. Wang and pleased the iranian government have been constructive in this matter. Once again, we have other news that were going to keep bringing you through the show but what were talking about for this hour is President Trumps impact on nato. And lets go, see what some of media followers think about our conversation this morning. Heres one tweet from our social media followers that say other countries should pay their fair share. The u. S. Taxpayers shouldnt have to foot the bill for canada or anyone else. From maggie from michigan. Trump doesnt have the slew about how nato works. Bet he doesnt know host heres another caller who text in. Trumps dismantled nato as far as turkey goes. Host one more caller tweet. Once again, were talking this morning about President Trumps impact on nato. If you think President Trump has made nato stronger, we want to hear from you at 2027488000. If you think President Trumps made nato weaker, went to hear from you at 2027488001. If you think President Trump has had no impact on nato, we want to hear from you at 2027488002. Keep in mind you could always text us at 2027488003 and were always reading on social media, on twitter at twitter. Com cspanwj and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Lets go back to our phone lines and talk to gary whos calling from humboldt, tennessee. Gary, good morning. Caller good morning, sir. How are you today . Host just fine. Go ahead. Caller yeah, i think trump is doing a fantastic job. I t