Covering it all at the white house as it goes down. Hi, kevin. Good to talk to you, and you are right, no shortage of topics to discuss between these two world leaders. I find it very interesting the body language. You need tanya ryman out there walking us through what we saw there appear those pictures were quite dramatic and obviously the two leaders will get a chance to address the press very shortly here at the white house. Let me give you a ticktock of some of the things that you leaders are expected to discuss. They have plenty to talk about, most notably, they will be talking about trade, after all, merkel is bringing the ceos of several big German Companies including bmw and siemens to the white house. They will talk about cooperation especially in the war on terror, migrant crisis that continues to show no sign of letting up in europe in a very frank conversation about the role of the u. S. And nato. The president has been skeptical of the body frankly because he felt like the u. S. Is shouldering more of the bird and then it ought to. It is said that you are supposed it spent about 2 if youre in nato, germany is close to spending 1. 2 . We strongly support nato, we only ask that all of the nato members make their full improper financial contributions to the nato alliance, which many of them have not been doing. Many of them have not been even close. And you have to do that. You could say germany is closer than a lot of the nations in nato. It is also a good bet that they are going to talk about the refugee crisis. Obviously, it has been overwhelming many nations in europe. The president critical of the german chancellor for allowing a million refugees into germany. It is also expected that the president will ask Angela Merkel her opinion about dealing with Vladimir Putin. Keep this in mind. Shes been in office an awful long time, they have met more than 20 times, that you read leaders during their time in office, and so it might be good intel for the president to see what merkel has to say about him. And this conversation of wiretapping, we talked about that, right . This idea that may be President Trump was wiretapped by some other country, and it is a controversy to say the least. The white house has talked about it. Going to talk about it and see if it happens during the press conference coming our way supposedly at 1 20, doesnt look like its going to be on time. Leland back to the white house as it happens, thank you, kevin. Heather meantime right now, new outcry over the president s budget proposal, boosting spending for the military and Border Security while slashing funding for agencies like the state department. House democrats say that the America First plan, that is what it is called, would have a devastating impact on american families. The epa says that the cuts will hurt the great lakes amongst some other things and the nypd said that the cuts will leave new york city more vulnerable to terrorism. John bresee is an associate editor for the wall street journal and joins us now with more. So the debates begin that this is going to take a wild to resolve. That is the right way to think about ap this is the opening salvo, political statement by the Trump Administration. No huge surprises here, this is what he was talking about on the campaign trail, boosting military spending, cutting a lot of other socalled discretionary spending. There is a good story on this in todays journal that looks at what constitutes those cuts. There interestingly even though congress will write the budget so it now goes into rewrite and congress in a lot of mulling heather that always happens. This is how it works, so this is the president s proposal, Congress Writes the budget, they put stuff back in, take stuff out but very interestingly, he a lot of the cuts that the president is proposing are in areas that were profoundly protrump in the election, things like the appalachian section of the United States would get fairly significant cuts in the aid that goes to the appalachian area. Heather the governor of kentucky had something to say about that, going to the president and suggest ways to keep those programs. Even paul ryan has been muted on his response to the budget. Everyone is looking at this and saying, they are going to be cuts to meals for seniors, school kids, that affects my more impoverished areas. Rural areas, these were zones that the president really appealed to in cultivating the kind of movement, the kind of Political Action that resulted in his getting elected. Heather 21 cut in the department of agriculture also attacking rural farmers, so there is a lot. Why do you think he did that . I think, again, this is a president who is keeping the message and so there is a little bit of Public Relations in this, you elected me to do these things, i am doing these things. But now, the congress will take over, you can always blame congress for putting the money back in. The issue is also going to be where is the spending going . Heighten military spending, Border Security. Heather those are things he talked about in the campaign. Director Mick Mulvaney said yesterday that you can take a look at what he said in the campaign and that is what they put in the budget. Exactly right, omb director, and he was very clear on this, very compelling at the press conference for he said we are being compassionate here even and cutting meals on wheels because we are being compassionate to taxpayers who are paying for programs that we, the Trump Administration, feel are not performing as they should. That is widely open to debate, and it will be debated now whether those are effective programs are not. But the language that you just described, articulate it by Mick Mulvaney yesterday, was part of the campaign speech. The issue now will come down to the spending for military and Border Security, doesnt need to be as high as the president proposes . Heather he also talked about one specific example along the lines of what you were just talking about, it kind of made sense to me. Why should you have a coal miner nursing a mom at home paying for pbs when he was talking about cuts to the arts. That could be an enormous debate and there will be those who say the public broadcasting system plays an Important Role in forming the American Public or the arts play an Important Role in enlightening the American Public. These will be debates that take place. The monies that are being spent there are not as significant as some people might think. Some of these programs that are being cut. Still, they are going to get trimmed. Heather i want to ask one more important thing because its going on today. With the crisis in north korea, we have Rex Tillerson over there right now. Do you think the cuts to the state department need a second look . The Defense Department has said for sure that it does. We need our diplomats out front, making sure that we do not walk into military operations that we could have precluded through diplomatic negotiations. North korea is a separate issue, though . Weve got 20 years of this with north korea. This was coming to the fore during the obama admission or in this administration. Something has to happen here. It either has to happen diplomatically with china putting the pressure on north korea or some other mechanism to force and forestall a bigger problem down the road. Heather in the meantime, tillerson said he could make it work with the budget cuts. He said he could do it more efficiently. These are significant cuts in the state department. These are not small. These are major cuts in our efforts and ability to project ourselves diplomatic abroad. Heather we were just talking about march madness, and this is like you would say the opening shot of the game, by no means is anywhere near the final. The debate begins. Heather thank you so much. Leland . Leland a lot of debate about this story as well. House lawmakers want to know if the Intelligence Community is following their own protocols when it comes to protecting the identity of americans during Foreign Surveillance peer chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge lift from our d. C. Bureau with what this all means. Thank you. With todays deadline looming, the House Intelligence Committee wants the cia, nsa, and fbi to explain who in the administration identified among americans whose phone call conversations were tapped during Foreign Surveillance . They call this incidental collection which is when a foreign element like the Russian Ambassador is tracked and then the foreign messages or Text Messages of an american is picked up, based on our reporting, that is how Michael Flynns communications were captured paired with this letter, the committee is asking if others from the trump team and clinton campaigns were involved. I have been very clear about my concern about number one, the incidental collection, how that was put into a product, how it was unmasked, how it was leaked to the public, several crimes have been committed here. Meantime committed senior democrat on the House Government Oversight Committee released a new document late yesterday that showed my claim was paid more than 33,000 by a kremlin backed tv outlet to appear at a 2015 moscow event where he sat next to the russian president. The democrats are calling for an investigation because they say that payments may violate a constitutional provision that bars gifts from foreign governments. Leland so many implications to this from the house side, we have the letter, how is the senate Intelligence Committee playing in . Also yesterday afternoon, we had the joint statement from the republican chairman richard burr and the ranking democrat mark warner, both on the senate Intelligence Committee, and it really went beyond the president s wiretapping claim, and it stated they see no indication that trump tower was the subject of any kind of surveillance either before or after the 2016 election. And for some context, this statement has a lot of weight because the Senate Committee leadership has access to some of the most sensitive intelligence. Meantime, we have heard from another former Senior Intelligence official, and he says there is no evidence of collusion between russian intelligence and the trump campaign. We dont have that obviously, but i can tell you that is what he said. And we will get more at the briefing. Take my word for it. Leland you know, we always take your word for it. I am honored by that. Leland with that, a very happy st. Patricks day. See you next time. 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You see the picture from the white house, scream left, german chancellor Angela Merkel will be there with the president , top on the agenda, talking terrorism, strengthening nato, and paramount is forging a new relationship after both leaders, shall we say were critical of each other during the president ial campaign, and that may be talking about it nicely. To talk about that, fellow with the Foreign Policy initiative and author of the new book the end of europe dictators, demagogues and the coming dark age. It sounds like a warm and fuzzy read, doesnt it . Very uplifting. You always see, and we are going to get to the body language between these two leaders in a minute, but you got the sense there was an attempt at diplomatic niceties, then below that is the undercurrent. We know that President Trump during the Campaign Said that german chancellor was ruining germany with allowing immigrants in, said what she was doing was insane, all of these really incendiary words. What are we looking for here . Or you as an expert looking for here during the News Conference . I think the two most important issues are going to be on security and trade. Security, clearly the threat from russia which is continuing to wage a war in the ukraine and is threatening nato allies in eastern europe. I think chancellor merkel is going to want strong assurances from President Trump that the unitommitted to nato. The comments he may direct the campaign of it being obsolete, making american support for nato conditional upon the amount of money its members paid on their militaries, that was very worrying to our european allies, and shes going to want him to come out and say the u. S. Stance by nato because it is the bedrock of our alliance. And then on trade, germany a huge export economy, 50 of all german jobs derive from exports, German Companies employ over 600,000 americans, and she has brought with her the heads of some very big german corporations, b w, siemens, all of which have supply chains here in the United States. The protectionist rhetoric coming out of the administration over the past couple weeks is also very worrying to germans, so she is going to want a commitment that we are going to keep open trade between europe and the United States. Leland is going to be somewhat of a comp heated conversation for President Trump who loves american jobs, think about portion of the huge factory here, mercedesbenz, bmw, all have factories inside the United States, employing americans, so it is not as easy as shutting off the border to say were going to put a tariff on this car or that car. Now onto this personal relationship. We know Angela Merkel and president obama had a very close relationship. Kevin corke talked about that earlier. Now we roll the tape of the first time that President Trump is with the german chancellor, and shall we say, the body language is frigid. A kind of reminds me of president obama and Benjamin Netanyahu sitting there. Lets not forget donald trump probably attacked Angela Merkel on the campaign trail more than any other world leader which is saying something when you think of the fact that germany is one of americas strongest allies. It was almost entirely over her response to the refugee crisis. He was really doing this for domestic political purposes, and i think the german chancellor understands this. She has dealt with some really tough guys. Shes been in office since 2005. She has dealt with Vladimir Putins ups and downs, speaks russian, famous photo of Vladimir Putin in their first meeting with merkel where he brought a dog into the room, knowing that she is afraid of dogs. There is president recep erdogan and turkey who had a very rough elation of the germany over the past few years it has called germans and chancellor merkel all sorts of names. There is a reason why the german people call Angela Merkel mother, she is sort of this reassuring figure, and she is almost like a mother figure dealing with these may be men. Leland