on cnn newsroom. hi, everyone. i am jessica dean in new york and we begin with breaking news out of the middle east as israel welcomes home four hostages rescued this morning from gaza during a special military operation all for kidnapped by hamas from the nova music festival during the a6 october 7 attacks eight months ago they include 22-year-old oman, admire john, 25-year-old noa argamani, twenty-seven-year-old, andre kozlov, 41-year-old, shlomi ziv andrii in shlomi were working as security guards at the music festival and you may remember noa argamani from this horrific video from the october 7 attacks we also heard screaming as hamas fighters drove away with her on a motorbike. we know her boyfriend was also kidnapped and it s still being held captive israel says this morning s rescue mission took place it to separate locations in central gaza, your refugee camp palestinians, they re described the raid as how on earth is heavy shelling and artillery fire bombarded. tha
today what he is saying is that countries that don t meet their financial obligations to nato, their commitments he may not come to their defense, obviously that opens them up to attack. and that s what i m wondering. is this a situation where donald trump plays coy because he doesn t want to give an answer to a question coming from a reporter? i mean he asked would you commit if there s a country that is delinquent on these payments, would you commit to defend them if they were attacked, his answer being i m going to be discussing that today. it s an interest it s a very interesting question, isn t it, he says to the reporter. if it is just him being coy and this isn t a major statement would be we might not, what does it do? well, kate, again, this is a softball question. this is a signed treaty and this is the basis of our collective defense arrangement. when he makes this kind of noncommittal answer, he is opening up countries to threat, countries that don t meet their 2% obl
more, john. nato has been a stalwart defense arrangement and brings us together with our european allies, on the basis, from the very beginning was developed to counter stalin s obviously egregious occupation, if we can put it this way, of eastern europe after the second world war and the threat of long standing red army presence in eastern europe gave to the western european partners. it has been the basis of many ways of a security stability for 70 years that would be in one way or another totally destroyed by u.s. withdrawal. we need to contemplate that very very carefully. it is one of a number of things going on in the president s mind. the president s mind seems to work on the basis of, i ve been talked outside of it today but in a month i ll bring it up and worry it and see if i can t do some of it in my own way. we saw that with iran agreement,
relationship rather than aggravating it. the president apparently knew the indictments would be forthcoming and chose himself to continue with the summit and keeping it on the agenda. the really difficult question for us all is is the president really prepared for a summit? it doesn t appear he is. he seems to be in one stage making enemies of nato allies and in some ways grinding away at nato which is clearly a major bull waurk and serious defense arrangement which would if supported by the president be an action that could send putin a message he is serious. secondly the last couple days have seen something of a fiasco with the united kingdom and theresa may. and clearly one of the best alis and one of the smartest countries in international
one of his previous attorneys from way back said, you should be careful. is the president in enou is michael cohen in enough trouble that he sits down and thinks, am i loyal to myself or am i loyal to the president? he s very possibly a target of a criminal investigation. so that always goes through one s mind when you re in the position of michael cohen. as far as what the president should or shouldn t be worried about, there is really not a lot he can do about it. he certainly should not at this time be discussing anything of substance with mr. cohen. but there s not much you can do at this point except i guess he can have his lawyers enter into a joint defense arrangement if it hasn t already been done with mr. cohen s attorneys, and