in a situation where we need to trigger our defense clause. secretary general jens stoltenberg, thank you for your time. i greatly appreciate it. thank you for having me. rising tensions in the mideast for the second time this week. israel has issued airstrikes on the gaza strip. we re live on the ground with what s happening there and much more. you re watching
to brief now on some of the other stories making the news today 2 people have died one is injured after a shooting at the u.s. military base in pearl harbor hawaii well terry officials say a u.s. navy sailor opened fire on a number of people before killing himself the names of the victims and the shooter have not been made public. nato leaders have wrapped up an ad times contentious meeting in london after affirming their commitment to the alliance needs with defense clause they agreed to spend more on defense and work together against threats from russia terrorism they also recognize the challenge of a rising china. the government of samoa in the south pacific has started a door to door measles vaccination campaign an epidemic of that disease has killed 62 people there the government says more than 4000 of its 200000 population have been infected. it s to the us now where 4 legal
it will be opportunities to withdraw troops from afghanistan. he campaigned on that. we shouldn t be surprised on that. it will be opportunities to withdraw from nato. there s a big nato summit in february. unclear who will be representing the administration. it will likely be the acting secretary of all the impulses of the president, whether or not he believes in article 5 of nato, the mutual defense clause, all those will be tested in 2019. it will be tested with fewer advisers to the president that firmly believe against what the president has been talking about and campaigning against. yes 2018 was interesting but for 20 2019, buckle up. is that the case in your opinion, rick? is 2019 going to be even more bo bonkers? yes. the president has lack of ability to attract high quality talent. look at the chief of staff that mulvaney got because he
world war i memorial, that, i think, is more of a snub of the people hosting it than it is necessarily a snub of the veterans. i think he was trying to make a point. of course we have seen in the past he gets in unnecessary fights with your fien leaders. as soon as he left the g7 he got in a fight with justin trudeau. so i think this is very much consistent, as sara said, withering we have seen from trump in the past. he did not reaffirm the united states commitment to the mutual defense clause of nato, article five. it is not something we should be surprised about, but it is something the white house will have to answer for in terms of this discrepancy between his own personal slights and his own desire to prove something to the world and also his neglect of the celebrations and the respect that he should be affording to the veterans. absolutely. just to make that point, he tweeted on saturday a picture of himself as we can show here of
mutual defense clause after 9/11 for the first time. sending patrol aircraft to the u.s. and since then, more than 1,000 troops from nato allies have died in afghanistan. jake? already. barbara starr at the pentagon. trading sex for information and working with a russian oligarch sanctioned by the u.s., some accusations against an alleged russian spy. stay with us. i m a fighter. always have been. when i found out i had age-related macular degeneration, amd, i wanted to fight back. my doctor and i came up with a plan. it includes preservision. only preservision areds 2 has the exact nutrient formula recommended by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of progression of moderate to advanced amd.