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we need to make sure, and i tell ukrainians this all the time. here s my point. i think that current elected officials can have a strong impact on whoever the next president is. when president trump was president, i pressed him on the issue of nato quite a lot, and so did many other members. i ll tell you one thing president trump did quite well was press this 2% of gdp issue by the way, president biden has been doing that. president obama did it as well. so i think the current elected republican leadership in the house and senate strongly supports nato, and i think that s the most important thing to look at right now in term of that issue. as i said, i really appreciate you getting up very early for us in anchorage. senator dan sullivan. republican from alaska. very early. who knows. maybe you stayed up very late. good to be with you. more on the politics of military readiness with democrat tammy duckworth of illinois. s. > > more on the p ....
From russia, a key enemy, if you will, of nato. these are some of the things that are going to underpin the talks here. but don t think that president trump has given up on the 2% of gdp issue. he will have meetings with emmanuel macron. he has said that nato is brain-dead. and he says that president trump is not an outlier. and the questions that the president has towards nato are something that we ll see more of from the united states in the future. others within nato and the european countries saying, no, that is not the case. president trump on that, creating division. president trump also having a bilateral meeting with angela merkel of germany, who he has beaten up on before for not contributing enough. if president trump can keep to the script, if nato can keep its differences behind closed doors, that will be a success. ....
European countries need to spend more as barack obama said and george bush before that th, the are on a schedule. they re talking about building a second pipeline that would supply even more russian fuel. they re going to become more dependent. and circumvent ukraine in the process. general hertling, here s the thing. it s rhetoric from the president right now but when it comes to backing away from the collective defense of our nato allies, we have not seen action. do you think this president is actually ready to do that? i think there s a strong possibility, poppy, he has ji jack it had agenda, focused on this bizarre 2% of gdp issue which he doesn t understand. there s more to this. ....