So well in the past wont necessarily be there in the future. Well, the supporting players have taken their seats for that joint News Conference. You see press secretary Sarah Sanders now heading out. The meeting has clearly broken up. We will see President Trump and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom theresa may at that podium any moment now. That does it for us on morning joe. We turn over the coverage now to stephanie ruhle. Thanks so much, willie. Im stephanie ruhle. Any minute now the president and uk Prime Minister theresa may will be holding that joint Press Conference, with an eye on london, i want to bring in jilian tet with the Financial Times and richard stengel, who served as former undersecretary for state and Public Diplomacy under president obama. Welcome to you both. Jilian, to you, first, whats expected. What should we be watching for . Theres going to be a lot of platitudes. The best thing that everyones hoping for is that the president doesnt say anything too in
anti-aircraft vehicles to ukraine. that seems rather significant foreign policy shift. yeah, i think it is significant. and it s part of a major shift that really occurred in the immediate days after february 24 when russian forces en masse invaded ukraine. we saw a historic turning point led by olaf scholz, the chancellor, arguing that germany now needs to protect its freedom and security by investing in the security forces. it s spending 100 billion euros more on defense, meeting its 2% of gdp requirement for defense, and now also continuing ever more to provide arms to ukrainians to be able to defend themselves. it s an important shift. the last part to fall is going to be weaning germany off russian oil and finally russian gas. and that will conclude the shift. this morning, vladimir putin hosted the u.n.
that was held in abeyance after the iranian revolution in 1979. that is true. a lot of money came back to iran. and look, i m not blaming donald trump for the fact that the iranians are shooting people in the streets. that is shameful. all i m saying is, engagements which was the obama approach i think is something that we didn t really give a try to, and now we are seeing the consequence of that. people think this is a good outcome, great. i m not sure it is. the fact that iran can now proceed to developing nuclear weapons, and is enriching uranium, not very far, amassing heavy weapons. shannon: i don t think anyone is going to think this is a good outcome or cheering for this, but it would seem the iranian leaders are the ones who made the decision that got us to this point. quickly, i want to ask you both about nato, because the president is making some headlines over there, getting into a dustup with french president emmanuel macron, tomorrow he will appear in the call of the
and we are very current and some of them are not. we can t allow that to happen. but i appreciate everything you ve done in that regard. we expect a growing number of nations to meet the minimum 2% of gdp requirement, to address today s challenges, all members of the alliance must fulfill their obligations. they have no choice. they must fulfill the obligations. among the pressing threats facing our nation is the development and spread of nuclear weapons. perhaps that s our greatest threat. the united states and united kingdom are determined to ensure iran never develops nuclear weapons and stops supporting and engaging in terrorism. and i believe that will happen. in protecting our nations, we also know that the border security is national security. today the prime minister and i discussed our thriving economic relationship.
we both have been working very hard toward that end. and we are very current and some of them are not. we cannot allow that to happen. but i appreciate everything that you ve done in that regard. we expect a growing number of nations to meet the minimum 2% of gdp requirement to address today s challenges, all members of the alliance must fulfill their obligations. they have no choice. they must fulfill their obligations. among the pressing threats facing our nations is the development and spread of nuclear weapons. perhaps that s our greatest threat. the united states and the united kingdom are determined to ensure that iran never develops nuclear weapons and stops supporting and engage in terrorism. and i believe that will happen. in protecting our nations, we also know that the border security is national security. today, the prime minister and i discussed our thriving economic