germany right now. well let s let s keep the facts straight. we were planning i had invited. prison my corps and chancellor merkel to appear together actually i tried that already a year ago a year ago it didn t work because there was a german problem chancellor merkel didn t have a government fully formed. last february so this plan fell through at that time i was hoping very much that this year we could go forward and. we could go actually a week ago not yesterday. the ellie s a told us that president michael was not going to be able to come as planned
he knows how to spin on television. and if michael cohen can t get money out of the old people, maybe he might get it from friends of bill clinton. what do you think this john macc mcenroe at breakfast? he was a different trump. he didn t change did he know the camera is on him? yeah. very much so. he even smiled. with his language, he was trying to make nice. but trashing her country in the morning. i actually watched and saw something else which is that merkel didn t even want to look at him. she was staring into space. and you got a sense that she wanted to pop out of her chair and get out of her chair.
with president trump. so what is in store for u.s. relations with key allies? and amid growing fallout over russia,ing steps to minimi fallout on jared kushner s back channel overtures with the kremlin affects the power structure. welcome back to early start. thanks for joining us on this memorial day. and on the heels of its overseas trip, president trump gets an implied no confidence vote from one of europe s top leaders. german chancellor angela merkel says that europe on can t completely defend on the u.s. and other long time allies. merkel didn t mention president trump by name, but it was clear just who she was thinking of when she mentioned recent international summits she attended with the president. translator: the times when we could completely count on others are over to a certain extent. i ve experienced this in the last few days and that is why i
diplomatically, other than the wiretapping charge, which you discussed. trump said he wanted more spending, he wanted nato members to spend more on defense. merkel cracked, that yeah, we could spend 2% by 2024, you know, spending towards nato. trump talked about all these horrible trade deals and merkel didn t back down there either. she said, we would hope the u.s. might return to the negotiations over the u.s./eu trade deal. so, they kind of staked out their positions there in a way that showe tre is a pretty wide gulf between these two countries and relations right now. chris, our reporting is behind closed doors, in the private meeting, there was definitely some pressure from president trump on the nato issue, i believe, right? yeah, more than that. he made it clear that he told her pointedly that european countries have to pay their fair share. this is not new. this is something he talked about the campaign trial. it s true the united states puts
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