as soon as trump took office in 2017, his administration secretly set about to lift sanctions on it and congress found out about it and blocked it. trump only grudgingly signed it because congress passed it by big bipartisan veto-proof margins. then he eagerly set up a summit in helsinki with vladimir putin where he stood next to the russian leader and sided with him over american intelligence agencies on the issue of that russian election meddling. trump spent his whole term in office disparaging nature toe, yelling at our allies, advocating for putin to get back to world meets because he invaded ukraine. and he was actually impeached for a scheme in which he suspended american aid to ukraine, ousted the american ambassador there, and generally isolated and threatened the
here. laura: two years ago, the so-called experts, foreign policy experts, were predicting that you would fracture nato, america would become isolationists. what do you say to those experts today? president trump: those are the people that failed so badly and i haven t really gone to them. i know them. i ve read them. i ve seen what their result was and it was terrible. nato was going down and if you look at the money coming into nato for the last 15 years it was escalating down and now it s like a rocket ship up. secretary sallen berg has been maybe trumpest biggest fan. he said without donald trump maybe there would be no nato. we ve got condition over a hundred billion dollars from other countries where they are starting to pay because it got to a point where we were paying so much. i think we were really paying close to a hundred percent of nature toe. we were paying to protect all
nato is weak. if vladimir putin truly believes nato is weakened, it weakens our deterrence. that is to say that the countries that live on the border that are afraid every day that russia might either conduct a conventional attack or some kind of sneak attack, they ll be less they will be more nervous and less certain that nature toe wi nato will come to their assistance. the bottom line, president trump helped the kremlin yesterday and today and he did not help nato. that s that. evelyn farkas, thank you for your perspective. i ll see you on next leg of the trip when we get to finland. appreciate you both joining us, i ll ask you to stick around because while all of this is happening here and we re overseas in london, you ve got this hearing with fbi agent peter strzok. there he is, in the hot seat. house members are asking him
early, i think bolton is there to keep the pressure on, he s a hawk. and trump was very upset that he department he ll want some kind of private assurance that trump could get an accession. and the president has a mix sed record on alliances, he criticizes mexico, he criticizes nature toe. so if abe can say, alliances we alliances. i think we will make it work. protests outside of philly s starbucks. outrage growing after the arrests of two black men, what starbucks and police are now saying live when we come back,
nature toe special operators and experienced american law officers. this year 600 graduates will return to their units, proficient in hand to hand combat, live fire qualification on every weapon in their arsenal. live fire close-quarter battle which one member called fish, fighting in someone s house. the goal, afghan police forces around the country that are competent, committed and capable of standing on their own. jamie, when we arrived here at the operating base, we met corporal benjamin adams standing beside me. he told me i needed a haircut. here s what happened. what do you want, sir in. how about a high and tight?