their tariff is substantially higher. with china they charge to add a half percent, when we send a card to china they charge us 25%. people say we don t want tariffs but how is that fair when one country gets 25% and another country gets to it a half percent? the one getting 25 doesn t even want the cars. they want them to build those factories built in china. they want those factories built in europe. now were doing things that have never been done before in this country and you see what s going on. tucker: membership in nato obligates the members to defend any other member who has been attacked. let s say montenegro is attacked. why should my son go to montenegro to defend it from attack? president trump: i ve asked the same question. montenegro is a tiny country with very strong people. they are very strong people. very aggressive people, they
directly entering the conflict. in 2014, russia aggressively moved to annex ukraine s crimean peninsula sparking international controver controversy. in 2016 a group of russian nagsisnag nationalists were accused of an assassination attempt. it was to prevent montenegro from joining nato. rougts government denied involvement in the plot. in the same year russia began to interfere in the uk s brexit, twitter accounts were used to spread misinformation. sound familiar? that was a tactic honed and deployed in the u.s. that was 2016. 2017, social influence campaigns were again used to attack the
initiates a conflict other nato members are not obliged to defend them. again, the only time that provision was ever invoked was after the 9/11 attacks when the alliance came to the defense of the united states. but that mention of montenegro is going to come up again, remember it. concern about president trump accommodating vladimir putin has a lot to do with russia s aggressive moves around the globe in the past decade. back in 2007, as stone ya removed a soviet world war ii mmtd monument. they suffered a massive cyber attack. servers went down, atm s wouldn t function, bank accounts blocked. much of the internet rendered inaccessible. as sontone ya is one of those countries that borders the new russian federation. in the middle east, in 2011, blocking u.n. involvement and
5 of the treaty established in nato. article 5 states that an attack on one member country is an attack on all. it was intended to be a deterrent to soviet aggression. the soviet threat is gone, but tensions with russia are not. 14 people are currently on trial in montenegro accused of plotting to kill the prime minister and stage a coup to bring a pro-russian party to power. which is why the president s latest comments are drawing criticism from folks like senator john mccain, who tweeted by attacking montenegro and questioning our obligations under nato, the president is playing right into putin s hands. and honestly, if history is in iguide, montenegro isn t usually the one doing the pushing. yeah, remember this from last year. the nato meeting. that s the leader of montenegro right there getting shoved aside by president trump. we ll be right back.
welcome back. president trump is once again questioning the core principles of the post world war ii global order. take a listen. membership in nato obligates the members to defend any other member that s attacked. let s say montenegro is attacked. why should my son go to montenegro to defend it from attack? i understand what you re saying, i ve asked the same question. montenegro is a tiny country with very strong people. or albania. they re very strong people. they have very aggressive people. they may get aggressive and, congratulations, you re in world war iii. now, i understand that, but that s the way it was set up. yes. montenegro, which only joined nato last year. this is montenegro right here, a country that is smaller than connecticut with a population the size of baltimore. the answer to why the u.s. would defend montenegro if they re attacked is, of course, article