Right about that. Earlier this morning the president of the United States publicly hounded natos secretarygeneral, repeatedly disparaged germany and wondered aloud why america should be responsible for protecting europe against russia. Vladimir putin wants donald trump to break from American Allies. A few hours ago, that is exactly what he got. Wow. Welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, july 11th. With us, msnbc contributor mike ba ba ba barniccal. And David Ignatius, nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d. C. On msnbc, kasie hunt and former u. S. Ambassador to nato and former state Department Spokesman nicholas burns, professor of diplomacy and International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy school of government. Great group to start with this morning, and, wow, what a start to the trip. What a start to the trip. And lets just play the clip. Heres donald trump actually doing exactly what Vladimir Putin would want him to do. Good morning. In many countries, they owe
than anything else? so putin fears and resents a strong american-led alliance in nato that he feels has gone right up to russia s border, has tried to draw in these newly merging countries that were part of a society empire. countries that bitterly resented russia s tutelage and now have moved towards nato for security. he resents it to some extent he fears it. he fears that that same desire for something different will affect his own population. it is a dream come true for vladimir putin, to have an american president arrive on the ground in brussels and the first thing, go a breakfast and harang the nato secretary-general and talk about germany, our most important ally in europe, as a captive of russia. i mean, it s just insulting language. it s it seeks to humiliate the people that he s dealing