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host: we end our program today, german ime to discuss chancell merkel's comments. today's washington times notes that the comments by chancellor came election merkel unday, mrs. states, we must take our destiny hands.r own there is changing dynamic of transamerican ties. of that, we're asking for your reaction, asking what you think the future of u.s.-european relations will be, what impact the trump administration has had on that. democrats, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002.

allies grow distant after trump leaves for europeans especially edge.l tone takes on an we'll go through some stories this morning. we especially want to hear your comments. up first, easton, connecticut, line for democrats. what do you think about the of u.s.-european relations? caller: i think it is very interesting, especially if you attention to the russian perspective on nato and military new missile uch as defense system in romania, you tart to get a picture of potential shift in global power from the united states and toward europe, election of th the france with 65% of the vote f. you're looking for stable leaders of the free world, it eems increasingly the world is turning toward france, germany and europe and away from the united states. for what does that mean

you and i and americans here in this country? aller: i think it is actually quite a dangerous time, for us we need tos, i think stay skeptical of all the information that we have coming at us. we have active disinformation ampaign targeted at americans with fake news via legal facebook ads and other measures comes from russia. think we need to stay skeptical and personally i have of the dollars, my entire life savings outside of the united states. only cash that i need to live on a daily basis and i've heavily, happy to go through the portfolio, portfolio, well thought through. host: you'll have to go through but where are you invested? where oversea? in developed world

economies outside of the united states. in europe, the euro, france, germany, ets, the swiss frank, swedish crona, and a little in chinese currents and bit coin. of course, gold and silver. host: thanks for the call from connecticut. mike in st. paul, minnesota. independent, good morning. morning, john. three questions, three points. of all, i don't have any problem with u.s. relations with george bush said that ussia was our best ally after 9/11. i don't have any problem with the t or any part of european union. andany is supporting greece italy and portugal, got to leave devices.heir own question int was to

the last its america lady that previously. he its has been around for 25 years, ford, general motors and tesla, aren't members, why? aren't any trucking manufacturers member of its, how can you have an organization doesn't include those people? host: thanks for that, we'll have them back on again and ask question. appreciate that. florida, naples, quinton, the history of u.s.-european relations. interesting most the e.u. is in competition with the united states. of states, the europe 18 union wanted to be in them.tition with the e.u. was set up as competition, interesting to me this, can't compete with the

united states because united states is one country and what try to do is to join a countries different su -- socialist countries are asking for more handouts that e.u. can provide. they can have control of the united states, the big country in the world, one state, the founding fathers set one state could try anything, it can put socialism in, if it rest of the the country is saved because that tries to -- fails, the rest of the country doesn't implode. that is not happening in europe. they are pushing opening borders changing so are fast there that the e.u. is that is why i'm in king to my brother

england, just about everyday and such a change in europe. to say, e are starting we want our country back. there is influx of other cultures, which is diminishing that is european. far.ink they have gone too host: quinton in naples, florida this morning. call us with your thoughts. democrats, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. 202-748-8002. this discussion in light of chancellor merkel's comments over the weekend. comments on tional monday, here is a headline from today's "wall street journal." merkel softens her tone a day after referring to the u.s. as reliable ally. hancellor merkel says the transatlantic alliance is of paramount importance and comments, arlier

noting she is speaking on monday implicit repeated criticism of president donald trump she delivered at a event in munich on unday and committed to partnership with the u.s. world leader meeting had shown her we can times in which rely on each other are partly over. will remain convinced transatlant transatlantic, we must take our hands.y into our own reporting from the "wall street journal." we're asking your thoughts as we program, jermain nlan caster, california, line for republicans. good morning. caller: hello, good morning, my friend. ahead, sir. caller: what is the question? the your thoughts on future of u.s.-european relations? caller: i believe that the future of u.s.-european

is fully over. have wanted something with the socialist party, the communist fascist party and the jewish nothing, but s demagog demagogue. that western europe and western europe is under a lot of pressure. allies from wars, fasci fascism -- and our allies are going to join the -- a lot of pressure. right, let's go to jim scroggins, texas, jim, good morning. good morning. my thoughts are rather kind of scattered, but what it really comes down to is we need the united nations. somebody doesn't pay their

dues, do you kick them out of the union? talk to them. you kind of try to convince them that it is for their own benefit to be part of it. friends an't trump make with our friends and keep our enemies?ur what kind of psychology is this, make friends of your enemies and alienate your it is ridiculous. host: what about president tweet this morning bringing up germany and u.s.-nato alliances, he said, we massive trade deficit with germany, they paid less than should, bad for the united states, this will change, he romised in the tweet this morning. caller: am i still on? host: yes, sir. caller: okay. is just wonderful, worry that g is, i

e aren't safe if we can't have -- ody else besides lates us.s say canada, helping we cannot stand alone. we are a an island, part of the world. host: all right, ronald in for e, florida, line democrats. ronald, your thoughts on the relation?urope 18 caller: my personal president is our president, i voted for him him, i have ote for to support him either way and he -- not used the term no and hen you are in the president, no does count in a lot of cases, but as far as u.s.-european relations, i feel that we're strength in numbers and that is have to look sxat more friends we bring together, it is as er off for us, as well

for them. numbers is what counts. carrie,l right, mike in north carolina, line for republicans. mike, good morning. caller: good morning. you?re host: doing well. not nostrodamus, not sure what the relationship is, the relationship is in flux, no doubt about that. it is changing and the world has from, you know, the end of world war ii, when we rebuilt changed from 30 years go when ronald reagan and paulret thatcher, and john i were there and the cold war was at the height of intensity, word, so, f a better we can't afford to carry europe like we used to. they're big boys. they have advanced economies, -- they can pay what

they need to pay. forfact this has dragged on decades, there is only five countries in nato carrying their and the fact everybody is all upset that president trump actually said this in like, wow,you know, come on. so i'm not exactly sure. they can afford to, theyville to budgets, they have social welfare spending program necessary europe, maybe that on. be cut back maybe our commitment, i don't think president trump flushed waterby out with the bath on the article v commitment to protect each other. know, he was just doing what he does and that is being argumentative and testy in first engagement scenarios around lways comes back and more light-hearted and willing to give a little. gate, he's out of the a tough guy to negotiate with and that is what the europeans

now. need right so where else are they going to go, really? to, i get saddle up to putin and russia. is alliance with them cultural, religious, we were europeans, you know, pretty much. don't want to get into an ethnic discussion, but obviously ur country was founded on european principles and european forms of government. i don't think we have worry alliance going south, but it is in flux and it is oing to change and we have disrupter as a president, we'll have to go along for the ride here. on twitter on this topic. the current administration is forgets nato wrong and our use of air space placement etcetera.e systems and dogs living with cats, says is a mess now, world war eminent.

doesn't writes in, merkel know this can be used in court against you, referring to merkel is making omments and facing her own election coming up. we have 13 minutes left in our rogram today, asking about the future of u.s.-european relations. line for democrats, republicans independents, we'll put the numbers on the screen for you as we go to janet in des moines, iowa, line for independents. janet, good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. think this whole situation that people need to look at the we have beenecause nato and alsor of iven us overly high level of power within nato and if people their own, we lose and of that influence

power within the structure. if they start going alone, funding it themselves complet y completely, whatever, paying may decide they don't need us at all in there. we lose basically our seat at becomes much smaller. so i think that people really weigh the pros and cons and look at the bigger picture think in this prep and basically presenting bill to the in front of everyone for was past expenses unpaid in very bad form. malcolm in las vegas. i feel relations are in steep decline due to the lack f

-- host: lack of what, malcolm? lack of intelligence from our president and because people he wants next to him, not the people that he needs. host: who does he need, malcolm? tell him theody to truth and not what he wants to hear and not a constant merkel's you know, omments, you got italy commenting and we're just hearing, like you said, the top-level government over there, we're not even hearing about the mid-level government that is know, probably have their hair on fire as much as progressives do in the united and not even only progressive, but republicans now. this is crazy. mean, you know, people not bad the were saying how united states looked in the eyes and united states

when obama went over to china and didn't roll out the red carpet, now you got saudi arabia rolling out the red carpet and europe and who knows who else, you know, looking united states.he unbelievable. host: the "wall street journal" merkel's comment necessary one of their editorials today. they say her comments are widely perceived as german chancellor to last week's summit, the new u.s. president challenged nato members to spend defense and refused to sign on climate change policy of the other six leaders. asked, since when is difference of opinion on climate retreat gnal of u.s. from europe and why is mr. trump's reluctance to sign on to whether toill decide leave the accord this week, failure of leadership? suggests she kel is most upset because mr. trump declined to follow her lead on

climate. more from the editorial board in today's "wall street journal." greg, democrat, in auburn, good morning. caller: good morning. go ahead. caller: hello. host: listening, greg, go ahead. yes, my comment is, i think that the american people what is going on. hasink that president trump strategy whereby he likes to win by dividing people. that is how he won the election and this whole concept divide is ng by happen nothing europe. istory will show it is a grave mistake and i think it is americans that his presidency was born out of ignorance, in the beginning when he ran, i was excited because i wanted change. people need to wake up and look man who has taken narcissistic self-serving bring that really don't

people together. i think it is very dangerous, frightened and hopeful that people will begin to see truth from false. twitter, merkel is globalist like obama, the u.s. globalism, ay from america first, america first now. one other tweet from michael who says relations will go forward, personalities will change, countries have interests more than friends. time for a few more calls. democrats, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002. john is calling in on the line lake, dependents, east ohio, good morning. defense ood morning, costs money. spend that es to us, but to give it to unidentified terrorists make europe less safe.

it makes no sense. thank you. san diego, california, line for republicans, good morning. good morning, c-span, yes, my question goes like this. saved europe tes in two great world wars. to if europe doesn't want spend the money to protect itself, how many american protect europe? that does not make any sense to me. thomas up next, cleveland, ohio, line for democrats, good morning. caller: yes, i agree with the president 100%. needd that peans shock to go back to leaders like erkel could go back to their electorate and say the americans aren't doing this, we have to do it protects and them politically to be able to spend that type of money. two, nato would have nothing to do with us if we china.ar with

basically one of the european institution and they military the apability to go ahead and use for great britain with their to go into e force the asian sea. thank you. are calling online for democrats. sounds like you agree with comes tot trump when it foreign policy issue? caller: yes. him? did you vote for caller: i didn't vote for him. host: who did you vote for? caller: i voted for clinton. host: what was the difference agree on foreign policy? what issue -- aller: i think that it is completely ludicrous for the nited states, a nation of 350 million people, to be paying 70% of the cost of nato for

have 500 ans, which million on europeans, that is ludicrous. and especially since with this new budget coming out, we're social be cutting programs for americans, yet in nordic, especially in the countries, they have highest standard of living in the world nothing.are paying host: andrew up next, utah, line morning.blicans, good caller: hi there. i couldn't agree more with the last two callers that just in, i think donald trump s pure genius because nato needs america way more than america needs nato. nd these people have not been footing the bill. as a taxpayer, i don't to rstand why i'm helping secure germany's borders and ordan's borders and all these other borders, but we can't defend our own borders.

throwing their countries away and not fighting should we?o why host: in "u.s.a. today," this trips on policy abroad is the headline. saudi arabia, to talk tough to nato. by nds today's peace writing, trump had next to russianto say about the threat and argued nato must focus on terrorism and immigration, instead. council president donald tusk emerged from his meeting with common position on russia, trump is softer on vladamir putin than russian neighbors would like. audocrats to democrats. as -- read the column in "u.s.a. today." time for a few more calls before we end our program.

robert in maryland, democrat, good morning. morning to good you. well, just real quick. spent my entire since 2004, national security career dealing eurasia, worked europe and the evel of ignorance of this understanding of payment unfortunately is rampant. t is absolutely true that they have not been spending 2% of their budgets, but the fact is couldn't, em especially after the market crash. we saw that in italy, which is economy, had to actually reduce because they got hammered the 2007-2008 recession, as trillion dollar economy. that is number one. number two -- leave that, we robert, what would you say to the callers that said the united tates withdraw their own

recession and they were able to eep their commitments they made, 2% of budget on military spending? all, thatll, first of is easy. umber one we spent 4.4%, the last number i remember, whatever, on the defense budget. globalized, we look at our defense spending from a global scale, not regional scale. so, when they say that while we have this, we spend a lot more we truly are supporting the world, worthy our asian allies, we spend a lot there. if we didn't have to worry about the pacific at all, like europe, what would defense spending look like? it is ignorance of understanding that we look at ational security through globalized way and budget accordingly. that, noreans don't do do they have to. so that is the answer to that. spend se, we're going to

more than everybody. number two, have you to take recession with a grain of salt. our $10 as they trillion dollar global economy we were worried about .hat going bankrupt they got hammered and we never even looked at that as a potential so it is an apples and oranges argument. they have their own issues and defense problems so it is an apples and oranges argument. the second point i wanted to op-ed in the the "wall street journal." this is about article five. this is about the baltics who

said on a russian border terrified. are we going to be there to defend them? checks -- pols and ls and czechs. this is the first time in my adulthood thaty the united states was not ready to go to war. ronald reagan is rolling so fast in his grave i'm surprised he doesn't pop out. host: comments on the line for independence. >> -- caller: all the wrinkles we have with the russians, ,oreans, japanese and chinese

we need to step back and world's america is the number one market because the middle class has money to spend. the europeans understand that. advantage forken themselves. from theem stems american business community wants to ignore the fact we don't have to make these giveaway deals with other nations. we have the market that everyone wants to do business in and that will change if they keep trying to eliminate the middle class. b --en -- ben,

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