no that's other people that do that i don't i'm very consistent i'm a very stable genius. go ahead. thank you sir jeremy dining with c.n.n. how are you. a quick question with regards to germany and the comments that you made yesterday do you feel like given the threats that you made about potentially leaving nato about insulting germany's sovereignty it appears by suggesting they are totally controlled by russia do you feel like that's an effective way to conduct diplomacy and secondly would you be able to be a little bit more specific about the commitments that you secured today with regards to increasing fanchon is there an updated timeline are there specific countries you could cite because a majority of them already planning to meet that two percent threshold by twenty twenty four no many of them fact germany was going to be in the year two thousand and twenty eight or thirty yeah i think it's a very effective way to deal but i didn't deal exactly the way you said i have

great respect for germany my father's from germany. both of my parents are from the e.u. despite the fact they don't treat us well on trade but i think that will change also and i think we'll see that because on the twenty fifth of july that coming in to start negotiations with me will say that if they don't negotiate in good faith we'll do something having to do with all of the millions of cars that are coming into our country and being taxed at a virtually zero level at a very low level but jeremy i think it's been a very effective way of negotiating but i'm not negotiating i just want fairness for the united states we're paying for far too much of nato nato is very important but nato is helping europe more than it's helping us at the same time it's very good for us so we have now got it to a point where people are paying a lot more money and that's starting really last year it really had you were there last year and last year we had a big impact again we. thirty three billion dollars more and of us secretary

general stoltenberg he gives us total credit meaning me i guess that this case total credit because i said it was unfair now what has happened is presidents over many years from ronald reagan to barack obama they came in and they said ok do the best you can and they left nobody did anything about it and it got to a point where the united states was paying for ninety percent of nato and that's not fair so it's changed we had a really good meeting today we had a great meeting in terms of. in terms of getting along i know most of the people in the room because of last year because of a year and a half that we've been in office year and a half plus but we have a great relationship everybody in that room by the time we left got along and they agreed to pay more and they agreed to pay it more quickly yeah go ahead full. and mr president philip record from the washington post by you you tweeted yesterday

what good it's nato and you've talked about nato as an alliance that benefits europe but the fans and protect europe do you see any value of nato to the united states needs if you russia does it help protect the united states from russia in your view i think it's another very strong ally as together it's much stronger than obviously individual countries i think it's the way we have it now i think it's a much i think dado got you know what was happening with spending prior to my getting into office the numbers were going down now the numbers have gone up like a rocket ship the numbers have gone up a lot and they've gone up rapidly and they're now going up further so i think nato is going to be very very effective i'm very impressed with and really know and he's a friend of mine but secretary general stoltenberg has done a fantastic and putting it all together and we were the ones that really we gave him an extension of his contract as you know i think he's done a really good job i think that when i was saying that i am very concerned with the

pipeline i don't like the pipeline and when i talk about nato i say how do you have nato and then you have somebody paying the people that you're protecting against but maybe we'll get along with the group that we're protecting against i think that's a real possibility as you know i'm meeting with president putin on monday and i think we go into that meeting not looking for so much we want to find out about syria we will of course ask you your favorite question about meddling i will be asking that question again but we'll also be talking about other things we'll be talking about ukraine ukraine was here today by the way and you know it was very interesting to hear what they had to say so excuse me. while you may i mean look you may you know what i'm going to do if he may deny it a bit it's one of those things so i can do is say did you and don't do it again but he may deny me well. you'll be the first to know. yes president robert wall with

the wall street journal has it right germans and the canadians and others don't come up to two percent what is your fallback position how will you up the pressure to make them actually well they will they will have no doubt about it they all make sense and they will be up to two percent it will be over a period of relatively short period of years ok. thank you so much george and. mr president what do you think needs the needs are not georgia most support from nato and i want to ask about georgia they were here today representing us and we were talking about georgia in a meeting with. the president put. well they were here they made a very favorable impression and we listened to their plight it's a tough situation with your job but they made a very favorable impression in the room. where what part of what.

you really did come on go ahead i had a question as well but nonetheless. well you know you recognize. recognize russia's and accept what you recognize crimea as part of russia but you know has an interesting question because you know long before i got here president obama allowed that to happen that was on his watch not on my watch you know people like to say oh crimea but the fact is they build bridges to crimea they just opened a big bridge that was started years ago they built i think a submarine port substantially added billions of dollars so that was on barack obama's watch that was not on trump's watch what i have allowed to happen no i would not have allowed it to happen but he did allow it to happen so that was his determination what will happen with crimea from this point on that i can't tell you but i'm not happy about crimea but again that was barack obama's watch not trump's watch yeah go ahead sure. jeff mason from reuters mr president regarding your

summit with president putin will you be raising arms control issues which you like which you like to extend new starts and when you raise concerns about violations of the i.n.f. treaty yes and as a spa the up to the nato meeting today would you suggest to him or would you consider stopping military exercises in the baltic states if that's something that you request for a perhaps we'll talk about that but i will say that we are going to be talking about those three your shoes and many more we'll be talking about it jeff. evil katie couric we are in the nets the costa del bosque the double splay and before i knew i had to know if you are planning to guarantee the taxpayer . the new money that is flowing into now thought will be spent in the best possible way especially the money coming from country that have several. public

finances where the money will be spent properly and one of the things that we have we have many wealthy countries with us today but we have some that aren't so wealthy and they did ask me if they could buy the military equipment and could i help them out or we will help them out a little bit we're not going to finance it for him but we'll make sure that they're able to get payments and various other things so they can buy because the united states makes by far the best military equipment in the world the best jets the best missiles the best guns the best everything we make by far that's one thing i guess i assumed that prior to taking office but i really learned since being president our equipment is so much better than anybody else's equipment when you look at our company's lucky than boeing and grumman what the material the the equipment that we make is so far superior everybody wants to buy our equipment facts a question can they make it because they are doing very well can they make it for

so many people so we are helping some of those countries get online and buy the best equipment yeah go ahead. kristen brown with fox news on your upcoming summit with president putin did any of your allies here express any specific concerns or talk to you about any vestige that they like you to take with you when you've got just the opposite of concern they actually and they'll probably come out with a little bit of an edict but they actually thank me for meeting with president ford i look forward to the meeting they thanked me they thought it was a great thing that i was doing it and. they gave us our best wishes or their best wishes now with that being said we'll see what happens just a loose meeting it's not going to be big schedule i don't think it should take a very long period of time and we'll see where it leads but it could lead to productive something very productive and maybe it's not but i i think meeting with people is great we had a great meeting with chairman kim and i'll tell you mike pompei did

a fantastic job i made ask you to say a few words mike while you're here just one second. thank you mr president. so i did i returned actually came straight from north korea with a couple of stops here to brussels we had a productive conversation there remains a great deal of work to do but i think most importantly my counterpart came young child made a commitment consistent with what. i think oh yes just to finish on that you know so important that was an amazing and really an amazing meeting i thought and i really think that we establish very good relationships will see where it all ends but there have been no missile tests there have been no research with has been they have blown up a site i hear they're blowing up another site missile site they've taken down all of the propaganda in fact somebody said there's no more music playing at the border line you know the music was going on for many years they said recently that while

there's no more of the heavy music and the propaganda they have they've done a lot of things and we got back our three hostages so it's a good it's a good process but the main thing is that have been no rocket launches they have been no missile tests there's been no nuclear tests no explosions no nothing for almost nine months ok. place so you've been watching live coverage of president donald trump's best conference off to the nato summit meeting in brussels now he still of this as a huge success for the united states policy didn't mazing two day period everyone agreed to up to come up that commitment substantially he talked about everyone's agreed to pay more and be able quickly and he said be seeing numbers like we've never seen before and he said in his view that nato was stronger today than it was two days ago and now. you're a chief in brussels max one has been listening to donald trump be speaking to him

shortly but first let's have a listen to what jim until america has been saying. coming to the end of the nato summit and we just had a very thorough discussion of basic principles with the representatives of the nato member states. this morning the question was again raised what we need to do for our defense and i made it clear for germany that we know that we need to do more and we have been doing more for some time and we started moving in that direction long ago we are doing it for our own soldiers but also of course for the alliance. we are doing this in the face of changes to the security situation we have recognized the latest with the attack on ukraine and the annexation of crimea there are other challenges such as syria iraq and terror threats from the islamic state. went on the show the discussion now is very

important. on all the european states have again made it clear that they accept the new security situation and are reacting to it with reinforcements and with modernization of our forces. germany is doing this to people but i also made it clear we are nato second largest troop contention . we've been in afghanistan for years and this mission is a mission under nato is article five which the united states of america had to ask for because of the terrible things that happened at the start of the century. that shows the quality of this alliance we help each other we are strong together and we want to stay that way in the future but it's not a one way street it's about helping each other and becoming stronger together. that was the german chancellor angela merkel speaking as

a nato summit in brussels draws to a close if we now draw in our brussels bureau chief mike who is outside the nato headquarters there a max in which america said she talked about a germany doing its bit within the nato alliance and also european allies doing the same what did you make of a comments. but you could have you could see some part of it and you really played the right part there as a concession towards where she really underlines yes we know we have to do more and we're already in the process of doing more and i would say that's the essential message by the german chancellor something she's been hitting home ever since she got here on wednesday of course she also wants to show that germany is doing something what exactly they're doing that's why that she focused on deployments that we just heard but that's the essential message we know it will do more holder sees. so. we were looking at donald trump at his press conference listening to

her comments and putting them in context of what he's been saying he still of the school and nato summit as a big success of his policy he's asking people to do more and now they've all agreed that they need to do more how do you see that. it's hard to know where to start there because you have a flurry of facts and a flurry of fiction and it's all kind of mixed up in a huge mess but yes he's selling this is a success and. it's not too far away from what the chancellor said because he did she insists that we need to do more willing to do more and he said the other allies reassured me that they're willing to do more about the question here really is what exactly did they agree to do beyond the two percent aim that they've been having since two thousand and fourteen talked about a short number of years until everybody will reach the two percent goal asked about

the consequences if they don't he said yes they will reach that there's no question about that ok so that remains to be seen that gives all of us some time a couple of years to really fact check back on then he talked about the four percent he said after everybody reaches the two percent we have to talk about more than four percent in some parts of his speech or his press conference or whatever you want to call it he seemed to indicate that the others had already agreed that we don't have any confirmation whatsoever for that and then again he came out with some figures that are just wrong for example saying that the u.s. contributes ninety percent of the nato budget if you go on the website and you know it's twenty two percent so one of your typical. press conferences but i think the real takeaway for the germans and also the europeans was that at the end his tone was rather conciliatory he said that he lauded germany said that they were doing a great job that they were stepping up their efforts and i think that's probably in the. these circumstances where just

a couple of hours ago we were thinking that this might be a complete disaster the best you could hope for from a european perspective and before we go on to other aspects off what donald trump had to say i want to actually ask a question which you know i had was a fair bit of concern this question about had donald trump threaten to withdraw from nato if you didn't have his v.a. in terms of defense spending now he was asked this question repeatedly at this press conference remind us of what he said about that. he said no he did not threaten that but in a different part of the press conference if i recall this correctly he said that had the others not agreed to spend more and he did not specifically say when the greta that because they already agreed to doing that two thousand and fourteen then that would have been a possibility of the u.s. pulling out so again a typical trump answer where he flat out rejects reassurance and in one as or about in another answer he again destabilizes and gives

a veiled threat saying that because it's nothing else if you had would the allies turn around on the decision this would probably be back in the room at least that's something i personally would deduct from what he said he was really focused on numbers and on money and on cash and he kept talking about you know we've got numbers that we've never done before and initially he was a bit coquettish and said yes we still can beg we'll give you the numbers but then he couldn't resist telling us actually the numbers he's talking about the substantial increase in commitment financial commitment he said was something to the tune of thirty three billion now he also mentioned that up till now only five other twenty nine nato alliance members were making a commitment of two percent of g.d.p. but now he's got a additional commitment of thirty three billion dollars more about of why this was

such an important element of this cork out of today's summit with nato. it's just we're trying to focus on the steers clear of the military focus of nato he insists on the business side of nato so that burden sharing. how much everybody spends on defense and that's something he feels comfortable with that's something he's familiar with as a businessman the numbers you have to fact check as i said earlier although that part you just mentioned sounds more or less true but i would really recommend everybody if you if you really want to have the real numbers you you know. we have some numbers on g.w. dot com but also other web sites fact checking web sites are very helpful with this it is true that this year you have eight nato allies that are scheduled to meet the two percent goal that's what the nato secretary general has been saying over the last days and that's something that is usually trustworthy in this case because something you can check that has been checked beforehand but where we are going to be in a short number of years as to quote the u.s.

presence here that is unclear because the germans themselves have the goal of reaching one point five percent by twenty twenty five so even if now it seems like this summit will end without a complete catastrophe or disaster and it seems that donald trump and at least are going to be on the trump are more or less aligned on their general message here this topic isn't going away because it appears that the u.s. president's expectations are as to the speed of how you know hope quickly they can reach the allies the supercycle are very different from what those allies are willing to do or can do the next or third and done it does appear to have been a bit of a bruising encounter for the european allies off a nato and they would be to the questions off during this press conference about the way he dealt with this was something the tone he use of the rhetoric he used in fact one person also talked about germany and saying that they didn't think it was

an effective way to deal with an ally like germany in something jim you sovereignty describing it as being hostage captive by rochelle because he's dependence on gas supplies and get donald trump came out in the end and said i have a wonderful relationship with america what do you make of his dealing with. well i think the first message here is that trump said i believe in the nato so that's good news for the nato allies and the institution itself the organization. but of course this wasn't only bruising for the european allies this was also bruising for the secretary general whose top is to keep everybody together the institution itself that sees itself jeopardized by what a u.s. president is saying so the most important ally here and then you look at the rollercoaster ride that are going to medical has been through in the morning there's germany bashing by the u.s. president then once of a sudden they're very very good friends and then there's more bashing here was asked about that in the press conference you write and read and he said as to the

consistency of his tweeting because i believe a creation journalist asked the question are you going to treat something completely different once you leave the summit here which is going to happen shortly and he said no no no i'm very stable i'm a stable genius i would think that at least for the part of the stability most people here at the summit would strongly disagree. and i felt was right i mean fact congratulated this coalition journalist for their win in the semifinal and then he went on and talked about being a stable genius. with the questions i asked him about his upcoming meeting with president putin and that is on monday the sixteenth of july what his comments on that. he said just it sounded like he was going to have a picnic with putin he said we're just getting together small to get together i don't know what's going to come out of it just talk will see the interesting part to me was but quite frankly you know we'll have to analyze the press conference for

a while to get all the details is that tb refused to give a clear answer whether he was going to accept crimea as part of russia or not he just said this would have happened under my watch i'm unhappy with the situation but he wouldn't answer the question straight whether he in the end would accept crimea being part of russia i'm sure this is going to be the headlines in ukraine that's for sure and other than that no clear outlook he just said that the other allies congratulated him on going there thanked him for going there and i believe also gave him some ideas of what he could talk about i know it was of course a lot of other questions raised about georgia for example but the key element is what what does this do to leave us with is near to a stronger as a result of this meeting as donald trump suggested to us or are they kind of deep tensions within between sufis the moment they're there for climbs within the alliance now we should be difficult to paper over. well what we have is

a commitment by the u.s. president to nato saying i believe in nato at the same time we have thinly veiled threats by the u.s. president that the u.s. could reconsider its position if not the others don't pay as in the eyes of the president they should so really we're not we're really not in a completely different place what we have year is a summit that didn't end in a complete disaster so where the allies can come out in the end and say were more or less on the same page but the issue we have your ex especially burden sharing did not go away it might improve because the europeans and also canada are stepping up their right there max still fighting that there has been not so that might be different i have to believe that we have as you said lots to digest and we'll of course talk to you again at the top of the hour but thank you very much for fun at the nato headquarters in brussels. with me now being

some of the breaking news of the deposed continent a leader of this regime will could soon be extradited to spain for allegedly misusing public funds would you move was detained in germany in late march on a european arrest warrant from spain for his villa in continuity and failed independence been responding to the court decision and german prosecutors said they would soon decide whether to authorize the extradition of put him on we bring you more on that breaking news story as details come in. let me just recap the top of that the top story that we've been following for you donald trump says nato members have agreed to significantly increase their defense spending unleashed a barrage of criticism of u.s. allies of the nato summit in brussels and said he was not happy about the u.s. being treated unfairly but speaking to the media and the past hour said the meeting had been quote really good and that nature is also good for the u.s. . that's it for me on that that she might. have moved for you in

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this is deja news coming to you live from berlin and donald trump reconfirms his country's commitment to nato. you did a collective sigh of relief in brussels office gazing criticism from the u.s. president in the past two days but after securing increased spending commitments from ses nato is stronger now than it was two days ago we go live to our correspondent at the summit for the baby exists.