heroes. i would say that's going above and beyond. most-watched, most trusted most grateful you spent the evening with us, good night from washington -- i'm shannon bream. ♪ >> brian: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. i'm brian kilmeade, and i will be filling in for tucker unless i read the schedule wrong. a clash between president trump and the leaders of europe. it happened in brussels, this morning for us and in the afternoon for them. at issue, levels of defense spending. president trump wants them to spend more, a lot more.e. the allies say, we will eventually. >> many countries are not paying what they should and many countries, a tremendous amount of money for many years back a where they are delinquent.t. the united states has to pay for

them. so if you go back ten or 20 years and add it all up, its massive amounts of money that the united states has paid and stuffed up like nobody. this has gone on for decades by the way, many presidents, but no other president brings it up like i brought it up. >> many have complained about it. many have singled out germany for criticism because they are an economic powerhouse. they accuse them of funneling billions of dollars to russia even though they saw protection from the military from us. >> president trump: billions and billions of dollars are being paid to the country that is supposed to be protecting you. everyone is talking about it all over the world. well we are supposed to be protecting her from russia but why are you paying billions of dollars to russia for energy? why are the countries in nato, mainly germany, having a large percentage of the energy paid to russia and if you look at it,

germany is the capital of russia. >> despite looking at the american team, they look around and say, this is a little different. other networks were horrified, especially this place called msnbc. former nato investor nicholas burns made claims that it is or will he and for the president to say exactly what he thinks. >> it's infuriating to watch this happen. you can't imagine any american president all the way back 75 years, deciding to become the critic and chief of nato. it's orwellian. it's infuriating to see this happen, diplomatic malpractice. >> meanwhile, hours after the president's comments, the u.s. house, and president's remarks were controversial to some but, were they wrong? lou dobbs, star of the lou dobbs show, and i believe that's exactly who i'm looking at right now from fox business.ta

he just completed his show and therefore gets time and a half. >> you are all about dollars and cents. i know you are watching fox and friends this morning, which was primetime for the president's remarks. so tell me, or are you okay with his tone, tenor and tactics? >> i think that every american ought to be thrilled with what the president did in brussels. he talked straight to the leaders of europe and told them, it's time to start making sense, telling stoltenberg at the head of nato, you can't just b.s. your way through another summit meeting and look for a joint communique that says everything's fine because it isn't. 24 countries are not meeting -- excuse me, there are 23 countries that are not meeting the other 2% of gdp requirements for national defense. they are depending on the united states.

it's that straightforward. and germany is the among the worst offenders among them and is the most egregious in its traded imbalances. it has run trade surpluses, get ready for this one, for 67 years. good lord. >> brian: so a couple things. number one the president is ticked off at germanyny in particular because they put the hubbub of this gasnd line right through germany and pass european nations that burned a threat from russia and they didn't seem to care. what are the explanations by the germany current secretary laws, listening. in 2002, russia was different then. they become somewhat belligerent so they are stuck with this deal. can you put the ratchets down and unscrew the pipeline and maybe change the tactics? and we have this thing called oil and gas, too, don't we lou? wouldn't it be reliable by us? >> it would and a host of other

countries. it would also be very helpful to foreign policy goals in that i region. but the reality here is, the germans haven't lost their free will. they are following their leader. and angela merkel has decided that there is not much difference between a socialist of germany, and the communist of russia. and she and hooton, despite her rhetoric, and have a rather amicable relationship. and gerhardt schroeder is the head of the new pipeline that is bypassing the ukraine, among other countries and going straight and it directly to the

heart of germany. isn't that a cozy relationship? >> so if you were vladimir putin, what you would like to see is a breakup or friction in nato. we are having our arguments in public, like we always do, at home and overseas. >> i think he's far happier about chuck schumer and nancy pelosi who are defending and the deal with russia. and that advantage rests with putin and the west.t this is immaterial to him, the little nonsense from stoltenberg and the nato nations. trump is talking seriously about the simple nicety is prevent him from talking the truth.

>> yes, $64 billion in the next five years over their collective defense. they have talked about changing tactics, so those are positives and president trump is given credit for doing that and changing things. so, the same as president bush complaints. no one complains about seeing lou dobbs on at 8:00 on the fox news channel. lou, just please invoice me ande leave it on my desk so we can have this settled. >> as you wish to come up the same place and the same address, and the same amount i suppose, but at time and a half. >> thanks so much. s that was lou dobbs. president trump is getting nato allies to spend more on their own defense. i sense that was just a bit of pie-in-the-sky that could only be meant to counter russia anyway. somehow in the democrats and ths rest, trump is a vladimir putin agent somehow. >> it's so upsetting to see that

putin, whose number one goal is to divide the west, particularly with nato has an american president doing his work for him. >> everyone wonders why the president is so nice toid the scoundrel, this this belief.f. one wonders about that, is it related to the russia investigation and everything else? >> he could not be doing putin's bidding more effectively if heou were an active agent of vladimir putin and the kgb. >> all right, david is a lawyer and advisor to president barack obama's campaign. sometimes these nato summits are relatively sleepy. we have to be reminded sometimes on air on "fox & friends" in the morning cup we have to take a shot of the president walking out and shaking hand hands. not this time. >> nato is not perfect but it's the most important alliance that we are part of. in the 70 years it has been in place not one nato member has been invaded and that's really important.

also when we were attacked on 9/11, it was nato that stepped up and helped us invoke articleo five. nato is so important to us and president trump is not doing tht work to basically state that. he can stay productive criticisms of nato but also could acknowledge how important it is for the security framework. those who have criticisms are right. and that helps defeat the warsaw pact. that was the soviet bloc led alliance. and that's also super important. now exactly what putin and russia want is for nato to be weak, to be broken apart. trump is in essence helping putin do that by openly criticizing nato, by being very difficult and hard on nato, instead of coming up with productive criticisms. >> david, you have a good point

if it was over now. if this was the end of his four or eight year term, he would say president trump was negative g n nato. they are getting them to spend more, they are focused on cyber terror. you know in the last year and a half, they have come up with a 30 day quick action plan on land, sea and air in order to strike back against the russian threat that didn't really exist seven or eight years ago? and the head of nato even cited donald trump is given credit for pushing this type of change. could you just also possibly sit back and say, maybe doing something a little different might get us better results? >> you are right that the head of nato gave trump some credit and trump deserve some credit. but let's take this in context. remember that the obligation to spend 2% of your gdp upon your defense came in 2014. and most of the countries that

have not yet met that are not actually in violation of that agreement. that's important to note. but trump's right to push those countries.ti trump should be more creative in his discussion, instead of just harping on the failure to payns the full 2%, he should talk about how each country should participate more effectively in the types of things they should be spending on. pure spending is not good enough for us. we need strategic spending, the type of spending that will help push back our enemies, the terrorists, and push back and be able worth to vladimir putin and russia. he doesn't talk about those things and a good leader would be doing that right now. >> brian: you are always love you levelheaded, coming fromoo obama's perspective and i get that but you are always level headed. are you okay calling him out, because other eastern european nations are upset by it and are kind ofe thing, mr. president of the united states, good job.

do you understand that might be a benefit to pushing germany to actually speaking, asking for defense, and also not going to bed with russia? >> on the energy dealtu between germany and russia, trump'sge right to criticize germany. others have criticized germany for that, also and that is not new. i'm not sure that's why he brought it up in such a provocative way today. it's also important to note that germany doing that deal with russia does create some interdependence on the part of russia as well.ia russia now will need those payments from germany. so germany will have some additional leverage over russia. i would prefer that russia is getting some gas from other sources and of course, that would be better. >> david, it was great to have you on.in meanwhile, colonel douglas mcgregor served as director of operations and center for allied europe. he served there during the 1999 kosovo campaign and he wrote

that book called "margin of s victory." colonel mcgregor joins us now. we have nato bases, from a military perspective, there hasn't been a invasion and nato is beginning to change its objective. who would have thought it would have been in afghanistan having a cyber unit to it? can you see the positive impact the president is making? >> president's impact is being positive from the outside. he's delivering a message that is at least two decades overdue. the europeans have been essentially enjoying defense cost free from the most part, and we bring the balance of the military power and provide the command and control. without us, there is frankly no nato and he was absolutely right to talk about germany. it's not simply a question of funding in germany, germany effectively has no armed forces anymore. the forces in germany are hopelessly demoralized. >> they said hey guys, we have a

budget. no germans signed up.ss >> that's only part of the problem. the larger problem is thatdg the germans thanks to us don't feel obligated to defend themselves and the president simply said, look, why should the american taxpayer defend you if you are not willing to defend yourself? there is this thing calledno article three in the nato treaty build adequate defenses for itself. they are not doing it. the poles are right and they have asked repeatedly for the last several years, where is the german army? because defense of europe is frankly possible frankly possible. >> brian: when the wall fell, they seemed more dedicated toel nato than the old western nations, why is that? >> that's an easy question and there is an easy answer. anyone in the world who has lived under russian app occupation including germans who live in the former territory of east germany or the german

democratic republic doesn't want to repeat the experience. these people want to be desperately aligned with us for their own interests so that they can protect themselves against what they view as an inevitable russian attempt to regain control of their countries. by the way, there is a lot of evidence to support their contention. the problem is, warfare has changed. we can't permanently station troops in poland. if we did, they would be killed in the first strike site launched in the early iris of any intervention. we can't be the first responder, and the president knows that. he wants to support them, he wants to reinforce them but he wants them to be your own first responder. >> brian: i'm getting to the rap signal through my ear. but real quick, people getting upset saying the president is nicer to vladimir putin then he is around allies, don't you think it's a matter of you expect more from your friends, family and neighbors then you do if your rivals/enemies? >> maybe. but i think the president is

looking for the opportunity to treat russia as a permanent enemy in eastern europe. t so i think people should welcome that.lo >> brian: although they have done nothing to deserve thatte type of openness. they've been belligerent and provocative and meddled in our election. great to see you. let me tell you what's coming up straight ahead over the next 44 minutes. up next, the left meltdown over trump's immigration policies is continuing but are they going where voters don't want them to go? a new poll suggests that is indeed the case. i will share that with you, i promise.an ♪motorcycle revving ♪ motorcycle revving ♪motorcycle revving ♪ motorcycle revving ♪ no matter who rides point, ♪ there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. ♪♪

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>> brian: a torrent of outrage over the president's immigration policy virtually never stops. >> this is the worst case of child abuse, child neglect, child mistreatment that you could imagine, but it is america's government doing it. >> you could call it either incompetence or evil but i would suggest it could be both, that there is an evil desire to deter by making an example of these people. >> the pictures of the cruelty of this administration is delivered a part of this. their core supportersru want anyone darker than a latte deported. >> brian: there you go. although representatives from 140 countries have gone through the borders of the last three years, according to the active director of i.c.e. that just retired. now on the left there is growing agreement that i.c.e. should be abolished, the legislation is.e

moving through the house. is the public on board? a new political poll shows only 25% of americans want ice gone. what does john summers think? after all he was communication director for former majority leader harry reid. how do you stand with someone, and hand it that's not where the majority of the leadership and the democratic party is. that's not where that a majority >> that's not what the majority of candidates and other elected officials in the democratic party are. i think you have people who are doing their best to advocate for the position they believe the majority of voters in their districts actually stand for. i think the reality is if you abolish ice the trump administration is going to pull together and repackage it as something else. if i made an omelette using two eggs and a slice of cheese, and

then i decided i wanted to scramble it it's going to taste the same, the calories are the same come of the ingredients are the same, that's what would happen if you were to abolish ice under this administration. the majority of people on all sides of the aisle agreed that we have to protect our borders but we've got to do it in a way that also respects american values. >> brian: the majority of americans want immigration reform, they want legal immigration to o increase. there is opportunity here and often times it refurbishes and rekindles imagination and fire throughout american history. in particular, if you're a leader on the democratic side and you see a 20-year-old who has ahe lot of charisma, a socialist who emerged and she's saying abolish ice and senator come kamala harris is g abolish ice, you have to rein them in and say this is not the message for them to be successful in november, don't you? >> it's the message they need to tell in their district if that's

what they feel they need to say in order to win. and if it's a position they truly believe in. i think it's great we have candidates for speaking truth to power and hopefully being honest with the people they want to represent. it doesn't always work for a national messaging thing but all politics are local anyway.al whenever you talk about one party or another not having consistent message, it doesn't matter. what matters is what these people are talking about locally in that they are representing issues in a way that respects the beliefs of the people they are r representing. >> brian: the one thing that isn't given enough credit is tht i.c.e. agents make 60,000 a yea year, they thought on a bulletproof vest and now they go often are protested against, they're protesting in front of his or herro house, who's goingo want to do that job and how unfair is it? they are just enforcing the laws that are on the books. >> you raise a very good point

there, law enforcement should get a lot more respect than they do and they all deserve a pay raise. as it relates to ice specifically they are following the orders from the commander in chief. these are the policies set forward by the president of the united states. he is the one that is forcing them to go out there and do these terrible things, tearing babies away from nursing mother mothers. that absolutely happened. >> brian: you had me up until babies from nursing mothers. if great to see you, you should run for office because i like your approach. thank you. 24 minutes after the hour. formerft fbi agent lisa page refused to appear before congress today, what does that mean? what about peter strzok, will he show? will they show up together, we're running out of music, i will go tomu break u're a nincom!

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>> brian: a former fbi lawyer lisa page was supposed >> brian: former fbi lawyer lisa page was supposed to testify before congress today but she defied aef congressional subpoena by declining to appear. republicans in congress are considering holding page in contempt. meanwhile the president tweeted this.

jody jennifer has worked with the president on this, he is u.s. attorney, i just got a chao see the paperwork at 3:00 yesterday, i had to rekindle my security clearance so you can't expect me to know all of this stuff in just a few hours, do you buy that excuse? >> of course not. lisa page is going to come and if she testifies she is going to lie because it's the only way she could possibly explain the text messages between her and peter strzok and the other people in the fbi. this is a simple case. notwithstanding the idiotic conclusions of the inspector general who saidd that all of these texts notwithstanding the bias and the animus that they showed toward the current president of the united states, there was no evidence that bias tainted any prosecutorial decisions. that conclusion by the inspector general is idiotic.

the bias and the animus against the president of the united states infected every single decision about the russian probe and every single decision about the hillary clinton probe in her favor. >> brian: do you think we got all the texts? >> we don't have all the texts. i think mr. horowitz has admitted that..e why hasn't christopher wray instead of getting idiotic testimony to the house committee trying to find out where the hell those texts are? if they can figure out how to tap donald trump's campaign, why can't they find fbi employees text messages? >> brian: fbi director chris ray used his time to praise the fbi in general. i found his press conference totally insulting, as if he's protecting something he had no culpability, he should be more outraged than you.

>> and ask yourself this question, why isn't he outraged? the answer is very simple. of h chris wray and rod rosenstn are careerists. they believe that the barrel and the department of justice people even under barack obama could do no wrong. if they did dodo wrong, it's woh saving them and not having them pilloried in public because these institutions are too important. nonsense. these institutions are too important not to have the truth come out. we have to know all of these facts. where is chris wray, what is he doing, he's on a milk carton. >> brian: missing but he's certainly not taking an active role. thanks so much is going to be a day in which we watch peter petr strzok, he looks to his lawyer a lot when his questions get toug tough. here's one of the men who's

going to be questioning him tomorrow, congressman john radcliffe. representative from texas and serves in the house judiciary committee. he will have a chance to question peter strzok. lisa page doesn't show up today so you made her an offer. show up tomorrow or show up by friday, tell me about this. >> we had a lot of discussion about how to handle her failure to comply with the congressional subpoena and ultimately, she is going to get three bites at the apple. she had one bite today, we invited her to appear with peter strzok tomorrow and if she doesn't do that, she can appear friday morning for a transcribed interview or deposition. if she doesn't appear before our committee by 10:00 p.m. on friday, we will move forward with holding her in contempt. >> brian: i did some early research it looks like 20 times

since 1988 congress has been issued subpoenas, and 20 times they have issued a threat of contempt charges. if she doesn't show up this week are you guys going to follow through? >> i certainly hope so. my stated intention is to do that. it's the one tool that we have to compel people to appear and give us the truth and allow us to conduct our congressional oversightus. i'm certainly going to recommend that she be held in contempt and the matter be referred if she doesn't appear -- i certainly hope she's she appears. >> brian: peter strzok, he went behind closed doors first. now he's going to go in public. without giving up what happened over there and get yourself in trouble,e, can you give me an ia and what weach should all expect on thursday?

>> he's a very important witness, everyone can see that. he is one of just a few people whopl was at the center of all three highest profile investigations, theio hillary clinton email matter, the brush investigation, and the special counsel probe. it was going to be a lot of focus tomorrow on text messages. you're going to hear a lot of four letter words because he and lisa page used just about every four letter word in the book to describe president trump. i think what you're going to hear tomorrow is peter strzok isn't going to deny saying those things, he will deny that they are hateful and they reflect bias and he's going to deny the influences official conduct. i was with him for 11 hours last week, i didn't find his explanations to be believable or credible but the good news is the american people can make up their own mind tomorrow. and there will be a lot at stake. >> brian: i don't know why

robert mueller doesn'tan care m more, he should beha offended because it was once his agency he headed up. they make the fbi looked terrible and he should be outraged. t >> i agree with that completely. other than peter strzok, bob mueller and the special counsel team has more at stake than anyone with his testimony because peter strzok was the one for the first nine months gathered all of the evidence and made all of the investigative decisions and if he acted in appropriate than mueller as a problem. >> brian: a liberal professor is under assault by the left because he dared to praise a judge kavanaugh. he joins us next, can you believe that...was...magic.

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>> brian: i have to tell you this sto >> brian: you have a liberal law professor is being ripped right now for many on the left for writing an op-ed about the supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. after his nomination was announced he obviously was happy. he wrote a piece for "the new york times" stating the liberal case for kavanaugh. progressive writers have been savaging him. you want some examples? slate called at complete, "gq" called it something we cannot err. you knew when you wrote this you would get some blowback. he did you expect something like that? >> it comes with the territory, i love the fact that this country has wide open debate, it's the glory of our society. ours is a wonderful democracy.

>> brian: why do you think someone who has been labeled a perfect judge by conservatives would do a good job on the supreme court? >> because i think a great judge is open-minded and changes his or her mind to sometimes i think i see those virtues in brett kavanaugh. a great judge is a scholar of thena constitution, the supreme court focuses a lot on constitutional issues and i think brett kavanaugh has studied the constitution deeply. i think he is a person of good character and he has been willing to admit he's made mistakes in the past. an experienced person has made mistakes. a really good judge learns from those mistakes. >> brian: when you see chuck schumer declare it's going to be the end of the world, the end of roe v. wade, freedom of

expression, things like this, what do you say to that? >> i'm a very staunch believer myself in the constitutional right in same-sex marriage, justice kennedy got it right. i should remind the audience that brett kavanaugh clerked for anthonyy kennedy. there are a lot ofad similariti. justice kennedy was a staunch believer in free speech, whether it's of a conservative sort, i think he was right right in bof those cases and i think he's right that brett kavanaugh is a staunch believer in freedom of expression. >> brian: even jeffrey toobin said no one could say he's not qualified. if you're going to vote know you would tell democrats, publicly name at least two clearly better candidates who a republican

would have nominated? why does that work for you? >> your audience should note that i supported merrick garland, i voted for hillary clinton, but the way our constitution is set up as the process in whichit the president nominates, the senate confirms, ours is a two party system where one party controls both the presidency and the senate and as a practical matter and he's given a list of people that are strongly considered. if you pick someone else off the list was better, i can think of anyone or tell us why it's an inadequate list. >> brian: you're just saying these are the rules, these are the laws it's the constitution, sorry you're getting this back lash but welcome to our world. thanks so much for your time. 17 minutes before the top of the hour. nfl owners try to put the stuff in the protest, but now the players are taking action to protect their right to take a

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♪ >> brian: over the last 24 hours the nfl players union has fired back against the nfl's made decision's ordering players to stand for the national anthem or stay in the locker room. the players association just filed a grievance against the lake demanding they have a right to kneel, sit, or do something else -- protest, they want that right to be restored. jason whitlock cohost of speak for yourself joins us right now from fox sports 1 studios, is this going to help or hurt the leak? >> it's going to hurt the league and hurt the individual players as well in terms of their brand

of nfl players. these guys don't seem to get it. theys are branding themselves as unpatriotic in a sport that since the 1960s has branded itself as uber patriotic. this is completely off brand and off the business model the nfl has established for itself and its players. it's bad business. if these guys want to protests, there are six other days in the week, there are 21 other hours on sunday for them to do that. when you're playing in the nfl, your goal should be to make as much money as humanly possible for playing a dangerous game and then take that money and support whatever causes you believe in. this thing is so crystal clear, i have no idea what these guys arest thinking. >> brian: i have no problem with what the nfl did, they didn't like the fact that they didn't consult with the union

before t doing it. the american public 61% supported what roger caddell did, 33% w disapproved. i'll take the other side mostly white owners, mostly white fans want to stand for the national anthem, mostly black playersem say we want the righto protest what they think is wrong in society, how dare you take that away from me? >> my father was a small businessman and businessman in indianapolis and the customer is always right when you go into business. you have to please your custome customer. this isn't about a handful of players and how they feel, i'll push back. i wanted to morris smith the head of the players union to pull the 1700 nfl players, how many of them want to kneel during the national anthem and want to continue this fight? i don't think it's a large majority, i think it's less than 100. if that is the case, why is a

union are you out supporting what art hundred or less players want as opposed to what the 15, 1600 other players want done? this should not be a priority becausehe there's not that many nfl players who want to see thi happen. >> brian: you're talking hyperbole, the numbers don't lie. the average telecast about 14 million viewers, and 2016 it got 16 million. attendance was down across the leak but it's still a behemoth, it still america's favorite sport. you are chipping at the edges and it could get worse. my hope is they come together and they get unified with the nba did. thanks so much for staying up for us. tucker is back right after the break, increasingly people are having their lives ruined by social media mobs. he talks to greg gutfeld about that and i'm going to play it back ♪

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♪ >> brian: for decades americans feared that the government would invade their privacy and destroy their lives. it turns out we didn't need the government for that thanks to the spread of smartphones and social media at any moment, any day, any person could find themselves targeted online by some sort of mob. greg gutfeld, i don't like him very much, he did a very good job writing this column on social media redemption and he recently joined tucker and i taped it. >> tucker: this is all coming from a fantastic piece that you wrote, remember when we thought government was big brother, big brother is us. >> we've happily embraced the role as our nations hall monitors and our nations policeman and social media triggers these two evolutionary processes. one to stand out, it's ingrained

in your head. the other i thing is the survivl mechanism, you can find somebody and eject them like a sacrifice, you save yourself. this is something you're not even aware you're doing, you're on social media and you see somebodybu screw up and you just join the mob, it's almost like an evolutionary process to save yourself. it makes me think about if you have ank bad day, if you happeno have a bad day in the somebody gets you on tape, god help you. when i wrote that i was thinking about with my parents have survived back in the day during social media as parents? you didn't have a lot of stuff to entertain kids with, you had lousy roller-skates, you didn't wear helmets. parents were so mad, they get really mad at their kids and

spank them because they're worried you almost killed yourself! >> tucker: a use what your kids in a safe way now and you're in trouble. >> my mom would have been a mea mean. clearly it social media of that's cruelty, its degraded society it's made people lonelyy or as you pointed out in your piece which is ironic but true. whatt do you do? with the redemption from this? >> it takes a collective action to decide you're not going to be part of the mob. it's ait moment of pause, when u are online and you see somebody you don't like. it's important that if somebody you don't like screwing up. let's say it's joy behar or joy reid or anybody named joy and they say something that everybody is on them, what whaf

you just decided not to? what if he decided not to demand they be fired? this may not be reciprocated. i know it won't be. if you are nice online, it's not like media matters is going to do the same to us. we know that. >> tucker: it begins with our self-restraint. will you come back on for christmas to remind us of that? that is the kind of thing we could start in 2019. >> i remind myself of this every time i turn on that laptop and i go don't be a jerk. once you get online you are a lesser version of you you are never a better version. >> that is very smart. thank you for that. >> brian: greg doesn't have to wait for christmas, he will be back tomorrow with dana perino inan this week's final exam. you never get that type of talent. dana is very talented, greg is not. that's it for us tonight. you can see me tomorrow in a

different outfit on "fox & friends." kellyanne conway and denny mccarthy -- i might keep the same outfit. then join me on radio from 9:00o until noon, steve hilton will be joining us from england. speaking of england, sean hannity's next and he's not in hisso you're up in six hours but great show tonight. welcome to "hannity." we are broadcasting tonight from london ahead of the president's first official visit here in england. there is so much happening right here in europe and at home, without a doubt this is one of the busiest news cycles in years. we have a lot to cover tonight, we have a huge show. newt gingrich, and much more. but first earlier today, president trump attended the annual nato summit where he had some very tough talk for european leaders, the ones that