this morning president trump is in brussels meeting with anxious nato allies a short time ago. he reportedly attacked germany in a the trump administration fails to reunite migrant families. the supreme court picks brett kavanaugh as he seeks to get gop support ahead of a confirmation site. good morning, everybody. it is wednesday, july 11th. we are going to start with president trump in belgium for what has already become a pretty contentious nato summit. he is meeting with top officials right now in brussels and forecasting his plan to call out

american allies by accusing them of not paying tear fair share. he spoing to reporters briefly before unloading on germany at the start of a working breakfast. watch this. >> we have a very good relationship. because of me, they've raised about $40 billion over the last year. >> we will discuss how we can make this summit a success showing that europe and america can stand together and we will focus on defense spending, because as the president just said, nato allie versus to invest more in defense and that's exactly what they're doing. >> i think it's very sad when germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with russia where you are supposed to be guarding against russia and germany goes out and pays billions and billions a year to russia. so we're protecting germany, we're protecting france. we're protecting all of these countries and then numerous of the countries go out and make a

pipeline deal with russia where they're paying billions of dollars into the coiffeurs of russia. so we're supposed to protect you against russia, but they're paying billions of dollars to russia. i think that's very inappropriate. the former chancellor of germany is the head of the pipeline company that's supplying the gas. it's ultimately germany will have almost 70% of their country controlled by russia with natural gas. so you tell me, is that appropriate? we have been complaining about this from the time i got here? it should have never been allowed to have happened. but germany is totally controlled by russia. >> and, of course, many of you know, trump's european trip is coming at a time of heightened tensions between the u.s. and nato allies spurred by trump's trade wars there. a crusade on defense spending as well, pasting allied leaders and his curious relationship with russia's vladimir putin, who he is meeting with post-nato next

monday in finland, prior to the parting, the president predicted the putin summit may be the smoothest part of the trip. >> i have nato. i have the uk. which is in somewhat turmoil. and i have putin. frankly, putin may be the easiest of them all. who would think? . >> i really can't say right now, as far as i'm concerned a competitor. >> reporter: and yesterday, european council president had this message for president trump. >> i would like to address president trump directly, who for a long time now has been criticizing europe almost daily. dear mr. trump, america will not have and does not have a better allie than europe. america, appreciate your allie, after all, you don't have that many. dear, mr. president, please

remember about this tomorrow when we meet at the nato summit. but above all within you meet president putin in helsinki. it is always worth know who can is your strategic friend and who is your strategy problem. >> as far as nato spending goes, five of 29 nations have met their commitments set for 2024 the rest still have years to meet that target. joining us from brussels, belgium, white house correspondent kristen welker, and kyle perry for us. chris, i'm going to start with you on this one, set the scene for, kristen, how out of the ordinary was it to see not only what took place in i'd that breakfast but how contentious the exchange was? >> reporter: it can't with overstated. it is remarkable. i have covered a number of these summits. typically, what you see in these public events are pleasantry,

frankly, both leaders very aware of the fact that every move is being scrutinized, their tone, every word that they utter. and if there are going to be disagreements, those disagreements take place behind closed doors. this was the opposite of that a break with property come, not spriekdz given president trump, he is known to break with protocol. but really taking the nato secretary general to task. the alliance to task, germany to task as you pointed out, reviveing that criticism that he has that nato countries don't pay their fair share in defense spending and so it was a very tense start to what is already a summit that has tensions at the backdrop, given the tariffs that president trump has slapped on some of these countries in recent weeks and given all of his tough talk. >> kristen, i'm looking at the half drank orange juice there, we are just at the beginning of this sum in brussels. >> reporter: right. >> there is this focus on spending. what else has the white house

said they are keen to focus on. we think of the first nato summit he attended for nato headquarters. plenty of stage craft gone amuck awry at that last nato summit. what does the white house want us to focus on aside from funding over the next two days? >> well, i have to say funding is their top issue. when ask you them, what are they going to be focused on, they go back to that issue. but the other key issues, david, it is important. of course, security, the fight against north korea. of course, this summit getting under way after the north korean summit the president had with kim jong-un, in the weeks following, secretary of state mike pompeo had follow-up meetings. those meetings did not go well. there are no guarantees, no tangibles about how, when or if north korea is actually going to follow through with its stated vow to de-nuclearize, is that weakening president trump's

hand, not only here at nato, but that critical high stakes face-to-face with vladimir putin. that's the big question. a lot of concern in walk that president trump will have difficult meetings here with his allies and a positive meeting with president putin. one top republican saying that would be disastrous. >> we are seeing prime minister introduce dough there arriving. remember his speech for the g7 summit. so a lot to come in the following day, for sure, thanks so much kristen for joining us. we want to go to cal now, talk to me what we can expect to hear from angela merkel. i can't help but think what she was hearing and thinking when she heard that exchange at that initial breakfast. >> reporter: yeah, can you make the argument that she's sort of the last bastion of liberal democracy in europe. certainly the uk has swung to the right, certainly most of the common has done the same.

he is clearly, he, being president trump, clearly zeroing in on what he believes to be a vulnerable chancellor of germany. not just from an economic stand point. again, we talk about this a lot. the thing that has made america different from countries around the world is its allies and this is a president who seems keen and very opened on not only breaking down those allies, changing who those allies are and really breaking down these institutions like nato, like the g7, like the european union. these institutions that have insured democracy around the world is not something that he's interested. you saw those live pictures of justin introduce doutrudeau. this is a man that went out of his what i to start a relationship with president trump and then was called weak and dishonest on the back half of that meeting you are seeing a photo of there now. so i expect the german chancellor may go out of her way to push back on the u.s.

president. certainly for her constituency in germany. the same goes for prime minister may. with 50,000 people expected to protest here on fridaying don't be surprised if the british prime minister goes out of her way to say something that lights the american president. >> cal, let's talk a little bit about the president's myopia, we saw it there in relief. we heard it, the president of the european council, she a quality on twitter i will add as well for what he says about the u.s.' relationship to the world. while the president is focused on funding, while he's focused on trade deficits and the like, you saw nato inking a new deal here with the european union. when you look at trade, you see other countries pivoting as the u.s. relationship has had for a very long time. how oblivious is this president to what's happening as he takes this myopic am approach? >> reporter: incredibly obrifious. he can't get the facts right.

he says the u.s. runs a $151 trade deficit with the european union that's false. it's more like $100 become few include automatic other things traded back and forth. the european union cannot exist without nato, vice-versa. america cannot exist as it does in the world right now without these institutions. again, the u.s. president flanked by his secretary of state, by his defense secretary, doesn't seem interested in the world as it exists now. he seems interested in donald trump's new world order. >> it's interesting, you bring that up, cam, because when we see other presidents go to these nato summits, you oftentimes see them speaking to an international audience. >> that is the sort of the point with this whole thing wind chill president trump, you very much understand, he is speaking to his base a domestic audience, which is honestly not surprising coming from president trump. >> reporter: and maybe the message has shifted. we talked about that from america first to america only.

it seems like it has. >> we will talk to you in a bit. thanks, cam. >> in the trump yesterday's missed court order deadline to reunite parents seized under the government's now abandoned policy to separate families at the border the department of health and human services said it expected only 38 of the 102 migrant children under the age of 5 would be reunited yesterday. for the remaining 64, the government says they could not reunite by yesterday. but the trump administration cited discovery parents with criminal records, parents who had already been deported and incomplete ver fichgs. despite the federal court order two weeks ago the justice department said 16 children believed to have been separated at the board ver not been matched to parents. lawyer sarah fabian told the judge the dfa test conducted on the 16 parents and children to confirm they are, indeed, related could stretch into wednesday.

this is a fraction of 3,000 children that hhs says remains separated, ordered to be reunited by next thursday, july 26th. now, yesterday at the white house the president was asked about his administration struggle to reunify these families. take a listen. . >> well, i have a solution, tell mem e peop people not to come to our country illegal. that's the solution. come like other people do, come legally. . >> i'm saying very simply. we have laws, we have borders. don't come to our country illegally. it's not a good thing. >> still ahead, how senators are reacting to president trump's suggestion that his son vladimir putin could be the easiest of all his meetings while she

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further destabilizes the relationship. hopefully, what will happen is that we will have a good nato meeting and that the putin meeting will almost be a non-event as far as commitments made. >> reporter: i think he is simply trying to say to our great nato allies and friends, let's make sure we are all rolling in the same direction, so to speak, let's make sure we are living up to our expectations and obligations. i think the president knows the challenges with slatd vlad. i hope when he peet's with our nato allies, we will talk about the international law and sounds luke he may have an opportunity to address that same concern with vladimir putin, himself. >> should the president meet alone with vladimir putin? >> look, i don't have any advice to give the president. he just left this morning on the trip to europe. there is nothing inherently wrong, obviously, with him meeting with the head of the

russian government. and i won't give him any advice about how that meeting should be conducted or who else should be in the room. >> are you worried he is interested -- >> no, i'm not worried about that. >> meanwhile, in a rare moment of unity, overwhelmingly passed a non-binding motion reaffirming the commitment to the nato alliance, the 97-2 vote came hours after the president landed in belgium. senators and palm and mike lee were the only two to vote against that motion. >> world news editor, dave, good morning to you. thank you for joining us early. president trump, as you know at this point, starting out with the much anticipated nato summit on a contentious note going back and forth with the secretary general there, what kind of outcome from your perspective is the president hoping to gain from this? >> well, it's unclear about the particular comments about germany.

it seems she flipping the script. everybody is saying he is too close to vladimir putin in russia. he is saying it is germany who is signing this big energy deal with russia. in terms of pressuring allie, he does want to see them increase their defense spending. the way he characterizies is no quite right. it is true a lot of members are not leaving their 2% of gdp commitment. >> let's talk more about german and the allies. we saw the back and forth between the president and the nato secretary general. what else do allies feel might happen? you heard from bob corker a moment ago, talking about his hope that we have a good meeting followed by a non-event, that one-on-one meeting with vladimir putin. what are allies worried about? >> reporter: all right. the worst case scenario for allies is trump starts this collective defense that is the bedrock of nato.

if he starts to say we will only protect companies meeting their 2% of gdp spending target or if he starts to question in general, the idea of you know solidarity against russia to the east. these are concepts that could really undermine the partnership. if it's just another g7 style blowout, where he says a lot of you know acrimonious things, they leave and go back to their collective companies. they can survive that. domestically, trump is one of a few problems they are dealing with. if he questions what nato is all about that will be an issue. >> i think germany increased the spending by 2025, not necessarily meeting the mark of that 2% that president trump has been putting out there consistently. all right, dave wallace. thank you so much. still ahead, everybody, viva la france. they told me to say it that way. they made me do it. the french make it back to the

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welcome back. time now for sports and a recap of world cup play in russia, to st. petersburg, where france earns its place, following a 1-nil victory in the semifinal matchup. they scored the lone goal

finding the back of the net with a 51st minute header that sees france through to the title game for the first time since 2006. the result will make for a raucous weekend in the country, which will also be celebrating bastille day ahead of sunday's championship. france is going to be lit. france will also face either croatia or england after the two teams square off in the semifinal match this afternoon. you can catch all the world cup action live on telemundo. in some other soccer headlines after nine years with real madrid, the winner, cristiano ronaldo will join italian champions juventus. both confirmed the reports that it was agreed for $123 million with ronaldo signing a four-year contract worth more than $35 million per season and that is an end of an era for real madrid. let's turn to wimbledon now and the all england club in london,

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welcome back, everybody. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. president trump is in belgium for what is already a contentious nato summit. she currently having meetings with top officials in brussels.

he spoke to reporters about his summit plan while unloading on two of his favorite targets, germany and the media. a lot of good people here, surprising. >> it's also your leadership and your message. >> i think it's very sad when germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with russia where you are supposed to be guarding against russia and germany goes out and pays billions and becomes a year to russia. so we're protecting germany, we're protecting france, all of these countries and then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with russia where they're paying billions of dollars into the coiffeurs of russia. so we're supposed to protect you against russia, but they're paying becomes of dollars to

russia. i think that's very inappropriate. the former chancellor of germany is the head of the pipeline supplying gas. ultimately germany will have almost 70% of their country controlled by russia with natural gas. so you tell me, that appropriate? i mean, i have been complaining about this from the time i got here. it never should have been allowed to have happened. but germany is totally controlled by russia. >> let's go live to london to national correspondent cal perry. i would imagine in that sum briefing book, there wasn't much mentioned about this pipeline deal. . here you have the president of the occupation bringing this up at the beginning of the summit. this is the first item on the agenda. not sure why he thought the secretary general would be the person he should be talking about this issue. how extraordinary this was the president of the occupation talking about an allie, germany and this deal in that first meeting at the start of the

summit. >> reporter: look, if the goal of the nato meeting whats to sort of reassure america's allies that america is still their allie, then this was the worst possible start. if the goal was to break down this institution like he's broken down so many of the traditional institutions that exist, this was the perfect start. this was the thing you don't bring up until the ends, until have you made your exit from the house you grew up in. you drop it on your parents and you leave. for him to bring this up, to a man who has gone from nation to nation around nato trying to raise money so that he could start the meeting the way he did by saying, mr. president, you know the rhetoric you have used has helped me raise this money. to go from that to a lecture about european security for a man whose life and life work it is to create security on this continent is simply extraordinary. >> you are always told at thanksgiving dinner, never talk

about relidgeen, politics and now pipelines. >> there you go. >> those are the three guidelines i can't help but think that president trump's audience was not in sulten burg. there was not anybody at that table, in fact, it was the stam ras staring at him. beyond that, if the media was not there, if this did not sturn into an open sex as it did, he may not have gone there. >> reporter: yeah, no, there is a grandstanding quality to all of this. there is a now a very distinctive pattern of this u.s. president, you know, taking the curtains back and showing people the process of having these meetings. these meetings should not happen in an open forum. the reason that germany is relying on russia for energy is because russia could turn off the power across europe. the reason that germany is in a relationship with russia is to avoid a third world war. the reason these 39 countries

have banded together, nickally, financially, militarily is to avoid a global conflict. america accounts for 70% of nato's defense spending. not because we are interested in running around the world and protecting anybody, but because we have 30,000 troops oak here in europe. your point is absolutely right, to the trump base, why are we spending this money? that will play big. whether or not it's true and in keeping with reality. >> that will play with his base. >> there is that threat wlornt president trump will pull those troops pull out of nato and the summit as well. >> the secretary of state mike pompeo sitting to the president's left. he was just in pyongyang, from automatic reports how that visit went. >> not well. >> but something that wrankled is having the press being in that room longer than he wanted them to be there before his press secretary. >> reporter: gem mattis slowly creeping out of the frame.

>> yeoman's work. seated to the left of the sax. >> thanks, cam. joining us again world news editor for axios. dave, good to see you again the nato summit is to u.s. allie, germany and the uk, find their nations very much in flux, excuse me. do you think trump is going to use that as leverage against them in his talks? >> he can try. i think the more he insults these leaders, though, probably the better they look among their domestic population, trump's popularity in germany is non-existent. angela merkel is coming out of the other side that seemed likely to collapse her leadership. she might only be strengthened by a showdown with trump here. it's a little more awkward for teresa may, she has as to host trump in a few days in the uk. she is probably hoping he keeps

his arrows aimed at angela merkel and she can squeak by and have as undramatic a summit as possible in the uk. >> dave, that last big summit the g7, a few moments ago, we saw justin trudeau arriving in brussels. we saw how that ended and last year's nato summit went in brussels as well him help us how this is epitomizeing or shaping the way foreign policy works today. >> so i was talking to a former top nato official just yesterday. he said trump likes to keep us on our toes, so we think this will be aster. he comes out and all he las to do is say good nice words. he gets good headlines out of it. obviously, that is not the direction trump has decided to take this. now the question is, is this just how a relationship with our closest allies are? is this what it looks like forrest of trump's tenure in office, where we don't get along with canada, we don't get along

with germany. we don't get along with the uk. if that's the case, they are going to have to make some calculations about what their foreign policy looks like in the months and years to come. >> we don't get along with them, but we choose to get along with leaders like russia's president vladimir putin. thanks, dave, good seeing you. >> thank you. >> and president trump's supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh officially has begun his campaign for key lawmakers in his confirmation process. judge caf narcotic wkavanaugh w speaking yesterday, the vice president laid out the time line for when the administration hopes to have kavanaugh confirmed. >> our goal is to see this new justice to the supreme court confirmed and sworn in before the court convenes in october 1. >> judge kavanaugh's itinerary included meetings with mitch mcconnell and chairman chuck

grassley. both lawmakers stress the importance of a fair process for the judge. >> i mean it will be done right and try to do what we can for everybody's interest. in the ends, i think this record speaks for itself. as long as it affords this person a chance for confirmation. >> is there anything that could prevent brett kavanaugh? >> well, we're going to go through the process. it gives them an opportunity to meet with everybody that has an open mind. we got a great nominee here i think it deserves bipartisan support. >> meanwhile, it is now shifting to critical swing vote senators, including republicans lisa murkowski and susan collins along with red state democrat i

don't manchin. all three are promising to hold the nomination until they vet his record. >> i've never met him. so i'm apgs to meet him and to be able to visit with him one-on-one. so there is some work we all have in front of us. i'm looking forward to rolling up my sleefbs and getting to work. >> i know he is held in high regard by many attorneys and judges, whom i know, but, obviously, he into evidence to go through the full vetting process and i haver much look forward to meeting with him in my office so that i have the opportunity one on run to have a thorough discussion with him t about his judicial progressly lock at all the things he's ruled on, his writings. i think it's our responsibility. i know what in my heart, to give everybody the benefit of the

doubt. look at it through a deep dievgs study it, over the concerns i have. >> the latest on the crisis and one republican senator os vote of confident on the ability to actually solve it. >> get a check with bill karins and a check of the forecast coming up.

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♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ♪ ♪ . welcome back, everybody, alex aczar assured the senate the trump administration could easily locate and match parents separated at the border, but yesterday the chair of the senate health committee lamar alexander could not give the president's team his vote of confidence on actually resolving this crisis. >> children shouldn't be separated at the border if at all possible. i need to get an update. >> are you confident they are doing a good job on this?

>> not yet. no yet. i will talk to the secretary and see what he says is happening. it's complicated. but the policy should be, if at all possible, young children especially should not be separated from their parents at the border. >> president trump's pick for veterans affair secretary cleared the crucial senate panel, not without historic opposition. robert wilkie won the overwhelming majority vote for final approval. not every voter on on board, marking the first time in the veteran's history a senator has rejected a nominee. senator bernie sanders solely voted against wilkie in a move more in trump's desire to privatize veterans health care than the nominee, himself the final vote could come as early as next week. all right, let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. surfers dlierkts hurricane chris will provide -- delight,

hurricane chris will provide swells all summer long? >> they will be in the water, no one else should. it's leading to a category 2. a well defined eye. you worry about it heading towards land. so it's not. we don't have to worry about that at all. with ein ed to worry about the beaches and the swells. >> that will be about it with chris. we will get severe weather out of this. we have a cold front that will head from canada down into minnesota, fargo, that's the latest this afternoon. you will welcome the rain, it will be very hot before that. tomorrow we take that frontal system down to southern minnesota, northern iowa, into wisconsin. that's when we cool you off also. again mostly a winds damage threat with those storms. we're not too worried about anything else as far as tornadoes or even large hail. mostly a wind damage threat. we continue to watch above average temperatures. we will expect a little cool

down in the northeast today. other areas, guys, will be about 90 to 95 as we go throughout the day today. it could even feel like 105 in kansas city, summer is still here. it's the middle of july. in the northeast, you get a little break. >> any second now,ly get a tech from my husband saying he is headed to the beach. so i would appreciate if you could call him and tell him it's kind of dangerous and he shouldn't get out in the water. it's probably not good to get out there. >> he's a big boy, he can make that decision. >> i'm not sure about that. still ahead, everybody, china fires back at the u.s., the trump administration looks to raise the stakes of the trade war with beijing. >> more fallout on the cambridge analytica scandal with facebook. detail on those and other stories driving your business day ahead.

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welcome back. let's turn to business after months of scrutiny, facebook received the first payment for the cambridge analytica scandal from the watchdog agency. we are joined live from london. what's the latest? it seems to be a drop in the buck for a company like facebook. >> that is exactly it. the important thing is this is the first time facebook has gotten find. it's the first fine world wide. as you say, it's 500,000 pounds,

which is a drop in the ocean. for the first three months of the year, facebook reported profits of $6 billion. i did the math. that works out to $60 billion a akin to about ten minutes of facebook time. not that big. but about 40 other pending investigations. we'll see what happens with those. the bigger story driving markets this morning is the u.s. threats to impose further tariffs on chinese imports to about $200 billion worth of goods. that would be an extra 10% in tariffs. the interesting thing about this round of tariffs it targets consumer products. talking about things like handbags, skis, golf bags. it hurts, basically. bottom line, if they end up getting applied that entails 50% of china's exports actually have a tariff on them to the u.s. this is still ongoing and chinese equity markets dropped 2% to trading. >> and according to the labor

department, the amount of americans willingly quitting their jobs hit its highest level since 2001. a good or bad thing? >> we'll are reading this is a good thing, because essentially people are quitting their jobs to look for higher paying jobs. the percentage of those quitting, 2.4%, the highest level since april 2001, should also tell you about 6.6 million available jobs versus 6 million people unemployed. definitely more jobs are available than people looking for them, which means employers will have to pay up. a good thing and reflects the strong labor market in the u.s. right now. back to you. >> excellent. live from london, thanks so much. coming up, everybody, axios's nicholas johnston has a look at this morning's "one big thing "and coming up on "morning joe," president trump facing off with nato. the contentious meeting with america's allies with a war of

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joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m. editor-in-chief, nicholas good to see you. >> good morning. >> talk to us about axios's "one big thing" today. >> trump unwinding the 20th century. trump in europe today, looking at how he's reacting to nato and how he's behaving both at home and abroad, undoing and changing sort of a lot of institutions and norms that weres bedrock of post-world war ii world order.

and kavanaugh, trying to roll back a new deal, a conservative majority could have big impacts on the united states. voting laws, unions, a big concern among some democrat and republican senators, what the court might do on abortion laws. internationally, we saw this morning. trump's contentious, unprecedented public exchange so far i've seen before president trump and the nato secretary. broader impacts on the way trump approaches nato and other international organizations like wto, nafta, paris climate accord, tpp. part and partial, the trump administration changing fundamental norms that existed the last 40, 50 years. >> talking about unwinding the 20th century. give me your sense of the time

horizon for the changes as we watch. what could the legacy of this be? >> internationally, trump isn't alone on these things. particularly england and the eu. working on brexit plan. broader trends at work here. interesting to continue to watch this nato summit unfold, if that was on opening negotiating gamut by the president to set the tone for the summit. comes back to agreeing the article 5 mutual defense pact standing against russia. part of a trend, a much longer multigenerational trend sweeping the world, changing institutions that formed a lot of the backbone of world government over the last 50 years that a lot of people didn't feel served all the people. >> talk about brett kavanaugh, supreme court nominee for president trump. what is the democrats' plan to defeat him? >> absolutely. democrats are focusing on health care not just with kavanaugh but the midterm elections.

first time in history i saw democrats spending more money on ads defending the affordable care act than republicans are spending attacking it. that tells me it is no longary political liability and democrats will try to use the popularity of the health care law and talents to it a fight against brett kavanaugh. the key point chuck schumer will make, preexisting conditions, undermining them. and get to the supreme court and a change of policy on that could take apart a big piece of the affordable care act. >> and focused on two things, health care and emphasizing reproductive rights as well, is what chuck shochumer is saying. what about the gamut he's pushes? >> razor thin. there's a one-vote gap there. again, the way i look at it now, kavanaugh is likely on his way to being confirmed but we're paying attention to a lot of senators. those backing him and those

wobbly about backing him. the trump administration is gearing for what they call a bloody war in the fall. expecting to lose some seats in the house and increase, possibly, democratic majority there. looking for the start of the 2020 campaign, of course, starts the day after midterms and possibly more revelations from the mueller report. what the trump administration tells us, viewing their support, it's important not to be wide but deep. doubling down on their base. >> all right. nicholas johnston, thank you very much. we'll be reading axios in a little while. sign up for the newsletter at signup.axios.com. that does it for us on this wednesday morning. "morning joe," everybody, starts right now. i have nato. i have the uk, which is in somewhat turmoil, and i have putin. frankly, putin may be the easiest of them all. who would think?

>> well, turns out he smite been right about that. earlier this morning the president of the united states publicly hounded nato's secretary-general, 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