air force 2 touching down in gastonia this morning on board kristin fisher who now joins us from thewith more. hi, kristin. >> hey, leland, vice president mike pence really hit the ground running here in gas tonia, he started out with a bileal -- bilateral meeting in gastonia, 12-hour drive roughly to moscow. a country that's been hit by russian attacks. they want big assurances from the vice president that the u.s. will help defend them in the face of any aggression and the vice president told me today that that assurance is exactly what he intends to give them. >> president trump sent me to give a message, georgia and montenegro will be the same. we are allies and we are with you and stand with you. it's a great honor to be here. >> do you anticipate president trump to sign the russian's bill while you are over here and how that would bolster your message that the trump administration is committed to helping defend the countries against russian aggression? >> the president has made it very clear that russia's destabilizing activities and support for rogue regimes, activities in ukr

can and 2.2% of gdp allocated to defense this year and i tell you, there is no political force in gastonia who argues against to perhaps increasing even the defense budget if it's really needed has paid a lot of attention recently is the solid early warning procedures, including also investing in intelligence. that allows politicians like me to be very well briefed constantly and that makes, of course, the quality of political decisions much higher. these were a few of my remarks. i hope to hear very interesting debate today. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. my assignment today is to provide additional context for understanding of what we may be seeing this september. in that sense, i'm following along very much. the messages that you heard from marco, and what you will be hearing from me is why these things don't exist in a vacuum. to understand them and interpret them, there are a lot of other considerations that we need to pay attention to, including history. what i thought i would do then is start with a few words about what we know about the exercise itself and then look at some of

cyber attack on a wide scale that happened years ago the center of excellence was established in gastonia. >> that have anything to do with an american strategy? i was at the opening of it. >> yes, but i think in no case thanks to when we found out that it would be difficult as far as i know it is be difficult to look at the case and asked for help from the u.s. and u.k. agencies, i would like to believe the strategy exists, i cannot comment on it because i'm not in the loop. i didn't talk to people but but i can see that happened every day is through embassy in through diplomatic, they exist in nato. >> that's a great answer. thank you. should we expect similar aggressive behaviors we saw the attempt to overthrow the government of montenegro another natives such as bosnia, macedonia and others? >> what i mentioned in my introductory, i'm sure this is just one case and i'm sure it to russia will continue to do something similar in the neighborhood. >> that's pretty exciting. they recruited people, they were willing to kill people. they were willing to some people in uniform to kill the pr