effects by that time were having serious consequences for the allies' position. the united states because of indecision about 76% short of number of troops that they expected to have deployed in europe by that time. and then they had -- that meant that they had neither from england nor from the mediterranean, concentration of allied forced to defeat the axis. one of the key u.s. overlord advocates, major general thomas handy, the most important fit was strategy and stick wit and he went onto say that there was a risk, if they didn't do that, there was a risk of stalemate or, quote, complete victory indefinitely postponed. from london, an exacerbated, one of churchill's closest adviser and advocate for the american position, wrote to counterpart harry hopkins, roosevelt's adviser, if we are not prepared to accept the risks, face the difficulties, suffer casualties, then we should concentrate exclusively on construction of heavy bombers and think in terms of 1950. i don't know about you, but i don't within the to contemplate about war in 1950. meanwhile high-level

effort, in collaboration with allies and partners. light attack is one example of butwe are tying to do that, unless the demand signal goes down, we can't still have 90 over therties a day persian gulf, and still be preparing for a high-end fight. see that demand signal go down against violent extremism, or we won't be able to accomplish the national defense strategy. host: in my experience it is hard to get the demand signal to go down. commandersilson: have no reason to reduce the demand signal. host: exactly, whether it is combatant commanders or presidents on both sides. i think leaders look at the u.s. air force as an incredible capable institution with an tools,bly amazing set of and i think it is reasonable to reach for those tools. can you elaborate, what are the levers, or how do you turn that dialed down on counterterrorism operations? isa by trying to turn more to allies, or are there other levers you see? certainlywilson: relying more on allies and partners is part of this. but in the example of light attack, it is really

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and we've had very close discussions with our allies. >> i mean, the u.k. and france and germany, they were all on board, but they're not now. >> they are -- >> is it the united states that's alone? >> again, they are on board with our objectives. so we've had very good discussions with them. they're on board with the issue of the term. they're on board with concerns about ballistic missiles. they're on board with the concerns about state terrorism. we have slightly different views as the to how to execute that. but we're going to work closely with our allies, we all have the common objective, which every american should have and that's to make sure that our children and their children are safe. and that means no nuclear weapons in iran now. none in seven years, none in 20 years. >> sounds like they're telling you something different in private than they're saying publicly. publicly, they're saying they support the deal. they think iran is compliant. you're saying they're tell youg the opposite? >> no, i don't want to say they're saying one thing privately.

poised to make major gains in lebanon's election unofficial results show the militant group and its allies winning more than half of the seats it is being seen as a victory for hezbollah as backer iran. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program. russia's vladimir putin has tapped a close ally dmitri medvedev for the first for the post of prime minister it is putin's first act after being sworn in for a historic term as president some five thousand guests attended the inauguration ceremony at the kremlin which was billed as a low key affair. putin won a decisive victory in march with more than seventy five percent of the vote but critics have accused him of corruption and silencing dissident voices the ceremony follows a weekend of anti putin protests in several russian cities with police arresting more than one thousand five hundred demonstrators through. and why let's bring in correspondent emily short one who is standing by with the latest from moscow so emily this ceremony. as we've heard it was relatively subdued compared to putin's third inauguration six years ago why was that. well sara

is walking away from the key ally the european union so it's a dark day that is. put in a tweet it's a bad day for world trade and the u.s. now leaves us no other choice and claire people are still holding out hope for an eleventh hour resolution talk to us about the timing of this decision sure we'd still seen last ditch efforts to try and convince trump of course this comes as the united states is also trying to renegotiate nafta it comes a week ahead of the g. seven meeting in canada where we're going to see the world's top economies including some of the ones who are being affected by these tariffs all meeting together and it really it sets the stage in a way that explains trump's world philosophy that he sees the united states in many ways as a victim of these international agreements that it struck with its partners he thinks that the u.s. is not getting a fair deal and that true to his campaign promises he is delivering by walking away from these kind of agreements and putting tough tariffs even on key u.s. allies in ways that could really damage transatlan

i briefed allies, our nato allies who are critical.i discussed this issue with the republic of korea and japan, for example, and it has been welcomed by then. i was surprised when i actually rolled out and went to brussels in its final form pic but i think because we include them, theyhi were 100% aligned with us and that this was the deterrent that was necessary. i been asked both in seoul and in tokyo doesn't that nuclear umbrella protect't them? we assured them that it does pick what we doing in effect is a nonproliferation effort. because they trust us, we don't see more nuclear armed country in the world and that is critical for our to try to keep on a track towards reducing these weapons over all. >> i think that's an anechoic important point, that last point. senator murkowski brought up the arctic region to my question, do we haveficient intelligence surveillance and reconissance capabilities in the arctic to ensure we know what's going on in the arctic? and i would ask for general dunford to follow as well. are we making adequ

the europeans what looked like an ultimatum that he was going to do it on last the transatlantic allies could agree on sound ways of shoring up the deal and i gather from your article is that the talks which began in january were progressing fairly well what do you think may have happened to upset all about progress well i think it's a combination of a lack of sincerity on president terms part he wasn't really looking to come to an agreement with our allies he was looking to. to act on his and in this toward his predecessor barack obama. and also the total chaos and dysfunction in this administration so the president gave his ultimatum senior officials worked on negotiations with the europeans i don't think there was any process to brief the president on the progress and so you know he heard about it from president mccrone and from chancellor merkel but but had not been buying into the decisions made along the way as you pointed out in one of your articles they were a number of things that trump could have done he could have extended the sanctions waiver to allow a little bit more time

united kingdom and other allies are at 2%. we have to make sure that other allies increase defense spending. jane: how much further do you have to go, and what are you saying to these countries abt the importance of this? secretary-general stoltenberg' m saying it is important when we make a decision that we deliver, that we follow up. the good news is that is exactly what we are doing. we didn't promise to reach 2% p thin a year. we promised to se cuts and move towards spending 2% within a decade, and we have started to do exactly that. we still have a long wgo. therefore, we will continue to work with the nations who are spending less than 2%. but we have a very good start because of the years of decline, we see an increase in defense spending in europe and canada. at the same time, we don't want a new cold war. we don't want a new arms race. we are also striving for a better relationship with russia and the dialogue with russia and trying to improve our relationship with russia. jane: jens stoltenberg, thank you for joining

taylor: there is always opportunity to work with allies -- european allies but also middle eastern allies even the people of iran -- the president rightly spoke to them when he was talking --gsne of the thhat this thing did, the agreement did exposed was the corruption in the iranian regime, how it benefits the average iranian. oe president kept the doorn for collaboration, for negotiation, for something else that is better for the region r , for allies, and e world. throws out ran to un's nuclear inspectors, we will have lost all visibility on what they are up to, won't we? rep. taylor: that is an interesting point, but the reality is they were not even allowed to go to military sites. where would they be doing anything bad? the military sites. they showed their hand by throwing out united nationsl inspectors f it is important you have a rigorous inspections regime, not just with you and inspectors, and being able to go into sites where iran has hit in their nuclear program. laura: congressman scott taylor, thank you for joining us. rep. taylor:ay aa pleasure. laura: as we heard earlier,

and ensuring that we also had more allies coming with us. we've gone from 50 allies down to 39. we restored to and both of those are muslimnations, by the way. we are up to 41 . the realignments and the reinforcement of the us and other nations, the germans are bringing in basically raising their numbers by 35 percent area at the same time it'snot going to all be carried by us . going through india on my way into afghanistan on one of my first trips, prime minister modi basically committed to a very high level of development funding. my point here is we are also regional icing this effort it's not all carried by our taxpayers, by our soldiers . probably the most difficult aspect of this, and i would contest a view of the figures you gave me editor but not all of them. i think the theme is what you are driving. progress violence will exist in afghanistan. and in that regard, the taliban recognizes they cannot win at the ballot box so they use bombs. we've anticipated it. we stock a large number of these attacks but you will notice the attacks right now are at best to soft targets

after years of decline, we see all allies have stopped the cuts, all allies have started to increaseense spending and more and more allies spend more h than 2% on defense, which was the nato target. so the trend was down and now it's up. >> all allies are decreasing the defense budget. >> do you give me credit for that? >> your leadership has helped do that. >> there was a moment that the president asked you if you give him credit for that turn around. how much credit does president trump deserve for that? >> his message, his leadership has been important and it has an impact because we see now that allies have started to increase. so his clear message is really making a difference and i thanked him for that. >> i want to thank the seven nato nations in addition to the united states who will meet their 2% nato defense spending. we have some that don't and they'll be dealt with. >> president trump said those allies who don't meet that target will be dealt with, his words. how do you interpret what that means? >> it means that all allies have to make good on the promises we all made to

its european allies welcome on the international arena. leaders around the world including from our closest allies have condemned this decision and the very fact that europe has now shifted from negotiating with the united states to negotiating with iran is a strong rebuke to the decision the president trying made i would i describe president obama's leadership on sanctions with iran with russia with other countries a little bit differently from what you did i don't think it's a question about germany making a moral stand or a value judgment what i would say is that we were able to convince countries around the world that on a variety of problems we had a plan and a way forward and that if countries were willing to suffer a certain amount of economic. dislocation in the short term we can solve real problems and so in the iran case we were able to convince the government of russia china india as well as our closest allies to stick with us and we got to the j.c. . and some of russia's policies we were able to convince as you say germany and

it is unusual to impose tariffs on allies, especially when when he does allies to help us with our chinatrategy. maybe unusual but not unsurprising. and what a mess. mexico is heading to an election. they have to get together and speak with one voice. next?appens wto or an after breakdown? -- nafta breakdown? a nationaletting security area of trade law. and it is a very rare use of this. section back the in the early 1980's. and so to claim there are national security reasons might be specious. the eu, mexico, and nafta should they bring the complaints. we are talking about billions of dollars in the u.s.. it is pretty diminished but it is the unintended consequence. it does this lead to a and especially to get that in front of the congress, looking less and less favorable. lacks they're trying to use 232 again on car import. >> another use of this this is what president trump on the take earlier today. what president trump seems like he's trying to do is to try to extract as much leverage in these sort of negotiations as possible. of course, the risk there is that it can significantly b

they informed our allies. i mean this was not the kind of thing we saw particularly in the ragged first few months of the trump administration. i think it speaks of a new discipline and focus that pompeo, bolton and others are bringing to the administration. >> dana: i only have 20 seconds. your thoughts about the state department? are they rallying around the new secretary? >> i think so. i think they know they are back in the game. although i have heard from the former colleagues today they are very upset about this decision. some are considering resigning. we'll see. >> dana: we'll see what happens. thank you for joining us. i'm dana perino. shepard smith will be up after the break. managing blood sugar is not a marathon. it's a series of smart choices. and when you replace one meal or snack a day with glucerna made with carbsteady to help minimize blood sugar spikes you can really feel it. glucerna. everyday progress. hi dad. no. edon't try to get up. hi, i'm julie, a right at home caregiver. and if i'd be

it sounds like we have a real policy dispute and split now with some of our closest allies. thanch >> we have a big schism with the biggest allies we have in europe on one of the most important issues to them and the united states. they're saying that they're still in this deal just because president trump has gotten out and they want to find a way to salvage it with iran. despite the statement, it's going to be hard for europe to do. american sanctions will force european banks, european companies to pull out of iran. they have a choice between doing business with the united states or iran, they're going to pick the united states, of course, in their economic interests. while they're not happy about it and they're obviously going to protest it, in the end they're not going to be able to block what president trump is doing right now. the question becomes, what happens with russia and china, both of whom were also party to this deal and do not plan to follow along with president trump. they're not really as vulnerable to american sanctions. will they step in and fill that voi

domestic production of steel and aluminum was important for national defense now of course key allies see them as unfair trade practices and trump really has a lot of political support in some of the states that are some of the biggest steel and aluminum manufacturers in the united states so he's perhaps looking to them with an eye of winning support in trying to prop up their industries. in the meantime this can come at a worse time for the e.u. . there's never a good timing for something like this particularly if it comes from friends from allies from close partners as the u.s. has been called in a number of statements now coming from european union officials but you're right obviously the european union is at the moment particularly busy with a political crisis in italy a looming crisis in spain and dealing with the off to miles off the fact that the u.s. has withdrawn from the nuclear deal something that has already caused damage to the transatlantic relations so yes the timing is is really bad claire people will still holding out hope for an eleventh hour resolution talk to us ab

the average american ally, the president said yesterday it is off. preconditions for denuclearization has been met and 12 hours later it is halfback on. half back on. from a management of allies perspective, particularly, the folks in the blue house in seoul, a rolling nightmare. unusual conciliatory statement from the north koreans. trump formula, pattern them on the back -- pat him on the back. the u.s. should ponder doing it over time. and an explicit but still what theyuling out denuclearize rapidly. what will be the response? i was asked this last week and i predicted that june 12 would go ahead. i am not about to do that again. shery: what about china? president trump seems to put some of the blame on xi jinping? >> a complex strategic triangle. i think the bottom line is that you are right to say that donald trump has attributed a change to the north korean position to chinese influence. respectfully i would say to the white house of what has happened in the last week or so is a change in the american position about the matters we just discuss

i don't know how the plan works by dividing our allies. what do you do with the iaea and how are you really going to enforce the sanctions? i just don't see a concrete plan emerging and when i spoke to the vice president i asked him a whole lot of questions and didn't get good answers. [inaudible] >> i am awaiting a hearing. those will be very important before making up my mind in any way and i think that's true of just about all of our caucus. [inaudible] >> i'm not going to speculate until we see the results. the story came out at seven in the step down at 10. he did the right thing and i'm glad he did. it's only a day after he stepped down. i'm not going to get into speculation. [inaudible] >> eaves rescissions are outrageous. we are going after ship program that helps working families pay for health care for their kids which has the broad support of the mac and people. the hard right, the mulvaney wing of the republican party seems to have the upper hand against what most americans want furthermore leader mcconnell and i am chairman sh

literally the global capital for allies running the war in that time. how could he lead in a critical point in deciding how to go forward, so it led so very interesting places as i hope you will agree. so some background, the beginning of 1943 saw the allies at a very important turning point. in three pivotal battles midway, they had beaten off the threat of defeat in 1942, now they were going on the offensive against and the big challenge for the americans and the british was how best to win in europe. they had different national circumstances and different goals for how the war should end and britain and the united states favored different strategies, a more basic problem was that they did not trust each other. the baggage of suspicion and resentment over years since world war i, made it hard for both countries to trust the other and that's a lesson for our time. damaging relationships cannot be restored it's like flipping a switch. even when both parties are facing existential threat. the british americans. >> struggling with their own internal divis

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we ought to make sure that we have our allies. the strengths of our security policy is our worldwide alliances, so when we do this and we definitely should, we need to bring our allies along behind us. don't have a hiatus between us and our nato allies. the three were just talking about cybersecurity. in this new world that we are getting attacked all the time for the different state actors and that people on computers how do you generate the public support to fight and that in a public way? >> people understand cyber is the battlefield of the future. this is an area that is expanding on a basis that frankly i've never seen before in the technology. cyber can only interfere with service and steal intellectual property of the bigges that thet problem is cyber can destroy the sophisticated virus that can literally destroy computers. iran developed this in saudi arabia and took down 30,000 computers. you can apply it in our electric grid and chemical systems or transportation systems or government systems or financial systems and par

it is for all of our allies. that is why we had such broad u.s. injoining the coming to an agreement that iran not build a nuclear weapon. agreement, of this it risks all of the unprecedented restrictions on iran's nuclear program that are already in place right now. by thedreds of visits international atomic energy ability to get in behind locked doors. before this agreement, we never had that kind of insight into her ran. -- iran. right now is the time to continue ramping up the pressure asiran, not to back off pulling out of the agreement is going to do. so first things first. let's keep restrictions on iran's nuclear program. uranium, the plutonium plant, the ability to inspect and verify. isn let we ought to be doing doubling down on iran's ballistic missile program. their regional aggression. on their support for terror. and on their human rights violations. the top u.s. and international sanctions that brought iran to the table in the first place. and it was us in this congress that enacted many of those economic sanctions. we need to put m

the president is expected to announce his decision on whether to withdraw on choose day america's allies have also been trying to convince trying to preserve the international agreement which has limited iran's nuclear capabilities. has more from the white house. after months of diplomacy and high level meetings at the white house between the u.s. president and his counterparts in france germany and a monday the foreign secretary of the u.k. donald trump announced he had finally been made his decision trump tweeted he would make his decision public on tuesday whether to withdraw the united states from the iran nuclear agreement. the announcement follows a last minute effort by u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson to persuade trying to keep the u.s. within. the deal meeting with top trump administrators including secretary of state mike pump aoe but not donald trump in the absence of a presidential meeting johnson penned an editorial in the new york times newspaper and has been appearing on multiple u.s. t.v. networks urging trump to remain in the agreement he will be tougher on iran but

allies. each of them detained on spurious charges. iran must end support to middle east terrorist groups, including lebanese hezbollah, hamas, and the palestinian islamic jihad. iran must respect the sovereignty of the iraqi government and permit the disarming, demobilization and re-integration of shi'a militias. iran must also end its military support for the houthi militia and work toward a peaceful political settlement in yemen. iran must withdraw all forces under iranian command throughout the entirety of syria. iran too must end support for the taliban and other terrorists in afghanistan and the region and cease harboring senior al qaeda leaders. iran too must end quds forces support for terrorists and militant partners around the world. and iran must end its threatening behavior against its neighbor, many of whom are u.s. allies. this certainly includes its threats to destroy israel and firing missiles into saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. it also includes threats to internati

is not an ally.avid: china might be concerned about anti-china policy, but are they somewhat encouraged that the u.s. is picking fights with its own allies? if we were really getting our allies together does run china, that might be one thing, but that is not what we are doing. edward: china has to be happy about this. this was the underlying strategy of the tpp that president trump walked away from. to have a group of economies united behind a certain set of rules different from a lot of china's economic practices as a way to put pressure on china. the u.s. and europe would be completely united by this because european companies are running into the same problems american companies are in china. they are worried about china, but they are also worried about a using menstruation that appears to be paying no attention at all to the rules of the wto. from china's perspective, all of this infighting gives them more leverage than they would have otherwise. said, it you have appears the administration is p

hope and praise for our allies that they remain in this agreement. and hope that iran will maintain what our own american military professionals confirm is its full compliance. we've never had any illusions about iran. this agreement is based on verification, not on trust. it imposed the most stringent requirements and inspections regime the world has ever seen. it includes iranian military sites. iran has shipped out 96% of its enriched uranium and dismantled 2/3 of its centrifuges while agreeing permanently that, quote, under no circumstances will iran ever seek, develop or acquire nuclear weapons. with trump breaking american commitments to the world on an agreement that has so effectively accomplished its purpose, many commentators have already noted how much more difficult resolving north korea will become. but i think it's about more than just our credibility jeopardized by a broken promise. by declaring that the extensive enforcement provisions against iran are grossly deficient in what he described as the worst deal ever, trump sets the stand

of sincerity on president trump's part he wasn't really looking to come to an agreement with our allies he was looking to act on his and a mess toward his predecessor barack obama. and also the total chaos and dysfunction. in this administration so the president gave his ultimatum senior officials worked on negotiations with the europeans i don't think there was any process to brief the president on the progress and so you know he heard about it from president mccraw and from chancellor merkel but but had not been buying into the decisions made along the way as you pointed out in one of your articles there were a number of things that trump could have done he could have extended the sanctions waiver to allow a little bit more time for the talks and yet he decided to end it abruptly after all those meetings cordell meetings with president micron and chancellor merkel to the russians that looked kind of through a do you think he was trying to make some point to some some assets to the europeans or is it just mr trump being who he is you know it's hard to know if he was trying to send a me

officials and their european allies many of whom fear that mr trump is making a mistake ahead of the much awaited decision iran's president said time around will send on its own feet regardless of whether it faces new sanctions or not. this government's plan from day one has been based on having honest good constructive and effective interactions with the world as we consider this a win win situation useful for others and for us as well well it may result that in some exceptional situations from time to time someone may take power in a country and cause an exceptional situation these kinds of things happen on the world stage and we will get past it we may have problems for two or three months but anyway we will get past the problem our basic policy of having constructive interactions is working with the world or i let's go to the white house now and our correspondent there is kimberly how could an understatement is it to say that the world is waiting to hear what president trump has to say about this nuclear deal and in fact that many of the european allies are not giving up on this

these terrorist organizations a disaster the united states is barely on speaking terms with a nato ally turkey they're withholding weapons there are syrian kurds the white b.g. who a turkey sworn enemies this friendship is dying and turkey thinks it can unite and need the muslim world especially after trump stunt with moving his embassy to jerusalem that robida almost everyone the wrong way condemn the u.s. decision on jerusalem because of its great bias against the historical and permanent rights of the palestinian people to see the united states the solution to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel is a dangerous one it will threaten security and stability and frustrates efforts to resume the peace process with try. bleeding allies moscow is making inroads with ankara now turkey russia and iran gather regularly on syria and trump isn't being invited but they at least friends still buy american guns right we signed historic agreements with the kingdom this landmark agreement includes the announcement of a one hundred ten billion dollars saudi funded defense purchase. and we will

is key allies and the u.s. very much isolated the european allies certainly saying publicly that they believe that they can keep this deal going but i do think it for faces very big challenges going forward one of the issues is the one that you just heard kimberly mentioned the idea of secondary sanctions if the u.s. administration goes ahead as it says it is and puts all the sanctions back in place some of them would end up being secondary sanctions on other countries and their companies european and elsewhere for doing business in iran and already this has been raised by the brand new trump administration ambassador to germany rick grinnell on twitter says german companies doing business in iran should wind down their operations immediately that this is going to mean that the u.s. is going to be coming up against its allies and of course there's another problem going forward the whole benefit to iran of the iran deal was the economic benefits it's bourse if if those companies from other countries can't do bus

i know, i've spent a great deal of time with our allies in my first three weeks. i know that they may decide to try and keep their old nuclear deal going with tehran, that's certainly their decision to make. they know where we stand. next year marks the 40th anniversary of the islamic republic, revolution in iran. at this milestone we have to ask, what has the iranian revolution given to the iranian people? the regime reaps the harvest of suffering and death in the middle east at the expense of its own citizens. iran's economy is stagnant and without direction and about to get worse. its young people are withering under the weight of frustrated ambitions. they're longing to pursue the freedoms and opportunities of the 21st century. iran's leaders can change all of this if they choose to do so. khomeini has been the supreme court le court-- supreme leader and he will not live forever. and they've acted a heavy toll on people and the entire world. the hard grip on repression are what millions of iranians have ever known. now is the time for the supreme leader to do

we will negotiate and talk to our allies. we will talk to. allies and parties who are signatures to be agreement we will continue to negotiate with them. everything will be based on. national unity and. if the engagement continues. if the agreement continues to benefit us we will stick to it and if not if it's just going to be a piece of meaningless paper we will know what to do with it. are you give every assurance to a nation that our government has been. since many months ago to be ready for all of course it will. based on different decisions made by america we will have no problem. we have no problem whatsoever this is a historic moment that we will be strong and we will pass this obstacle to beat out any problem. that. you not have any problems in the next few weeks months or years. god willing. i'm so sorry. tonight only from one point of view and that is the fact that. in a nation of us. the stark. some. governing these who govern are such as trump who each discrete. i'm so happy that this new sense has. remained we will continue to ou

we will continue to work with our allies. so what is next, the sanctions go in place, we cut off the money to fund iran's bad behavior and we work with our allies to fix the deal and get a new deal. >> bret: sure, but iran is talking to the rest of the european allies to string something together between them. with the u.s. not at the table for that negotiation, how can you, number one, ensure the sanctions are tough enough to move iran to action if the other allies are not buying in? >> steve: these are very tough sanctions. although we have a wind down. and we are being careful with the transition, i would also say they are primary sanctions and secondary sanctions. these will go after the entire u.s. dollar financial system here, and globally. so our objective is to make sure that we cut off the money to iran, and these are very powerful tools we will enforce. >> bret: so you are saying, iran will feel it. >> steve: absolutely. >> bret: and the economy there, not doing that great anyway? >> steve: their currency has deprec

would like to continue cooperating with its allies however we have to say that some of these allies including germany would like to save the existing iran nuclear deal and there is actually a meeting at g twenty foreign ministers meeting taking place in argentina and. not taking part in this meeting instead he if this speech today sending maybe a message that you know the u.s. is ready to move forward with all its consulates talking to its allies you know the secretary has actually already spoken with the foreign ministers in germany france and the united kingdom will continue consulting with allies in europe and also in the gulf the middle east other parts of the world this speech today he asked countries around the world who care about halting the spread of nuclear weapons who care about fighting terrorism to join the united states in this historic effort to promote peace. and you come in on the attempts by the europeans in germany trying to sell that steve you are iran nuclear deal secretary pompei zero said today that the united states has it made its decision to leave the iran nuclear de

our allies are making billions screwing us". there, in a nutshell, you have the theory behind what the president has now introduced as trade policy. a levvying of tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium from the european union, canada and mexico, when their current deal expires at midnight. the duties are being imposed, washington claims, on national security grounds, in particular to stop china flooding cheap metal into global markets. it's "america first" worn with pride and has left his allies screaming about protectionism and reaching for their own retaliatory moves. here's our political editor nick watt. apples, blueberries, and iconic bulb and whiskey, hardly the stuff of war. but the european union and mexico are lining up those innocent products for retaliatory measures of the new tariffs have been imposed by donald trump. —— bourbon whiskey. from midnight, tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminium will apply to imports from the eu, canada and mexico, the trump administration cited national security grounds for targ

and towe ensure that more allies are coming with us. we have 50 allies and we restored to from those muslim nations and the realignment in but one of the first trips the pastor included a large amount to develop but one of the most difficult aspects and i would contest and how does violence coexist? without regard that taliban recognizes they cannot win at the ballot box so they went to bombs we anticipated that we stopped a large number of the attacks but if you notice right now they are addressed that is why they go after the that we are sending them out. but if we start having more advisors then we will end up more capable in the american advised unit over the last several years have not been to feed that. mr. this fighting season is underway with the initiative attacks were they have the initiative is down by 17% so who is initiating the attack or the number of attacks? >> that means we have the initiative and it will take time senator i don't refute it has been a long fight i first ndlanded in october as we november 2001 and recogn

allies. not folks out in orbit. from their perspective it is a domestic political drive pushing this decision. >> i would push back on that that our friend in the middle east, whether the israelis or the saudis who are having missiles lobbed at them from yemen think otherwise. >> this is a question i have. i don't know the answer. what are the hardliners going to do in iran now? are they going to say okay let's get back to uranium enrichment are there are others in iran who are going to say abide by the deal. >> let me ask christian amanpour who has been there many times. what do you think the hard liners in the revolutionary guard among others are going to do now that the president has said that the united states is withdrawing from this agreement. >> i did interview iran's ambassador to britain. he laid out a scenario that this would empower the hardliners. there are different political sfreems in iran and it was the moderates who managed to overcome great skepticism and challenge from the hardliners to actually e

allies the fact that this could hurt not only america's global leadership but its role in standing in the world and also even from dianne feinstein a top democratic senator saying this is a strategic mistake by the president simply to fulfill a campaign promise but what i think is most notable is that there are some republican members of congress including speaker paul ryan who articulated that there was disappointment that there wasn't sort of a longer effort or more forceful effort to work with european allies to address some of the concerns so i think there certainly is an understanding that donald trump may have been accurate in some of his concerns of the limitations of the deal but certainly members of congress overwhelmingly even members from his own party saying that there is some disappointment with the president's decision to withdraw and re impose sanctions we know the trump administration thought that this deal was not tough enough on iran we know they wanted some sort of additional agreement in terms of iran's ballistic missile program and also its activities in the regio

this year, every nato ally has increased defense spending and 15 nato allies are increasing defense budgets as a share of gross domestic product giving credence dislocation standing together. further, pacific partners are strengthening their defenses. our third line of effort is the urgent reform of the department's business practices to provide both solvency and security to the nation. we will continue to establish a culture of performance where results and accountability matter on every expenditure to gain full strength from every single taxpayer dollar spent on defense. we are committed to exercising the utmost degree of budget displinl within the department. in this regard this year we will deliver this department's first full financial audit in our history. we will find problems, and then take swift action to correct our deficiencies. there by, earning the trust of congress and the american people. i am confident we have the right leaders in place to make meaningful reform a reality. pat shanahan as deputy secretary of defense, and gibson as officer, and ellen lord under secretary of d

this year, every nato ally has increased defense spending and 15 nato allies are increasing the defense budget as a share of the gross domestic product. giving credence to the value of democracy standing together. further, our pacific partners are also strengthening their defenses. i would their line of effort is the urgent reform of the departments business practices to provide both solvency and security. we will continue to establish a culture of performance where results and accountability matter on every expenditure to gainful benefit from every single taxpayer dollars spent on defense. we are committed to exercising the utmost degree of financial stewardship and budget disciplines in the department. in this regard, this year, we will deliver our department first full financial audit in history. we will find the problem it reveals and take swift action to correct deficiencies. thereby earning the trust of congress and the american people. i am confident we have the right leaders in place to make meaningful reform a reality. pat shanahan, secretary of defense, gibson, chief managemen

similarly, everybody talks about our allies and how important it is to our allies. but as you know, general, or mr. secretary, a lot of our key allies -- israel, gulf arab nations -- are also not supportive. and let me mention one other thing that i know you two in particular have some, unfortunately, firsthand experience with. the issue of what degree we can trust the iranian leadership i think should also be considered. chairman dempsey was here two years ago, i believe, and testified, i forgot the exact number, but the sophisticated ieds that were supplied iraqi shia -- to iraqi shia militias by the iranians killed or wounded over 2,000 american troops in iraq. you gentlemen were witness to this carnage during your military service. have senior iranian leaders ever admitted this, and can we trust a country that doesn't admit this and was responsible for the deaths of so many of our finest young men and women that they've never admitted? can you just -- i know i've thrown a lot of things -- allies, credibility, trust, but they're all things that we think are very