johnson.at is ron ofll ahead, lawrence korb the center for american progress, joins us with more on the nato summit. when was the last time he remembers one this contentious? we will ask him that. this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: this is "bloomberg markets: relative power." david: president trump is challenging members of the nato alliance. as we look forward to the results of the meeting ongoing right now, we welcome now lawrence korb, senior fellow at the center for american progress, former assistant secretary of defense. thank you for joining us. thanks.: nice to be with you. david: president trump said you ford not get to 2% of gdp defense spending, so let's try 4%. at 3.5%. we are the idea that we are a world power that not only has concerns in europe but also with china in the pacific, that they want them to go to 4%. he is also adoring the fact that since 2014, all the members of nato have been increasing defense. they agreed that by 2024 they , sod get to the 2% of gdp they are moving in the right direction. the idea that somehow they are backsliding or do not understand what is hap

lawrence korb is a former assistant secretary of defense and he's also a senior fellow at the center for american progress is joining us from washington d.c. thank you very much indeed i want to talk about the finances involved in nato at the in a second but it's just seems that donald trump almost seems to have pople he treated for organizations like nato and seems to be working to undermine it at least that's the way it appears in public why would he do that well according to his view and unfortunate supported by his base these groups take advantage of us you know we pay all the bill we provide everything and we not only get nothing in return but actually and they have a trade surplus with us we saw him earlier on being very critical of germany in a public meeting with public breakfast in fact with the nato secretary general jens stoltenberg. of course in front of journalists and cameras which i'm sure is no coincidence how great is the risk to you think that patients amongst world leaders is going to run out of the way that donald trump decides that he's going to handle this kind

afghan soldiers it will be the first ever deployment of country forces on the ground in afghanistan lawrence korb is senior fellow at the center for american progress and former u.s. assistant secretary defense he joins us live from delaware via skype and we appreciate it very much so how does something like this come to be is the help sought out or do the countries approach nato about being part of the coalition how does this work well basically i think you need to look coalition has been going. on who's involved on iraq thirty nine corn while they did not want this conflict to be seen as wants to follow me and was trying to you know tell you. i'm not going to run most muslim country and got our homes lost. in the air war already so this is all just you know made it round to what they want and so it doesn't necessarily matter how many ground troops it is or is it more the significance of what you said of the type of message that this could send. i think it's much more significant the type of message it sends i mean when you know how something like sixteen thousand troops they are in afghanistan