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poland leads by example on a lot of things, including defense spending, building up polish military readiness. yesterday in brusselse talked about spending and the need for hard power. diplomacy is important. talk is important. negotiations are important. but ultimately, bullets and tanks and helicopters and hard power still matters. poland understands that and so do we. they are exceeding nato burden sharing commitments and we are looking for even more ways to partner. you mentioned joint ventures, strategic partnerships, we are open and look forward to further solidifying how we can work together as it pertains to our defense industrial basis. we want to achieve peace through strength together. deterrents, that is apaches, f-35s, patriots, you name it. the more you have, the stronger we are. the more we can cooperate, the better. i also want to thank you and the polish people for the outstanding support of our forces deployed here. we have over 8000 american troops in poland. i had a chance to spend the morning with some of those u.s. troops. we ran the streets of warsaw this morning in the snow -- i am from minn

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brussels secretary hegseth will attend ukraine defense contact group led by the u.k. for the first time and participant in the nato defense ministerial and final stop poland to discuss natotern defense with polish leaders poland is spending over 4% of its gdp on defense 23 nato allies are spending more than 2.of their gdp on defense that's required a big part of his trip will be to discuss the war in ukraine. president trump said he plans to meet president slen zelenskyy this week and talked to getting access to rare earth minerals critical to advances in a.i. and technology in the future. >> one of the things we're looking at with -- president zelenskyy is -- having this security of their assents underground rare earth, and we want to have secure, really we want security. >> president trump has said he wants nato allies to spend 5% of their gdp on defense if the u.s. were to do the same the pentagon budgets would go from 850 billion dollars now to 1.35 trillion. david. david: over a trillion. jennifer thank you very much. now this, hamas released three more hostages as part of the cease-fire deal with israel. listen to what president trump said about the appearance of t

troops in warsaw, poland, he wrapped up a press conference with the polish defense minister a few minutes ago, and here's what he said about ukraine future. >> my job today in brusselsoduce realism to the conversation. the reality that returning to 2014 as borders as part of a negotiated settlement is unlikely. the reality of u.s. troops in ukraine is unlikely. the reality of ukraine membership in nato as a part of a negotiated settlement unlikely. >> madeleine: hegseth will also be meeting with the polish president later on today. guys, back to you. >> all right, maddy, thank you very much. >> steve: is it just me or when they put up that picture of pete hegseth working out with the troops in poland where is he doing the pushups, so there he is. >> ainsley: look how cold it looks receive steve doesn't this remind you of like everything we have ever done out on fox plaza? >> ainsley: exactly. >> steve: it's one of those may the best friend win things. >> ainsley: he was just wrapping up his press conference and some of the news that came out of that. j.d. vance told the "wall street journal" when asked would we put troops in ukraine to fight that war, he said someth