>>> THIS IS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EARLIER TODAY.
THE PRESIDENT SAYS THE ALLEGATIONS OF RUSSIAN MEDDLING
IN THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ARE, QUOTE, FICTION,
INVENTED BY THE DEMOCRATS IN ORDER TO EXPLAIN THEIR LOSS.
WOULD IT SURPRISE YOU TO NOTE THE PRESIDENT WHO SAID THAT WAS
NOT DONALD TRUMP. IT'S NOT.
THAT'S ACTUALLY WHAT RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAID IN
AN INTERVIEW RELEASED EARLIER TODAY.
PRESIDENT PUTIN MUST BE HAVING A BIT OF A MIND MELD WITH OUR
PRESIDENT. DONALD TRUMP SAID NEARLY THE
EXACT SAME THING THIS MORNING TWEETING, QUOTE, RUSSIAN
OFFICIALS MUST BE LAUGHING AT THE U.S. AND HOW LAME EXCUSE FOR
WHY THE DEMS LOST THE ELECTION HAS TAKEN OVER THE FAKE NEWS.
AND WHILE THE KREMLIN AND THE WHITE HOUSE SEEM TO BE WORK OFF
THE SAME TALKING POINTS, THAT'S NOT THE CASE WHEN IT COMES TO
OUR LONGSTANDING ALLIES. FOLLOWING LAST WEEK'S NATO AND
G7 SUMMITS, GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL SAID HER COUNTRY
CAN NO LONGER RELY ON ALLIES LIKE THE UNITED STATES.
THE TIMES IN WHICH WE COULD COMPLETELY DEPEND ON OTHERS IS
OVER. CHANCELLOR MERKEL'S OPPONENT
ALSO BLASTED DONALD TRUMP FOR HIS BEHAVIOR DURING THE NATO
SUMMIT. DESPITE BEING IN THE THICK OF A
HEATED ELECTION, THE CHANCELLOR REPRESENTS ALL OF US AT SUMMITS
LIKE THIS. AND I REJECT WITH OUTRAGE THE
WAY THIS MAN TAKES IT UPON HIMSS TO TREAT THE HEAD OF OUR
COUNTRY'S GOVERNMENT. THE LEVEL OF TRUST BETWEEN THE
TWO COUNTRIES HAS GOTTEN SO BAD THAT GERMANY DOES NOT WANT THE
U.S. INTELLIGENCE HELP WHEN IT COMES TO MONITORING THEIR
ELECTION. A SENIOR U.S. INTELLIGENCE
OFFICIAL TOLD NBC NEWS THAT THERE ISN'T MUCH TRUST IN THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO ELECTIONS.
IF YOU'RE HOPING THAT OUR COUNTRY'S RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR
OTHER EUROPEAN PARTNERS MIGHT PROVE MORE FRUITFUL, WELL, THINK
AGAIN. THE SENIOR EU OFFICIAL HAD THIS
TO SAY ABOUT THE CURRENT AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S RAPPORT
WITH OTHER EUROPEAN LEADERS CALLING DONALD TRUMP, QUOTE, A
NEW STRANGE KID IN THE CLASS NOBODY LIKES.
AND AS FOR THAT VERY TENSE HANDSHAKE BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP
AND THE NEW FRENCH PRESIDENT, EMMANUEL MACRON, LAST WEEK, THE
ONE DESCRIBE AS A WHITE KNUCKLED CLENCHED JAWED BATTLE OF WILLS.
THAT WAS NO ACCIDENT. PRESIDENT MACRON TOLD A FRENCH
NEWSPAPER THAT, ONE MUST SHOW THAT WE WON'T MAKE LITTLE
CONCESSIONS, EVEN SYMBOLIC ONES. PRESIDENT MACRON WENT ON TO
COMPARE TRUMP TO THE LIKES OF STRONG MEN LIKE VLADIMIR PUTIN
AND THAYYIP ERDOGAN. DONALD TRUMP, THE PRESIDENT OF
TURKEY OR THE PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA ARE A MIND-SET OF POWER
RELATIONS WHICH DOESN'T BOTHER ME.
I DON'T LET ANYTHING GO. THAT'S HOW I MAKE ONE
SELF-RESPECTED. TALK ABOUT A NEW WORLD ORDER.
>>> JOINING US IS A FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO NATO WHO IS NOW
PRESIDENT OF THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS.
AMBASSADOR, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
AND FIRST OF ALL, LET'S START WITH THE RELATIONSHIP WITH
GERMANY. HOW MUCH SHOULD THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE BE CONCERNED AT WHAT APPEARS TO BE GERMANY'S
WILLINGNESS TO BREAK ESSENTIALLY FROM THE UNITED STATES?
>> WELL, IT IS CONCERNING THAT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE
UNITED STATES AND WHAT REALLY IS OUR MOST IMPORTANT EUROPEAN
ALLY, GERMANY, THE STRONGEST ECONOMY, THE LEADER OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION, AND A MAJOR PLAYER WHEN IT COMES TO OUR
RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA THAT THAT RELATIONSHIP IS NOT AS STRONG AS
IT SHOULD BE. I DON'T THINK IT'S BREAKING.
I THINK CHANCELLOR MERKEL WAS MAKING A POINT THAT SHE HAD
ANOTHER, NOT SUCH A GREAT MEET WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP.
HER FIRST MEETING IN MARCH WASN'T VERY GOOD.
MEETING IN BOTH NATO AND IN ITALY AT THE G7 SUMMIT WAS A
PROBLEM. AND SHE'S MAKING IT CLEAR THAT
IF IT COMES TO THE FUTURE OF HOW WE ARE GOING TO MAKE DECISIONS,
DON'T AUTOMATICALLY ASSUME THAT GERMANY WILL BE FOLLOWING
AMERICA'S LEAD. >> THERE ARE A LOT OF
REPUBLICANS WHO SAID EUROPEAN NEEDED FOR A LONG TIME TO STAND
UP FOR ITSELF, TO DO MORE FOR ITSELF, SPEND MORE ON ITS OWN
DEFENSE AND NOT RELY SO MUCH ON THE UNITED STATES.
IT'S PART OF WHAT DONALD TRUMP RAN ON.
IS THAT SOMETHING THAT AMERICANS SHOULD WELCOME IF EUROPE SAYS,
OKAY, FINE, WE'LL TAKE YOU OUP THAT.
GERMANY AND FRANCE WILL LEAD AND WE'LL PUT AMERICA TO THE SIDE
FOR NOW. >> YES, A STRONGER EUROPE IS IN
EVERYBODY'S INTEREST. IT'S IN OUR INTEREST.
IT'S IN EUROPE'S INTEREST. AND TO THE EXTENT THAT
CHANCELLOR MERKEL IS GOING TO STRENGTHEN HER RELATIONSHIP WITH
FRANCE AND THE OTHER EU COUNTRIES AND BOLSTER THEIR
DEFENSES, ALL OF THAT IS GOOD, BUT ONLY IF IT TAKES PLACE
WITHIN A LARGER CONTEXT OF A STRONG TRANS-ATLANTIC
RELATIONSHIP. IT'S NOT EUROPE OR THE
TRANS-ATLANTIC ALLIANCE. S IT -- IT HAS TO BE EUROPE AND
THE TRANS-ATLANTIC ALLIANCE. WE'VE ENCOURAGED THEM TO DO MORE
AND BE MORE CAPABLE BUT WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF OUR COMMITMENT TO
NATO. >> ARE YOU AMONG THOSE WHO
THOUGHT IT WAS CATASTROPHIC AND A HUGE ERROR FOR DONALD TRUMP
NOT TO EXPLICITLY ENDORSE ARTICLE 5 WHEN HE WAS AT THE
MEMORIAL? >> I DO, BOTH BECAUSE OF THE
SITUATION WHERE HE FOUND HIMSELF NEXT TO THE 9/11 MEMORIAL WHICH,
AFTER ALL, WAS THE 9/11 ATTACKS WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY TIME THAT
NATO INVOKED ARTICLE FIVE, THE COLLECTIVE DEFENSE PROVISION OF
THE TREATY. ALSO DURING THE CAMPAIGN, HE HAD
SAYS THINGS ABOUT NATO, HE CALLED IT OBSOLETE AND NOT
NECESSARY. THERE WAS AN EXPECTATION ON THE
PART OF HIS AIDES AND EVERYBODY ELSE THAT HE'D COME TO NATO
HEADQUARTERS, EMBRACE THE ALLIANCE, RECOMMIT AMERICA TO
ARTICLE FIVE AS EVERY ONE OF HIS PREDECESSORS SINCE HARRY TRUMAN
HAS DONE AND MOVE ON FROM THERE. THAT'S NOT WHAT HE DID, AND IT
WAS DEEPLY DISAPPOINTING. >> ALL THESE HEADLINES THAT TALK
ABOUT DONALD TRUMP AS THE KID IN CLASS NO ONE LIKES.
THE BULLY IN SCHOOL NO ONE LIKES TO TALK TO THAT YOU HAVE TO BE
NICE TO IN FRONT OF THE TEACHER. THE WHOLE GOLF CART RIDE WHILE
EVERYONE ELSE WAS WALKING. IT FEELS LIKE THE UNITED STATES
PRESIDENT IS MUCH MORE ISOLATED FROM OUR FORMER ALLIES AND THEN
THIS INTERESTING STORY. AN ARTICLE THAT CAME OUT WHILE
WE WERE ON THE AIR FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS BEEN HANDING OUT HIS CELL PHONE NUMBER TO
WORLD LEADERS AND URGING THEM TO CALL HIM DIRECTOR.
AN UNUSUAL INVITATION THAT BREAKS DIPLOMATIC PROETS COLAND
IS RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT THE SECURITY AND SECRECY OF THE U.S.
COMMANDER IN CHIEF. JUSTIN TRUDEAU HAS ALREADY TAKEN
ADVANTAGE OF THE OFFER. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS REPORT?
>> I THINK IN SOME SENSE IT CONVEYS THE IDEA THAT THE
PRESIDENT DOES WANT TO HAVE A STRONG PERSONAL RAPPORT WITH
OTHER LEADERS AND BY EXCHANGING CELL PHONE NUMBERS, HE'S TRYING
TO SAY, I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WHERE WE CAN
TALK TO EACH OTHER WHENEVER YOU WANT TO.
AND THAT'S A GOOD THING. THE BAD THING, OF COURSE, IS OUR
CELL PHONE COMMUNICATIONS ARE HARDLY SECURE.
ANYBODY IN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY WILL BE ABLE TO LISTEN
IN, AND EQUALLY IMPORTANTLY, THE REASON WE HAVE NOT ONLY SECURE
COMMUNICATIONS BUT MORE REGULAR COMMUNICATIONS, IS SO THAT
PEOPLE CAN TAKE NOTES AND WE KNOW WHAT PROMISES THE PRESIDENT
WILL HAVE MADE TO ACT UPON IT. IF NO ONE IS LISTENING IN, IF
IT'S JUST A CALL BETWEEN TWO GUYS OR A GUY AND A GAL AND NO
ONE IS PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT'S BEING SAID, THEN
DIPLOMACY WILL BECOME MORE DIFFICULT TO PURSUE, AND
AGREEMENTS, WHATEVER IS REACHOD THE TELEPHONE, MAY NOT BE ACTED
UPON. SO SECURE COMMUNICATION, VERY
IMPORTANT. MAKING SURE THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS
WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAYS, AND ACTS UPON IT EQUALLY IMPORTANT.
>> AND ONE WONDERS WHETHER YOU CAN CREATE BETTER RELATIONSHIPS
ON THE PHONE THAT YOU WEREN'T ABLE TO DO IN PERSON WHEN YOU
HAD THE OPPORTUNITY. SO THAT IS AN INTERESTING TACK.
>> THAT'S CERTAINLY TRUE. >> THANK YOU, SIR.
REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. >> MY PLEASURE.
>>> UP NEXT, A BIZARRE STORY INVOLVING IVANKA TRUMP'S
BUSINESS INTERESTS. ONE YOU'RE GOING TO WANT TO
STICK A PIN IN. >>> PLUS, THE ROLL BACK OF CIVIL
RIGHTS EFFORTS UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP.
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