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NATO Defense Spending 'Deserves Some Nuance,' Analyst Says Of Trump Criticism

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President Trump is welcomed by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg as he arrived for the NATO summit at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, on July 11, 2018. (Sébastien Pirlet/AFP/Getty Images)
President Trump is welcomed by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg as he arrived for the NATO summit at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, on July 11, 2018. (Sébastien Pirlet/AFP/Getty Images)

President Trump unloaded on NATO allies about defense spending at a summit in Brussels on Wednesday.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson gets perspective from John Hannah, senior counselor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former adviser in the George W. Bush and Clinton administrations.

This article was originally published on July 11, 2018.

This segment aired on July 11, 2018.

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