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The State Of NATO After Trump Once Again Scrambles Summit

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President Trump speaks to the media at a press conference on the second day of the NATO summit on July 12, 2018 in Brussels. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
President Trump speaks to the media at a press conference on the second day of the NATO summit on July 12, 2018 in Brussels. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

For a second day in a row, President Trump scrambled the calculus at the NATO summit in Brussels, declaring that allies had agreed to his demands that they pay even more then they'd previously agreed to for shared defense.

French President Emmanuel Macron rejected that is what allies agreed to in a heads-of-state meeting which turned into an emergency budget session Thursday morning.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson discusses the state of the alliance with Nina Jankowicz (@wiczipedia), global fellow at the Wilson Center.

This article was originally published on July 12, 2018.

This segment aired on July 12, 2018.

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