PRESIDENT'S NIGHT BEFORE LONG
DAY OF MEETING EVENTS TOMORROW.
LIZ: THANKS FOR YOUR REPORT.
JOINING ME NOW IS FORMER
PUBLISHER OF MAJOR NEWSPAPERS
INCLUDING THE LONDON DAILY
TELEGRAPH A COLUMNIST AND
AUTHOR.
IT'S GREAT TO SEE YOU.
WE WELCOME YOU TO THE SHOW.
>> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
LIZ: YOUR REACTION TO PRESIDENT
TRUMP VISITING THE UK IN THE
PROTESTERS.
>> ITS EAR TAGGING BUT YOU GET
THAT FROM PROTESTERS.
I THINK THE AMERICAN MEDIA
SHOULD KEEP IN MIND SOME OF THE
PRESIDENT'S WAS QUITE UNFAIRLY
DENOUNCED SOME MONTHS AGO SAYING
MISOGYNIST AND A RACIST.
YOU CAN LIKE PRESIDENT TRUMP IS
A PERSONAL AND NOT LIKE HIS
POLICIES.
HE IS NOT A RACIST AND HE IS NOT
MISOGYNIST AND HE SHOULD NOT BE
DESCRIBED AS ONE PARTICULARLY BY
SUCH A DISTINGUISHED OFFICE, THE
SPEAKER OF THE BRITISH HOUSE OF
COMMONS.
I THINK THE BRITISH PUBLIC IS TO
A DEGREE BEING MISLED AND IN
PART BY THE PREMIER OF LONDON
WHO IS REPLACED JONES AND THE
LAST ELECTION.
HE CERTAINLY NOT AN ISLAMIC
EXTREMIST AND AN ISLAMIC
ACTIVIST AND RAISES AS MUCH
CONTROVERSY AS A CANDIDATE FOR
PRESIDENT SO I WOULDN'T TAKE IT
TOO SERIOUSLY.
SEEMS TO ME THE CONVERSATIONS
WENT QUITE WELL IN BRUSSELS AND
I'M SURE HE WILL GET ALONG
SPLENDIDLY WITH THE QUEEN.
LIZ: LET'S GET TO NATO AND WHAT
HAPPENED THERE.
THE MEDIA NOT HAPPY WITH
PRESIDENT TRUMP ASKING THE
ALLIES TO PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE
FOR NATO DEFENSE SPENDING EVEN
THOUGH THAT'S BEEN A COMPLAINT.
LANGUAGE I CAN IMAGINE THAT THE
ONLY BENEFICIARY COMES HAVOC IS
WILL SPEND ABOUT A TRILLION
DOLLARS IN THE U.S. WILL COVER
69% OF THAT.
NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL SAID
YESTERDAY THE PRESIDENT IS RIGHT
NATO SHOULD INVEST MORE AND WILL
INVEST $266 BILLION MORE BY 2024
AND HERE'S A PRESIDENT.
LISTEN.
>> UNITED STATES WAS NOT BEING
TREATED FAIRLY BUT THAT WE ARE
BECAUSE THE COMMITMENT HAS BEEN
UP SO MUCH.
I WAS VERY FIRM YESTERDAY.
YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND I KNOW A
LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE ROOM.
I WAS HERE LAST YEAR AND I LET
THEM KNOW LAST YEAR AND A LESS
FIRM MATHER BUT VERY FIRM THAT
THE UNITED STATES COMMITMENT TO
NATO IS VERY STRONG.
LIZ: YOUR REACTION TO THIS?
>> YOU ARE ASKING ME?
LOOK I THINK THE PRESIDENT IS
DOING WHAT IT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
IT'S NOT UP TO ME TO TELL THEM
HOW TO SAY IT BUT PREVIOUS
PRESIDENTS HAVE MADE THE SAME
HIGH TIME THE EUROPEANS AND
CANADIANS -- THE CANADIANS HAVE
BEEN SLACKERS.
PRESIDENT IS RIGHT TO GERMANY IS
THE GREATEST POWER IN EUROPE AND
IT HAS BEEN SINCE BISMARCK'S
TIME AND IT HASN'T ALWAYS
BEHAVED RESPONSIBLY AND THE
CHANCELLOR MADE THE MISTAKE
DOMESTIC GERMAN POLITICS BUT
CHANCELLOR MERKEL SHUT DOWN THE
COAL INDUSTRY AND NUCLEAR POWER
AND PLACED ALL HER BETS ON GAS
FROM RUSSIA.
FOR HER TO DO THAT AT THE SAME
TIME THAT THE FOURTH GREATEST
ECONOMY IN THE WORLD FOR WHICH
NATO WAS SET UP CONSECRATE ONLY
QUE
SAID HE WAS WEAK AND DID NOT
CHARMED BY PUTIN.
THE REAL DANGER WITH RUSSIA IS
NOT THAT IT'S A THREAT TO THE
IT'S ABSOLUTELY NOT.
THE SOVIET UNION LAW THAT OTHER
PEOPLE A MONTH AFTER THEIR
ECONOMY AND WITH THE FORMIDABLE
NUCLEAR ESTABLISHMENT
MILITARILY.
THE DANGER IS IF YOU PUSH THEM
ARMS OF CHINA AND IRAN.
I'VE ABSOLUTELY NO FEAR THAT
PRESIDENT TRUMP IS GOING TO GIVE
AWAY ANYTHING.
HE IS A PERFECT RIGHT TO MEET
WITH RUSSIA'S PRESIDENT.
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT
BUT ANYONE WHO THINKS TRUMP IS
GOING TO HAVE HIS POCKETS PICKED
OR A SPY PUTIN, HE IS A CLEVER
MAN.
LIZ: YOU POINTED OUT RUSSIA'S
ECONOMY IS SMALLER THAN
APPROACH WE SHOULD SIT DOWN AND
TALK TO RUSSIA.
LIZ: CONRAD THE PRESIDENT SAYING
YOU THINK HE'S TOO STRONG?
>> WE HAVE TO REMEMBER YOU AND
YOUR VIEWERS LIZ THE EUROPEANS
CONCEIVE OF THIS ALLIANCE
DIFFERENTLY TO WHAT AMERICANS
AND CANADIANS.
WHAT THE EUROPEANS REALLY WANT
IS FOR THIS OR DESTINY OF THEIR
SENIORITY AS COUNTRIES TO BE
THEY WANT TO TREAT THE UNITED
STATES LIKE A DOG AND THEY WILL
HOLD THE LEASH TO GIVE THE
INSTRUCTIONS WHILE THE AMERICANS
HOLD THE RISK.
THAT'S NOT HOW ALLIANCES WORKED.
AMERICA'S ALLIES DON'T LIKE
STRONG AMERICAN PRESIDENT OTHER
THAN WHEN THEY ARE UNDER THREAT.
THEY LIKES SOFTER ONES WHO SPEAK
WITH A SOFTER VOICE.
THEY ARE HORRIFIED BY REAGAN
WHEN HE CAME IN AT THE END OF
THE COLD WAR.
THE FACT IS ONLY THE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES HAS THE
DUTY AND THE ABILITY TO
REPRESENT THE NATIONAL INTEREST
COUNTRIES TO KEEP THE LIGHTS
GOING AND KEEP IT OPERATING IN A
WAY THAT REPRESENTS THE
CORRELATION OF FORCES BETWEEN
THE MEMBER STATES AND PRESIDENT
TRUMP IS RESURRECTING THE STATE
OF THE U.S. BEING THE ALLIANCE.
IS NOT BREAKING UP THE ALLIANCE
AND THESE NOT HOSTILE.
LIZ: PS CLUMSY HAND HEADED
RHETORIC WHAT THE CRITICS SAY
BUT TO YOUR POINTY SHAKING UP
THE STATUS QUO AND THAT'S MAYBE
WHY HE'S GETTING THE REACTION.