Alyssa Slotkin

That is the America that Europe has got.

There is another America.

You are here as an emissary of that America.

What does that America say to your European partners?

Well, I think there's a lot of us who are here, certainly from the Senate and the House, to send the message that not everyone agrees with the approach that this president is taking, right?

That my president is taking, which is kick your allies in the teeth and cozy up to your adversaries.

It's the opposite of what many of us were taught and how we lived.

And I think we wanted to send the message that the United States is going through something.

We know it.

You all know it.

Europeans know it.

Everyone in the world knows that we are having a real crisis in the United States.

And I do believe we're going to come through it.

But in the meantime, it's only natural that you question what we're doing, why we're doing it, and who it helps.

And so you've had a great deal of meetings already.

You will have a great many more over the next couple of days.

What are the questions that the Europeans are asking?

What are they trying to... The minute they get you in the room and close the door, they're just like, what is going on in America, right?

I mean, sort of not believing it themselves.

And I think, again, I try to explain.