Brett Meiselas

We're going to withdraw American troops from Germany, from the German base.

I mean, that's not just going to hurt Germany.

I mean, it's going to also hurt the United States.

I mean, there's reasons that America established these bases.

And ultimately, America's security umbrella and interest in the region were also part of a broader plan to help America's economy, help try to create stability in the world, I suppose.

But here's Donald Trump attacking Spain, Italy, and Germany.

It's one of the reasons the world... You know, it's always Biden.

I don't even know what he's even trying to say there.

We had to help NATO with Ukraine.

I don't even know what he's even, you know...

talking about other than yesterday he kept on confusing ukraine and iran and so he's just continuing to go down that path of you know mixing up ukraine and iran to act like what he was saying yesterday made sense when he was confusing everything um but just think about it from the oval office spending his time saying they should have been nicer to me they could have just been even nice let me nicer to you what are you even talking about do you want like at the most basic level you don't understand what nato is you don't care about what nato is

You're doing phone calls with Putin for 90 minutes talking about economic cooperation, inviting Putin to Miami for the G20, and then just every day attacking NATO allies, I think, interestingly, while that was going on.

CBS and other news outlets reached out to the State Department and to the Department of Defense officials and said, are you currently working with Germany on a drawdown of troops?

Like, is there a plan to do that?

You know, Trump said it.

So have you alerted Germany to that?

And, you know, all of the sources in the notes are, no, no, we don't even know what he's talking about.

Like, that's not a thing that we're doing.

and Germany's actually helping us quietly behind the scenes with a lot of different things.

And we actually need that base for a lot of what we've been working on, what we've been doing right now.