Charlotte Gallagher

Quite a lot of Congressmen and women coming to this.

Marco Rubio is the Secretary of State and, of course, the U.S.

National Security Advisor, is going to be really giving, I think, a bit of a blueprint for what Europe should expect from the U.S.

in terms of ongoing support, both for the war in Ukraine and Europe's defense more generally.

And I think there's a fair degree of nervousness about this because there's no question about it, the U.S.,

is not as committed to Europe and its defence as it has been for the last eight decades.

They're having to adjust to that.

There's a lot of pressure on European governments to step up on defence expenditure.

So, theoretically, it's been agreed that NATO members will pay 5% of GDP by the mid-2030s.

The message coming from Washington is you don't have the luxury to wait another decade.

You need to be spending that now because we, America, are not going to be paying for it any longer.

So you need to pay for your own defense.

So they're trying to absorb that message.

And I think we should hear some ideas here about how that's going to play out.

Because it was only yesterday that we found out that U.S.

spending on helping Ukraine had dropped by a staggering amount since Donald Trump touched the White House for the second time.

One of the people who's coming in the U.S.

delegation here is Elbridge Colby.

and he is the number two in the Pentagon.

So he's the number two to Pete Hegseth, who's the Secretary of War.