Republicans Overseas Chair: Trump boosted European defense spending

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00:00Greg, let me ask you, has President Trump delivered on his promise to be a global peacemaker?

00:07Well, he's delivered on the promise of being a global peacemaker.

00:12He's an anti-war president.

00:13He's very much a supporter of peace through strength and deterrence.

00:18And he used deterrence quite well in his first term.

00:21The problem is right now, the wild card here is Putin and Russia.

00:25So was the president a bit too optimistic about 24 hours?

00:29Of course, he's an optimist.

00:31But that has so that we don't have that outcome yet.

00:34We'll see.

00:35It's very important for the president to cut back on on the spending, make sure there's no risk of boots on the ground.

00:43He's actually done a great job in getting the Europeans to step up.

00:47He tried that in his first term.

00:48It didn't really work, but he's he's he's trying it again.

00:52And I think you're seeing a more serious commitment from the Europeans to increase defense and security spending.

00:58So from a long term perspective, this is a this is a so far so good.

01:04Unfortunately, he inherited a really difficult conflict in in Ukraine.