Is Trump truly backing NATO’s collective defense promise?

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00:00And John, yesterday it was the F-bomb. Today it was the love bomb from Mark Rutter who praised

00:07Trump in his NATO speech. Is Rutter the President Donald Trump whisperer? As it appears, despite

00:15concerns, the US president wasn't committed to Article 5 on his way to the NATO summit. Now he

00:23appears to be in. What's the situation there? Well, very much, Mr. Rute, you know, sent a

00:30basically dear leader, sort of, you know, you hearken back to President Trump's first term when

00:38he got this massive piece of paper and a huge envelope from Kim Jong-il in North Korea, and he

00:44said it was a love letter. You know, this is very, it's just consistent with people. Dear leader,

00:51thank you, you're the greatest, you're the best. You know, so I'm not so sure it means an awful lot,

01:00but on Article 5, that's significant. And this is the reason why. Article 5 isn't what everyone

01:07seems to think it is. It doesn't mean that if one country is attacked, the others have to come to

01:14its defense. Article 5 was written in a way that it can be interpreted. And it was written in that

01:20way specifically because of the United States in the 1940s. They didn't want to have anything that

01:26required them to do anything. So if you read the text of Article 5, it says that if a member is

01:33attacked, a country will determine on its own, independently, not necessarily militarily, what kind

01:42of assistance it may or may not provide. So President Trump, you know, is pretty much still holding that

01:50what he said on Air Force One is correct. Article 5 can be interpreted in many ways. And he's going to do

01:57that. So I don't think anyone should count on the fact that if a NATO member is attacked, that the United States

02:05is going to come running in with military support.