Former CIA director: Trump boosted NATO defense budgets

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00:00Overall, how would you rate the Trump administration on foreign policy?

00:05Does the world feel like a safer place with President Trump in the White House?

00:10Well, I think it's still very much a work in progress.

00:13We saw an astonishing gathering of NATO leaders, for example, just last week.

00:19I don't think anyone ever could have imagined that a U.S. president could get NATO leaders to do what they did,

00:27which was to commit to not just 2% of GDP on defense, but to 3.5%.

00:32Yes, it's over a period of time, to be sure, but that is very, very encouraging.

00:37And for me, in particular, having been a NATO guy, if you will, having a NATO hat position as a one-star, three-star, four-star,

00:43while also having a U.S. hat, and having watched repeatedly presidents of either party in the U.S.

00:52rail at the insufficient spending on defense by Europeans, and all of a sudden you see them make that commitment,

00:59and it'll be 5% if you add in other ancillary actions and tasks that help support the movement of combat power

01:06to the eastern front, if you will, in Europe and so on.

01:10So I think that's very, very significant.