president donald trump and his french counterpart emanuel marchand at the nato meeting in london on tuesday trump sharply rebuked mccraw for saying in an interview with the magazine the economist last month that quote what we are currently experiencing is the brain death of nato. it's a very tough statement to make when you have such difficulty in the british you look at what's happened with the best sort of you look at what's going on during certain parts of this exhibit here around here and you just can't go around making statements like you know it's very disrespectful that micron however did not back down. i knew that my my statement we. shake a little be a lot of people have done nothing the 2 leaders seem to have differing visions of the role of nato but each date i want to read and frankly the one that benefits really the least is the united states would benefit the way we're helping europe. just say give money to solve this we don't want to be used for what needs to be. another of the alliances big players german chancellor angela merkel remain upbeat about nato with all of the diff