I've always said that, you know, if we ever needed them. Because NATO has very much been a one way street. We actually paid until I came along. We were paying for, I think we paid 100% the cost of NATO. They weren't paying and we were paying. We have hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Germany. We have 50,000 soldiers in other countries. We have a lot of soldiers, not only Europe and other places. (05:19–05:24)
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Asserts that the U.S. was paying 100% of NATO's costs before his administration.
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