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Elissa Slotkin: “We're never going to go back to the relationships we had…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Has Donald Trump changed America's alliances forever? | The Economist

Published | Video Starts at 03:04

And now Donald Trump comes in and beats on Europe and they are now spending more on defense. I hate that. That's the lesson that was learned, but that's the lesson. And so We're never going to go back to the relationships we had before. We're going to have to remake and kind of out of the ashes, reimagine that transatlantic relationship. And it's going to have to be more balanced. It is, because the American public, you know, you could ask the average Michigander, what's NATO about? (03:04–03:16)

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Asserts that the U.S. must reimagine its transatlantic relationships.

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