that's where guiseppe and i became friends. we were closely aligned more than anybody else in the room. a great meeting in every respect. i'd say it was very good. nato in particular. i went to nato. nato was essentially going out of business. people weren't paying and it was going down, down, down. i came along last year and in a nice tone, i said you have to pay. they paid $44 billion more, this year i said it in a little bit stronger tone. they're paying hundreds of billions more over the years. nato will be strong again. if you speak to secretary general stoltenberg, he's the biggest fan of trump. he said we couldn't collect money until president trump came along. he said last year we collected $44 billion. this year the money is pouring in. but it's like the prime minister said, we really talk about imbalance. we were treated very unfairly. the united states was treated very unfairly. because we're shouldering anywhere from 70 to 90% of the cost of nato. that's not fair. it's not fair. especially when you take germany. ger

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connell: so you think - >> i don't know if guiseppe conte is putting the horns on trump. >> they agree on emigration, o one. [inaudible conversations] >> he's obviously a soft-spoken lawyer but the other guy - >> i spent a lot of times talking with average italians who thought i was italian - we would go shopping at the food store - in any event, they love trump. >> white? >> they would come up to me and find out i'm american and say there is a dozen of them that said . connell: what do they like? >> yes, anti- immigration sentiment is sweeping the middle and working class whether north or south. >> and it seems like italy and hungary are against accepting more refugees and then you have france and germany that are saying but you should and france and germany want to be part of the - >> but they're not on the front lines. people are having to come through italy and they have to process them themselves. >> and pain. doesn't italy have their data like 130%? >> italy is proof positive that were going in that direction of what the maximum debt milton friedman once said you can have open bo

trump wrapped up the joint news conference at the white house with the prime minister of italy, le ♪ guiseppe conte. foxbusiness blake berman was there in the room with the leaders. a couple of issues to unpeeled here, blake but the natural gas was interesting. last week we were so thirsty for details on what might happen and what brought us to this breakthrough but now he says that the european union that will pay to have lng terminal . reporter: a lot of questions here. in fact, as i was rushing to the camera i said my producer, can you go inside the white house and ask questions on this. [laughter] i assure you i will when i get off there because the president made this comment is not necessarily on the side but it's the last thing he said in the press conference with the italian prime minister, guiseppe conte, that the eu would be building more ports in that region of the world for lng exports from the united states. there's been few details about this agreement or at least working toward an agreement that was announced in the rose garden yesterday and appears and maybe this could be one

when pushing this issue, trish, of immigration and his national security, he was standing there with guiseppe conte, the new prime minister of italy that won office based on wanting to reform italy's immigration laws and tighten border security there. angela merkel, who is not exactly a huge fan of the president, has recently said that germany is going to tighten up its borders as well. so perhaps public sentiment is moving in a direction that the president believes if he were to pull the trigger on a government shut down, might be one that he could benefit from politically. that really would be bucking history, trish. >> trish: thanks, john. the president pushing ahead with his shut down threat despine warnings from gop leaders, especially with the mid-terms coming up around the corner. here with me right now, u.s.a. today congressional reporter elisa cohen. good to have you here. >> good to be here. >> trish: how serious is the president on this one? >> we really don't know. the president has threatened this before. he's pretty unpredictable. it's a little too close for comfortable for repu

that being the italian prime minister, guiseppe conte. conte described the discussion at nato as a "fruitful exchange" and he said the american people are well-served when it comes to negotiations by this president. >> as a lawyer, you have a president that is strong, supporter and advocate of the interests of the american people and the american country. he's a great negotiator. >> shepard, one of the coincidences there of that comment is that italy is not one of the countries that has lived up to the moment to its spending goals, 2% of gdp to military spending. the president said he wants to see it get to 4%. italy right now is 1%. they have a handful of years to get there. >> shepard: he talked, blake, about trade with the european union as a whole. >> he did. we're still asking questions about a comment that he made at the tale end. last week he made a statement with jean-claude joncker made an agreement to lower tariffs. the two sticking points going forward is that the eu will buy more soy beans from the u.s. and import more liquid

italy's prime minister guiseppe conte is in washington to meet donald trump. on the issue of immigration, both the us and italy have similar views. italy has recently closed its ports to boats carrying migrants rescued from the mediterranean sea, and donald trump has campaigned on building a wall along the us border with mexico. this, he claims, is to keep unwanted migrants out. a few hours before conte arrived at the white house, president trump tweet tweeted, "we must have border security... go to merit based immigration... protect the law enforcement agencies... and of course, keep building, but much faster, the wall!" the two leaders held a news conference a few minutes ago and it didn't take long before the issue of immigation was raised. like the united states, italy is currently under enormous strain asa result of illegal immigration, and they've fought it hard. and the prime minister, frankly, is with us today because of illegal immigration. italy got tired of it. they didn't want it any longer. the people of italy have borne a great part of the burden

the only person that that the president back in that case was guiseppe conte in that instant. there is that issue and maybe that's what they will get into but obviously, there are outstanding issues as well. for example, italy is a nato member and you know where the present stance on defense spending wants to see gdp for each nation at 2% and maybe even moving to 4%. italy right now is down to 1% and there's the issue of auto tariffs suspended for the moment and maybe whether the president will put 20% auto tariffs when you look on imports and when you look at the major car companies italy is certainly a country that comes to mind. you have ferrari, lamborghini, maserati some of the biggest brands to name a few. charles: of course, we hate to see those billionaires have to pay a few more bucks. [laughter] thank you very much, blake. now to our resident italian judge andrew napolitano. >> i always like this guy. he's a professor of constitutional law at a 600 -year-old law school, the university of florence". he's not a politician, no space government, very much a populist in h