concrete fear among allies shows that nato is eroding and finally we're very pleased to have with us tyson barker he's a foreign policy expert for the aspen institute here in berlin and he's a former state department official he says nato focused for too long on threats from the east and the south and failed to take seriously the threat from within. so let me start out by asking you your you wrote just before the summit that europe's security is at stake thereby mirroring europeans fear that the long standing u.s. security guarantees for europe are perhaps fraying but despite trump's aggressive rhetoric he did sign the joint statement by the nato members so would you say the worrying here in europe was perhaps a little bit unnecessary. i think in the end this summit went oh it's better than we sold it's not yet over because i think we have to wait for the meeting with president putin and then be comparably do a kind of conclusion what really happened. but overall i think the problem goes beyond the nato summit we have a major change in the transatlantic relationship between the u.s. and th

and finally we're very pleased to have with us tyson barker he's a foreign policy expert for the aspen institute here in berlin and he's a former state department official he says nato focused for too long on threats from the east and the south and failed to take seriously the threat from within. so let me start out by asking you cloudy in my your you wrote just before the summit that europe's security is at stake thereby mirroring europeans fear that the long standing u.s. security guarantees for europe are perhaps fraying but despite trump's aggressor frederick keep did sign the joint statement by the nato members so would you say the worrying here in europe was perhaps a little bit unnecessary. i think in the end this summit went oh it's better than we sold it's not yet over because i think we have to wait for the meeting with president putin and then we can probably do a kind of conclusion what really happened. but overall i think the problem goes beyond the nato summit we have a major change in the transatlantic relationship between the u.s. and the europeans and this is something

concrete fear among allies shows that nato is eroding and finally we're very pleased to have with us tyson barker he's a foreign policy expert for the aspen institute here in berlin and he's a former state department official he says nato focused for too long on threats from the east of the south and failed to take seriously the threat from within. so let me start out by asking you cloudy in my your you wrote just before the summit that europe's security is at stake thereby mirroring europeans fear that the long standing u.s. security guarantees for europe are perhaps fraying but despite trump's aggressive rhetoric he did sign the joint statement by the nato members so would you say the worrying here in europe was perhaps a little bit unnecessary. i think in the end this summit went oh it's better than we sold it it's not yet over because i think we have to wait for the meeting with president putin and then be comparably do a kind of conclusion what really happened. but overall i think the problem goes beyond the nato summit we have a major change in the transatlantic relationship between

concrete fear among allies shows that nato is eroding and finally we're very pleased to have with us tyson barker he's a foreign policy expert for the aspen institute here in berlin and he's a former state department official he says nato focused for too long on threats from the east and the south and failed to take seriously the threat from within. so let me start out by asking you cloudy in my your you wrote just before the summit that europe's security is at stake thereby mirroring europeans fear that the long standing u.s. security guarantees for europe are perhaps fraying but despite trump's aggressive rhetoric he did sign the joint statement by the nato members so would you say the worrying here in europe was perhaps a little bit unnecessary. i think in the end this summit went oh it's better than we sold it's not yet over because i think we have to wait for the meeting with president putin and then be come probably do a kind of conclusion what really happened. but overall i think the problem goes beyond the nato summit we have a major change in the transatlantic relationship between

concrete fear among allies shows that nato is eroding and finally we're very pleased to have with us tyson barker he's a foreign policy expert for the aspen institute here in berlin and he's a former state department official he says nato focused for too long on threats from the east of the south and failed to take seriously the threat from within. so let me start out by asking you cloudy in my your you grew just before the summit that europe's security is at stake thereby mirroring europeans fear that the long standing u.s. security guarantees for europe are perhaps fraying but despite trump's aggressor frederick he did sign the joint statement by the nato members so would you say the worrying here in europe was perhaps a little bit unnecessary. i think in the end this summit went oh it's better than we sold it's not yet over because i think we have to wait for the meeting with president putin and then we can probably do a kind of conclusion what really happened. but overall i think the problem goes beyond the nato summit we have a major change in the transatlantic relationship between th

and then let's come back to would tyson barker with us here in our studio all right tyson it looks like actually that's all we have time for at the moment we've been following this summit in helsinki between russian president vladimir putin and u.s. president donald trump here you see the pictures this is stuart meeting between the two their first one on one summit together donald trump is speaking in a few words saying getting along with russia is a good thing not a bad thing we'll have to wait and see what comes out of the press conference a little bit later in the afternoon. thanks for watching. for records. to. their spirit. for the twenty first century. unique interpretation. tesla in concert and the world of a young piano. twenty one percent johnny in a tree for nothing. sixty minutes. i'm. causes so please. somebody else might do so so nearly everybody around the world is named. has the balls to take. me. on the one hundredth anniversary of his for the legacy of nelson mandela. hello and welcome to a special edition of pop explore devoted to germany's enduring punk band. will tel

tyson barker with us here in our studio u.s. european affairs analyst who's been looking at this with us and we've been looking at these pictures and of ludmer putin has just arrived remind us again what exactly is at stake for these two leaders as they sit down for their first ever summit today they have met of course on the sidelines of the g. twenty summit in hamburg last year but this is their first one on one meeting right this is you know we saw it during bush we saw during obama and this is really the apex of trump's attempt at a reset with russia of course the background of that potential reset is quite different than it was in two thousand and one or two thousand and nine you know with russian troops present in ukraine with russian active supporting assad in syria with russian meddling obviously confirmed by the intelligence community in the united states so for this president it's about getting this a reset on the order with extremely strong headwinds for vladimir putin the goal is quite different and to some extent he

let's get you some more analysis on what's shaping up to be a stormy two day summit like to welcome now tyson barker from the aspen institute jeremy good to see you mr barker president trump seems to have a particularly in for a german he's made disparaging remarks when it comes to germany in the past so that's nothing new but what's very striking is that he singling out berlin now why well you're right to point out that he has a pretty deep antipathy to germany and i think that this isn't necessarily as you mentioned new. the thing is with president trump in his white house he sees this as as part of a larger narrative which is trade imbalances interview dependency and security. and what he believes that we can question whether us going about it the right way is an economic powerhouse with low unemployment the biggest economy in europe that is exporting more than any other country in the world seven percent of g.d.p. current account surplus and yet still can't meet these defense spending goals and he says this is fundamentally unfair to the people of the united states what he said today on e