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Welcome to the news hour. President Trump has often been a proud disrupter on the world stage, and today was no different. He acknowledged today that he intervened directly with the president of FIFA, which led to the overturning of a penalty that would have banned a star American striker from tonight's World Cup match. In response, some European soccer leaders are questioning the integrity of the entire tournament. And tonight President Trump is departing for a pivotal summit with NATO allies.

After a year in which he's questioned European countries' sovereignty and doubted the very utility of the alliance. We'll get to the soccer controversy in just a moment, but first, Nick Schifrin joins me from Ankara, Turkey, where the NATO summit will take place. So Nick, what are administration officials saying ahead of this pivotal summit. OMA is one senior official put it to me, it is, quote, show me the money time.

It was one year ago at the Hague summit that all NATO leaders pledged to spend 5% of their GDP on defense, and President Trump declared the US's military presence in Europe was quote not a rip off. That was a good day for NATO, but since then it has been a bad year. The president's national security strategies criticize European civilizational erasure. The president threatened to seize Greenland, which of course is an autonomous part of Denmark.

Even this weekend, OMA, as a senior administration official, was briefing reporters. The officials said that the US is acquiring Greenland, would still be the best way to meet the defense needs of NATO. President Trump has also questioned the very reason for the alliance's existence after Europeans resisted helping the US-Israeli war with Iran and the Pentagon indicates that they will draw down troops and bases from Europe.

And so European officials arrive here knowing that if they want to placate President Trump, and that isn't if they will have to present what Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO today called clear concrete and credible plans to reach that 5% goal as that senior administration official put it to us, the US is no longer interested in burden shifting. They're talking about burden sharing, and that really indicates how much the historic US and European security ties OMNA have begun to fray.

And so Nick, what do you anticipate we'll hear in the summit will they acknowledge that sort of momentum and shift. You know, privately, I'm a European officials do acknowledge this, but publicly they are much more careful saying what one European official told me today would be a more European NATO, but there's a different tone here. Now last year, European officials arrived here describing an effort, an attempt, to hope, to try and keep the US committed to Europe.

Now they acknowledge that the Europe is going to reduce its presence in Europe. So their goal is just to minimize the damage of the transition. There are more than 70,000 US troops in Europe, and if the US withdraws quicker, then E