 to what degree have you talked to the white house about your concerns and what has been the response of that conversation took place uh... i have no personal direct talks but we made our positions very clear and again one of the things we've asked for is a strengthening of the allegiance in general and i think there's really positive signs in the last ten years since twenty fourteen we've seen uh... european countries committed that two percent target of their gdp spending for defense uh... they were at three around uh... twenty fourteen and this year the projected to have