Let me start by paying tribute the 457 of our armed services who lost their lives in Afghanistan.

I will never forget their courage, their bravery and the sacrifice that they made for their country.

There are many also who were injured, some with life-changing injuries.

And so I consider President Trump's remarks to be insulting and frankly appalling.

And I'm not surprised they've caused such hurt to the loved ones of those who were killed or

injured and, in fact, across the country. We see you. Hi again, everybody. It's five o'clock now in

New York. How tragically and shamefully emblematic of a week that changed the world forever,

a final mark of embarrassing punctuation at the tail end of American global leadership.

That was UK's Prime Minister, Kier Starrmer.

He was responding to an assertion Donald Trump made over and over again,

one that is as insulting as it is wrong and incorrect, in what was

almost a spiritual successor to his smear against U.S. victims or people who lost their lives

serving in battle in World Wars I, two, and beyond Iraq and Afghanistan, when he called them suckers and losers,

Donald Trump suggested to Fox Business that the U.S. has, quote, never needed its NATO allies,

that we basically never got anything from that alliance, that our friends stayed, quote,

a little off the front lines, he said, in the war in Afghanistan. To be clear, that's a lie. That's not true. It's not accurate.

Separately today, Canada's Prime Minister, Mark Carney, who gave a speech for the ages in Davos this week,

corrected Donald Trump as well. When Donald Trump said Canada, quote, lives because of the United States.

No, said Prime Minister Carney, quote,

Canada thrives because we are Canadian, end quote. Again, these rebukes from our best friends on the

world stage traditionally are echoes of a larger breakup, a larger rupture this week. When Donald Trump

used our economy and our military as pawns

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