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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The NATO summit wrapped up today with higher

defense spending commitments and alliance members in high spirits. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports

the head of NATO called President Trump a

strong leader. NATO allies have agreed to boost defense spending to 5% of gross domestic product

up from 2% over the next 10 years. In his closing press conference, NATO's Secretary General

Mark Ruta said along with Russia's unprovoked attack on Ukraine, President Trump played a role in

waking NATO members up.

He was totally right that Europe and Canada were not providing to NATO what we should provide

and that the U.S. was spending so much more on defense than the Europeans and the Canadians.

Ruta said now NATO is correcting that.

Eleanor Beardsley in PePR News, The Hague.

A top Justice Department official in line for a job as a federal judge says he is not a henchman

or enforcer for the president. NPR's Kerry Johnson reports on testimony before the Senate

Judiciary Committee. Emil Bove, he's a former lawyer for President Trump who's been running

daily operations at the Justice

Department. Now he's been nominated for a job as a federal appeals court judge in New Jersey.

Democrats on the Judiciary Committee are raising questions about his loyalty to Trump and his decisions at DOJ,

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