President Trump heads overseas and immediately shakes things up with NATO.

I was very disappointed with NATO.

And frankly, if it weren't held in Turkey, it's possible that I would have attended.

I'm DailyWire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howl.

It's Wednesday, July 8th. This is Morningwire.

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NATO is back in the headlines with the president's trip to Ankara Turkey to meet with world leaders. And the question the world is asking is

what happened to the once unshakable alliance? Joining us to discuss is Ben-in-Bin-Talablu,

senior director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's

Iran program. Thanks so much for coming on. Great to be with you, bro. Thank you. So first,

Trump really making his presence felt immediately yesterday. What did we hear from him and how our

allies responded? Surely he made his presence felt, but also Turkish president, Rejeptaya Berdegwan,

went quite out of his way to make Trump feel welcome stylistically and substantively.

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