Queen Elizabeth Stresses International Alliances In Toast.
TEXT: LET'S GET AFTER IT.</s>CUOMO: The President's State Visit in the U.K. is all about pomp and pageantry today, Royal Treatment from the Royal Family, culminated in a lavish State Banquet in Buckingham Palace this evening. The President, of course, was not alone. He was with his family and close friends, like Chris Ruddy, the CEO of Newsmax. So, we got an inside scoop from Sir Ruddy.</s>TEXT: ONE ON ONE.</s>CUOMO: Sir Christopher of Ruddy, thank you for joining us on PRIME TIME tonight.</s>CHRISTOPHER RUDDY, CEO, NEWSMAX MEDIA: Well, Chris, I usually dress up this way just for your show, as you know, but it just so happens I'm here at -- I'm in London, and was at Buckingham Palace. But I -- I do -- in the future, I'll wear this uniform for your show.</s>CUOMO: Thank you. It's very distinctive. Turns out, if you wear the same thing every night, people like it. So, what was it like at dinner? Come on, dish for us. What did you eat? What went on? Come on, give us a flavor.</s>RUDDY: Well I can just tell you, the high point of the night was I walk in, and say hello to Her Majesty, and then the President's right there with Melania, and I -- he said to Melania how much he enjoyed me on your show, Chris, the other night. Melania said she loved it. And I said, "Well Chris just asked me to go on his show tonight." And the President said, "I want you on that show. Go on that show. It would be great if you go on."</s>CUOMO: Wow.</s>RUDDY: So, but I was planning to come on, but he -- he endorsed me going on the show. I wouldn't say that's necessarily an endorsement of your show.</s>CUOMO: Let me play you a little bit of what Queen Elizabeth said. I want your take on it.</s>QUEEN ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM & THE OTHER: After the shared sacrifices of the Second World War, Britain and the United States worked with other allies to build an assembly of international institutions. While the world has changed, we are forever mindful of the original purpose of these structures, nations working together to safeguard a hard-won peace.</s>CUOMO: You hear a message to our President in that statement?</s>RUDDY: I believe Donald Trump agrees totally with that. You know, he went in, and he said, "I don't want to disband NATO." That's one of the structures she's talking about that came out of World War</s>II. CUOMO: Yes, I know.</s>RUDDY: But Donald said -- the President said why is it that America pays 4 percent of GDP, and Germany pays a half a percent of GDP, Britain is at actually close to 2 percent, they're fulfilling their requirements, so he has no problem with British Military spending. Do you know Chris that every American family would be able to send their kids to college basically for free if we didn't have the defense burden that we did? If we have the same defense burden that Germany has, we wouldn't have a student loan crisis. And I think the President looks at that and says, "We have troops, and we're defending Germany, but they don't want to spend just 2 percent of their national GDP?"</s>CUOMO: But, Chris, you know, what the Queen was trying to point out there is that--</s>RUDDY: So, I don't think he's against the structures.</s>CUOMO: Yes. But he -- look, he attacked the structure. We both know he did. And he did it in a way that he thought would be relatable to the American people by saying they don't pay in enough, when we both know that that's not how NATO works. It's about commitment to your own defense.</s>RUDDY: No. It's exactly how it works.</s>CUOMO: We also know that the historical reason that Germany does not have the role that the United States has in keeping the world safe is rooted in history, and rightly so. This country depends on America to lead. He has questioned that. He likes being a leader. He likes America being the biggest. But he doesn't want to pay what comes with being the biggest. And you know they go hand in hand.</s>RUDDY: So, the President is not against NATO. He's not against international structures. I think -- I think he's making a very reasonable argument. He's really sending a wake-up call. I like what the Queen says. I think the President agrees with what she says.</s>CUOMO: Good.</s>RUDDY: I don't think there's discrepancy there.</s>CUOMO: Good. I mean because I think that, you know, she picks her words. You know, unlike what we're used to here, she's very careful about what she says. They think about message. They think about their words. They weigh the importance. Maybe that's one of the advantages of not being what you call a--</s>RUDDY: Well I thought--</s>CUOMO: --Citizen President.</s>RUDDY: I think the President could improve on -- I think he is a great communicator. He's the best. I mean he even outs -- excels past where Reagan was, and he was called the Great Communicator. But I do think the White House itself--</s>CUOMO: Hold on a second.</s>RUDDY: --has a communications issue that they're behind on the messaging.</s>CUOMO: You think Donald Trump is a better communicator to the American people than Ronald Reagan was?</s>RUDDY: There's no question this man has been single-handedly -- look what he's done on all the legislation he's passed. He doesn't even have half--</s>CUOMO: What legislation?</s>RUDDY: --of his government at least in the first two years appointed. It's all him. He's been doing it internationally.</s>CUOMO: It's definitely all him.</s>RUDDY: He's been moving the ball--</s>CUOMO: You're a 100 percent right.</s>RUDDY: But it's him communicating, and he's doing in a very powerful way. I -- you know, I don't -- I think the tweets should be reviewed before they go out. I don't agree that they should just be. But that's his decision to make. It's not my decision. The American people knew going into this that he like to just speak his mind. I think they accept that. I think the polling data shows they accept it.</s>CUOMO: Why do you keep pointing the polling data, Chris?</s>RUDDY: I would like to see--</s>CUOMO: What poll have you seen that makes you believe that this President is somewhere beyond where he's always been, low-40s, sometimes mid-40s, never a spike above 50 percent in any respected polls since he's been President, makes him the only President in modern history not to have a spike above 50, at this point.</s>RUDDY: Chris, there's -- I can cite you, just go to RealClearPolitics, you go to newsmax.com, you will find three or four polls that have him at 45 to over 50, the Rasmussen is typically a 50, just--</s>CUOMO: We do but people--</s>RUDDY: --in the past week or two.</s>CUOMO: Yes, those are Republican-leaning polls though.</s>RUDDY: There's one at 48.</s>CUOMO: That's what you didn't -- you know no respectable--</s>RUDDY: Well--</s>CUOMO: --organization looks at those.</s>RUDDY: Look, those same polls had the President losing the last election in '16, and he won.</s>CUOMO: No, he lost.</s>RUDDY: So, I think that I've also seen data that he's actually--</s>CUOMO: They had him losing the popular vote, and he lost it. There was some state-by-state polls that got it wrong in states that he won and turned.</s>RUDDY: Chris?</s>CUOMO: But the popular vote came out right--</s>RUDDY: Chris, this--</s>CUOMO: --in the poll of polls. He lost by over 2 million votes.</s>RUDDY: Look at the -- look at the poll data on Barack Obama in 2011. Donald Trump is outpacing where he was a year before his election.</s>CUOMO: But he doesn't have the spikes above 50.</s>RUDDY: You guys have a--</s>CUOMO: And I -- I think it's a meaningful distinction. You are right. This President has shown unbelievable resilience in his base. I have never seen anything like it. Kudos to him. However, he never galvanizes these people behind him over 50 percent. He does not get the country behind him over 50 percent.</s>RUDDY: Well, I've--</s>CUOMO: Not a single spike.</s>RUDDY: --I -- I said to him, I've always been an advocate of compromising where there's shared ground with the Democrats, infrastructure, on student loans, this is a crisis that's incredible--</s>CUOMO: A 100 percent.</s>RUDDY: --problem for many millions of people. Education, we need to improve the salaries of teachers.</s>CUOMO: It'd be amazing.</s>RUDDY: There's so many things that we need to do in this country.</s>CUOMO: Yes.</s>RUDDY: And the President said to me that he's planning on doing some of those things. He would like to do it. He said he still wants to do infrastructure. I believe him. I think that will eventually put him over 50 for the re-elect. But look, you know, when I look at the constant drumbeat, and the press, everything he does, look, he had this incredible day today in England. He was super well-received by the British people, and the government, and the Queen, and we're trying to find one little quote the Queen said to suggest there was some sort of controversy at the Buckingham Palace Dinner. I mean it's sort of amazing--</s>CUOMO: No. I just -- I'm not using it as controversy.</s>RUDDY: --how we--</s>CUOMO: I had you on because I -- I wanted to get a feel for the mood, which is cool.</s>RUDDY: I don't know.</s>CUOMO: And I hope that -- I hope that it rubs off on him--</s>RUDDY: You chose that quote over a lot of other--</s>CUOMO: --a little bit. I'm not a fan of the Royals, OK?</s>RUDDY: You chose that--</s>CUOMO: I'm not a fan of a Monarchy.</s>RUDDY: Chris, you chose--</s>CUOMO: I'm an American. We were formed in opposition--</s>RUDDY: Hey, Chris?</s>CUOMO: --to Monarchy. But I do hope that the gentility and the thought of responsibility as a leader that they inculcate as an entity, hopefully it rubs off on him. And I appreciate you telling us how well he was received, how much it means to him to be there, and that it was another august occasion. This is getting to be a tradition, having Ruddy from England come to us at these State Dinners, and we appreciate it very much.</s>RUDDY: Well I'm glad to be on your show, and I know the President indicated to me he was glad I was coming on your show.</s>CUOMO: Always welcome. Enjoy yourself there. Be safe. I'll see you at home.</s>RUDDY: Thank you, Sir.</s>CUOMO: All right, so the President is receiving the Red Carpet. There's no question about it. He's loving it over there in the U.K. for that reason. A former U.S. President may have gotten an even bigger, however, reception, and it was on foreign soil. It's not a competition. But it is an interesting demonstration. We're going to have D. Lemon weigh in.</s>TEXT: CUOMO PRIME TIME.