Ahead of the NATO summit on Wednesday, President Trump said Germany is “captive” to Russia because of its dependence on Russian energy supplies. But the figures he gave are false, and Germany says the dependency issue is reversed: Russia is dependent on German money. Host Marco Werman speaks with German science journalist Dirk Asendorpf.
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