lithuania. president biden has already sat down with the leader of the host country and has plans for two high profile meetings on the side lines there. it and the nato secretary-general already calling this summit a historic meeting following a diplomatic break through. we ll explain that in just a moment. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, july 11th. i m ali vitally in washington, and jonathan lemire, again, beating me with the backdrop this time in lithuania where he s covering the nato trip overseas. set the scene for us. reporter: yeah, ali, good to see you. nato summit just under way. as a few minutes ago the president has arrived at the summit site after earlier in the day paying a visit to the two leaders of the host country here, lithuania. lithuania very much in the shadow of the war. belarus just a few miles from here, from the border. also just a couple miles from russia itself. we should note the ukrainian flags outnumber the lithuan
plus that is the road, but check this out, it is washed out just over here. more destruction as relentless rain pounds parts of the northeast. and for the first time today, u.s. senators get a classified briefing on artificial intelligence. what they could learn about bots and national security. good morning. i m rahel solomon in for christine romans. we begin with president biden preparing to address fellow alliance leaders as the two day that nato summit gets under way. biden s major win overnight. melissa bell is live at the summit with the latest. and this win coming at the 11th hour here for president biden. what do we expect him to say? reporter: he was wrangling until the very last minute that brought to an end the deadlock that had for a year prevented sweden from becoming the member of nato as it wished to do. and what it means is that essentially securities architecture of europe is transformed with now not just finland with the huge border it shares with
right of self-defense because the president of the united states is not fulfilling his duty to enforce the laws. bill: that from greg abbott on our program yesterday not giving an inch on the border matter. the white house gave texas until today to reopen a stretch of 2 1/2 miles. texas saying it won t touch that. it will do no such thing. that s where we start. good morning on a friday. bill hemmer. dana: not like a little constitutional crisis on a friday. i m dana perino, america s newsroom. a pretty big deal in texas. they re going to defy the federal deadline despite the supreme court ruling against the state in a dispute over razor wire. the court bill: earlier in the week the court said the feds can t remove the wire. abbott says texas has the right to defend itself. dana: jonathan turley is on deck but let s begin with matt finn with the latest from eagle pass. as it stands right now the state of texas has not given up control along the property along th
she brought charges against trump and 18 others in georgia. now fani willis has some serious questions of her own to answer. tonight on laura coates live. the election subversion case against trump in georgia is a sprawling one. it involves more than a dozen co-defendants, some of trump s closest allies and sweeping racketeering charges otherwise known as rico. you ve all heard people talk about it. now a new let s call it a wrinkle for a second could make this case a whole lot messier. it relates to fulton county district attorney fani willis, the special prosecutor, nathan wade, she brought in and whether there s some big conflict of interest that would affect the underlying charges. wade s estranged wife is alleging willis had an affair with her husband and she says she s got receipts to back it up. now there are new records released in the divorce proceedings, including copies of credit card statements that show wade purchased airline tickets for himself and for willis,
a story we followed for years it comes to what appears to be a conclusion at least on these two stories. on these two. good morning. i think you re right, that this really was not that big of a surprise. there were a lot of people who predicted that this may happen specifically on the tax charges and the gun possession charge. and that charge essentially goes away being diverted, the gun charge. the two misdemeanors he will plead guilty to. this does not stop the investigation into what else is there and the alleged bribery scheme the house republicans are going after pretty intently. i do think that this is another step in the road but one that was predicted and obviously it goes to the president saying he has faith in his son, he never believed he did anything wrong but you heard in that statement from the white house they love him and he is essentially they want to move on. dana: they want to move on. can they move on will be the question. if the justice department has