takeaway is that nato has now formally invited finland and sweden to join the military alliance, something that has happened much faster even than this administration anticipated would be. they weren t expecting that issue to be resolved, given turkey s objections while president biden was here on the ground, but now it has been and, of course, they are moving on in that process, which is not yet complete. i think a lot of questions that will be facing president biden and other world leaders as they are departing this summit is matching the rhetoric from the summit and what they talked about when it came to support for ukraine, for what happens when they re back at home. because they are now four months into this invasion, it does not have an end in sight at this point as you heard the director of national intelligence and the united states say they do expect this to continue to go on for some time, and right,000 the situation on the ground in ukraine is still pretty grim. and so you r
to, you know, hash it out, but i just don t see it. so i think what s more likely to happen is to have him sit down, for a limited set of questions that they all have worked out ahead of time and he can provide a lot of answers on things that have nothing to do with his conversations with the president. things that he told mark meadows are not privileged. things he told cassidy hutchinson are not privileged. things he told other nonattorneys are not privileged. these conversations with john eastman, that s a little bit trickier, conversations with jeffrey clark, though a lot of that has already come out so far because all of the doj guys, biden waived privilege on that, so much of the conversation is already out there that they may not need cipollone on that. they do need, i think, cipollone on what exactly he told cassidy hutchinson, especially because some of her testimony, and not on this part, has been called into question and so if i was a member of the committee, i would want to
regularly. i think there is an opportunity for the president. this is something that actually has, i think, resonated with many average people in america, even people who are not necessarily extremely tuned into politics. if you drive around the streets in rural america, you ll often see ukraine flags hanging from windows and other things. i think it is an opportunity for the president to lean into the leadership he s taking here and to underscore these two countries joining nato is the opposite of what president putin had set out to accomplish. it is a great point. it has resonated in the states to a degree i don t think was expected. it has. and there is a sense that how much longer can this go on? we did just hear from the director of national intelligence saying this is going to grind on for quite some time. and i guess the question i would put to you, evan, is, you know, are we going to hear president biden today articulate how he sees this war playing out, what he sees the st
americans are really feeling the pain at the pump. that is a big issue for voters. the u.s. is looking at the specter of a potential recession. i wonder, gloria, what do you think president biden will say today on the economy to offer some reassurance to americans? he s got to walk this fine line because he understands that his political popularity has tanked at home. he s concerned about it. and i m told by a white house source that, look, the president is obsessed with gasoline prices, and he understands how this will impact him. he s heading into a midterm election. i think the president, you see at nato, is a leader there, who feels like he s on terra firma with his fellow leaders at nato, and folks at the white house have a great deal of pride in the way they say the president has managed to coordinate nato
the general election. people, when i speak to european diplomats, they say privately they watch events in the u.s., division in the u.s., this attempt to overturn the election with concern, no question gloria, kasey, evan, stay with us. we want to bring in cnn chief international anchor christiane amanpour as well. good to have you. it struck me that a year ago we were in geneva, when biden met putin, the discussion there was strategic stability, stabilizing this relationship. here we are a year later, where the clear message is that the security situation in europe has changed, remarkably, that russia is a clear and imminent danger, and needs to be addressed today. it is a remarkable change and i think are we not seeing that highlighted here by these agreements that they re making in the forces that they re deploying? 100%, jim. the whole new strategic doctrine