pennsylvania on a rainy monday. dana: the search for another escaped inmate on the west coast. he went missing yesterday from a medical center in sacramento. he is accused of shooting a highway patrol officers and took hostages at gun point and killed one of them. authorities say call 911 immediately if you see him. bill: another alert now four minutes past the hour. big meetings in europe. president biden holds his first meeting with king charles since his core nation. the pair talking about the environment and climate crisis. that sit down comes before the critical nato summit that focuses on the war in ukraine that begins tomorrow. president biden s foreign policy faces yet another test at that meeting. alex hogan is live in london for step one today. alex, hello. good morning, bill. this is a very big day for president biden here in england. the u.s. s closest ally, 25 miles outside of the city at
shaping up to be a very consequential week for the future of the nato alliance. arlette saenz, thanks so much in london. we ll check back with you. let s talk more about all of this now and turn to cnn political and national analyst david sanger. also with us, cnn presidential historian dave nelalin. we re 500 days into russia s war in ukraine. so what needs to come out of this nato summit to ensure that there are not 500 more days of this conflict. well, you raised the right question, fredricka, because i think the difference between this year s summit, and i ve just arrived in lithuania a few hours ago, and last year s nato summit, was that last year the russians had just left kyiv and begun to retreat down to the south and the east where the war has been since. and there was some optimism that you were going to see the ukrainians score some big
the deal. i spent, as you know, a great deal of time trying to hold nato together because i believe putin has had an overwhelming objective from the time he launched 185,000 troops into ukraine. and that was to break nato. he was confident, in my view, and many in the intelligence community he was confident he could break nato. holding nato together is really critical. i don t think there is unanimity in nato about whether or not to bring ukraine in to the nato family now at this moment the middle of a war. reporter: now, another issue that is going to be discussed at this summit is sweden s interest in joining nato. that is currently held up by hungary and president erdogan of turkey. the president said he is optimistic they will be able to overcome those roadblocks. that is another key question they will need to be answered in the coming week. it s unclear whether that could be decided this week, but it s
law now because of the war. but, they re not a country it s not a country with an established democratic tradition. so i can see why it is that president biden wants to make sure that that piece of it isn t rushed. the second part of the argument, though, is if you do this with a country at war, you are in the war and directly in combat with the russians from that moment forward. on the munitions, i think this is different than the other weapons that the president was hesitant to give. he was hesitant to give the f16s and the others because he was concerned about the escalation that it may trigger by the russians. in this case, these munitions, he was teshesitant to give it because there was a treaty that his allies signed that banned making them, storing them, shipping them because kids pick them up in the unexploded shells
air power will be part of this. the issue with cluster bombs is a symptom of a war that drags on in an almost like iraq war or world war i-type scenario. when if you had air power, you could do destruction to russian defenses. that s something nato could do as a repainted fuselage, ukrainian air force attack. that s something that might be discussed at this point. tim, i wonder as the president embarks on this big five-day european trip, it is in the midst of a presidential election. so, does this journey rise to a different level of importance? well, i think that will have a lot two points. one, president biden has to think about his own coalition, his own democratic coalition. it will be very interesting to see what, if any, major