right now. good naming from new york. i m chris hayes. it is all about the clock and the calendar. that has been clear ever since the first criminal charges came down against donald trump last spring our justice system moves at its own speed. but there s a finite amount of time for the ex president to be tried and the 91 charges he now faces before voters go to the polls on election day. now of, course everyone knows this, and trump certainly knows this. it is why, remember, he announced his 2024 campaign for president all the way back in november of 2022. that was one of his first attempts to shield himself politically from the legal accountability that he knew was coming. and of course, since then, trump has been doing everything possible to slow down the wheels of justice. he is basically in a race with a very sluggish system, trying to make it to november 5th when he very well could be elected president again before justice can catch up and put him on trial. the goal is
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chief says turkey s president erdogan has now agreed to support sweden s bid tojoin nato. that was a priority for us presidentjoe biden, who touched down in vilnius on the eve of the summit. it s clears the last major hurdle for sweden s accession. let s take a listen to what the nato secretary general jens stoltenberg, had to say. i think what we did today builds and we did in madrid because they agreed to invite finland and sweden to become members and the ratification process has been finalised or finland, finland is already a full member and now president erdogan has indicated they are ready to ratify sweden. our correspondent lewis vaughanjones has been following developments in vilnius. it seems this nato summit here in vilnius will be getting under way after a very significant concrete achievement. ian s stoltenberg, the head of nato, announcing that turkey had agreed sweden could start the process to membership. ,jens. why is that so significant? within nato, each a
by 11 of the 31 members of the alliance. uk prime minister rishi sunak is expected to urge nato allies to learn the lessons from russia s invasion of ukraine and invest more in defence. joining me now is hugo brennan, research director at the risk intelligence company verisk maplecroft. good morning to you, hugo. so, just talk us through the level of defence spending going on at the moment. because this has been a contentious issue for years within nato, hasn t it? it very much has been, yeah. i mean, the first thing to say is the question of who foots the bill to pay for the alliance? as you say, that s long been a question mark. you ll remember back to 2019, when donald trump made it very much top of the agenda. and again, it s going to be in this latest nato summit. as you said, we re expecting some sort of agreement that will make it a requirement for nato member states to spend at least 2% of their gdp on defence spending, which would build on that 2014 agreement you r