during the height of the pandemic. we ll go live to the white house with the latest. and also ahead the republican primary race in pennsylvania is still too close to call. and we may not know the results until june. but until then, former president trump is urging his candidate to declare victory right now. before all of the votes have been counted. will dr. oz bend to trump s demands. we ll have steve kornacki at the big board on where the race stands exactly. plus trouble on wall street. as the biggest loss in nearly two years and the futures are pointing toward another rocky day ahead. we ll take a look at all of that. willie? also this hour, the prime minister of sweden and the president of finland are set to arrive at white house at any moment as they press forward in their bids to join nato. they will meet with president biden after the president issued a statement supporting the bids of those two nordic nations.
prooish stated that the u.s. will provide defense support to both countries while applications will be processed including navy war ships into the baltic sea and air force bombers over scandinavian and training with swedish troops helping to thwart against possible russian cyberattacks. and the u.s. now is officially reopening the embassy in kyiv. operations are limit sod far. only a small group of about 100 employees will return for the time being. american diplomats to ukraine currently are working from poland but have made day trips to ukraine in recent weeks. at same time here at home, the senate voted unanimously to confirm bridget brink. she will be the first diplomat to fill the post in ukraine since 2019. when former president trump ordered the removal of then
devastated their infantry formations, mindfully, and they re very difficult to replace this trained manpower, and backing out of that situation, looking at the astonishing strategic change and the imbalance where germany is rearming and finland and sweden coming into nato, and the movement of nato forces into the eastern bloc nato countries. in the longer run, putin has put himself in a box from which there is no exit. in the short run, though, neither side right now has a tactical advantage, and ukraine continues to be in peril. and what is the possibility for some sort of creation of a port city that can be utilized to prevent world food shortage?
oz or hangs on and wins this or leading think about by 15,000 or a a thousand votes and the secretary of state has indicated probably going to call a recounts next week. that could end up stretching, by the way, until june 7th. so still perhaps a couple of weeks away before we know who won that race. steve kornacki reporting for us at the big board earlier this morning. coming up next here, wall street yesterday suffered one of the single worst days since those dark days of march 2020. we ll bring in cnbc s andrew ross sorkin to see what they look like today. and the leaders of sweden and finland meeting with president biden right now at the white house. retired four star general barry mccaffrey will join us for the latest on the war in ukraine and the significance of those two nation s imminence into nato. morning joe is coming right back.
bits of that debate. what i don t know is does putin understand it. and what is he going to do about it? will he respond by saying it is time to go home. that i think is probably unlikely. that is why i think there so going to be a long fight in donbas. just looking at leaders of sweden and finland together and arm in arm with the united states, nato, if you could talk mr. ambassador about russia s relevance in the world stage as a power. given how they ve bungled this war, almost being mocked around the world about how badly their logistics and their forces are fighting. if you could give us a sense of what sweden and finland add to the alliance, in contrast? it is a great point about russia on the world stage. you know, whatever you think of