civilians. so some members of joe biden s own party have pushed back against this decision but president biden was the one in a ultimately gave it the go and has conceded it was a difficult decision for him to make. so that will be a topic of discussion this upcoming week. and also there is the question of whether there is a path to nato membership for ukraine. that is something that ukrainian president zelenskyy has been asking for, for some time. now president biden has said it is premature for ukraine to be a member now, to be part of this alliance at this moment. but there could be a path forward. and that is going to be one of the issues that will be discussed during the summit. so again, a lot of pressing questions for president biden as he heads out on this week long trip which is going to be critical. priscilla alvarez, thank you. let s take a closer look at what is at stake. joining us now is former nato commander general wesley clark.
issue, there is always agreement and discussion. so i wouldn t worry about that messageality this state. it is what comes afterwards. i would like to see ukraine assured of a membership and a council put together that lays out what is required and a date certain for that report. there are some who would go further. they would simply say look this war could continue for some time, we can t let russia have a veto on the membership, so the membership could entail all of ukraine that is not in a conflict zone. so that nato could go ahead and help secure the bulk of ukraine, including kyiv and other major cities against russian air attack. and this would be mr. putin s problem. so there is really three major polls of opinion on this. i think we ll come out somewhere in the middle. i expect to see some kind of a path, a setup for nate ore membership and hopefully a date