answering the biggest riddle. whose was it? and the billionaire class goes shopping. ron desantis spurs some second thoughts among the wealthiest republicans and sends one on a scouting trip to south carolina. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, a guarantee from president biden on the global stage. no one can join nato while a war is going on. we re a nato nation is being awe tacked. that guarantees that we re in a war. and we re in a third world war. so that is not about whether or not they should join, it s about when they will join. and they will join nato. that appeared to the most clear and most concise answer to the question that s been asked all week. when will nato let ukraine into its alliance? biden also used the final event of the big trip to try to put to bed doubts about nato unity by blasting vladimir putin. putin s already lost the war. putin has a world problem. he could end the war tomorrow. he could just sa
security can conference next hour. we ll have is a live preview of what s on the agenda. you want each and every one of those police officers to be able to look me in the face. they haven t done that yet. a plea from tyre nichols mother as the five police officers charged in the beating of her son awe peer in court. heartbreak and hope in syria. we ll take you toist stand bull for a look at the miraculous rescues that are still happening. the war in ukraine is dominating this year s agenda at the security conference in germany, one of the largest and most influential diplomatic forums. kamala harris is leading a large american delegation there and is expected to deliver a major speech next hour ukraine s president pleaded with allies to hurry up with deliveries of the advanced weapons they promised including tanks pledged by the u.s. and nato al lice. ukraine s military is expected to launch its own counteroffensive once it has those. volodymyr zelenskyy called for uk
alliance in the face of russia s aggression against ukraine. the president in those comments, he was asked about some of the political volatility in the united states and what that would ultimately mean for the future of the nato alliance. he said that he tried to g guarantee that the united states would fully remain in the alliance and that americans understand that the security of the u.s. is also depending on the nato al lice. but you also heard the president with a sharp remark about vladimir putin. he said he doesn t think this is a war that s going to last years and believes that putin is in a position where this is already backfire d on him and he has lost. and i asked the president about the prospect of whether putin might feel he needs to take other steps like using nuclear weapons in this fight. take a listen to what he had to say. i i don t think there s any real prospect, you never know, of putin using nuclear weapons. not only has the west put china
tones to be in kamala harris speech also. that message of unity that you were talking about would be welcomed by president zelenskyy, but just as important from what he was saying was getting those promised weapons fast. reporter: absolutely. you ran that clean up earlier in the show of him saying that there s absolutely no alternative for ukraine, but victory no alternative but member of the eu, but become a member of nato. we ll hear a rmpbs to that, if you will, from the british prime minister. they are expected to deliver a message and expected to call for nato assurances for ukraine going forward. but from president zelenskyy s perspective, now is the important moment. this was his message to the gathered leadership here yesterday. we need to hurry up. we need the speed, the speed of our agreements, the speed of our
clear what he ll say yet. i think what the audience here will be listening for is to try to get a sense if china is hearing ukraine s allies concerns, nato s concerns, other nation s concerns, that china is giving too much support to russia in this war, that that s not productive for global peace and security. and i think the audience will hope that that might hear in that direction. when it comes to this bilateral issue between the united states and china, which does affect actually other nations, which is china s spy balloons, as the one shot down over the united states was. china says they are not that these had other purposes for monotorting climate and such, whether he will mention that in this format is unclear. but u.s. secretary of state