he likes to have it all ways. he s been on his back foot recently. he won a narrow electoral victory recently. he mismanaged the economy. he is badly in need of an economic lifeline. he would like to buy more high-end military equipment for the united states, including f-16s, and that got put on pause while this was being held up in terms of swedish membership. he had these grievances he alleged about sweet and not doing enough to crack down on kurdish terrorists. i don t think that s what this was really about. i think either one is a transactional guy. biden handle this very well. he didn t overreact to the delay he stuck to it. he let turkey think about its options. he probably made it known to them that if they continue to block sweden, it would hurt and terms of their economy, in terms of security needs. he let that rest on erdogan s shoulders,, and used the occasion of the summit to bring him across the line. it is a pretty effective use of diplomacy to shape the environment and
them that if they continue to block sweden, it would hurt and terms of their economy, in terms of security needs. he let that rest on erdogan s shoulders, and used the occasion of the summit to bring him across the line. it is a pretty effective use of diplomacy to shape the environment and choices around erdogan, and finally, now, we have the outcome that everybody wanted in terms of you know, a much larger and stronger nato and erdogan who is moving in the direction, not of putin, and not of china but in the direction of the west. ben rhodes stay with us across the commercial break so we ve could consider what this means for vladimir putin because for decades we have wondered what vladimir putin will do if he was seriously threatened, and now we know. he retreated. he ran away in fear from yevgeny prigozhin as prigozhin was headed dumas go for an apparent knee. yale professor timothy snyder will share his thoughts on what that means for vladimir putin in the future.
be frustration from president zelenskyy and his top advisors about the am am by fwuty across the board, not just nato invitation or process to join nato but also with what a long-term security guarantee consists and would look like? yeah. they are in the middle of a war right now. ambiguity is not necessarily helpful for them. of course we understand that. and they are fighting for their lives. literally fighting for that s lives. and you can t look, just around the world and not see how united so many countries, 50 are, to helping them succeed in that war. but that s got to be the focus. i think you re gonna see a lot of attention by the allies on immediate security needs and as i said long-term security needs as well. but, yes, there are frustrations, there are desires to end this war quickly, all of that we understand. of course, we share many of those concerns. one of the questions i this is significant and very
that ukraine s future is in nato. a war is raging in ukraine. we need to make sure that we continue to support ukraine. at this point canada has invested $8 billion in financial military and humanitarian support to ukraine. but even when the war ends, russia will still be a very dangerous neighbor and iat sense we need to be thinking about the long term security needs of ewe xran. and offering long term security is definitely important because we need to make sure that there is strong deterrence and self-defense on the part of ukraine because we don t want russia to eventually leave, rearm, and reinvade ukraine and sop that s why we ve been a stead supporter now but also in
is that the parties will come in and file motions to delay that date. and the speedy trial act has a provision for that when the case is complex, when the best interests of justice require a later trial date, in this case in lithe of the security needs for the defense attorneys and dealing with the classified information procedures act to figure out how they re going to deal with these classified documents, i think it is quite likely that date will get pushed out, but the judge has to make findings under the speedy trial act that s in the best interest of justice to do so. it is a placeholder for now. it s good she s being prompt and she s moving on the case, but i think we re going to see it come and go without a trial. certainly. the trump team has indicated they expect to ask for delays to push this off with the election on the horizon. former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade, thank you as always. we really appreciate it. and speaking of donald trump, he is advocating for imposing