minutes where the chief of nato saying that the monumental change has been made that turkey s president has now agreed to approve sweden s bid to join nato. all of this coming just on the eve of the nato summit, which will be held in lithuania where president biden currently is. he did, of course, make that stop here in the united kingdom. the last stop of the meeting was to talk with king charles iii. biden travelled to windsor where he met with the king for the first time his coronation took place in may, which the president did not attend. biden also met with british prime minister sunak disduring partnerships and whether sweden would join nato. news that we re learning more and more about as minutes pass. biden said in recent days that he s defended his decision to send cluster munitions to keep. sunak has ruled out supplying them with the controversial weapons. the united kingdom will support them in other ways. cluster munitions release smaller objects to inflict damage
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the high-stakes nato summit on the heels of the biden administration giving ukraine cluster bombs. there is a push by ukraine to join nato. mike sits on the armed services committee. thank you for joining us. is that the right decision? not at this time. nato requires we defend one another and that includes sending our young men and women into harm s way. with an ongoing conflict, this would not be the right time for us to allow ukraine to join nato but i would be for allowing them to join once the conflict has been resolved. we need to provide them with the systems necessary to move russia
strengthen nato alliance in support of ukraine. then, later in the week, biden will travel to lithuania for the 74th nato summit. after, to helsinki, finland, for a u.s. nordic allegiances summit. while biden focused on keeping nato unified, his meetings in europe could become contentious, with turkey blocking sweden from joining nato, a delayed ukrainian counter offensive, and tensions over biden s controversial decision to give ukraine cluster bombs. joining me now, live, is nbc news white house correspondent allie raffa. ali, good morning. what is at stake for president biden at this upcoming nato summit? good morning, katie. when you think of the timing of this nato summit, the stakes really could not be higher. this is coming at an inflection point in russia s invasion of ukraine. it is coming up just a little over two weeks after we saw that near rebellion in russia that threatened president pet putin s power, all of this as ukraine continues to receive support for its countero