president biden. plus kim jung-un s north korea launching what is thought to be another intercontinental ballistic missile. and homes become islands as devastating floods put some neighborhoods in the northeast under water. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m rahel solomon. up first this morning, president biden and ukrainian president zelenskyy preparing to have a face-to-face on the sidelines of the nato summit in lithuania, this is in the wake of russian airstrikes on kyiv for a second consecutive night. and zelenskyy s frustration over nato s decision to provide guidance but not provide a specific time line on when the alliance will be ready to grant ukraine membership. melissa bell with the latest. what are some ofof the expectations heading into this meeting? reporter: if yesterday was about the frustrations of president zelenskyy on one side and limits of what nato allies can do on the other, today is more about the deliverables, what t
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alliance, and it s good for sweden and turkey and all of nato and the baltic region. but the big topic of discussion at this high stakes summit is the war in ukraine. ukraine wants a path to nato membership, but the u.s. and other countries are reluctant to do so while the war is still raging. looking at this is josh letterman, and also joining us, jim townsend, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for nato. and a former deputy assistant second of defense. how did this happen? well, josé, according to the countries that are involved in this, nato and the u.s., and of course, turkey, they were able to move past long-standing concerns that turkey had about arms exports and terrorism within sweden and finland, the country that joined nato back in april. but behind the scenes there was a lot of wrangling by the turkish government trying to extract concessions on key issues, including trying to get the u.s. to sell f-16s to turkey, and we started to hear from presiden
states, our interests, and our people. we will respond when we choose, where we choose and how we choose. choose, where we choose and how we choose- we choose. our north america correspondent we choose. our north america correspondent told we choose. our north america correspondent told me - we choose. our north america correspondent told me earlier| correspondent told me earlier what these attacks could look like. ~ ., ~ ., like. we don t know when exactly this like. we don t know when exactly this action - like. we don t know when exactly this action will. like. we don t know when exactly this action will be | exactly this action will be launched, depends on the weather and on intelligence but weather and on intelligence but we understand that these strikes will take place over a number of days. and they will include a range of targets, they include iranian personnel and facilities in iraq and syria. those two countries from where these iran backed groups have been
biden in michigan even as the president signs his toughest executive order yet on israel. we re live in michigan with a special report on what the voters there really seem to want from the president. plus, ukraine sinking a massive russian ship and launching a missile barrage all while the military is in massive turmoil. the head of the military fired. tonight, the biggest turning point yet in the war. and the number rs in. biden beating trump when it comes to cash on hand. where is most of trump s money going to? let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, biden goes to battle taking on trump in a fight for union votes. we now have in large part because of you and organized labor, the strongest economy in the whole damn world. we do! now, biden who s speaking to workers from the united auto workers. now it s one of the biggest unions in the country and the union that s given biden its official endorsement over trump, which is significant.