counsel jack smith s other big investigation into former president trump as federal grand jurors hear more testimony that could possibly lead to new indictments. good day. i m garrett haake in washington. andrea is traveling to lithuania to cover the nato summit where russia s invasion of ukraine will continue to dominate the conversation for our allies. united states has made it clear going into this summit that a fast track for ukraine s entry into the alliance is off the table for now as the president and his diplomatic team work to sell turkey on agreeing to allow sweden to become the next nato member. the president may have to cruise use some of the nato meetings about his decision to provide ukraine with the deadly cluster munitions that his own administration has denounced. mr. biden spent the first leg of his trip solidifying the relationship betweening first with the british prime minister when traveling to windsor castle to meet with king charles where they met with
he s still making a bad bet that the conviction and the unity among the united states and our allies is partners will break down. he still doesn t understand that our commitment, our values, our freedom is something he could never, never, ever, ever walk away from. it s who we are. [ cheers and applause ] i mean it. it s who we are. it s who we are. throughout this horrific war, the people of lithuania, together with our baltic brethren have been among the most fierce champions of ukraine s right to a future of its own choosing, one that is free because you live so long with freedom denied, many of you who are older know better than anyone who precious the right to determine your own future is, precious to people everywhere, not just in ukraine, belarus, moldova georgia and all the places around the world where people continue to fight to make their voices heard. so my message, my message to all of you tonight is keep it up. keep it going. keep reminding the world of hope, th
arrives late tonight. he will formally welcome what is the 31st country to join nato, its newest member in events to take place tomorrow, and even since the announcement of finland now during this summit, the president is celebrating the new likely invitation to sweden with turkey dropping its opposition there as well. the white house really does feel a sense of the wind at its back right now and is trying to paper over the differences that may exist within nato about ukrainian membership, chris. thank you for that. so michael, zelenskyy does not walk away with what he had wanted, which is a very specific time line for entering into nato. having said, that they did get some serious new commitments at this summit with an announcement of a plan for ukraine s long-term security, france agrees to send long-range cruise missiles. the u.s. now considering sending missiles with an even farther range, army tactical systems. hundreds of millions of dollars,
NATO is expected to remove the Membership Action Plan requirement for Ukraine s bid for membership, signalling that the country has made progress in its path to join the alliance. The MAP outlines a list of reforms countries must implement to join the Western military alliance. However, a Western official cautioned that the removal of MAP did not guarantee Ukraine s accession, and the country still needed to complete further reforms.
as bad as this looks in ukraine, i m not going to budge and i m in total control in russia and the fractures are going to form in the west. in nato, america s dysfunctional politics. what we saw for the first time with that mutiny is maybe that s not true. maybe the longer this goes, the fractures could come from within russia itself. maybe time is not on putin s side in the same way he s wanted to project to the world. so i agree with michael. you re not going to see some run for the exits from russia s supporters like china. but i think they are watching this and maybe questioning putin s strategic assumption that time is on his side. i think for nato, it s all the more important they re able to project unity about the pace of ukrainian membership. if they can project they re in this long haul and that the west is going to get stronger not weaker as this goes on and that putin s the one who faces risks from a protracted conflict, that s kind of message you want to be projecting to th