t the lead starts right now. ukraine is pushing, pushing, pushing. cnn is live as the 31 nations meet. and why special counsel is accusing donald trump s right-hand man of trying to delay the prosecution of him. and the once in a thousand year rainfall behind devastating flooding in parts of america ears noamerica s northeast, trapping drivers in cars and on roads and forcing some to swim to safety. we start today with our word lead. the president in lithuania with one goal on his list unity. ukraine will be the main focus of the two-day meeting but for a group that has been, frankly, stunningly united, there are public fractures in the alliance starting to emerge, ones president biden will have to fix over the next few days, mainly overs decision to send cluster bombs to the front line, one that has been banned by most of the allies who will be sitting around president biden at that table in lithuania. they will have to decide when and how they will let ukraine join
the pocket of uniing them in a way that hasn t happened ever, so i think whether it s the far east, whether it s nato, whether it s europe, whether it s what s going on in africa, i think we have enormous opportunities, and i think just want to finish the job. president joe biden addressing his age and why he wants another four-year term. the president is in london this morning on a five-day trip that includes a nato summit later this week. we ll have a live report in just a moment. meanwhile president biden is facing time lines on when ukraine could join the military alliance. plus ukrainian s president calls on donald trump and says he could end the war in under 24 hours. we ll play those comments for you just ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, july 10th. i m ali vitali along with jonathan lemire in london. you have a better background. i ll let you set the stage. it looks amazing. ali, good morning. i do have a win. i m standing in f
course, put their spin on it with the associated press describing sb 14 this way,. the gop controlled legislature is pushing to make texas the latest conservative state to crack down on medical care and get this, the rights of transgender people, the rights of transgender people, that is not what this is about at all. we are talkingwh about children, children having life changing chiloperations that are irreversible. contrast this with washington state, where democrats havetorst just made it legal for doctors to perform a number of these procedures without parental consent. mastectomies, without parentaler consent and without even parental notification. enif there are, quote, compellig reasons not to notify pathe parent, imagine if this were your child. some are calling it statme are e sanctioned kidnapping. if you ask americans there are e no two sides to this debate. a new washington post poll found that an overwhelming majority of americans oppose puberty blocking hormones
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