today on inside politics, a jury of the former president s peers. it is jury selection day in georgia. soon, whoever is picked will make a historic decision whether to charge donald trump with trying to sabotage the 2020 election results in georgia. and a deal for one ally, a diss from another. turkey relents and says yes to letting swede sboon the natun i alliance but ukraine with the big demand for respect and entering nato now and not later. plus, bad blood, donald trump said he has problems with iowa s governor. and another deep cut, we just learned that the front-runner will skip the headline event for iowa gop voters. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. and we start with grand jury selection in georgia. that panel is expected to consider charges against donald trump and his republican allies for trying to overturn the state s 2020 election. fulton county district attorney fani willis launched the investigation in 2021, shortly
hey. good morning, ainsley, good morning, steve and brian. the president was just joking with u.k. prime minister. they have only been meeting once a month or so because they have had so many frequent meetings in the last several months. had the president really made a point of stopping here to meet with the king after missing his coronation. the two leaders are going to talk climate finance in just a little while from now. but the president will also need to justify his decision to give controversial cluster bombs to ukraine after u.k. prime minister ri rishi sunak voiced opposition to that move. while more than 120 countries banned these weapons the white house is not one of them. called russia s use of them a potential war crime they say ukraine has a right to use them on their own land and incentive to mitigate risk to its own people that committed to a post war clean-up. this is about keeping ukraine in the fight. so, we re going to send these additional artillery sh
very good wednesday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. today president biden taking that state of the union message to the battleground state of wisconsin. it s part of a two-day swing where he will be touting his administration s accomplishments and also which of course were laid out during last night s address. sounds like the start of a campaign. president biden s speech set the stage for a likely 2024 bid. he vowed to, quote, finish the job. while making a point to call for unity and bipartisanship, asking to work with republicans even as he sparred with a handful of republican lawmakers on a number of topics. instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share some republicans, some republicans, want medicare and social security to sunset. i m not saying it s a majority. i m not politely not naming them, but it s being proposed by some of you. look so, folks, as we all apparently agree, social security and medicare is off off the books now,
resolve and support behind ukraine as they face this war against russia. arlette, thank you so much. of course, we should say, this has at least so far as today overshadowed a big win by the biden administration, that is to get turkey supporting sweden into nato. thank you for that join. joining me cnn bill mattingly and beth sander, and david chalian is still with us. beth, please translate this. well, this is the best laid plans of mice and men, to quote another famous piece of literature, so, yeah, zelenskyy is both genuinely frustrated because it is almost impossible for nato members to threat this needle between granting nato membership like zelenskyy wants, and setting in train what the
not let them in nato he said we are not shutting the door on anybody it s an open door policy. on the back burner for now. cluster bombs going to ukraine. 18 signed. barbara lee, the democrat from california said they should never be used. they are dangerous. they don t always immediately explode and children could step on them. biden said they are only going to be used in civilian not in civilian areas. very low dud rate he said and ukraine needs this ammunition. michael mccaul the republican from texas says i don t see anything wrong with that. brian: exactly. the thing about the russians they are using it on civilian targets. they have never signed off on not using cluster bombs. the thing is if it s a tackle thing that zelenskyy wants, obviously he asked for it. eventually he gets it. he needs it right away. but they wait for enough civilians to die, i guess, until they give them what they need. still waiting on the f 15s. they are going to begin training in the fall for f-15ss