he is doing both by the fact that the u.n. is paralyzed here. they don t have any ability to do anything except condemnation and sanctions coming. i go back to china. if you have the support of the largest standing army, the moral support, and almost the largest economy in the world, that gives him an enormous amount of running room. at least in his own mind if not literally. absolutely, laura. there is a debate happening. will china allow this to happen because it has interest in ukraine? the real interest of china is to have an aalliance with russia. who will help china with the
trying to bolster their air defenses, their ability to shoot down missiles and also planes coming from the russians. that we expect to be a key focus when president biden comes here to brussels during this week, to meet with nato officials, other heads of state, they will be very focused on what nato allies can do to try to improve the air defenses of ukraine including these s-300 anti-missile systems that several nato countries including slovakia have been discussing, giving to the ukrainians. we know there have been some divisions within nato about whether to hand over mig aircraft, after the u.s. put the kibosh on the polish proposal. the other big element to watch here in brussels is how nato is going to shore up its own defenses on the eastern flank of the aalliance, saying they re looking to move significantly more troops into eastern europe. they already have about 130
reporter: trump delivered a tough message ahead of today s meeting. pledging aalliance in the face of aggression. we stand firmly behind article 5, the mutual defense commitment. reporter: but just hours earlier, the president stopped short of condemning moscow for meddling in the 2016 election. i think it was probably other people and/or countries and i see nothing wrong with that statement. nobody really knows. reporter: the statement undercutting the conclusions of his own intelligence community. there s absolutely no doubt about it in the high intelligence levels, the multiple sources of information we had and this high fidelity still leave me very convinced of the veracity of that report. reporter: it remains unclear if president trump will bring up the election hacking today. but a growing number of lawmakers are urging the president to raise the issue. i don t understand how the united states president can
states, lecturing the person people the american lemon. the nato liance is a alliance of the member states. everyone needs to contribute to it. the united states has led this alliance for many, many decades, but the u.s. has been bearing the military burden. it s only right that the president calls on fellow nato members to invest more in their own defense frankly. the nato aalliance has been successful, but in order to continue that success we need to see commitment from all nato members to support the alliance joyride love you have to come back to talk about whether or not our priority is in the right place. should it be about spending when it comes to nato? should it be more focused on russia, an emerging russia? that s our topic next time. thank you. thank you very much. leland: great conversation. now to this, a growing opioid
and the islamic jihad, and al qaeda and isis are all sunni. yet at the same time, iran with which israel used to have 30 years ago, 40 years ago, an aalliance of sorts. iran is shiite. so we re in a vortex right here. but to choose sides as prime minister netanyahu is trying, and i think this is a major flaw in his understanding of the region to. draw an israel stwanands with t modern coalition with the shiites. new york times michael schmidt is joining us as well. to have you here. president trump just said in a clip, that the word israel was never mentioned.