president erdogan during his flight. as you know turkey has been blocking the bid to join nato. they spoke to about 45 minute to say an hour as he flew over to london. turkey has been the main holdup when it comes to sweden ace bid to join nato. turkey has been blocking that, because they are frustrated and believe that sweden is harboring groups that turkey believes are terrorists. the terrorist has said he s optimistic sweden will eventually be able to join the nato alliance, but it s unclear that it could happen at this summit. the prospect they discussed is the sale of f-16s to turkey. and the president subjected it could be linked to the eventual agreement.
this happening just moments ago. this is president joe biden landing at the airport near london. this is the first stop of his hike-stakes european trip this week. five days. he eat he ll be meeting with the prime minister and king charles. and then he heads to lithuania to attend the nato summit. thanks so much for joining me today and this whole weekend. newsroom continues right now with jim acosta. you re live in the cnn
middle of a war. cnn s ar dlette saenz joinses. reporter: president biden is making his way to london in a short bit, where he is said to meet with rischi sunak, as well as a meeting with king charles. but the center is the nato summit in lit waynia, where russia s war against ukraine is expected to be the main focal point. the president is hoping to once again shore up the remarkable unity soon between allies when it comes to providing support to ukraine amid russia s invasion. that includes, the president is hoping, some discussions when it comes to long-term security
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newsroom. good evening. we begin president biden. just moments ago, air force one landed in the uk. next stop, london where mr. biden begins they week-long trip. i don t think it s ready for membership in nato, but here s the deal. i spent, as you know, a great deal of time holding nato together, because i believe it s had an overwhelming objective since he launched 185 thousand troops in ukraine, and that was to break nato. he was confident he could break nato. so holding nato together is really critical. i don t think there is unanimity in nato about whether or not to bring ukraine into the nato family now at this moment in the