pomp and power, the president of the united states abroad for a big nato summit but a conversation on if and how quickly to bring ukraine inside the alliance threatens to fracture unity across europe. trouble since he walked in. ron desantis falls back on blaming a familiar culprit to explain why his campaign stumbled off the blocks, the media. it might be the ugliest headline of the biden presidency a conversation about the biden family and the cruelty of counting to six versus seven. i m dana bash. behind the head looilines and e politics. up first, geopolitics, the president tries to hold the nato family together. joe biden wheels up right now to lithuania and will land to a new uncertainty about ukraine s future and if it s with nato and conp front rare public fractures among allows over a decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine s front line. the president took pains to project everything is okay in a stop to number 10 downing street with the british prime m
is allowed into the eu, which has been stalled for years. eu spokesperson says there are clear steps that cannot be linked to the separate nato tract. president biden must explain providing cluster bombs to ukraine. ukraine prime minister among four allies which voiced opposition. this is about keeping ukraine in the fight. these additional art tillery shells have cluster bombs in them, they have a low dud rate, to defend their own territory, hitting russian positions. white house officials explain russia has been using cluster bomb on ukraine since the beginning of the fight. ukraine has every incentive not to pose a risk to their own civilian. president biden revealed ammo. president biden: they are running out of that ammunition and we re low on it. that remark drew concern about the u.s. readiness to defend itself, which the white house say is not a concern. many in congress are split on biden s decision. i have qualms about it, there is international prohibitio
yet. i don t think i will get invitation to go inside. probably not. the conversation here between the two leaders is supposed to be about climate finance and getting the private sector off the sidelines especially for the benefit of developing countries. looming large over this conversation is the president s decision to provide controversial cluster bombs to ukraine. the u.k. was among four nato allies which immediately voiced opposition to the move. and members of congress are split on this. you have got some republicans siding with president biden and some democrats opposing him. i have some real qualms about it. there is an international prediction prediction and the us here is a reason to do something different. green light to other nations to give green light. quite honestly, jake if as you look at the counteroffensive it has been slowed because this administration has been so slow to get the weapons in. the u.s. is not among the 120 countries that leaf unexplo
one expert says nothing gets the jury s attention like the defendant on tape. and he will join me next. also this hour, defiant words, steps from red square, president vladimir putin s new message to military and law enforcement in the wake of the rebellion. does the west now have an opening to negotiate? and from sweltering heat to grape-sized ice shooting from the sky, tens of millions across the country are being hit with extreme weather as flights across the country are hit with massive delays and cancellations. but we begin with a key piece of evidence in the classified documents case surrounding former president trump. now available for everyone to hear. this new recording obtained first by cnn takes us inside a 2021 conversation in bedminster between trump, his staff and people working on a memoir for mark meadows. the sound putting trump s voice to the text in the federal indictment with him clear as day declaring this is secret information. take a listen. this
shelley phelps has the latest. as severodonetsk falls, civilians have been fleeing the area. ukraine says its retreat is a tactical withdrawal, to fight from higher ground in the neighbouring area, which is come under heavy bombardment. elina hasjust come under heavy bombardment. elina has just arrived from there. low? it was a horrible last week, yesterday we could not take it anymore. thank you to the soldiers who evacuated us from there. otherwise it would be it. i already told my husband if i die, bury me behind the house. husband ifi die, bury me behind the house.- husband ifi die, bury me behind the house. you need to understand. behind the house. you need to understand, there behind the house. you need to understand, there is behind the house. you need to understand, there is so - behind the house. you need to understand, there is so much l understand, there is so much shelling around the houses, it is no good to stay there. severodonetsk is a huge loss for ukrai