declaration about the war in ukraine. we ll have that for you in just a moment. also ahead special counsel jack smith responds to a request by donald trump lawyers to delay his trial in the classified documents case. they want to do that after the 2024 election. plus hollywood officially goes dark for the first time in over six decades as writers and actors are now together on the picket lines. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this friday, july 14th. i m ali vitali in for jonathan lemire. president joe biden wrapped up his five-day european trip to finland yesterday with nato s newest memberch it ended decades of neutrality in april when it became the alliance s 31st member. the country shares 830 miles of border with russia. president biden yesterday celebrated finland s membership and nato s united front against russian president vladimir putin. mr. president, at this critical moment in history, this inflection point, the world is watching to see will w
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think of that, a year, for a war that vladimir putin once assumed would last only days. the u.s. continues to fund the good fight, another $2 billion heading ukraine s way, but not without some growing resistance in congress and growing concern even among some nato partners and just over the last 24 hours our g20 fellow members. we ll ask ukraine s ambassador to the u.s. what she makes of all of this and whether patience is waning for all of this. she s here and only here. then, what to make of china s mixed signals on this ongoing war even as it dangles a 12-point peace plan to end the war. volodymyr zelenskyy says he would meet with xi jinping. we ll ask brigadier general patrick ryder whether that s a good idea and former defense secretary mark mark esper on why he fears china might have other ideas. then, the young ukrainian mom who become the face of a war in her own backyard back with us. but this time elena is in a different backyard. how she got to safety and who join
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