lithuania. president biden has already sat down with the leader of the host country and has plans for two high profile meetings on the side lines there. it and the nato secretary-general already calling this summit a historic meeting following a diplomatic break through. we ll explain that in just a moment. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, july 11th. i m ali vitally in washington, and jonathan lemire, again, beating me with the backdrop this time in lithuania where he s covering the nato trip overseas. set the scene for us. reporter: yeah, ali, good to see you. nato summit just under way. as a few minutes ago the president has arrived at the summit site after earlier in the day paying a visit to the two leaders of the host country here, lithuania. lithuania very much in the shadow of the war. belarus just a few miles from here, from the border. also just a couple miles from russia itself. we should note the ukrainian flags outnumber the lithuan
help them stop the bleeding as we go into yet another news cycle of, is desantis stalling? is he lagging? is the fundraising not where it should be? you and i are probably having the same conversations with our republican sources, too. i m not sure it stops the bleeding, ali, because what you ve got is ron desantis home state, where he is the sitting governor, the nominee of the republican party, elected twice governor by the republican party, and only 30% of those republicans prefer him in a presidential primary. that s a terrible place for a sitting governor to be. to your point, this reflects kind of what we re seeing nationally in terms of the split among republican primary voters. if you re desantis, you ve really got to find traction. of course, we re still early in this race, but if i could borrow conceptionally from rickricky b in talladega nights, it s only early until it s late. another quote from the movie is, if you re not first, you re last, which is the story of
single year, what is america doing to make itself more resilient? that becomes in a way a demonstration of leadership, simply doing the right things at home. and here let me point out, that it s not yet clear sort of conceptionally that how climate change plays out needs to shape our infrastructure spending. we really have to link these two much more solidly in our execution. let me tell you why. because climate models give us the ten, 20, 30-year perspective. and infrastructure spending is also done on a generational time horizon. but the way infrastructure spending is done, joe, as you know, is much more localized. pork barrel, if you will. we need to let the climate models tell us which places are going to be the most resilient. we need to think about the inevitable population shifts as people move into more climate stable areas. and direct our infrastructure spending into those places. in other words, there is literally going to be a resorting of the geography of the american popul
i think it s maddening for him, yes, conceptionally, and he s not just staring at the policy and saying that s what it is, and he s looking at the political advantage he can get, and hence my point i don t think it s a spoiling point for him. the yelling match was against kristin nielsen, and the intensity was related to the fact that she was under attack, and john kelly, the chief of staff, used to have that job and she was one of his deputies and he is feeling she is getting undo criticism. you can t divorce the personalities of what took place. when you say the numbers have spiked since last year, the numbers are up on border crossings from last year, but they are still very low historically. 2018, 386 or 96,000, and compare
point. given the resistance you ve seen from so many in congress at this point to negotiations with iran let alone any deal that s struck what are the keys in the your mind of president obama being able to sell a deal to iran? what are the key things he absolutely has to have in there to sell this deal to congress? i think it s not only to say to congress, well what s the alternative if we don t sign he s already rolled out the heavy penetrating bombs that would be the alternative conceptionally if we didn t sign. i think he s got to be able to address iran s behavior in the domain after there s a signature. in other words iran gets $100 million. what do they do? go on an arms buying splung build a super highway into syria so they can roll columns of tanks in there and continue their conquest of the middle east? what s going to happen? congress doesn t want to endorse