jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. good morning. it is 11:00 a.m. eastern. 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. we begin with breaking news from washington, d.c. any moment now, president biden is set to stop by a meeting of national union leaders at afl-cio headquarters. after that, he will head over to the nato leaders summit. all this as the president faces more questions about his health and re-election campaign. here s what nancy pelosi said when asked if the president has her support to be the democratic nominee. it is up to the president to decide if he is going to run. we re all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short. he has made the decision. he said firmly this week, he is going to run. do you want him to run? i want him to do whatever he decides to do. and that s the way it is. whatever he decides, we go. and i said, everyone, let s just hold off, whatever you re thinking, either tell somebody privately, but
it s up to the president to decide if he is going to run. we re all encouraging him to make that decision, because time is running short. the first public warning from a democratic senator. donald trump is on track, i think, to win this election and maybe win it by a landslide and take with him the senate and the house. a shocker from hollywood. with democratic advocate and supporter george clooney announcing in the new york times that the party needs a new nominee. a deeper dive into the nato working sessions beginning this afternoon with the u.s. ambassador to the alliance and intelligent committee chairman mike turner, as nato tries to rush weapons and air defense in ukraine. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell on a busy day in washington where president biden is hoping his performance at the nato summit this week is going to quiet or hope quiet democratic dissent about his re-election bid. concerns among foreign leaders, they are worried about his abili
our political editor chris mason is travelling with him and sent this update hello from a rather soggy airfield. quite a moment, this, for sir keir starmer as he prepares to get on board the prime ministerial plane and head to washington. he will have a chance to visit the white house, to meet president biden, and also introduce himself to lots of other world leaders at this nato summit. and all of this less than a week on from the general election. obviously at a nato summit, a gathering of the defence alliance, a real focus on security. labour have promised that they want to spend 2.5% of national income on defence, but crucially, they have not put a timeframe on it, a deadline on it, which means there is a question about whether it is ever achieved. so lots to discuss about defence, and quite a moment for the new prime minister. the trip marks sir keir starmer s first overseas trip as prime minister. he had this to sayjust before boarding his plane to the us. my message is
everyone. very busy news day. a lot going on. most notably, a critical nato summit in the final day. president biden is about to meet one-on-one with ukrainian president volodymr zelenskyy. we will take you live to lithium-ion. and we are learning which gop presidential candidates we might see on the debate stage next month. and we are about to find out if inflation schoocooled off or heated up in the last month. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. and it is an important hour this hour. president biden will be set to meet one-on-one with ukrainian president volodymr zelenskyy as the high-stakes nato summit in lithium-ion comes a close. now, zelenskyy has been meeting face to face with nato leaders throughout the course of the day as he pleads for more weapons and an invitation to join the alliance. president biden has been clear that russia s brutal war needs to end before ukraine can join nato. zelenskyy has been openly frustrated with nato for not
president biden, who will soon arrive in lond don for the start of a high-stakes trip to london. during the five-day visit, biden will meet with leaders in the uk and finland. and in between those two stops, attend a critical nato summit. a meeting that will be keenly focussed on russia s war in ukraine. a conflict right on nato s borders. the summit comes just days after president biden approved giving controversial cluster munitions to aid ukraine in its fight against russia. munitions that nearly all nato members have banned. cnn s arlette saenz is traveling just ahead of the president s arrival, already there in london. what is first on the president s agenda? reporter: well, fred, president biden will arrive here in london in just a few hours. and tomorrow he will meet with british prime minister rishi sunic before heading over to windsor castle for an engagement with king charles. the first time the two will be meeting since his coronation in may. one of the issues th