alliance, and it s good for sweden and turkey and all of nato and the baltic region. but the big topic of discussion at this high stakes summit is the war in ukraine. ukraine wants a path to nato membership, but the u.s. and other countries are reluctant to do so while the war is still raging. looking at this is josh letterman, and also joining us, jim townsend, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for nato. and a former deputy assistant second of defense. how did this happen? well, josé, according to the countries that are involved in this, nato and the u.s., and of course, turkey, they were able to move past long-standing concerns that turkey had about arms exports and terrorism within sweden and finland, the country that joined nato back in april. but behind the scenes there was a lot of wrangling by the turkish government trying to extract concessions on key issues, including trying to get the u.s. to sell f-16s to turkey, and we started to hear from presiden
senior-level attention from the united states, and the president personally getting involved and pledging to work with greece and turkey, and dealing with security issues in the eastern mediterranean, and then finally as it was mentioned, the f-16 deal, whether it s new or upgrades, this all sweetened the deal. it was a package deal, and erdogan realized this was what he could get. what does turkey get out of the reversal? first of all, the signal to vladimir putin that the nato alliance is unified and turkey, is, at the end of the day, a member of the robust alliance that is stronger than russia, and vladimir putin doesn t control erdogan, and that s important to turkey. turkey does not want the black sea to be controlled by russia.
wants to delay it past the 2024 election, the idea of no trial. what does that mean? if he becomes president he can appoint the new attorney general and he could dismiss the case altogether. thank you for being with us this morning. turning to capitol hill, where the sub committee on investigations is holding a hearing on the controversial deal that would merge the pga tour with the saudi-backed liv golf. joining us now, ali vitali. great seeing you. why is congress s hearing on golf? yeah, this hearing about golf is also linked with the geopolitical landscape and national security concerns because of the fact that saudi arabia is so heavily involved in
you heard him talking about how everything has been a warm-up until now, saying this is a first step forward. he was talking also about president biden s upcoming re-election, and so you see the turkish leader there really trying to maximize this opportunity when he is at the strongest politically he has been in years to fashion himself into a real global power broker. that has been so evidence in the last few days as the run up to the summit has been dominated with headlines about erdogan, whether he would let sweden into the alliance, and now this is a moment that president erdogan clearly wanted to seize on to try and make it clear that he is one of the more significant leaders when it comes not opl to the nato alliance but also to
classified procedures act, section 2, and the parties would gather together with the judge to talk that through, what is the evidence and discovery going to look like, and should we get clearances for the defense counsel and developing all of the protocols, and that is that hearing that the court wants to have, that the government wants to have as soon as possible. that s the one that has been delayed a few days. it s an important threshold hearing before some of the classified discovery can be shared with the defense. an important step in the case, and it s more of a procedural hearing than a substantive hearing, but an important one nonetheless to dictate how things are going to roll afterwards. how are you looking at how things are going to roll afterwards? how complicated are things right now on this specific issue? look, it s always very complicated, josé. i think the most significant thing that has happened right now is the president s attorneys