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
military equipment and weapons. he also said the u.s. will be steadfast in its support for ukraine. i thought it was critical that there not be any doubt, none whatsoever about u.s. support for ukraine in your war against the brutal attack from russia. for all the disagreement we have in congress on some issues, there is significant agreement on support for ukraine. this is so much larger than just ukraine. the two leaders also walked out on the streets of kyiv paying respects to the thousands of ukrainian soldiers killed in the conflict. vice president harris said russia has committed crimes against humanity in ukraine. russia s ambassador to the u.s. responded by accusing the u.s. of trying to demonize russia. it comes as the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. warned china it would be crossing a red line if it were to provide lethal aid to russia for use in ukraine. four u.s. officials familiar with the matter tell nbc news the u.s. believes china may already be providing non-
widow of lomita. seemed to be the case of death. did you feel that you are in danger? i did. there s blood on the floor. please send somebody, please. this was 100% driven by greed and money. very diabolical, isn t it? yes. i thought to myself, did we just get ourselves into? they are basically murdering anything and anybody they can. outside of game of thrones, it s not what you really expected. how many murders can you have in one family? she just had to come here. had to see it. had to feel. what happened in this dark, empty parking lot? so far from home. i feel somewhat numb. just so senseless. i m angry. i m very angry. her name is sherry jackson. she has been looking, searching. she s come half a world away. for this one moment. [noise] well, this is our last hope. to finally solve the mystery that has haunted her. what happened to her big brother? what did they do to larry? larry risken? he loved life. just being around him and in his pr
we are coming on the air with several developing stories, the big international pledge secret meeting on secret doc with a little bit of committee chaos, let s start with what is happening right now with the u.s. and allies getting ready to add tanks to the battlefield in ukraine. the white house just now outlining when those tanks will be on the ground, part of a bigger international push to try to get other countries to do the same. our teemg is standing by with the latest. also this hour, senators getting briefed by the head of the u.s. intelligence and what is at the top of the agenda, a whole bunch of classified documents ending up in places where they shouldn t be. we will have the team on what to expect. plus the committee, democrats blasting speaker kevin mccarthy s move to boot top democrats from the in tem committee and his expected push to try to block one member of congress from foreign affairs. we will get into it all later in the show. i m hallie jackson in
you re right. very, very somber moments, around 15 minutes, a vigil, around the queen s coffin, of princess, princess ann, prince charles, prince andrew, prince edwards, the queen s children standing there, in silence heads bowed maintaining that vigil and something the queen wanted, will have planned, and perhaps not necessarily in scotland, there were different plans depending on where she died, but we have been saying all day, wherever she is now, and wherever her soul is, she will have been very much enjoying seeing this opportunity that the fact that she died at balmoral has afforded scotland to pay respects to her. you sea her, her body slowly travel through edinburgh, in silence, and so silent, that you could hear the hooves of the horses, and that silence from the thousands of scottish people who came to see her and say goodbye, spoke volumes, and they came to i think to see the new king, and they once again, with the enormous pageantry and very, very personal moments