president was in helsinki standing side by side with vladimir putin defending the russian leader. we ll take you there live. also, right now, wild weather coast to coast from tornados in chicago to flooding in the northeast, and more than 100 million americans under the thumb of a historic heat wave. we have your forecast. plus, setting the stage for another hollywood strike, first writers, now actors, what it could mean for all your entertainment. good morning, it s 10:00 eastern. thanks for being here. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we begin in helsinki where we are just minutes away from a joint press conference with president biden and the president of finland, nato s newest member. let s go there now with nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba. walk us through the presidents day there in finland so far. reporter: well, ana, this is really a historic cap to a week of critical meetings for president biden overseas, and he s here in finland m
good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it s thursday, july 14th and i m brianna keilar with john berman. this morning new clues surrounding the pending january 6th witness who donald trump tried to contact. it s an allegation that has been referred to the justice department, not formally, but it s been sent up the chain there. first on cnn, sources say trump tried to call a member of the white house support staff who was in talks with the january 6th committee. that is new. the exact identity still unknown at this point. the witness, though, did not pick up when trump called. this was not someone that trump would routinely communicate with. and this came after cassidy hutchinson s explosive testimony. the alarmed witness contacted an attorney. this is january 6th committee member elaine luria the congresswoman speaking to cnn. we take seriously the safety of any witnesses, anyone who comes forward to the committee and like weiise their privacy. in
president of the confederation of british industry, lord bilimoria, and the former mayor of baltimore, stephanie rawlings blake. welcome to the programme. the nato summit wrapped up today in madrid, with the alliance stronger than it has been in decades. leaders committed more money to ukraine and more troop numbers to the eastern flank. and in the face of russia s agression they reaffirmed their core commitment to each other under article five an attack on one, is an attack on all. we face the most serious security situation in decades. but we are rising to the challenge with unity and resolve. together deploy more assets and capabilities to both our alliances across all domains, land, air, sea, cyber and space. we have reaffirmed that our article five commitment is sacred. an attack on one is an attack on all and we will defend every inch of nato territory. if you want proof that nato i is a purely defensive alliance, you could have no more eloquent testimony that the acc
More now from the middle east, where a United Nations official has warned that nowhere in gaza is safe for civilians. Israels bombardment has continued. This, the scene in khan younis earlier, following an israeli strike. The Hamas Run Health Ministry says more than 7,000 people have been killed in gaza since the start of the war. Its released a document it says lists the names and id numbers of all those killed after President Biden cast doubt on its casualty figures. Un aid workers in gaza say theyve begun to scale down their operations because fuel is running out there. 0vernight, the Israel Defense forces carried out a targeted raid in Northern Gaza using tanks which, they say, resulted in no israeli casualties. The israeli and Palestinian Ambassadors to the United Nations have made passionate speeches at an Emergency Session of the un General Assembly, vividly describing what their people have gone through in almost three weeks of war. First to speak was Riyad Mansour the Palestin
Forthe trump stump, today President Trump confirmed he was totally serious. The secretary of homeland security, working with myself and my staff, will begin immediate construction of a border wall. Applause the United States of america gets back control of its borders, gets back its borders. Can we go ahead . But, as previous president s have found, it is one thing to sign and seal and another to deliver. On his second full day in office, president obama ordered the closing of guantanamo bay. But it stubbornly outlasted even his second term in office. His plans were locked up by an uncooperative congress. So might Donald Trumps wall meet similar obstacles . Its obstacle is literary, build a wall. There are a lot of nuts and bolts in the process. First of all, the money has to be appropriated, it has to go to congress, and there is the question of what the physical wall looks like. If some of it fencing, and is some of it a virtual wall . Today was basically a message that they are seri