statement on ukraine saying it would invite the country to join once certain conditions are met. the statement is drawing a furious response from zelensky calling it unprecedented and absurd. bill: you have the u.s. and other countries hesitating to admit ukraine while at war with russia. president biden argues it will trigger article five that would plunge the entire alliance into war with moscow. dana: nato s response plays into russia s hands according to zelensky giving russia more reason to extend its bloody invasion. general jack keane is standing by but first let s go to mark meredith at the white house. the white house says today president biden and his fellow g7 leaders make it clear they stand with ukraine providing more military assistance in the weeks and months to come. still for ukraine s president it may not be enough to satisfy his immediate request for immediate nato membership. u.s. and allies say they re ready to commit the resources to insure his mil
Insure his military is trained and supported for years to come. g7 announced additional resources to help bolster ukraine s economy and government. today zelensky appears somewhat happy with the offer and tweeted within the last hour, quote, security is something that is an obvious deficit now. cooperation of all partners in nato is something that will fill the secure deficit. ukraine is and always be a donor to our common security. before arriving at the summit zelensky urged nato leaders to allow his country to join the alliance as soon as possible. the biden administration fears it would drag the u.s. and others into direct conflict with russia. they re meeting with a one-on-one discussion. a friendly but frank conversation. president biden will do what he always does.
Into the future. that means this war in all likelihood will go on for some day. we marked day 500 this week. dana: i think they ve clearly had the meeting got extended so they were still trying to work out what everybody was going to say. i think zelensky was quite gracious in his public comments. we ll see what happens behind the scenes. sometimes when you leave you can find out more behind the scenes. and what the reluctance of the nato members have been. general keane said there is a split amongst nato now. they did have an agreement to allow sweden to elevate to nato status membership. the other thing that republicans are doing on the house here is they want more funding for the defense budget but part of that is they re trying to the nato countries pulling their fair share and getting to their 2%. bill: your conversation with jack keane said the administration flubbed this one. you have a major headline with sweden coming out of the summit.
He knows full well at some point there will be a cease-fire negotiation. but he also knows that undercurrent of that for putin is that is just camouflage for him to reorganize, rebuild, and eventually reattack. that is what he has always used cease fires and negotiations for. so that s why zelensky wants accelerated path to nato, a date certain at some point that that is going to happen. we can t give a date to it but the commitment based on the condition that the war ends, and it gives him huge leverage with his own people, particularly if he has to sacrifice some land to end the war. because he has got security in the future guaranteed blanket of security by nato. a huge thing given the suffering that his people have undergone this last year and a half and what they will go through for months in the future. dana: i want to ask you something closer to home dealing with national defense.
That s always been the issue for the united states leadership that has impacted prompt delivery of advance weapons to ukraine and the issue here that so convoluted this issue and not giving him an accelerated path to nato membership. dana: we have some movement in the room there. so the press conference could be begin sooner than we think. on the point about for zelensky and anyone who wants to end the war, some people argue and marc thiessen wrote this week, if zelensky has nato membership in his back pocket he can go to his people and say look, we have protection leading into the future. we have done very well. now let s figure out away to bring this to an end. withholding this invitation, does it mean the war could last for longer? yes, it certainly does mean that. it would give him leverage in dealing with putin.