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At the nato summit in vilnius, germany has already announced a multi—million euro military aid package, france has promised long range cruise missiles and the uk has announced more ammunition and military vehicles. us presidentjoe biden has told president zelensky, whos also at the summit, that ukraines courage is an example to �*whole world. president biden pledged unwavering support to ukraine in its ongoing conflict to russia. today, the members of the g7 are launching a joint declaration...

Volodymyr zelenskyy declared the summit a, quote, meaningful success. >> reporter: tonight president biden basking in another show of unity for ukraine. >> well not waver. our commitment to ukraine will not weaken. well stand for liberty and freedom today, tomorrow, and for as long as it takes. >> reporter: ukrainian president zelenskyy at bidens side as he tried to ease some of the nato summits tension. >> your resilience and resolve has been a model for the whole world to see, the frustration ...

Its actually we are using this -- making this -- taking this effort while ukraine is working towards -- its a very important document. its a great basis of all g-7 agreeing on that together with ukraine, and now we will work actively on a bilateral basis with our friends and colleagues putting it into a bilateral format. look forward to working with my counterparts on this. i think also as president zelenskyy said, you also see this commitments already on the battlefield. their support, the secu...

We also know that with our battle tested army, with our love to freedom and values, there is a lot we can offer to nato. i think it was a great family type of discussion between all the nato members and hopefully that moment when the allies will agree and conditions are met, will be sooner rather than later. >> the u.s. ambassador and the g-7 nations for that matter, they are promising security commitments to ukraine, are you clear, ambassador, on what those commitments will look like? z >> well...

Complaining that nato would not allow ukraine into the alliance and this is how he responded. >> i think the american people do deserve a degree of gratitude for -- from us, from the united states, from our government deserve gratitude for their willingness to step up and from the rest of the world as well, as do every ally and partner thats supporting it. >> reporter: so wolf, ukraine does try to balance its asks with thank yous, but oftentimes that balance is off and tensions can arise from th...

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Nato will do about ukraine. zelenskyy wants a declaration from nato that ukraine can apply for membership after the fighting ends. there is a split in nato. some nations support that, and others say oh no, no, no, that would lead to escalation. >> we are not talking about bringing ukraine into nato today. your correspondent just said, if you did that, then nato would be at war with russia and nobody wants to do that. what we are talking about, what are the signals we send to vladimir putin and t...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak welcomed the President of the United States, Joe Biden, to Downing Street this morning.

Emancipation proclamation, and as you know, his son martin iii and andre king and i are going back with a huge march there this august. why did dr. king go to the lincoln memorial? it comes out of right you were writing about in "the atlantic." he didnt go to the washington monument. he didnt go to the jefferson memorial. he went to the lincoln memorial because thats where the promise came from. he said, "mr. lincoln, you promised," and he raised the promise from that declaration. in his speech,...

As admiral stavridis said, weve turned the baltic sea into the nato lake. its unbelievable. reverend al, i also talk about challenges that weve had as a country moving toward a more perfect union. talk about how the author of the declaration of independence was a slave holder. the drafter of the constitution a slave holder. yet, it was abraham lincoln who used thomas jeffersons declaration of independence specifically for the argument to grant emancipation to slaves in 1863. then it was martin l...