6th, we had conversations about potentially obstructing justice or defrauding the electoral count. we ll have much more on her testimony in just a moment. back here in madrid, multiple developments this morning on the first day of the nato summit. president biden, he s participating in several meetings with nato allies including a highly anticipated sit-down with the turkish president next hour. so far, the alliance has announced a significant strengthening of forces along the eastern flank. formally invited finland and sweden to become members after overcoming turkey s opposition and naming china in the strategic concept, as it s known, their mission statement. confronting russia as the brutal invasion of ukraine drags on. poppy? we ll take you back to jim in madrid in just a moment. let s begin this hour though with more on yesterday s damning january 6th testimony. our capitol hill reporter melanie zanona with me. you have reporting, significant developments. walk us
russian incursion into ukraine poses a direct threat and deals with territorial integrity. they re concerned something could happen and spiral out of control, why they shore up the defenses at this moment. the other big headline is president biden s meeting with the turkish president, erdogan. of course, president biden really helped get this whole thing over the finish line with the succession of sweden and finland into the nato alliance, operating behind the scenes calling the turkish president and giving the signoff with the things they agreed to with turkey to get them to unlock their process, so what remains to be seen is exactly what the turkish president and president biden are going to be discussing, however, it is important to note that the turks have been very eager to see the united states sell them advanced f16 fighter jets and really hoping to get that process moving forward. so that s likely to be a topic of conversation today, jim. the eastern allies such as
ukraine to enter? we have always been believers in the open door policy of nato, so that all the members of the countries that want to join have to go through the process and if all the allies agree, they can join. i think it s not up to russia or any other state outside the alliance to say who can be or who cannot be a member of the alliance. if ukraine wants to take this path, this is up to them to decide and of course, then the allies have to do their part to accept this or not to accept this. we have been strong supporters to ukraine with all the aspects and the other countries that want to join the alliance. do you believe ukraine is ready to join the nato alliance? well, looking at the pictures from ukraine right now, i think their hands are full with defending the country and
this morning, president biden had a rare sit-down with both south korea and japan here at the nato summit. those two countries have not met since 2019. they are working to confront challenges from north korea and china. ahead of the meeting, north korea accused the u.s. of building an asian nato. cnn s paula hancocks joining us live from seoul for more on this. paula, it s unusual to be here in madrid. nato, of course, a european transatlantic alliance focused now on ukraine, the war in russia, but you have japan and south korea here and you also have the nato mission statement, in effect, to mention china for the first time. why is this happening? reporter: well, jim, it s a very good question. the fact is, they want a larger coalition. they want to bring in the
6th, we had conversations about potentially obstructing justice or defrauding the electoral count. we ll have much more on her testimony in just a moment. back here in madrid, multiple developments this morning on the first day of the nato summit. president biden, he s participating in several meetings with nato allies including a highly anticipated sit-down with the turkish president next hour. so far, the alliance has announced a significant strengthening of forces along the eastern flank. formally invited finland and sweden to become members after overcoming turkey s opposition and naming china in the strategic concept, as it s known, their mission statement. confronting russia as the brutal invasion of ukraine drags on. poppy? we ll take you back to jim in madrid in just a moment. let s begin this hour though with more on yesterday s damning january 6th testimony.