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Long-term battle with the turkish state. so what turkey is trying to do here is use this moment as a moment of leverage, right? i think the question is, okay, so what is turkey actually going to get? are they going to get finland and sweden to crack down on these organizations? are they also quietly potentially asking other countries to do them other favors? we dont know if thats the case, but it does beg the question. >> and its -- you know, how much leverage does turkey actually have in that e...

Years, finland and sweden, to try to join. now you heard the presidents remarks emphasizing this does not threaten any other country, that nato is a defensive alliance thats committed to the mutual defense of each of its members. that accession of finland and sweden depends on all 30 nato members. each has leverage. turkey has been using that leverage to try to get some concessions from finland and sweden and the finnish president addressed that. he said that we take terrorism seriously, the tur...

Victor urban that sometimes leans more closely to putin. but with turkey, i think this is a negotiation, theyre trying to get what they can while they have this leverage. ill be shocked at end of the day they dont allow these two countries to join. >> mr. ambassador, good morning. it is jonathan lemire. the white house is leaning in to get the two countries in, theyre going to have a rose garden event with him afterwards. theyre showing a public show of support. and assuming this does get done a...

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Countries. john harwood, how confident are the president and vice president that their membership will go forward? >> well, they certainly went into the meeting confident, as did the heads of state of finland and sweden. you know, one of the signal successes of president biden during the last several months has been his ability, with, of course, help from vladimir putins aggression, to hold the western alliance together, both european countries that are not part of nato as well as nato itself, a...

Leverage for minor or lesser purpose, but i think this is the big one. >> lets listen in. president biden there accompanied as we noted by the finnish president sauli niinisto and the swedish prime minister magdalena anderson, the two punitive new members of the nato alliance. a response to russias ongoing invasion of ukraine. as we said earlier these are two countries that resisted that membership for many years. they had an association with nato, but membership in the alliance is different. th...

It increased the size of nato. its doubling the border of nato with russia. its exactly what he didnt want. and his excuse of innovating ukraine was false anyway. so, anyway, putin is not doing well in the war. he doesnt have a lot of leverage at the moment. if i can make one point, i think we have to be careful how we talk about everyday wans objections to the membership of finland and sweden and not echo the language that erdogan uses calling it a terrorist organization in turkey. turkey is th...

Acknowledging erdogans objections are pretty reprehensible. >> how can they work together with turkey to resolve those concerns. its probably something theyre negotiating for which is the reason biden and others are confident theyll work it out. turkey has some leverage now and get something for it. >> lets talk about the presidents trip, if we can. his trip to asia. hes going to be going to asia for the first time, including south korea. bordering north korea, theyre having missiles tests in no...

Exchanged. theyre war criminals. we should do everything to insure they are put on trial. >> the russian side now claiming that the commanders of the azovstal fighters are not amongst the evacuees. even as the fate of the surrendered soldiers takes a far murkier turn. jake, the point is that the surrender of these azovstal fighters to the russian side essentially gives them leverage, and beyond that, the fall of mariupol as a result of their surrender also changes the dynamic on the ground. what...

Surrendered soldiers takes a far murkier turn. the point is, wolf, that tonight, russia can claim those nearly 1,000 evacuated soldiers from azovstal as extra leverage in a campaign that has also seen them over the course of the last 24 hours pound those positions to the north of donetsk and luhansk, essentially suggesting that a huge swath of territory they have got that borders russia is one they can now claim as their own, wolf. >> cnns melissa bell reporting from kyiv for us in ukraine. than...