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C"cnn this morning" starts righ now. ♪ good morning, everyone. good morning, pamela. >> good morning. great to be here on the show. >> its happening right now, theres live news happening at this moment. president biden is kicking off that high stakes trip to europe with his first visit to london. he arrived at 10 downing street for his meeting with british prime minister rishi sunak ahead of tomorrows big summit with nato lead nurse lithuania. >> he will then meet king charles for the first ...

Lets get started with five things to know for this monday, july 10th, 2023. parts of new york recovering from a once in a thousand year flood event. west point getting nearly 8 inches of rain in just six hours. at least one person reported dead. president biden is in london meeting with the uk prime minister this morning. he will also meet with king charles before heading to lithuania for a high stakes nato summit. and a manhunt under way in pennsylvania for a murder suspect who escaped fr...

The u.s. now warning ukraine that a full-scale invasion by russia is imminent. a senior defense official telling cnn 80% of russian forces amassed on ukraines border are in forward position and ready to go. joining me now is democratic senator chris coons, on the senate foreign relations committee, and, senator, you are in lithuania. youve been traveling through europe the past week talking to americas allies. i want to talk about that in a second. first, what can you tell us about this new u.s....

Estonia, latvia and lithuania. when i was commander in europe and since then there has been multiple training opportunities, exercise engagements with all of those countries. so when youre hearing about u.s. forces or nato forces moving around, this is something that is practiced regularly. but the ones that are, i think, the most threatened nations, are poland -- or feel they are the most threatened are poland, romania and the three baltic nations. they have been under the thumb of russia in th...

President trump during his four years said and did a number of things, taking the word of vladimir putin over our own intelligence community, for example, on the question of whether there was russian interference in our 2016 presidential election. harassing and bullying and publicly disagreeing with a key nato and european allies. that weakened our alliance. i think that laid the groundwork for encouraging putin to take the bold risks that hes taken in belarus, in ukraine and elsewhere. and, fra...

>> and when you come back into session in the u.s. senate will there be a bipartisan bill to add to that? >> yes. im confident there will be strong bipartisan support to keep our nato commitments. dana, im here in a country of 3 million people, lithuania punches above its weight. its one of our nato allies. they were occupied by russia for decades before and after their period as the soviet union. and they know what kind of a threat they face. i stand firmly behind it and so will a bipartisan ma...

And for american leadership. im convinced putin will only stop when we stop him and i think president biden is just the right leader for us at this moment. >> and you talk about meeting with u.s. troops. i know youve met with leaders in various european countries not just where you are in lithuania. what are you hearing from them about the generational potential shift in how europe and, indeed, the globe is with regard to the west versus russia? >> well, dana, i have been traveling with senator ...

Russian economy from the global economy or at least the western economy and i think that is not just something that is going to halt as soon as this war is over. and hopefully that is soon. i think this is a new trend. democracy is saying maybe we should rely on each other rather than rely on countries who may use their economic interdependence with us as a weapon of warfare. that is what china has done with countries like australia and with korea and norway and lith lithuania at the moment and ...