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the g7 summit in italy. >> as his predecessor, donald trump returns to washington, dc for his first meeting with lawmakers on capitol hill. since the january 6 insurrection. trump will meet with house and senate republicans today including minority leader senate senator mitch mcconnell, who is saying this now about the presumptive republican nominee, quote, i support him trump and mcconnell had not even spoken to each other since december 2020. biden meanwhile, is hoping to send a message to russia with a $50 $50,000,000,000 lifeline for ukraine. sources say g7 liters could announce the loan as soon as today, potentially cnn's mj lee is in italy before us. mj, the work that is starting right now will all lead up to this key meeting between president biden and ukrainian president zelenskyy tonight, correct? >> that's right. sarah, all of the g7 leaders have now arrived at this very picture ask resort. here in southern italy. each of them was greeted by prime minister meloni of italy. and now they disappear for awhile into a number of these working sessions where so much of the focus is going to be about the group fortifying its support for ukraine as the war goes on and this evening, as you said, the president is going to be signing this new bilateral security agreement with ukraine. it's an agreement that came into being after months of negotiations between the two countries and the us is committing to for ten years or so, the training of ukrainian armed forces, the two countries working together on things like military equipment production and weapons production. and also intelligence-sharing, military assistance but as symbolically significant as that packed is particularly given the moment that we are in with the war now fully in its third year and russia making gains in the battlefield recently, it's really important to note the fine print here and that is that this pact is basically not necessarily binding for future us president. so a future us president that isn't president biden. so say for example, donald trump from doesn't necessarily have to with uphold this pack that the president is going to be signing tonight. and i think that is the reality that is underpinning this entire g7 summit this reality that all of the leaders are aware of the reality that next year things could look politically speaking, very, very different. and just a reminder too that this is president biden's final g7 summit of his first term in office. and three years ago when he was attending his first g7 summit, he pledged on the global stage that he was going to bring back america america's leadership on the global stage. and i think as the summit really gets underway, we are going to see that question really being crystallize the question of has he made good on that promise, that he made three years ago, sarah yeah. >> there will be some consternation as to what might happen if he is not president in 2025 so we will say thank you so much for your reporting their from southern italy and donates right now to talk about this, as retired us army lieutenant colonel alexander venkman, he served as a top ukraine expert on the national security council. >> it's good to see this move, this loan, the move to loan money to you ukraine backed by the profits from frozen russian assets what do you think this could mean for ukraine's efforts once a longtime coming, this has been part of the discussions since even the days before the war started. >> there was an idea of levying some sort of sanctions on russia to warrants a russia off then for the subsequent two-and-a-half years, there's been a push to take a look at these frozen assets some 300 billion across different countries in the west. and shifting those over to ukraine, either in the reconstruction phase or currently in russia's or ukraine's war phase, to be able to build out industries. so this is a welcome move. this is a welcome move in conjunction with a oppress of a flurry of bilateral engagements between ukrainian top leadership and the us bolstering support, demonstrating that the us and going anywhere on the heels of passing the you $60,000,000,000 , ukraine aid supplemental. it's another good sign the provision of military aid has already had an effect on the battlefield stalling russia's summer offensive. all this is building towards another series of meetings in the coming weeks the 75th anniversary of nato, which will be critical. there'll be a series of pledges not going far enough in terms of bring ukraine into nato, but at least moving the needle, moving things in the right direction. i'm sure that's going to be a topic of discussion at this g7. because ukraine's is not going to get everything in at once neither are they eastern europe, european nations that want to bring ukrainian to kind of start to wind down this war. >> but this is a move in the right direction also, just thinking is the whole idea behind this. >> it drives this. >> there's also taking frozen russian assets to the profits from the holding russian assets, the taking money from these frozen russian assets. and using it to prop up and to support ukraine. just wondering the impact of just that in theory and concepts that would have on vladimir putin well, i think it's, it is a pretty critical if you think about what's happened over the past couple of days we levied or another round of sanctions. >> they forced the shutdown of the russian stock exchange. you start seeing some images in the streets of people are running quite, a bank run yet, but people started to get worried about getting their resources out of their banks. and banks of freezing access to hard currency. same thing with exchanges. you can exchange russian rubles for foreign currency. and then you hear the rhetoric out of the former president dimitry medvedev, who's talking about all sorts of crazy escalation ideas. it doesn't amount to much. >> i wouldn't take his rants a particularly seriously, but it's certainly indicates that those sanctions are biting all this, again is a direction we now we're seeing a lifting of some of the constraints that we put on the use of a western weapons by the ukrainians against the russian targets just across the border where those, where those targets are actually directly involved in the war effort. this is good movements i would also say that this agreement that's being signed, most of these things are aspirational at this point the success or failure determines is going to be determined by implementation. >> follow through part of that, what happens with regards to the upcoming election? >> now the hills is welcoming the republicans on the hill, or welcoming an insurrectionist a felon to the hill person that precipitated the january 6 insurrection. >> if he ends up being elected, the next president all of this could easily be undone. putin could be encouraged to continue the war if biden has a second term intent is to continue to support ukraine with weapons, with financial supports and pressure putin to end the war. that's the only way this ends. it doesn't end with trump being reelected. it ends with a biden second administration and putin looking for an off-ramp, a way out on the idea of pulling back some of the constraints that have been put on ukraine just this morning. asked if ukraine should be able to use f6 f-16s to fire into russian territory or russian airspace once they're training on the fighter jet is complete. >> the nao secretary general actually said, and this is how he put it, said ukraine, quote has the right to strike military targets on russian territory seeming to leave the door open to that. >> that that's to me that was a pretty big statement. it is. but if you think about the way arms sales go around the world, when the russians sold arms to the north koreans are provided arms to the vietnamese they didn't really constrain how those weapons are used. that's not the way international arms sales work. once they're sold to a sovereign independent state, it's up to that sovereign independent state or how do they employ these weapons? >> the only reason that there had been a constraints on ukraine is because we've in the us have treated russia as a special case. >> we've basically restricted the ukrainians use of these weapons and we're finally coming around to more normal approach to security assistance is security cooperation so i think that's well within ukraine's right to take a weapons that have been given to it to employ for national defense and meets all the obligations of a un charters and international agreements. it's the right thing to do. we're just kind of going back finally to some sort of normalcy. it's a strange thing to say but that's the way things are played out and foreign affairs and wars. >> so it's a welcome, move. >> i think it's also not just about weapons that ukraine has been struggling with the needs, recruiting soldiers and recruiting more help in terms of just people to fight has been an ongoing problem. >> i mean, from everything you have seen, how serious is this recruitment problem for ukraine and what is the fix it is a serious problem. >> i hope that part of the bilateral engagements is a more frank discussion. at times, you find yourself in these diplomatic dialogues managing crises, and crises you take the kind of the most important issue which is ukraine survival and put that at the forefront with ukraine having a little bit more breathing room, you can have some hard discussions on things like ukraine making investments into its own industrial base, into its own defense. including this recruitment issue. >> i think the fact is that the ukrainians probably need somewhere in the ballpark of 150 correct. >> than 300,000 troops? to replace the losses that they've had to fill up depleted units to rotate units off the front line, but also to build offensive capacity over the course of the next year, to be able to take back, liberate territory, right now, it's hard to see how they get there. they've not quite done all the things that they need to do there's a lack of some lack of will by the president of ukraine, president zelenskyy tim to take these unpopular steps to advance conscription and drafts. but that's, that's an essential. an essential function. for zelenskyy to undertake in order to liberate ukrainian territory. so i think it's how did they get there they could probably reduce the draft age from 25 down to 18, like we do, and we have a draft age of 18. i think they probably need to make sure that they reduced the evasions. they're taking some steps there. these are not easy things to do, but that ukrainians can do it if they showed the will and resolve to do so. >> the santa curl alexander goodman. thank you so much. >> john or it as you heard there, this morning, donald trump returns to capitol hill for the first time since telling crowds to fight like hell on january 6, the biden campaign this morning 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this will be the first time trump has been on capitol hill since the january 6 insurrection, the biden campaign is taking the visit as an opportunity to launch this new ad highlighting the role the former president played. that debt on january 6, donald trump lit a fire in this country, stoking the flames of division and hate now, he's pouring gasoline. they were unbelievable pages pledging pardon the extremist who tried to overthrow our government. there is nothing more sacred than our democracy, but donald trump, ready to burn it all down let's get right to lauren fox, lauren water we expect from these meetings today yeah. >> so many republicans who are in congress right now have had ongoing relationships with donald trump. >> but this meeting today, just off campus is going to be a critical moment for donald trump to get the party on the same page to unify the message and to try to make the case to some of those colleagues in the room as to what his strategy is to not just win the presidency for himself, but oh, well, so take back the house and the senate for republicans in congress, we do expect that mitch mcconnell, who has had a very icy relationship with donald trump over the last several years. the two them famously had not spoken census certification of the election on january 6. >> he will be in the room today with donald trump as he addresses many republican senators. >> the first meeting on capitol hill will be with house members, just off campus than later this afternoon. he will meet with republican senators just off campus. but i just wanted to give you a sense of what mcconnell is expecting from this meeting i've said three years ago, right after the capital was attacked i would support our. >> nominee regardless of who it was included. >> him i've said earlier this year, i support you emmys been earned the nomination by the voters all across the country. >> and of course, i'll be at the meeting tomorrow and there is an array of expectations that lawmakers have. >> some of them, one, donald trump to lay out the winning strategy for the campaign. others want him to get into some details about what he wants to do. if you were to win. another term. here's a little bit of that representative, matt gaetz said, i think it's gonna be a pep rally environment for the former and future president senator tom, tell us, joked to think we are going to talk a whole lot about a governing agenda on thursday seems a little naive to me. that's like measuring the curtains and then shut grasslands said to me yesterday, what do i expect you have no idea what trump is going to talk about. it's just totally unpredictable. so despite the fact that all these lawmakers have expectations for this meeting today, i think the underlying reality is donald trump's going to talk about exactly what is on his mind in the moment john. >> no, he speaks here. mike johnson was even doing a donald trump impression apparently yesterday, it'll be interesting to see if 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