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along with joe, willie and me, we have pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. and president emeritus of the council on foreign relations, richard haass, back with us this morning. he somehow becomes even more distinguished. he does. amazing. erudite is the word that come comes to mind. yes. willie, we ll get to the whistleblower that comer couldn t find, and then must be humiliated, as they found him in the southern district of new york. oh boy. oh no. a spy or something like that. we ll get to the details in a little bit. seriously, the gang that couldn t shoot straight, they keep getting the political gun, aiming it right at their foot, right? it s absolutely crazy. willie, last night, of course, midsummer, one of the most fun annual traditions, not joey chestnut eating nathan s hot dog eating contest for the 16th time. 16th time, you have to love the guy. the home run derby last night, how exciti ....
yeah, the safety of the world. joining us from the site of the nato summit in lithuania, host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. jonathan, big takeaways this morning? yeah, hello there from vilnius, lovely morning here in lithuania. we should note, there are ukrainian flags everywhere in this city, a city that s completely turned out and shos solidarity with the war effort, the resistance against russia and, of course, here in a former soviet state in the baltics. i m standing in george w. bush plaza, named after the former president because he gave a speech in 2002 in which he urged lithuania to be admitted to nato. nato transformed then and has done so again. turkish president erdogan has dropped turkey s objections to sweden entering the alliance. it is now a mere formality before sweden does some technical stuff to get finished. here in vilnius, it is mission accomplished already for the alliance. ....
Track. what jake sullivan told us this morning is the hope here in vilnius, it won t be admission for ukraine, but a path could be created, the next steps. maybe not a specific timetable, but the next steps would be laid out to eventually get ukraine in this alliance. it will certainly be the number one talking point at president biden s top meeting tomorrow when he sits down with president zelenskyy here in vilnius. we re just hearing that we may hear from president biden and nato secretary genera jens stoltenberg. very professional for him no to go to his lithuanian lakehouse and do the hit from there. thanks for showing up. he s big in lithuania, lemire is. they have a lot of property there. that ll be august. yeah, that s my august vacation. i know where you ll be in ....
Finland is already in. president biden is going to mark that triumph later this week when he travels to helsinki. today, it is all about sweden and their military being at the alliance, expanding this group that, of course, is the exact opposite of what vladimir putin tried to do when he invaded ukraine, claiming he wanted to diminish nato. instead, nato is only stronger and larger. we will hear from the president later today. the nato summit has indeed kicked off. he s had a couple meetings already. the big one later today, he will meet with turkish president erdogan on the heels of turkey allowing sweden to join nato. wow. we ll be watching for that. jonathan, talk a little bit about ukraine in all of this. obviously, sweden moving toward membership is huge news. ukraine, this is a bit of a debate as the nato allies and america especially supports ukraine in their war against ....
Russia. they want membership, as well. yeah, and the war is certainly front of mind in lithuania. we re just a few miles from the border of belarus. belarus, of course, a close russian ally. we re just a few hundred miles from both ukraine and russia itself. we ve heard from president zelenskyy repeatedly in recent days, pushing the case for ukraine to be admitted to nato. but the president has biden himself has said they re not ready just yet. national security adviser jake sullivan, you played a little of him at the top. i was in that briefing this morning, and he reiterated that. first of all, if ukraine were to be admitted to the alliance now, would automatically trigger article v and, therefore, put the whole alliance at war with russia, which they don t want to do. they also feel ukraine has domestic housekeeping steps, some corruption to eliminate before it d be ready to join nato. so the united states has said no. they do not feel like ukraine is ready. other members of nat ....