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New Day With John Berman and Brianna Keilar

good morning to our viewers around the world. it is thursday, june 30th. i'm jim sciutto in madrid alongside my colleague cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward. this is cnn's live special coverage of the nato summit, here in spain. right now we're waiting for president biden to hold a news conference at any time, wrapping up what has been a highly consequential several days here, expanding nato's membership with finland and sweden invited to join and strengthening its forces in eastern europe. two things that vladimir putin certainly did not want. the president also expected to answer questions on key domestic issues such as abortion rights and the economy, and the state of his presidency. >> he is also certain to address the state of the war in ukraine.

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when he comes out any moment from now to take those questions, but so much of it hassan turd on just how much you've seen nato really transformed into a much more muscular nato ever sips last year of course and the last four months since this russian invasion of ukraine is still under way, still going on. so there are big questions for the president about the momentum here when it comes to support for ukraine because you've heard these officials say that they will support ukraine for as long as it takes. but obviously that comes at a cost when it comes to sending weapons, weapons that president zelenskyy and ukraine says he wants to see arriving faster because he says his forces need them. as he's hoping to bring this war to an end by the end of the year. one other thing of course is the expansion of nato, that has been one of the biggest tangible achievements coming out of this summit now that they have formally invited finland and sweden to join, something president putin did not want to see happen and something that has happened very quickly. you've seen president zelenskyy respond in kind to that yesterday when he was virtually

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addressing these leaders basically asking why finland and sweden and not ukraine because so far we have not seen any kind of a clear pathway for ukraine to join nato. those will be big questions in addition to the grain shortage, food shortage that you've seen happening that's been sending prices higher around the globe, whether or not these leaders could actually come to an agreement on trying to solve the blockade that is basically been put into effect for several months now by russia. as they are blocking it from getting out of ukraine. so those will be really big questions facing biden as he does take questions before departing to go back to the white house in washington. >> kaitlan collins, thank you so much. busy day there in madrid. joining us now cnn's senior political commentator and former senior advisor to president obama david axelrod and addie cornish. obviously the president, this is a president who doesn't give a lot of nufs conferences and is giving his first one in a while. what image does he want to present to the world and also here in the united states?

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New Day With John Berman and Brianna Keilar

changed a great deal since then and nato is changing as well. at this summit, we rallied our alliances to meet both the direct threats of russia poses to europe and the systemic challenges that china poses to a rules-based world order. and we have invited two new members to join nato. it was a historic act, finland and sweden. two countries with a long tradition of neutrality, and choosing to join nato. some of the american press will remember when i got a phone call from the leader of finland saying could he come and see me, and he came the next day. and said, will you support my joining my country joining nato. we got the telephone, suggested we call the leader of switzerland, switzerland, my goodness, i'm getting really anxious here about expanding nato. sweden. and what happened was we got on

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fatigue when it comes to the war in ukraine, the longer it goes on, and so those are all issues that they are going to be facing as they return home. we should note the president zelenskyy himself raising the idea, the question of why finland and sweden are allowed to join nato, ukraine still does not have a clear pathway forward on that front. those are big questions that still are unanswered, jim. >> yeah, kaitlan collins, thanks so much. we're back now with our panel as we await the president. kasie hunt, gloria borger, evan asnos. it strikes me how the security posture in europe has changed. they discuss russia not just as a clear and imminent danger, of course, to ukraine, but to the alliance, to alliance members. i spoke to the estonian prime minister yesterday and she described the possibility of a russian attack on estonia, and that would therefore be an attack on the alliance. this is a very different europe. >> it is a radically different europe from the europe that we were in one year ago. and there is a deep irony in the

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takeaway is that nato has now formally invited finland and sweden to join the military alliance, something that has happened much faster even than this administration anticipated would be. they weren't expecting that issue to be resolved, given turkey's objections while president biden was here on the ground, but now it has been and, of course, they are moving on in that process, which is not yet complete. i think a lot of questions that will be facing president biden and other world leaders as they are departing this summit is matching the rhetoric from the summit and what they talked about when it came to support for ukraine, for what happens when they're back at home. because they are now four months into this invasion, it does not have an end in sight at this point as you heard the director of national intelligence and the united states say they do expect this to continue to go on for some time, and right,000 the situation on the ground in ukraine is still pretty grim. and so you're seeing leaders here, including the secretary-general at nato say that their support for ukraine will go on as long as it takes. and so, of course, these world leaders are each confronting high inflation at home, high consumer prices, potentially

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everybody on side and crucially are those heavy weaponry systems going to get there? >> three months ago, i think no one would have expected finland and sweden to join the nato alliance. something they avoided for decades, right? finland maintaining neutrality. their view of russia changed after this invasion and the alliance is expanding as a result. we have been given a couple minutes to go, a two-minute warning. there is the president. let's listen in. >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you. have a seat, please sit down. i think someone else walked in the room. thank you very much for taking the time to be here. i think we can all agree that this has been a historic nato summit. some of the folks have been covering me for a while, but year and a half ago when the first g7 meeting took place in england, i talked about the need for us to reconsider the makeup of nato, how it functioned, and

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New Day With John Berman and Brianna Keilar

morning. as you know, conferences such as this can often be more talk than action. this one actually has some deliverables. the expansion of nato, welcoming finland and sweet sweden, gettir turkey's opposition, a significant expansion of forces on the eastern flank. i wonder as you look at this, evan, the president, central to these negotiations, has this been a success for president biden, has it been a success for nato? >> i think they're feeling that things are a lot better than they were predicted to be. it is worth reminding people just a couple of years ago you had a u.s. president talking about withdrawing from nato. the french president macron was talking about nato as being brain dead and here we are today, it was predicted at the beginning of this war that russian forces could be in kyiv in three days. that didn't happen because of the heroics of the ukrainians and because of this really unexpected coherence among nato. which was the product of

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Newsday

turkey has changed its mind, and has now agreed to support the nato membership applications from finland and sweden. the breakthrough came at the nato summit in madrid, where again the war in ukraine dominated the discussions. our europe editor katya adler reports from madrid. it's taken weeks of negotiations, but sweden and finland are now well on their way to becoming nato members after they signed an agreement with turkey to counter threats to each other�*s security. applause front tonight to send a clear message to vladimir putin. welcoming finland and sweden into the alliance will make them safer, nato stronger, and the mid—atlantic area more secure. this is vital as we face the biggest security crisis in decades.

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ukraine, of course, is on everyone's minds here. but so is the wider security threat from russia. nato is ramping up its rapid reaction forces, from 40,000 to 300,000... ..like these french paratroopers preparing to support nato countries close to russia, now feeling very exposed. we can't defend ourselves alone. we will never be alone strong. so we have to have, like, friends and allies. finland and sweden agree. just look at finland's long border with russia. hello. thank you so much for taking the time. moscow's aggression has shocked them. we realised that we have to make a change. well, it appeared that russia is ready to try to invade a neighbouring sovereign country. are you worried, though? because president putin told you directly, he warned you not tojoin nato, or there would be repercussions.

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