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vermont, and a tower used to dispatch police and ambulances has been toppled. i'm sara sidner with kate bol bolduan, and this is cnn. happening this hour, president biden is going to meet one-on-one with turkish president recep erdogan. he will meet with the allies before the summit, and so meaning that we will have 32 members of the nato alliance. and also, the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is going to speak to the alliance to make ukraine's path to the membership a priority now.

and president zelenskyy and president biden are to meet tomorrow. and all of this being reported on by natasha bertrand. and zelenskyy is pushing hard to try to get a path to nato. >> yeah, sara. the big objective for the white house is to keep nato together, right? to show the world that nato is going to remain united, but there are some fractures emerging over the membership in nato, but it started with a scathing tweet saying that he had been discussions without having a representative about those talk, and he is angry about a concrete time line about ukraine's membership, and that

they won't get an invitation once the war ends. he told fareed zakaria that he doesn't know if there are going to be other requirements before they can be invited into the alliance. and also, how does this incentivize president putin, and if that is not until after the war is over, doesn't it embolden the alliance to let the war go on forever. it was a surprise who agreed to move that absence forward.

>> kate? >> and now, talking about praising the general in russia in light of this. and nick, we have talked about turkey's question of standing in the way of finland join ing alliance, and was it a year ago that turkey stood in the way of sweden joining the alliance, and what are you seeing in the

surprise move overnight? >> yes, and as we you have said it, we have talked so many teams on this before, because every nato country has leverage, and so it appears he got what he wanted with the f-16 aircraft from the united states, and lot from sweden as well, because they had to agree to the crackdown on the groups that turkey is calling terrorist groups, and it has changed the last to employment and it h hassing a but these are all

agreements that he wanted, and he did it. he saves them up until the last minute, and tets sxm and so there a lot of choreograph and he >> it is going to be 32 members with the alliance of sweden joining. it is quite a moment. we will hear from president biden and the turkish representative soon. sara? h >> yes, we will keep the conversation going, and we will hear from the ukrainian ambassador, and of course, i want to speak to zelenskyy, because he is blasting the nato allies, and while he asks for the membership again, it is many

and do you agree with im? >> wi think that i agree with him. and not just me, but a large number of the allies, and that is because the agreement has not been read yet, that is and that large flets grrn and does that make a lot of sense, because it would draw nato into this war? >> we would vt sgrormt and we can make a decision need sglonlt

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but i would credit the white house for getting this in time for the summit. >> and the white house has responded saying, hey, turkey, you are becoming an unfriendly country. and does the about fis floomgt there's no question not the only example, but putin has been courts tur cow for norm will that whoever russia sghnlt

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ahead of the 2020 election. et is noechlt afrt this the anothert bofr foal do lee are are are -- they is the added advantage of delaying a trial, and it has been clear that jack smith wants to have this trial before august. that would be speedy indeed. another argument laid out for the trump team, it is going to take a while to get some of the discovery, and he said that the prosecutors have option for surveillance footage and hundreds of thousands of documents -- >> paula reid, so sorry to interrupt you, but we have breaking news and pictures of president biden and the turkish president recep erdogan, and

this an important meeting joining now, and president biden speaking. >> we want to thank the close allies and nato and hope you can make it stronger. welcome. >> translator: mr. president, my dear friend, i would like to first of all thank you for congratulating me in the aftermath of my election to the

current post, and the congratulations that you have extended to me, and within the framework of the extended mechanism, it is time for the heads of state to get together without further confrontation, and that is why i believe that today's meeting with you, within the margin of the nato summit is the first step forward. our meetings prior to this were mere warmups, but now we are initiating a new process. this new process is a process of five years. and now you are getting prepared with the forth coming election, and i would like to take the opportunity to wish you are the very best of luck. >> thank you. i look forward to meeting with you in the next five years [ laughter ] >> and what is your president --

>> and mr. president -- >> president zelenskyy said that it is -- >> and you said that -- >> mr. president, are you worried that this the support is not going to have the support of president zelenskyy -- >> guys, moving out. time to go. thank you. thank you. >> thank you. all right. listening in to see if the presidents were going to take any questions, and they did not from the press standing around, and valid questions were asked now that the bilateral meeting of president biden and president erdogan. we will go to nick robinson, and a lot of the thank yous, and my dear friends, between the two

leaders, nick. but important to see them together. >> yes, and president erdogan does seem to be happy where he is at on this. and the idea of the joke attend where he said, you know, whether this is and than you for my con gr congrach for the next few years, is going to allow he got a lot of what he wanted with what we have heard that he got from sweden. and now, erdogan is pivoting a little bit away from president putin, and the analysis of the insurrection in russia, and the

mutiny a couple of weeks ago, and he gave back top sgfrnlgt sgjt and last year under sewagep and there seemses to be sgroshgs and he has been playing the long game with russia anyway, and a friend of pew tipp, but it is an interesting moment. and he said, hey, we should carry on and make it bigger and have the annual meeting. >> and no secret that erdogan wants to move quickly, and let

sgr us know how much pressure you see this is putting on them today? >> well, slavrov said that som nations are givingp puchlt and to see what it is reflected and what itself is doing, and how it is positioned in the. >> and you have to take et as is russian propaganda, and that erdogan is much more on their side.

turkey bought the surface to land missiles a year ago, but at are of and for keeping the economy going, and sanctions, and putin needs erdogan, and the weaker he gets, the more he needs him. >> he has put himself into this position because of the invasion into ukraine. that cannot be understated. >> no, not at all. and what happens now with the path for ukraine to join nato is now becoming a central question, and we are seeing the headlines coming out from jans stoltenberg that they will change the pathway for them to make it easier for the country to join the group. so much coming out of ukraine. >> we are expecting president

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