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everyone. very busy news day. a lot going on. most notably, a critical nato summit in the final day. president biden is about to meet one-on-one with ukrainian president volodymr zelenskyy. we will take you live to lithium-ion. and we are learning which gop presidential candidates we might see on the debate stage next month. and we are about to find out if inflation schoocooled off or heated up in the last month. this hour of "cnn this morning" starts right now. ♪ ♪ and it is an important hour this hour. president biden will be set to meet one-on-one with ukrainian president volodymr zelenskyy as the high-stakes nato summit in lithium-ion comes a close. now, zelenskyy has been meeting face to face with nato leaders throughout the course of the day as he pleads for more weapons and an invitation to join the alliance. president biden has been clear that russia's brutal war needs

to end before ukraine can join nato. >> zelenskyy has been openly frustrated with nato for not giving a clear timeline when ukraine can join. a short time ago he thanked the allies for pledging new weapons packages but didn't relent on joining nato. >> translator: i would like to have a success this summit for everyone for our soldiers, our citizens, our children, for everyone. we can state that the results of the summit are good, but should we receive an invitation, they would be the optimum. >> cnn white house correspondent arlette sainz is in lithium-ion. we are expecting a major announcementuania. we are expecting a major annou announcement. >> >> reporter: they will be sitting down for a face-to-face face meeting hoping to put the differences regarding that path for ukraine's entry into nato

behind them and focus on what the u.s. and allies are able to provide for ukraine in the here and now and also long term down the road. the u.s. along with g7 allies are set to announce a series of security commitments that they can try to offer ukraine to really try to help them defend themselves not just in the short term, but also in the long term. officials here say that they are hoping to send a direct message to russia. that's what so much of this summit has been about, trying to rally more support and aid for ukraine and the expansion of the nato alliance we have seen right here on the ground in vilnius after turkey relented on their objections to sweden entering the nato alliance. all eyes will be on this meeting, these conversations between president biden and zelenskyy in just a few hours. the first time the two men will be sitting down face to face since may. and officials acknowledge they do expect some differences that we have heard over the course of the summit to be talked about in

this meeting. you just heard a little while ago national security advisor jake sullivan telling you guys that the president plans to be straightforward and explain his reasoning and also think -- and also listen to what zelenskyy has to say on this matter. but what officials have really been strike to stress is that the u.s. is trying to offer long-term support to ukraine, trying to formalize that perhaps in this announcement that's coming in the next hour so that even though zelenskyy is not getting exactly what he wants with a timeline towards nato membership he is getting further assistance and commitment by the united states to help them in the future. >> arlette sainz live in lithuania. stay with us. let's bring in cnn senior national correspondent alex marquardt who is in kev, ukraine, right now, and spider marks and cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond. jeremy, arlette laid out this upcoming meeting between zelenskyy and biden. clearly, the tensions have been out there in the open.

zelenskyy made clear that he is not so happy with not having the invite and not having the timeline when an invite could come to join nato. what message do you think president biden will send in this meeting? >> two messages, the public facing message and the private behind the scenes. those are distinct and they are equally important. publicly the president is going to signal u.s.'s long term commitment to ukraine security. long-term security assistance for ukraine alongside g7 allies. there is also -- nato allies, rather. there is the private part of this meeting where the president is going to explain his thinking on nato and why he didn't feel the time was right now for ukraine to join the alliance and what we can see as we saw with jake sullivan's response to that ukrainian activist, there are private frustrations. those have existed since the beginning between the ukrainians and the united states. but one thing i can tell you is that, you know, when president biden speaks to zelenskyy, those

conversations can sometimes be frustrating. at the end of the calls i am told that the president says if i were in his position i would be doing the exact same thing. >> that's a good point. on the ground in kyiv, one of the things that is important to point out is there is no expectation when you talk to white house officials or other nato allies that there would be an invitations coming out of vilnius. i would imagine president zelenskyy and his team knew that as well. what they are getting, however, a very significant near-term defense assistance package from a series of nato allies and the longer-term kind of umbrella dynamic in place on a bilateral basis. do they view that as if not an invitation, at least this, this will be helpful in the near term, or is it just frustration at this point? >> i think it's both, phil. they are taking some comfort in the extremely robust support that they are being offered today and that they are still going to be offered today by the u.s. and other allies, but president zelenskyy has said to

cnn in the days leading up to the summit he wasn't going to this nato summit for fun. he was expecting concrete outcomes. he wanted an invitation right away. it's clear how and when ukraine can expect to join nato is not coming imminently. zelenskyy certainly is going to be going into this meeting with biden, i think, in a more conciliatory fashion than we have heard from him in the past few days. when it became clear that the invitation was not going to be coming, he tweeted a very aggressive message saying that it was unprecedented and absurd that there was no timeline. and then earlier today we did see him speaking alongside the secretary general jens stoltenberg saying that when he does sit down with biden that he is going to be thankful. he going to thank biden. he is going to thank congress. he is going to thank the

american people for the very considerable level of support we have seen from the u.s. over the past 17 months. we heard jake sullivan earlier today bristling at that ukrainian activist saying that the american people deserve a level of gratitude for these billions of dollars in weapons that have been sent to ukraine. so i think you will see some of that tone. but again zelenskyy will be explaining the needs that they still have, long-range weapons was something he mentioned he would be bringing up in that meeting. we have notably seen the french joining the british in sending these very long-range missiles. the u.s. a hold-out on that front. so while zelenskyy recognizes he is not going to get this invitation to nato right away, he will be focusing on the short and long term and the u.s. really saying that we are going to be supporting you with weapons right now for this fight but also for a future military. and explaining why now is not the time for ukraine to be

joining nato. guys. >> and you think -- i am going to bring you in, general marks, because we heard this from david singer just earlier in the though that there is a question of what does the end game look like. they can join after the war is over. what does that actually look like? they haven't even really in earnest been talking about like peace negotiations because he said they want to wait to see how the ukrainian counteroffensive goes. that's a real question, right? it's neb our laos. it's uncertain. i don't think anybody thinks russia will pull out -- >> well, that won't happen. there is no off-ramp that putin sees that he has to take. look, this war is going to continue in some state for the very near future. there is no -- there is not going to be one discernible victor. there is not going to be a big parade at the end of this thing. i think there needs to be the recognition that 20% of ukraine has been lost to russia. is ukraine in a position to reclaim that? and the answer is, no. we are going to see the

counteroffensive. it's ongoing right now. there is very cautious action taking place on the ground. bear in mind over the course of the last six months russia has been able to put a defense in depth and the defense is the most difficult thing for military guys to attack into and through. so no magic going to occur on the battlefield. the only way that ukraine would be able to isolate russian forces, give them an incentive to leave, is if they could isolate, they could tie some tactical victories together, create operational maneuver and success and then russia would be isolated, ukraine could continue to slaughter -- i hate to use the term, but that's what needs to take place on these battlefields. that would need a heck of a lot more than what ukraine has right now. what ukraine has not been able to do -- and they have done magnificently. let's just put that out. we think zelenskyy is churchillian in terms of his

leadership. they have to create three-dimensional battlefield. they have not been able to do it. >> stay tuned to this meeting. expecting them to speak this hour. we will bring it to you live. let's bring in congresswoman madeleine dean of pennsylvania, member of the house foreign affairs committee, the house judiciary committee, which means you will have a busy moment at some point. i want to start on the foreign policy side of things. when you take a look at what is course of the last several days, how do you feel like the nato alliance is coming out of this? >> i feel like it's coming out very strong. i think about it and the conversations that are going on, the progress that has been made in the support of ukraine, the robust support of ukraine and how indispensable the united states and this administration have been in summoning the support of nations through sanctions or munitions and other humanitarian aid. so while i imagine that it's

extraordinarily frustrating for president zelenskyy not to have a roadmap and a calendar and timeline or invitation, i think it's understandable why we wouldn't want to invite now into nato as nato is growing and becoming more robust and more unified, because of article 5. we know all about that. an attack on one is an attack on all. i hope that we will do everything in our power to make ukraine successful, to win this war sooner rather than later, and then a clear path for ukraine to join nato. i have a lot of ukrainian-americans in my district and that is what they want, many of them want. >> you as a member of the house, you are going to have a role in ensuring or whether or not that's possible in terms of resources going forward. almost certainly there is going to be new funding that is necessary probably by the end of this fiscal year. it is a very different house of representatives than it was when

the last major funding package was passed. what do you think the chances are that a significant funding package for ukraine could get through on a supplemental? >> i believe it will happen. i think it's essential. what happens in ukraine matters to what happens around the world. we know that what russia has done is a series of war crimes in invading, attacking and slaughtering ukrainians and destroying property, of course. but as china is watching what happens we cannot let ukraine fail. ukraine must succeed. think of the courage of the people and the president there. we have to pass a strong supplemental over and over again until this is done. i know there are factions in the republican caucus that are noisy and are questioning and are actually saying very irresponsible things around support for ukraine and the operations that are going on there, but they are a minority and i believe they will be

drowned out. >> one the reasons i ask the question, and i feel like to some degree it's overstated at times in terms of the resistance and the scale of it, but it does have voices that are listened to, particularly inside the speaker's office, and part of the reason i ask, marjorie taylor greene had an amendment to the defense authorization act that would have pulled the u.s. out of the nato. you chuckle or think that's kind of crazy except she is a prominent figure inside the conference. >> think of how irresponsible that kind of an amendment is. think of how irresponsible when she said this was a proxy war, the united states is awaging. she is someone who really doesn't understand the constitution, her oath of office. just likes to throw bombs and raise money from that. i hope she will be more and more isolated in her conference and i call upon speaker mccarthy to do just that. >> i to want to ask you before i

let you go, you are on the judiciary committee, the fbi director testifies in an hour and 45 minutes. we were talking earlier on the show that there is kind of the show horse/workhorse mentality in a committee hearing. there is people doing it for the youtube clips and substantive things. are you concerned that this will entail no substance and will just turn into a political food fight as these often do? >> they often do. i have found in the new majority with chairman jordan, they have been very ineffective in the circus that they like to bring to down. >> how so? >> they have not gotten from their witnesses the stuff they want to get, is which is that president trump has been treated unfairly. what i would say is that president trump has been treated unfairly fair. what has happened in terms of oversight and, for example, mar-a-lago, it took 18 months, 19 months in order to get the documents back.

after he was asked over and over again. so i would say -- watch them today. i think they will be less effective than you think and i am confident that folks on our side of the aisle will take this seriously. we have a responsibility for oversight. mr. wray has some very important things if you read through his testimony to convey about the grave dangers around the world for our national security, criminal activity. congress has a role in play in oversight and also support. think also of the irresponsible nature of some of these. we had atf in front of us and it turned out that we had people like matt gaetz saying he wanted to defund atf. this show today will be about how do we undercut fbi. for all those folks who ran a couple of sessions ago or a couple of election cycles ago saying democrats want to defund the police, turns out these are the fellows who want to defund law enforcement agencies that are essential to keeping the american people safe.

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committee's criteria is out. the 1% threshold, photo-op former president, desantis, vivek ramaswamy and mike pence, chris christiehaleakala, tim scott, asa hutchinson. they are going to have 1%. they have to make 1% to other tional polls or 1% in two national polls and 1% in two early state polls and in addition they must receive donations from 40,000 individual donors. several have not met that threshold, including miami mayor francis suarez who is joining us now. you didn't make the first poll and your fundraising tweets suggest you are trying to reach the 40,000 donor threshold. do you plan on doing anything to get on the debate stage? >> i am sure we will get creative as well. i have said from the beginning that i agree with the threshold. and we will abide by whatever rules the republican party sets. i do think there should

abminimum criteria because time it valuable. this time with you is valuable to get my message out there. please go on my website www.francis suarez.com. if you like what you hear, donate a dollar. i think the republican party has tried to set a relatively low bar and tried to create a diverse candidate pool so that people have options. and i think that's what you would hope from a primary process and that's what i want to engage in. i hope i am gichk an opportunity to continue the conversation so people see why i am different and why i have something to offer that could be exciting for americans. >> a few weeks back you were caught off guard by a question during an interview about uighurs in china. here is the bite. >> will you be talking about the uighurs in your campaign? >> the what? >> the uighurs.

>> what's a uighur? >> you gave me homework. i'll look at what -- what is it? a weeble. >> you really need to know about the uighurs, mayor, you've got to talk about it every day. >> i will search uighurs. i am a fast learner. >> so after you said you didn't recognize the pronunciation of uighurs, china is a central part of any election. how would you address the issue with this predominantly muslim ethnic minority in china as president? >> i was definitely caught off guard. i am use to the turkish pronunciation, and it's spelled a little differently. absolutely i think, look, you know, human rights is an issue that we have to deal with as a country. just yesterday we had the two-year anniversary of the july 11 protests in cuba. that's in our own hemisphere. i think the u.s. president has

to address fundamental human rights abuses whether they be religious persecution, whether they be putting people like the uighurs in concentration camps where they are shot if they try to escape. but that should all be a part of our foreign policy. we are giving china trillion dollars of our wealth on a net annual basis. and i gave the key to the city enes kantor freedom a former nba player who criticized the nba for doing business with china and sort of not dealing with issues like the uighur issue, you know, i. it is important to talk about not just in china, in cuba and throughout the rest of the world, frankly. >> i want to ask you because where you are right now in your home state we are seeing record temperatures. we spoke with a cnn reporter in miami who described the extreme heat making the air drinkable and the ocean into a hot tub.

your city is not alone. more and more states are experiencing extreme temperatures. what exactly with would you do if you became president to combat climate change? >> i think you could look at what i have done. one of the things we have done in miami is we haven't put our head in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist. hurricanes are not republican or democrat. we have spent ttens of millions upgrading our infrastructure. we got upgraded by fema to actually make us less risky, which means that all of our citizens in the city of miami got a reduction of approximately 8% in their policies. so it's important for us to recognize the issue and i think this is where a mayoral personality when you are considering who should be the president of the united states, i was elected by 86% and re-elected by 80%. i know how to bring people together, unify people around solving issues. in washington we have very good at blaming other people,

fighting with each other, but we are not very good at solving issues. you have to confront the issues. you have to understand throut, not just in miami, we are seeing these climatic events that are devastating in nature. and we have to confront it head on as a country. >> i got to ask you before we let you go, donald trump's lawyers are asking to postpone the classified documents case, saying it would be unfair to him and the election process. as a candidate in the race would you want to see this trial take place before or after? >> you know, to be honest with you, i don't spend that much time thinking it. i will be in new hampshire on friday. i was in cedar rapids last week for july 4th. what people are telling me is that he they want to hear a plan for their future, a coherent vision for their future that is not toxic and that not falling into this sort of constant division. that's what they care about. they care about their children's

future. whether donald trump gets indicted, whether he gets convicted, when the trial is, those are not things they discuss with me and not the things i am focusing on. i am spending time with you trying to convince the american people that i am an option worth getting to know. >> you say the voters want it. your candidacy played into a testosterone primary taking a look at this tweet right here, what you recently tweeted. you told politico you are contemplating a shirtless advertisement. how does that help voters get to know you better? how does that fit into this coherent plan? >> i think voters want to know their candidate for president can handle the job. it's a very difficult job. right now if the status quo remains we will have a repeat of the 2020 election. where two candidates who are

getting very advanced in their age are going to be running against each other. i think what people want to see -- and we seen virality to the fact they can work hard, have the energy and strength to run this country, which is, you know, the most difficult government to run, the most difficult economy to run in the world and i think that's important for people to know. i think people, you know, listen, in a campaign that's as long as this is, as you imagine, there are things that you do that are fun, in jest, to tongue-in-cheek, meant to pro provoke discussion and conversation. that was one of those tweets. >> mayor francis suarez, thank you. >> thank you so much. thanks for the opportunity. in moments president biden and president zelenskyy will meet on the sidelines of the nato summit in lithuania. we will take you there live. plus --

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found in franklin's home. that's five things you need to know this morning. more on these stories on cnn and cnn.com and don't forget to download the five things podcast every morning. >> you download, right? >> of course. all right. new and very important this morning, a widespread hack auto including u.s. government email accounts. it affected accounts at two dozen organizations including some u.s. government agencies. u.s. officials and microsoft have been quietly scrambling for weeks to assess the impact and contain the fallout. sean, i think the immediate question i have is what agency did this actually start with and what's the overall scale of this? >> i am glad you asked what agency, phil. i was on the way over here. i heard from a source that president zero, the first agency to report this and report to microsoft was the state department. that makes sense from an espionage perspective that the chinese hacker go after

high-ranking officials to comb some of their emails for intelligence. i believe cnn was first to report that. it's one of several agencies we think have been hit by this. it seems to be a very targeted espionage campaign. they are not trying to sweep up random people's communications. it seems to be high-level people with -- that the chinese government would be interested in. >> is that rare? >> no. it's quite common. >> it's not always a broad kind of let's collect everything? >> the targeted aspect is pretty common because there are certain secrets that they are after that only certain people in the u.s. government are going to have and, hopefully, people are smart enough not to necessarily put those secrets in an email. this is on a declassified s system. you can gather a lot from emails, movements, who they are talking about. this is why journalists foia things and get an answer three years later. beijing can get an answer

quicker. so this a very much a developing situation. i would also add that the white house in their on the record statement last night to cnn and others you could tell there was a little bit of undercurrent of frustration with the fact that they had to report this to microsoft rather than vice versa. the biden administration has been pushing asian seas -- sorry, companies, software providers to improve their security to get a better handle on when vulnerabilities are exploited by hackers. microsoft is the most popular software company in the world. they have numerous users. so they have a very wide attack surface. that's why they are often targeted. in the first few months of the biden administration it was alleged chinese hackers that hit a different microsoft software and that caused a big hoopla in the administration. so there is a bit of a less patience here for this kind of vulnerability to go unnoticed.

>> all right. thank you. really important reporting. barely any sleep this one. bringing the reporting. and this just in. a key inflation report has been released. we will bring those numbers up next. plus, we are stand big in lithuania where president biden and president zelenskyy are set to speak moments from now. stay with us. this is your summer to smile. to raise your glass and reconnect. to reel in the fun and savor every bite. to help you get ready your aspen dental team is celebrating 25 years of affordable care with an epic summer of smiles event. don't miss enjoying a moment,

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we have got fresh economic data which makes she as happy as pamela was earlier. a key inflation report. rahel solomon joins us now. give it to me. i don't have it in my hands. you need you to walk me through this. >> i am going to assume -- >> serious. >> you were being serious. cooling and better than expected, phil and pamela, that is the headline from the report. and if you look at use futures, you get a sense of what the reaction is on wall street. dow futures popped 200 points after this.

3%. the index increasing 3% on an annual basis. it that is better than expected and month-over-month prices increased 0.2%. that is better than expected. inflation a different story. core inflation, guys, when you strip away energy and food, it gives you a better sense of underlying inflation, that index increased 4.8%. so why is this happening? you you look at the chart, that is 1.1% in june of last year. comparing price levels now to then, you can understand that it is a smaller increase, right. so you see a lower figure now. also got some help in categories on a monthly basis airline fares, they went down, used cars, those prices went down and household furniture. on an annual basis, gasoline, remember last year when prices were $5 a gallon? gasoline prices have come down. food prices not so much. shelter prices not so much. what does this mean for the fed? when they meet in two tweaks to

put this in context, we expect them to raise rates even with reports like this. the reason why is because remember their inflation target is 2%. even with 3% on the headline basis, 4.8% on the core basis we are still far from their target. >> this other story, bank of america forced to pay 200 million in fines over accusations they double dipped fees with credit card awards and opened accounts without consent. >> this is the nation's second largest bank. federal regulators say that this took place over several years, affected hundreds of thousands of consumers, hurt the credit scores of some people. the consumer financial protection bureau says if you feel like bank of america owes you, they should be reaching out to you. the agency said they are going to put on the website later this month a bank of america point person so you can reach out if you have questions or if you want to proactively find out. i should say that bank of

america said for the part in an email to cnn that we voluntarily reduced overdraft fees and eliminated non-sufficient fund fees in the first half of 2022 as a result of these industry-leading changes reavene has dropped 90 pirz. the agency saying if you think the bank owes you men, they should reach out to you. they will post on their website so you can reach out to them. >> i never joke or am sarcastic about economic data. >> okay. appreciate it. thanks. just a few minutes from now president biden and president zelenskyy will hold a bilateral meeting. arlette sainz is back from lithuania. what are we expecting to hear? >> reporter: well, pamela and phil, you know sometimes these summits can be delayed. right now we are waiting for president biden to appear at this event with g7 leaders. it is there we expect the g7 leaders will be rolling out some long-term security commitments

that they can each make to ukraine as they are trying to hope -- to provide ukraine with the ability to defend themselves, but also deter possible future attacks. now, this comes as there had been quite a bit of tension heading into this summit about the idea of ukraine looking for a pathway to membership with nato. ultimately, that is not something that the leaders gave zelenskyy a clear timeline on here at the sum anytime, but these announcements coming from the u.s. ander g7 allies are expected to give zelenskyy something to walk away with, some assurance that allies will be there for them in the long term. now, after this event with g7 leaders where the president is expected to speak we will a little bit later see president biden and zelenskyy sit down face to face. they already had a brief interaction earlier today as that ukraine nato council came together. that was the first time the two men interacted during the summit. as they sit down, it could give them an opportunity to talk about the differences that they

have about that pathway to membership. national security advisor jake sullivan earlier today said that president biden plans to be very straightforward in explaining why he took the position he did at this moment. he also wants to focus on listening to what zelenskyy needs right now. the u.s. of course has been one of ukraine's top providers of support and heading into this summit the president has really been trying to show that there is strength and unity within the nato alliance trying to send a clear message to russia. we will see president biden and zelenskyy in just the coming hours as they sit down face to face here at the summit. >> all right. thank you, arlette. we are agency keeping a close eye on this. our live coverage continues up next.. hows you your fico® score, you can get your credit card recomommendations, and it shows you ways to o save money. do so much more ththan get your fico® score. download the experian app n now.

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million people. these are the intellects, they have the money and intellectual mobility and the freedom and they departed ukraine. are they going to come back and invest in this rebuild? nobody knows that. their economy is in the tubes. is ukraine ready to be a full member of nato? the answer is no, they're not. >> jeremy, when you talk to white house officials, when you talk to folks, there's an ongoing counteroffensive, it might still be in the early stages, still probing, but it's been hard going. nobody denies that. ukrainians acknowledge that as well. have they seen anything from the white house perspective that gives them optimism that there could be a major breakthrough? >> not as of yet. this white house is willing to be patient with the ukrainians and understanding that the ukrainians are following a deliberate strategy with this

counteroffensive and they won't be knocked off. there is hope within the white house that the counteroffensive can make some progress. there's some understanding that it has not made the progress yet, which is part of the reason why we've seen these cluster bombs get sent out to the ukrainians and just a general concern of running out of munitions which is something the ukrainians are dealing with. i think they're optimistic about the prospects of the counteroffensive but they're also realistic about it. they'll do what they can to help. the ukrainians will always say this is not enough, this is not fast enough. that's ultimately at the center of some of the frustrations between the white house and the ukrainians is this notion that zelenskyy will always take a maximalist position, saying i need 120%, hoping he gets 60%. >> ukraine may not think the

summit is a success because they're not a member of nato, does the white house view is as a success? >> what's interesting going into these summits, so often white house officials know exactly how these summits will go. they know what the deliverables will be, they know what the agreements on the table will be. in this case, they weren't sure as of last week whether or not they would get sweden into nato during this summit. that's certainly a huge deliverable for the alliance and also going to go into the president's message that we'll hear in his speech today about expanding and strengthening nato certainly with this feather in his cap with sweden now. >> jeremy, general marks, appreciate you hanging out. "cnn news central" continues our live coverage after this quick break. and essential services of e every kind. all rurunning on countless invisible networks, making it a prime target for cyberattacks. but the same ai-powered security that protects all of google

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hello. thank you so. for being here. this is "cnn news central." we are standing by for a very important moment. maybe the most important meeting of this nato summit. the sitdown between president biden and ukrainian president zelenskyy. the military alliance, the nato military alliance and its leaders all gathering this morning in lithuania for the first-ever nato/ukraine council meeting. as the nato secretary-general put it this morning, today we meet as equals and i look forward to the day when we meet as allies. >> at any moment now we're expecting what the g7 members are calling a major announcement with ukraine. they're expected to offer additional assistance to the war-torn country in an effort to

boost ukraine's military capabilities. the major questions, what will the support for ukraine look like and will there be any movement towards ukraine's path towards membership in nato. u.s. officials have said ukraine will not be granted membership during this summit. the concern is if ukraine becomes a nato member now, that means they would be expected to fight in the war alongside ukraine. >> translator: and i believe that nato needs us just as we need nato. and i believe that this is absolutely fair. i am confident that after the war ukraine will be in nato. >> short of that ultimate goal for ukraine, the united states and other nato members are announcing huge military aid packages for ukraine at this summit. france, germany, norway among them and what's been dubbe