we will not waiver. i mean that. our commitment to ukraine will not weaken. we will stand for liberty and freedom today, tomorrow, and for as long as it takes. we all want this war to end on just terms. terms of all the basic principles of the united nations charter that we all signed up to. sovereignty, territorial integrity. these are two pillars of peaceful relations among nations. one country cannot be allowed to seize its neighbor's territory by forceful russia could end this war tomorrow by withdrawing its forces on ukraine. recognizing the international borders and ceasing attacks, the

inhumane attacks against ukraine, against the women and children, military. unfortunately, russia has shown thus far no interest in the diplomatic outcome. putin still wrongly believes that he can outlast ukraine. he can't believe it is their land, their country, and their future, and even after all this time, putin still doubts our staying power. he is still making a bad bet that the conviction and the unity among the united states and our allies and partners will break down. he still doesn't understand our commitment, our vows, our freedom, it is something we can never, ever, ever walk away from. it is who we are. i mean it. it is who we are. it is who we are. throughout this horrific war, the people of lithuania together with our baltic brethren have been among the most fierce

champions of a future of their own choosing. one that is free. you live so long with freedom denied. many of you who are older know better than anyone how precious the right to determine your own future is. precious to people everywhere. everywhere. not just ukraine. belarus, moldova, georgia. all the places where people continue to fight to make their voices heard. so my message, my message to all of you tonight is keep it up. keep it going. keep reminding the world of hope that lithuanian embodies, hope. it's hope. i really mean it. i'm not joking. i mean this sincerely. we must never forget how much this matters. and never, never give up on a better tomorrow. the defense of freedom is not the work of a day or a year. it's the calling of our lifetime. of all time.

we are steeled for the struggle ahead. our unity will not falter. i promise you. folks, as i look around the world today, at a moment of war and peril, a moment of competition and uncertainty, i also see a moment of unprecedented opportunity. unprecedented opportunity. opportunity to make real strides for a world of greater peace and greater prosperity. liberty and dignity. equal justice under the law. human rights and fundamental freedoms which are the blessing and birth right of all of humanity. that. that is the world the united states is working toward. it is one we'll only reach if we do it together. i mean together. we need to take the same spirit of unity. the common purmt. that we've demonstrated in response to the aggression

against ukraine and bring more partners along as we continue to build the world we want to live in and a world we want for our children. my friends, the most fundamental level we face a choice. it's not hyperbole. we face a choice. the choice between the world defined by coercion and exploitation, where might makes right. or a world where we recognize that our own success is bound to the success of others. when others do better, we do better as well. when we understand that the challenges we face today of an existential fight of climate change, where no one gets left behind, are too great for any one nation to solve on their own and that, to achieve our goals and meet the challenges of this age, we have to work together. and i mean this sincerely. the world is changing. we have a chance to change the dynamic. that's why i've been so focused as president to rebuild the

alliances that are the cornership of leadership in the world. this last year we brought the transatlantic partnership to new heights. an anchor to global stability. the idea that the united states could prosper without a secure europe is not reasonable. we've also elevated -- it really isn't. not a joke. [ applause ] we all celebrate to deep yep the lines in the indo-pacific, australia, the philippines, which provide critical security and deterrence in that vital region of the world. through our quad partnership, a fancy way of saying our partnership with australia, india, japan and the united states, we're bringing major democracies of the region together to cooperate, keeping the indo-pacific free and open, prosperous and secure.

we've demonstrated during this nato summit with indo-pacific partners joining us for the second year in a row. we're working to deepen connection between the atlantic and the pacific democracies so they can better work together toward the shared values we all seek. strong alliances, versatile partnerships, common purpose, collective action to meet our shared challenges. the world has shrunk. that's how we build a future. we share and know we share challenges and work together. we have to step up together, building the broadest and deepest coalition to strengthen and defend the basic rules of the road. to preserve all the extraordinary benefits that stem from the international system grounded in the rule of law. we have to come together to protect rights and freedoms, to underright the flow of ideas and commerce which have enabled

decades of global growth. yes, territorial integrity and sovereignty, but also principles like freedom of navigation and overflight, keeping our shared seas and skies open so every nation has equal access to our global common sense. as we continue to explore new possibilities, an age enabled by rapid advances in innovation, we have to stand together and ensure that the common spaces of our future reflect our highest aspirations for ourselves and for others. as my dad would say, everybody deserves dignity. with artificial intelligence, engineering, biology, and other emerging technologies are not made into weapons of oppression but rather used as tools of opportunity. working with our allies and partners to build a supply chain that is more resilient, more secure so we never again face the situation like we had during

the pandemic where we couldn't get critical goods we needed for our daily lives. you know, we all must summon a common will to actually address existential threat of accelerating climate change. it's real. it's serious. we don't have a lot of time. it is the single greatest threat to humanity. so only by working together that we'll prevent the worst consequences of climate change from ravaging our future and that of our children and grandchildren. we have to recognize our shared responsibility to help unlock the enormous potential that exists in low and middle income company around the world. not out of charity but because it is in our own self-interests. we all benefit when more partners stand together working toward shared goals. we all benefit when people are healthier and morehyperbole.

it's true. we all benefit when more entrepreneurs and innovators are able to pursue their dreams for a better tomorrow. we need to update our tool set. better address the needs of today in this interconnected world. a world where climate disasters, pandemics, conflicts, spill over borders and make it harder to address the challenges of poverty and instability that hold so many people back. that's why the united states is leading the effort to transform a multilateral development bank like the world bank. help them better address the global challenges while enhancing the core mission of reducing poverty and boost shared prosperity. we're all working together with our partners of the g-7 to address the enormous needs for high infrastructure around the world. especially in latin america, and southeast asia. a statement about the world we want to build together.

ladies and gentlemen, we stand at an inflection point. the inflection point in history where the choices we make now are going to shape the direction of our world for decades to come. the world has changed. will we turn back, naked unchecked aggression today to deter other world would be aggressors tomorrow? will we staunch the climate crisis before it's too late? will we harness the new technologies to advance freedom or will we diminish it?e opport more places or allow instability and equality to persist? how we answer these essential questions will literally determine the kind of future our children and grandchildren have. that's not an exaggeration. that's a fact. it will take all of us. all of us. i believe ambition, confidence

in ourselves, and one another, with nations working together for a common cause. we can answer these questions. we can ensure the vision we share, the freedom we cherish are not just empty words in a troubled time but a road map. i mean this literally. a road map. a plan of urgent action toward a future we can reach and reach if we work together. folks, the road before us is hard. it will challenge some of the best of ourselves. the hold faith in one another. never lose hope. never. every day we have to make the choice. every day we must summon the strength to stand for what is right, to stand for what is true, to stand for freedom, to stand together. that my friend is a lesson we learned from history and the history of lithuania's story. it is the lesson we see

demonstrated each day and it will determine what ukraine looks like. and it's now, how we are going to work. how we rewrite hope, possibility for everyone. everyone everywhere. folks, some have heard me say in my country many times. never, ever in my entire career been more optimistic about the prospects of the future. never. never. let me say thank you for taking the time to be here to listen. god bless you all and may god protect the freedoms in ukraine, here, and every nation of the world, everywhere. god protect our future. thank you, thank you.

>> we just heard very, very strong words from the president of the united states. president biden, wrapping up a very dramatic nato summit right here in vilnius, lithuania. i'm wolf blitzer. i have a team of cnn reporters joining me now. natasha, you listened very closely. to me it wasn't just a speech about ukraine and nato. this was a global speech. he addressed a lot of international issues. >> a very wide ranging speech ranging from issues like climate change to of course, the unity of the g-7 and nato. the overarching theme were freedom and unity and that is what he sought. it was very optimistic, actually. he laid out all of these challenges is world is facing but ultimately he said he believes that the allies with the united states will be able

to come together and successfully solve some of these major, major challenges. in terms of what stood out to me about ukraine, he did say again that the u.s. stands with ukraine for as long as it takes. and that is a really key commitment here. as we know, that is getting tougher and harder for the u.s. especially given the shortages that we're seeing and the supplies the u.s. is supplying. namely ammunition. that's why the president decided to green light cluster munitions to ukraine. he said the u.s. is running low on ammunition to provide to the country. that doesn't seem to be deterring the tuesday. he said they stand with ukraine for as long as it takes. notably he did not mention ukraine's place in nato. he decided to let the day's events speak for itself. the message was still very clear and it was unmistakable. that the u.s. views the fight between russia and ukraine as a fight between freedom and

authoritarianism, and something that goes beyond, of course, just the borders of ukraine. there is an existential question for the future of europe. for the future of democracy. so i think that that is the message that he sought to drive home here. and this is all in continuation of the message he was sharing today while he was at nato and the conversations that he had with other leaders. clearly this is not a fight. the war in ukraine, that they are going to abandon any time soon. >> i wrote it down. he said our unity will not falter. so critically important to have a unified nato alliance, g-7, e.u., all of that, the president was talking about because it is so critically important to ukraine right now as well. you're there over at the university where the president just spoke. he was very well received by that crowd that had gathered there. this was clearly a very confident president biden. he stressed this isn't just

about what is happening in ukraine. truly, he said it is an historic show of unity that is key to future global stability. talk a little about that. >> reporter: president biden was really trying to drive home with this speech that the u.s. and its allies remain unified around ukraine. he said we will not waiver and stress that had they were in it for the long haul to make sure they support them. he was also trying to address the unity of the alliance. a key theme here throughout this time in vilnius. he said it has become stronger, more energized and more united. president biden and his team really feel the president has been a leader in the reinvigoration. nato alliance. that it took some hits in previous years in the previous administration. the president has sought as he is here to try to bring the nato allies together. not only to strengthen their own defense initiatives and priorities, but also to throw

their back in behind ukraine. the president also sends a very strong message to vladimir putin saying he made a bat bet by going into ukraine. that he thought leaders would waiver. that they would break. but they were wrong. i think it speaks to the broader global view that president biden has about his foreign policy. he was trying to stress that fighting for freedom is not just something they're doing for a few days or weeks or months but it is the calling of a lifetime. he was trying to stress how the unity the world has seen have come together to support ukraine. that'll that is unity that will be carried out to other issues including climate change and technology. i was struck by one line that he said. he said it is clear there is a choice in this world that could be defined by coercion and exploitation, where might makes right, or where a world where people recognize their own successes hinge on other

successes as well. the president really trying to spread this message of unity and working to collaboratively claus the world to try to solve major issues. not just when it comes to ukraine. not just when it comes to strengthening the alliance. it speaks to his global view of the way global freedom and democracy can work across the world. >> i want to you stand by. alex is there. is that meeting with zelenskyy and others, this summit clearly sees nato expanding by one. talking about sweden. the underlying message from the president of the united states that vladimir putin's invasion has back fired. listen to this. >> i want to thank all americans. we understand it is more than,

it is big support. i understand that it is all your money. you have to know that you spend this money for not just fighting. you spend this money for our lives. >> all right. you're there inside ukraine right now. give us a sense of how the people where you are. the ukrainians, are reacting to this message coming from nato and the president of the united states. >> i think it will be very well received. this was a rallying cry for nato, for europe to essentially stay the course and to keep supporting ukraine. the president highlighting how long the nato alliance has been supporting ukraine. all the weapons they have sent here. this does come at a critical moment. we are coming up on 17 months of this war. the counteroffensive that was launched about a month ago has

made no major gains. it is quite slow going. there is concern, certainly among ukrainians, among the ukrainian leadership, that that could lead to fatigue. that could lead to a lack of interest. a lead to a fracturization of the nato alliance, and that is certainly something that ukraine is fighting hard against. we know from president biden and others who have said that president putin of russia certainly believes it is in his interests to wait this out. this was a rallying call and a reminder, not just to ukraine and to the rest of the nato alliance but to russia that the alliance is standing firm. i do think that it was notable that there wasn't more of a mention of ukraine. no more direct mentions of what happened over the past two days at the summit in vilnius. the parallels were certainly

unmistakable. the president opening this speech talking about the independence of lithuania and the rest of the baltic states, throwing off the yolk of the soviet union saying the u.s. never supported attacking the baltic states. he did speak about the lithuanians saying they are a proud member of the e.u. and nato. but more than that, they were thinking, we would like to be members of the european union and nato. there was one slip that i thought was rather interesting. he talked about the 33 free-standing members. ukrainians would like that to be the case. currently as you said, there are 31, soon to be 32 with sweden. ukraine certainly disappointed that at the end of the vilnius summit, that there was no more concrete timetable for ukraine to join the nato alliance. they certainly did receive very strong and robust assurances

both for the short term and the long term in terms of economic support, military support. and president biden was trying to remind the world that will certainly continue from the u.s. side. wolf? >> yeah. the u.s. military support going to new levels right now with the cluster bombs that have now been approved. f-16s, the pilots are training for the u.s. fighter jets. the very sophisticated fighter jets and an enormous amount that is still going, flowing in as it begins and launches against the russians. lots going on. back to washington right now. now more news. guys? take it away. >> all right. thank you. we're joined by "washington post" columnist josh roggin and military analyst, retired colonel cedric lleyton.

one, to russia, you made a bad bet and the u.s. and western allies have ukraine's back even as we've seen as times volodymyr zelenskyy oscillating between no patience for the time line for getting into nato and the appreciation of everything the western allies have given him. >> i think it was very interesting to see that. what president biden was chaneling here was the patience the united states ended up showing in the cold war. if you remember during the colder with a, we spent all the time from 1945 to 1989 basically holding course, even though there were some deviations during that period. the basic idea was we will do what we need to do too confront the old soviet union. that same message is what's going on now from biden to putin. he's saying, at this point in time, we are standing with ukraine. that's the conflict between

russia and the rest of the world and we'll make sure that russia doesn't go forward and use aggressive tendencies against other countries. particularly against nato members. >> the soviet comparison is not unwarranted since putin is trying to claw back some of the old pieces of the soviet union. the ukrainian president knew going into this summit that ukraine would not suddenly be entered into the alliance. they knew that going in. obviously, they want to get there as quickly as possible. i wonder, based on the assurances they receive, the framework for the eventual someday joining the alliance, is ukraine any closer today than it was last week? do they have any greater security guarantees for that path going forward today than they did last week? >> well, jim, i think from the ukrainians' point of view, the security guarantees are the weapons. when they get more weapons, that's security.

when they get less weapons, that's less security. all of this nato membership, plan, discussion, a council, a committee about the council, there is a statement that was negotiated behind the scenes. it really doesn't make a difference on the battlefield. of course, zelenskyy will push for that. the cluster bombs, that's security for a lot of ukrainians. if they get the planes, that will be security. so i think one of the things that we're missing from president biden's otherwise well received speech and for ukrainians would be some sort of idea of whether or not that support is coming and whether or not that support will be sustainable. not just for europeans but for americans who are becoming more and more weary of the project. the expensive project in ukraine. >> did the cluster bombs, the decision is one the u.s. made over its allies. and again the frustration from

zelenskyy knowing their political sensitivities of that. josh, where do you see broadly where we are and where this speech is marking? are we here on the precipice or in the middle of another cold war? >> right. i thought it was very interesting when president biden that, we stand at an inflection point in history. that is very similar to the words that chinese president xi jinping used when talking to russian president vladimir putin during his last trip to moscow. there seems to be an agreement that what happened in ukraine doesn't stay in ukraine. and president biden said we have to stop today's aggressors to deter would be aggressors tomorrow. he didn't name china but he's talking about china and the very real possibility that china could attack taiwan. this is a nato strug and china.

he doesn't have to make that argument to lithuanians. they already agree with that. i think americans are the ones he's trying to convince. why did the soviet union fall? a lot of reason but mostly because we outspent them. and why is lithuania free? because the soviet union fell. so some of those lessons are being taken into account. >> i was listening to what they say when you talk about putin or biden. they framed this conflict as being not just about ukraine but being a global stand-off between competing systems, authoritarian, with the potential flash point not just in ukraine but in taiwan. is that the new world we're living in? did this 30-year period, that the post-war era is over? >> that period from '89 until

about now was basically an aberration in historical terms. there has always been some type of conflict, some type of competing blocks of nations. i think the kind of thing that we're seeing is that the blocks are forming. they've already formed. russia and china on one side of the table. the united states and democracy on the other side of the table. whether we like it or not, that's the way this conflict will unfold and ukraine is just the first battled ground of this time. >> if you look at history, and lis history doesn't always have to be the guide but when you have these blocs, they're talking about ways to avoid that eventuality. >> very important. colonel, thank you so much. josh, thank you so much as well. ahead here, republicans on the hill are ramping up their efforts to undermine the fbi

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spying in a presidential campaign for the raiding of a former president's home. >> wray, of course, was fbi director under trump as well. regardless, our reporter is on capitol hill. christopher wray had to have his team prepare him for exactly these kinds of charges in this hearing here. how has he been responding? >> reporter: well, wray was clearly trying to push back on some of the conspiracy-related claims that were being thrown at him. but also, trying to be as forthcoming as possible with the committee's questions. even though a lot of the questions were related to investigations that were ongoing. i want to point out that the hearing kicked off with jim jordan, the chairman of the committee launching a wide array of attacks against fbi leadership, including allegations that the fbi helped suppress the hunter biden laptop story in 2020, as well as claims that whistleblowers in the fbi

were retaliated against, and other questions about the handling of the fbi strategy on threats to school boards. we also heard a lot of republicans allege that wray has lost the trust of people within the fbi. that's something that wray pushed back on by saying, in recent years, actually, applications to the fbi have gone up. let's listen to that exchange. >> people trusted the fbi more when j. edgar hoover was running the fbi than you are. >> respectfully, congressman, in your home state of florida, the number of people applying to come work for us and devote their lives working for us is up over 100%. >> and i think another notable moment from that hearing today was when republican th massey questioned wray about the pipe bomb found at the dnc in

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of people assaulting the capitol. why are gop lawmaker zeroing in on that? >> reporter: that's a good question. i think there have been some claims and allegations, of course, unverified, around the motivations of that pipe bomb. and i think a key thing here is that republicans are angry that there hasn't been more information. and they also were clearly pressing wray on why have they not been able to share information, both with congress and the american public. and identify a suspect at this time. but again, wray said that this was an ongoing investigation. he really couldn't provide more information beyond that. >> thanks so much. i do want to bring in cnn security correspondent josh campbell who spent years as a supervisory agent at the fbi. one consequence of the former president's attacks on the fbi as well as gop lawmakers now is

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following today's report right now. as you see right there looking at the dow. up 135 points. the nasdaq up 173. we have cnn's jeremy diamond here with us in house no less to talk about these numbers. obviously welcome news. >> you will hear this over and over again. biden-omics in action. year over year, 3%. just up 0.2% month over month. this is positive news. for the economy, for the white house as well, and potentially for the president's re-election prospects. if you look at the change year over year, so there is past three months, month over month, 0.2%. if you look at the last year, year and a half, when you look at how far we've come down from that 9% peak. it really does peak. over the last 12 months we've seen straight declines in

inflation. now what we're seeing is wages are also outpacing inflation. and for the white house, that leads to americans starting to feel the fact that inflation is coming down that much more. >> so it should be great politically. and yet there is always this thing which frustrates every president, there is a disconnect between how americans are actually feeling about the economy and these numbers. >> yeah. and that's why you saw a couple weeks ago the u.s. launched this biden-omics economic push. it is trying to convince americans that the economy is actually starting to do well. this white house is increasingly convinced, they can hit the soft landing. the question is can you flip the numbers? most americans feel negative about the economy about, the president's handling of the economy. but surprisingly, that should feel more or less positive about their personal finances in certain surveys. we'll see if the white house can flip those numbers.

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abortion. that's the shades of orange on this map. governor kim reynolds said she'll sign a bill banning abortion at six weeks. iowa is the first of the nation state, so relevance in the 2024 presidential race, but broadly for republicans nationally. six weeks is not a position that most people in the country support. >> without a doubt. public opinion polls in iowa and across the country show that the vast majority of americans support some type of abortion rights. six weeks is not among that. governor kim reynolds who called this special session is behind this drive. she'll be signing this bill into law friday, the same day most of the republican candidates will be in iowa for a forum with evangelical voters, except for donald trump. he's an outlier here.

he supported limiting abortion rights, but has not put a number on it. that's the question here going into the campaign. is this going to box in republicans, including nikki haley and others, who didn't want to support something as extreme. mike pence put out a statement earlier today. he's supportive of this six-week ban. he believes it's necessary. this is one of the state by state decisions that is in the wake of supreme court decision last year. the bigger question is the federal ban. some republican candidates have been supportive of that. the point of the supreme court ruling was to send it back to the states. this is what governor reynolds is signing on friday. we'll see if it holds up in the courts. >> it's up to the state promise disappeared quite quickly in republican politics. we've seen legal challenge toss laws such as this one. is there one in the works in iowa and is it one that has a

chance of success? >> planned parenthood is saying they plan to file some type of court intervention asking for courts to intervene before the friday signature. the minute the gfovernor signs this into law it takes effect immediately. this was a original law passed in 2018 and the courts blocked this. what has happened since then is the supreme court decision and the iowa court said the legislature had to revote on it. that's what the governor did. the legal action is coming. many states have blocked this temporarily with legal action. we'll see how it plays out. politically speaking, injected right into the campaign. the bigger question in a general election setting. this is squarely on the opposing side of the majority of public opinion. >> by the way, in recent poling. on the opposite side of public opinion in the state of iowa.

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