Biden to sign security agreement with Ukraine while at G7

Biden to sign security agreement with Ukraine while at G7

to our top story now President Biden is in Italy this morning for the first day of the G7 Summit moments ago he gathered with other leaders from the Group of Seven Nations for this year’s so-called family photo the president will now attend multiple working sessions throughout today afterwards he’ll meet with Ukrainian president volodimir zalinski and sign a 10-year security agreement between the US and Ukraine joining us now is NBC News White House correspondent Monica Alba she’s live in Bari Italy with more Monica what can you tell us well M this is set to be a very consequential meeting of these leaders where there is so much on the agenda perhaps at the very top of the list how to continue helping Ukraine in its defense against Russian aggression as that war stretches on for more than two years and we do expect that by the end of the next couple of days there will be some kind of agreement between the G7 leaders on how to help Ukraine get more military aid in the access of funding from seized Russian assets that have been frozen now there was a little bit of debate over exactly how to do that and whether that would be presented to Ukraine in the form of a loan that will be paid over some years based on the interest of those frozen assets so we expect those kinds of details the National Security adviser Jake Sullivan said that he does expect an outcome on that in the the coming hours but there is of course also the larger Dynamic right now of the shifting winds in European politics and the fact that when you look at those different leaders who greeted President Biden this morning in Fano many of them including President Biden himself may not be there at the next G7 Summit in 2025 there have been many of course questions about elections in the UK in France in Germany where many of these leaders have fairly low approval ratings and then of course President Biden is facing reelection in November so that is the overall backdrop to these conversations and the larger looming question of even if there are things that the leaders agree to and try to set into motion will some of those things be undone or incomplete because of whatever happens a year from now and then of course we expect that the leaders will also continue to discuss the potential ceasefire deal that President Biden and certainly other leaders internationally have been pushing for Hamas and Israel to accept to end the war in Gaza we expect there will be discussion of that in addition to countering China and specifically trying to issue Russian sanctions from the US against some china-based companies that are fueling the Russian war machine in Ukraine so those are some of the expected thorny issues and topics that the president will be discussing with leaders and then tomorrow he’s expected to meet with Pope Francis who is coming to the G7 in a historic manner to discuss the issue of artificial intelligence some of the advantages of the technology but also some of the dangers that it presents so a jam-pack couple of days here for the president in southern Italy will all right NBC’s Monica Alba in Bari Italy for us this morning Monica thanks so much uh so John the president running hot he’s he’s in Normandy for almost a week comes back for few days going back over to to Italy what does he hope to take away from this G7 what are the objectives that he may leave here in 3 days having achieved first of all not a bad place for a summit not looks looks pretty nice um there are a few things here as you say this is the second trip to Europe in a week Ukraine is at the Forefront here he’s and he’s going to meet with President zinsky later today actually the two men are going to hold a join press conference the president will take a few questions we should note this will be the first time he takes questions from reporter since the conviction of his son so there’ll be some probably some domestic matters that also get asked about there um but it’s about this deal here to open for Russian assets to help support Ukraine but part of the framework is to keep Aid to Ukraine going no matter what happens in a series of Elections this year we just saw the EU elections of course over the last couple of days the far right making some real gains and of course the November election the United States uh looms and there’s some hope here that commitments can be made to ensure that some us Aid will continue to Ukraine even if Donald Trump who is a Ukraine skeptic were to return to office and I also think this is this is the president’s last major Summit before the election and I think there’s going to be a note of reassurance as he tries to his fellow leaders as fellow leaders of democracies to say look you’re you can count on the United States we’re not going to go anywhere but we know there is rampant anxiety among those men and women that we’re seeing in this family photo about what a Donald Trump return would mean how he has threatened alliances before how he has said that he wants a more isolationist foreign policy uh so this is President Biden trying to say to them look I can’t guarantee the future but we we we are Americans certainly if I win again we can do this but even if I don’t there’ll be a way to keep America involved but it’s a it’s a real sort of sort of anxiety uh filled Summit right now there in Italy you know um Steve Ratner we’re going to be talking about this a little bit later but it’s fascinating that this G7 Summit uh takes place against the backdrop of the strongest US economy relevant of the rest of the world and than than there there’s been in decades I mean we had a report yesterday that the world economy is doing okay thanks in large part because of the unexpected strength of the US economy the as World Bank said the impressive US economy is powering the world uh impressive resilience growth buoyant and the teeth of the fiercest monetary policy tightening in four decades strongest dollar in almost half a century uh so that’s the backdrop of Joe Biden there uh about how we’re powering the world right now with our strong economy also though as you look at those pictures I’m curious your thought you you have of course the chancellor of Germany uh who who who just suffered uh a blow with the far right in Germany uh doing so well in the EU elections blow to his reputation his party’s reputation of course uh the same with especially um but fascinating the one person who did well is actually uh Maloney and her party who when she came in was perceived to be uh a a enemy of the EU a farri uh extremist uh because of her party’s roots with musolini uh but she’s ended up actually being really pragmatic on the world stage talk talk about that talk about the economy and just your general feeling about where Europe is right now uh you’re you’re exactly right Joe first excuse me on the Maloney Point she is the only member of the G7 who has a higher approval rating than Joe Biden but she’s still at 41% and when you look across the EU as you said you see leader after leader country after country where you’re looking at approval ratings for their leaders at 24% 28% in the 30s uh rishy sunak who you didn’t mention but I’m sure you were thinking about is has a snap ction coming in July and by all accounts he is going to get wiped out and it could be one of the largest majorities for labor in a long time and I think it does relate to a considerable extent to the whole growth picture uh We’ve grown over 9% in total our economy since the pandemic started Canada is at 5 something and everybody in Europe is at 1 23% and I and so you so the elections last weekend shouldn’t have been a total surprise in the sense that Europe is really really struggling uh econ ically including and indeed especially Germany which has of course been the PowerHouse of Europe for so many decades but between the impact of the Ukraine war and the fact that Germany is a major exporter to China and all of that is now under a lot of pressure it is a really really difficult uh time for Germany so Europe as a whole uh as a I think a mix of the effect of the War uh which is something but not the only thing but frankly Simply Having economies that have just not performed well over a long period of time they don’t have the flexibility of our economy they don’t have the productivity look what’s going on in AI for example at the moment we dominate AI there’s one company in France and a couple in the UK that are in kind of in the in the mix on AI but but everybody else in Europe is just not present and that is potentially a huge driver of future growth there’s simply a set of economies that have not delivered for their citizens and therefore the citizens are taking to The Ballot Box in a way that that is very very scary to all the rest of us I’ve got to say also there is a reality and there was an ft article about this a couple of months ago there is a new reality that approval ratings don’t line up with victories or losses at polls as much as they used to and of course the greatest example of that would be mcon who was sitting in the low3s to the mid-30s and approval ratings in France before he had his election against Leen and then he ended up with about 58% so so there there is I there there’s angst Across the Western World um and it is driving approval ratings of all leaders down for sure

President Joe Biden will sign a new security agreement with Ukraine on Thursday to pledge America’s long-term support to the country during the G7 in Italy. The Morning Joe panel discusses.

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