For analysis of President Biden's trip abroad this week and the 2024 presidential race,

we turn now to the analysis of Brooks and K-PART, that's New York Times columnist David

Brooks and Jonathan K-PART, associate editor for the Washington Post.

It's good to see you both.

And looking back at the week that was, President Biden notched a number of wins this past

week in Europe.

He celebrated some major breakthroughs at the NATO summit.

He was able to showcase his devotion to diplomatic engagement.

What were your takeaways from the trip starting with you, David?

Well, you know, when he was President Donald Trump said that NATO was obsolete, and that

wasn't a totally crazy position that seemed to be like we had it for the Cold War, what

do we need now?

Well, we've learned why it's not obsolete anymore.

And Biden has really pinion his presidency around this idea that we're in a contest between

authoritarian governments and democratic governments.

And he really has used a lot of different meetings with India and with others to try to advance

the democratic sides' cause, and no week was bigger than this one.

Getting Sweden in over the previous objections of Turkey was significant.

Getting more commitments for Ukraine was significant.

The slowly developing consensus that Ukraine is not going to join NATO now, but after the

war is over, it probably will.

That's also significant.

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