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The Fox News Rundown

From Washington: Ukraine's Path To NATO

The Fox News Rundown

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3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

NATO leaders welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Lithuania this week, 16 months after Russia's invasion. President Zelenskyy voiced his frustration with the lack of a clear timeline for his country's entry into the alliance. Many U.S. lawmakers have raised concerns regarding the possibility of Ukraine's membership in NATO, fearing it will only escalate tensions with Russia and bring the alliance closer to conflict. Ukraine's Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova discusses her takeaways from the NATO summit, concerns over the use of controversial cluster munitions, and bipartisan support she's received from lawmakers for U.S. budget assistance to Ukraine. After a ​four-year term, United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley will retire in the fall of 2023, leaving a vacant spot to be appointed by the President and passed by the Senate. However, this position along with many other military positions is held up in the Senate by one Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who is protesting the Pentagon's policy that helps reimburse servicemembers for abortion costs if they traveled to a legal state to access one. FOX News National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin reveals what we know about the possible new Joint Chief of Staff General Charles Q. Brown, details what other military positions that have been on hold, and explains what needs to happen in order to fill these senior spots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Saturday, July 15, 2023, I'm Jared Halpern. Ukraine isn't invited to join NATO yet, but

0:12.1

secures new support from Western allies, including the Biden administration.

0:16.7

We'll continue doing it as soon as possible, but the actual timeline I think we'll have to,

0:22.4

we'll have to see. I'm Jessica Rosenthal. It won't last forever, but a Republican

0:27.1

Senator's block on military promotions is leaving senior positions unfilled, and may even

0:33.2

impact the next joint chief's chairman as the current one retires.

0:37.4

It's quite embarrassing to see this game of this showdown and sort of brinksmanship that

0:43.0

Senator Tuberville is able to hold up, you know, 250 people's lives, the families of these

0:49.5

military people. This is the Fox News rundown from Washington.

1:03.9

It's not a question of if anymore. Ukraine's future is in NATO, a joint statement by the leaders

1:10.3

of all 31 NATO nations made that clear during this past week's NATO summit in Lithuania.

1:16.8

I look forward to the day when we're having the media celebrate in your official

1:21.7

official membership in NATO. That was President Biden's message to Ukrainian President

1:26.8

Volodomor Zelensky. Zelensky arrived at the summit in Vilnius, frustrated, he said, by a lack

1:32.6

of a timetable for his country's membership, though by summit's end, Ukraine had new and long

1:38.0

standing security and economic assistance guaranteed not just by NATO, but by the G7 as well.

1:45.3

Ukraine and delegation use bringing home significant security victory for the Ukraine,

1:51.1

for our country, for our people, for our children. It opens for us absolutely new security

1:58.2

out of the unit is. This week cluster bombs, munitions banned by more than 100 nations,

2:03.8

including many in NATO, arrived in Ukraine, supplied by the U.S., a new addition to Ukraine's

2:10.4

western-backed arsenal. All of it welcomed news to Zelensky's government, which is represented

2:16.2

here in Washington by Ukraine's ambassador, Oksana Marcarova. I spoke with her at the conclusion

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