will was signed by franklin and shows her intent. that s it for us. the news continues. the source with kaitlan collins starts now. tonight, straight from the source, a 2024 republican candidate for president who also happens to be a key witness in jack smith s january 6th investigation. former vice president mike pence is here live. and few republicans are now defending senator tommy tuberville after our explosive interview last night. what alabama s senior senator is now saying tonight about white nationalists. plus, she was originally sentenced to death. then supposed to spend life behind bars. now a follower of charles manson has just been freed more than i ahalf century after two gruesome murders. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. tonight we have news on three separate investigations with donald trump at the center of them all. in georgia a grand jury has now been formally sworn in in fulton county. that is the grand jury that could decide to bring mor
tonight straight from the source. we have exclusive new information on the january 6th investigation. special counsel jack smith has another key witness and she s about to join us live. plus, the fbi director coming face to face with some of his harshest critics during what turned out to be a tense hearing on capitol hill. blasting republican claims of bias against conservatives as, quote, insane. some democrats didn t give him a pass either and a lawmaker who was there will join us. also, menning fences. a high stakes sitdown between president biden and president zelenskyy ending on a high note tonight after tensions have been simmering about nato membership. how were they able to smooth things over? a top white house official will tell us about it. i m kaitlan collins. this is the source. tonight we have cnn exclusive reporting. the special counsel s team that is investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election has now interviewed michigan secretary of state jocely
along with joe, willie and me, we have pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. and president emeritus of the council on foreign relations, richard haass, back with us this morning. he somehow becomes even more distinguished. he does. amazing. erudite is the word that come comes to mind. yes. willie, we ll get to the whistleblower that comer couldn t find, and then must be humiliated, as they found him in the southern district of new york. oh boy. oh no. a spy or something like that. we ll get to the details in a little bit. seriously, the gang that couldn t shoot straight, they keep getting the political gun, aiming it right at their foot, right? it s absolutely crazy. willie, last night, of course, midsummer, one of the most fun annual traditions, not joey chestnut eating nathan s hot dog eating contest for the 16th time. 16th time, you have to love the guy. the home run derby last night, how exciting?
nation. zelenskyy says when? the lead starts right now. let me in the message from the ukrainian president who showed up at the nato summit, cheered on in a city square as he pushed to join the international alliance. his criticism about the process as russian strikes were hitting his cities back hoeme. and will donald trump be indicted a third time? today a new grand jury was selected to decide just that while a different federal grand jury in d.c. is also hard at a work. plus do you believe that white nationalists are racist? yes, if that s what racist is, yes. it s not really a difficult question. white nationalists are racists. that s what the term means and yet senator tommy tuberville of alabama keeps making a spectacle of himself and his struggle with trying to discuss this issue. he just gave yet another answer on the topic. welcome to the lead , i m jake tapper. we start with the world lead in one of the most consequential gatherings. today the alliance
york. you get up to 8 inches in some of these communities. that s a summer s worth of rain that they got in a single day, no surprise we are talking about major flooding when you look at some of those issues. now, all of that rain has now settled up in the vermont area where folks as we speak so far today have seen anywhere from 4 inches to 6 inches of rain. those are the areas where the rain is continuing to fall. hardest hit areas yesterday now clearing off and that rain has lifted further to the north. upstate new york seeing very heavy rain. northern vermont, new hampshire. areas where this rain is still falling as we speak. flooding likely still going to be an issue as we watch this entire system drift off further to the north. we are still under an extreme flood threat across the entire state of vermont. all the way through today. taking you into tomorrow morning. and that s how long it s going to take for this big rain system to eventually move its way out of this regi