summit. as ukraine is pushing to join the alliance, cnn is on the ground in lithuania where the president and key u.s. allies are preparing for their high-stakes talks. also tonight, new developments in the trump classified documents indictment. the trump team now facing a deadline to weigh in on the timing of the trial. this as the former president s co-defendant is accused of unnecessary delay by the special counsel. and parts of the northeastern united states are swamped by historic flooding, a once in a thousand-year rainfall swallowing cars in west point, new york. i ll speak with the new york governor, kathy hochul. this hour we ll discuss the state s emergency response. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, on the eve of a pivotal nato summit, we re learning that ukrainian president zelenskyy plans to make a personal appeal on ukraine s bid to join the alliance. he ll atte
shot on the doorstep. a teenager is shot twice, once in the head after he mix up over a wrong address. we re learning new details about the homeowner who was then released by police, and now the community is demanding justice. just shattered. dave ill. alabama mourns the four victims of a shooting at a sweet 16 birthday party. the number of people injured is just staggering. 28 wounded but still no announced suspect as a small town waits to learn what could have caused such chaos, plus deal or no deal. the blockbuster trial of dominion versus fox news delayed by one day. so does that mean a settlement is in the works? or are the two sides going to trial with more than a billion dollars at stake following these major developing stories, and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. justin we have new details on the man who shot a 16 year old boy in missouri. this as calls for justice ring loud on the streets of kansas city. hundreds marching after a 16 year old
there are already two trial dates conflicting with the gop primaries. help us wrap our heads around the challenges of these overlapping time lines. and those trial dates aren t even what kaitlan was just talking about. those are separate issues having to do with defamation case, et cetera. it s very clear that with those cases, there s a two-prong political strategy. the legal strategy is one thing, but just the political strategy because of where we see the political calendar there. and that is to delay and if delay isn t possible, to use it as a way to play the victim card. and we have seen according to pretty much every single poll starting when the former president was indicted the first time and then the second time and where he is right now, he has been able to use these indictments as a plus, which, again, i think we re kind of taking it for granted because
florida governor ron desantis is casting blame for his failure to catch fire in the republican presidential race, at least so far. his message, it s the media s fault. it s pretty clear that the media does not want me to be the candidate. i think that they ve tried to create narratives that somehow the race is over. this is going to be a state-by-state contest. we ve worked really hard to build the type of organization in places like iowa, new hampshire, south carolina that you need to actually be able to win these early contests. and we re going to continue doing that. let s break that down. joining us now cnn political commentators karen finney and alice stewart. you heard desantis defense. but isn t it true that the governor is slumping in the polls right now and he s really only secured one major big-name endorsement from the oklahoma governor. he said it s hard to say that