happening now, president biden vows the united states skpland the nato allies will not waiver in their support of ukraine. their critical summit here in lithuania ending with a strong show of unity, despite unanswered questions about when ukraine will be invited to join the nato alliance. also tonight, president volodymyr zelenskyy, he returns to ukraine with new assurances from western allays and face to face commitment ifs r president bi biden, but zelenskyy leaves the summit without concrete security guarantees or a time line for nato membership. we re watching all of this unfold here in the situation room. what does it all mean for ukraine s defense against russia s brutal war, i ll ask the ukrainian ambassador to the united states who s joining us live this hour. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer in vilnius, lithuania, and you re in the situation room. we re live here in vilnius, the capital of lithuania, and t
we are live here in the lithuanian capital city of vilnius, where nato leaders today gathered for a summit with the war in ukraine front and center on the agenda. back in washington, the fbi director christopher wray testified before the house judiciary committee where he took very hostile questions from republican members on a range of rather controversial issues. cnn s sara murray has the story. thank you, good morning, chairman jordan, ranking member nadler, members of the committee. reporter: fbi director chris f toe fer wray weighing in on some of the most hot button political investigations in testimony on capitol hill, critiquing former president donald trump s sloppy retention of classified do you means.
a lawful search warrant. reporter: and defended the fbi s rank and file amid a wave of threats in the wake of that search. we did stand up a whole dek dedicated yaunt unit to focus o threats to fbi employees and fbi facilities because of the uptick that we saw over that time period. reporter: wray facing off against some of his toughest congressional critics on the house judiciary committee. where republicans have threatened to slash the bureau s budget and accused fbi leadership of political bias. people trusted the fbi more when jay edgar hoover was running the place than when you are. respectfully, congressman, in your home state of florida the number of people applying to come work for us and devote their lives working for us is up over 100%. we re deeply proud of them, and they deserve better than you. reporter: all took shots at their gop colleagues. we are here today because maga republicans will do anything to protect donald trump, their savior, no matter
i don t want to be commenting on the pending case, but i will say that there are specific rules about where to store classified information and that those need to be stored in a scif, a secure compartmentalized information facility, and in my experience ballrooms, bathrooms, and birms are not scifs. reporter: insisting that the bureau is not protecting the biden family. are you protecting the bidens? absolutely not. the fbi does not, has no interest you won t answer the question about whether or not and disavowing some of the behavior outlined in john durham s probe which documented missteps by the fbi in its investigation into the 2016 trump campaign s ties with russia. i consider the conduct that was described in the durham report as totally unacceptable and unrepresentative of what i see from the fbi every day and must never be allowed to happen again. reporter: wray, however stood by the search at trump s mar-a-lago estate. i would not call it a raid. i would
only from rod rosenstein but then also crust fer wray today. oezen stein quickly passed the buck to the inspector general s office. rosenstein said it s important to know if there was properly motivated political infill ration but reporting showed that there was not a spy within the trump campaign, that this professor who slyly met with three advisors to the trump campaign instead, suggested there could be even more informan informants. adam schiff has said this is made up messaging for trump supporters. i would imagine that the justice department is not going to kwingly resolve that debate but this is something they re trying to push to the inspector general s office to review. let s talk to something that