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
betrayal. he essentially called yevgeny prigozhin a traitor. the kremlin said that yevgeny prigozhin was going to have to go to exile into belarus. now we re learning that prigozhin was inside the kremlin with 35 other commanders just a couple days after that mutiny took place and the kremlin, jake, gave some details as to what was spoken about. they said that vladimir putin listened to what these commanders had to say. apparently they pledged allegiance to vladimir putin. there was one thinat caught our attention. i want to read you what was said. quote, the president gave an assessment of the actions of the campaign at the front during the military operations, essentially how the war was going, as well as events of june 24th, the mutiny orchestrated by yevgeny prigozhin. putin listened to the explanations provided by the commander and offered them options for deployment. there are some that believe that means the wagner military company could make a comeback to the battlefi