defending mr. biden s controversial decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine. the hard but necessary choice amounted to this. if we didn t do it, if we don t do it, then they will run out of ammunition. if they run outof ammunition, they will be defenseless. every ally said they understand why we re doing this, when we re doing it. my conversation this morning with nato s secretary-general, one day after he successfully worked with turkey and sweden s leader to alleviate concerns and pave the way for sweden to join nato. sweden will become a member of the alliance. that s good for sweden. it s good for turkey. it s good for whole of nato. with both in the alliance, the whole task of protecting the baltic area becomes so much easier for this alliance. this is important for the whole nato, but in particular this region. good day. i m andrea mitchell in lithuania. we begin with the scene moments ago. president zelenskyy at a concert here at nato just hours after he
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
damage by representing trump. in other words, while he s legally presumed innocent and the burden is on the government, it is a public fact that even getting a lawyer is hard when you are this yolked to this person you work for who s your coconspirator under the indictment. the florida he did find is a former public defend we are limited experience in the federal courts according to the new york times. if you check there s a federal system for this, the google of courts. it s called pacer. and can t find her name in pacer, in that database. but the times notes she has handled local cases. nauta was out dining with trump as recently as friday. you can see him there. they were together in philadelphia. but this news tonight that nauta s finally gotten a lawyer so he can do step one, which is plea, speaks to the potential gap here between two people whose fates are intertwined. a gap in the very literal time of these arraignments it s taken three weeks but also a gap in
i m alex marquardt in the situation room. out front next. 34 hours, that s how much oxygen is left for the five people missing on a submersible heading to the titanic. plus, hunter biden s plea deal. president biden s son agreeing to plead guilty to federal criminal charges, most likely avoiding jail time. republicans are calling it a sweetheart deal. is it? and turning russians from putin s war into a prison cell. the new campaign from behind bars for alexei navalny. his daughter dasha is my guest. good evening. i m erin burnett. the clock is ticking as rescuers race to save five people on board that submersible off the coast of newfoundland called the titan. it has about 34 hours of breathable air left, according to the coast guard. the vessel was headed 13,000 feet beneath the ocean s surface heading to the titanic. it s been missing since yesterday morning. rescue teams are gathering at the scene. the search area for the su submersible is now larger than the
the imminent indictment watch on the mar-a-lago documents. i don t think about it, all i know is this, everything i did was right. tonight have got thoughts on trump s real motive for taking all that classified info. then, the winning strategy for candidate desantis. being the most anti vax person on the ballot? we can never allow warp speed to trump informed consent in this country ever again. plus, president biden s oval office address. passing this budget agreement was critical. the states cannot have been higher. and the crazy story of why republicans in iowa have stripped the power from the state auditor? all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes. president joe biden just wrapped up a primetime address to the nation from the oval office touting the debt ceiling deal that he brokered with speaker kevin mccarthy this week. a lot of attention has been focused on the swift passage of that bill in the house on wednesday, the senate la