t the lead starts right now. ukraine is pushing, pushing, pushing. cnn is live as the 31 nations meet. and why special counsel is accusing donald trump s right-hand man of trying to delay the prosecution of him. and the once in a thousand year rainfall behind devastating flooding in parts of america ears noamerica s northeast, trapping drivers in cars and on roads and forcing some to swim to safety. we start today with our word lead. the president in lithuania with one goal on his list unity. ukraine will be the main focus of the two-day meeting but for a group that has been, frankly, stunningly united, there are public fractures in the alliance starting to emerge, ones president biden will have to fix over the next few days, mainly overs decision to send cluster bombs to the front line, one that has been banned by most of the allies who will be sitting around president biden at that table in lithuania. they will have to decide when and how they will let ukraine join
future security assistance for ukraine. experts tell cnn they re watching to sigee if that inclus more f-16 fighter jets. allies are making it clear they re not going to be joining the u.s. when it comes to sending controversial cluster bombs, which can fail and then detonate years later threatening lives. the white house continuing to defend the decision president biden said wasn t an easy decision but was the one he reached. what s the reaction on the ground? the ukrainians are quite happy to be receiving them. this is something they ve been is asking about for quite some time. the arguments that we have heard time and time again from ukrainian officials would later be echoed by the biden administration, essentially that these cluster munitions will only be used against russian troops, they won t be used in
museum. the museum is very special. people love it. and he had this to say about racial issues in the united states. well, we re a very divided nation, and we have been for many, many years, decades, i mean, you go back to the founding, and i would just like to see if we could bring people together, as so many bad things happening. there is something going on that doesn t allow it to fully heal. sometimes it gets better, and then it busts apart. but we want to have it get very much better, get unified and stay together. joining us now is former george w. bush director and former obama administration official van jones. we heard the president say that we re divided nation, that we need to be more unified to get there. do you sigee, what sort of step do you want to see.
me back. i m very excited, at 6:00 we ll have what i like to call the ari melber experience. everyone will get to sigee. yes, 6:00 p.m. we have two hours. there is a saying in hip hop in the street like sesame. we will be in the street. there are a lot of protests going on. there is a lot of resistance in the country. we re covering that ander would also talking to roger stone to get a republican perspective. are you taking his suggestions on twitter as to what to ask him? we have a segment where i answer e-mails and tweets and also a new segment called normal or not where we break down what is going on and is it normal or not. i have a feeling that there will be a lot of not. i don t want to pre-judge. i would say watch. we ll just watch. ari melber, and you can always count on hip hop references
special counsel robert mueller s office. if the report is accurate, gates would gain two other trump advisers who are cooperating with the mueller investigation. steve bannon meeting over multiple days with special counsel robert mueller. as you can sigee, we have a lot to get to. i want to talk about first what really matters in the wake of the school shooting. victims. killed in a place where they should have been safe. alisa alhadeff wanted to be a lawyer and play professional soccer. she d been playing since 3. her funeral is being held today. 14-year-old martin duqu duque anguiano. his sibling posted, words cannot describe my pain. you ll be missed, buddy. i love you, junior. jamie guttenberg was a dancer. dancers across are country are asked to wear orange ribbons in jamie s honor. several studios said they will