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
documents case. what special counsel jack smith did about it today. also tonight, record rain and floods in the northeast, we ll tell you who s about to get hit next. good evening, vladimir putin may be one of the most secretive russian leaders since joseph stalin. tonight, we re taking you inside his secret armored train. this on a day that russia and the war in ukraine is very much in the news. president biden has arrived in lithuania for the nato summit when the u.s. and allies will discuss efforts to obtain vladimir putin s aggression. as for biden, we ll be meeting with ukraine s president zelenskyy whose attendance had been in question until late today. both expected to be on the agenda and top the agenda. also today. turkey dropped objections to sweden becoming a member, and stockholm in turn appears to be supporting turkish membership in the european union. according to turkey s state run news agency. complete the succession to nato is a historic step that benefit
that debuts here sunday at 9:00. thank you so much for joining us. anderson starts now. tonight on 360, breaking news. renewed focus by investigators on a 2020 oval office meeting where trump allies allegedly schemed with the former president about seizing voting machines and overturning the election. also tonight, where is prigozhin? the wagner mercenary leader supposedly exiled to belarus for leading a mutiny against the kremlin. has he returned to the motherland? and what will vladimir putin do to him there. and marjorie taylor greene, is she too much even for the conservative freedom caucus? reports she may have been voted out by her fellow republicans. we begin tonight with breaking news, what multiple sources are telling cnn about that turbulent december 18th 2020 oval office meeting involving the former president rudy giuliani, disgraced general michael flynn, lawyer sidney powell, and a former dot com ceo. our kaitlan collins is part of the reporting team
nation. zelenskyy says when? the lead starts right now. let me in the message from the ukrainian president who showed up at the nato summit, cheered on in a city square as he pushed to join the international alliance. his criticism about the process as russian strikes were hitting his cities back hoeme. and will donald trump be indicted a third time? today a new grand jury was selected to decide just that while a different federal grand jury in d.c. is also hard at a work. plus do you believe that white nationalists are racist? yes, if that s what racist is, yes. it s not really a difficult question. white nationalists are racists. that s what the term means and yet senator tommy tuberville of alabama keeps making a spectacle of himself and his struggle with trying to discuss this issue. he just gave yet another answer on the topic. welcome to the lead , i m jake tapper. we start with the world lead in one of the most consequential gatherings. today the alliance
infamous trump phone call to the georgia secretary of state. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. cnn s sara murray has been following this story since the very beginning. and sara, the jurors in fulton county, georgia, are sworn in. what happens next? for the next several weeks, they re going the operate like a normal grand jury would in fulton county. which means they re probably going the hear cases that are murders, that are carjackings, that are robberies, that kind of thing. and then at a certain point, the d.a. s team is probably going to come to them in a couple of weeks, walk into the one of those grand juries and say okay, today you re going the hear a different kind of case, and we ll likely present their evidence against donald trump or any of the allies that they want to try to bring charges against before this grand jury. remember, a special grand jury spent months a