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
president volodymyr zelenskyy taking his fight for membership directly to the summit and calling the uncertain timeline for ukraine s entry absurd. also, a grand jury just selected in georgia to consider potential indictments against donald trump and others. the investigation of 2020 leaf interference heating up as the donald trump legal team seeks to delay the former president s trial in the federal classified documents case. cnn on the scene of catastrophic flooding in the capital of vermont. the governor there warning the crisis is far from over amid fears a dam could bust after record rainfall. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is on assignment. i m john king and you re in the situation room. we begin with the nato summit and the growing pressure being placed on the alliance by the president of ukraine. volodymyr zelenskyy sounding increase leg frustrated by the lack of a clear path for nato membership and arguing his
vermont, where people say they ve never seen anything like this. reporter: record rainfall, massive amounts of water inundating nearly the entire state of vermont. we re not out of the woods. this is nowhere near over. reporter: reservoirs meant to control flooding overflowing. north of the state s capitol, the wrightville dam inches from overflow. it could dump more water into the already swollen winsookie river. downtown montpelier, state street a fast-moving river, completely impassible, the water lapping at the state house lawn. water rescues continuing. over 100 so far. jesus garcia and his family were staying in an airbnb. his family, their host, and the family dog harley evacuated. you wanted to get out of there
so i took two heavy-duty extension cords, tied them to there and the back of the truck. reporter: extreme weather the new american and global normal. oklahoma city drenched with life-threatening rainfall. and flooding only the start. extreme heat baking other parts of the country. yesterday temperature alerts affecting more than 40 million people from california to florida. so i am on bailey street in montpelier, and it was a little difficult to get here. the water is still up to about my waist here. i have a live camera. i want to show you what the cleanup is going to be like. it s going to be a lot of mud. this is incredibly thick, very sitty mud, 6 to 12 inches and lots of debris. that s the winsookie river. lots of debris, lots and lots of trees to frimgs and lots of building materials. jake, it s going to be a long time before they clean this one up. back to you. it s just devastation everywhere you look.
correspondent miguel marquez has the story. reporter: record rainfall. massive amounts of water inundating nearly the entire state of vermont. we are not out of the woods. this is nowhere near over. reporter: reservoirs meant to control flooding overflowing north of the state s capital, the wrights dam inches from overflow. it could dump even more water into the already swollen winsookie river. receding slowly in some places. other parts of the state still on alert. downtown montpelier, state street, a fast-moving river, completely impassable. the water lapping at the statehouse lawn. water rescues continuing, over 100 so far. jesus garcia and his family were staying in an airbnb. his family, their hosts, and the family dog evacuated. you wanted to get out of there because you just weren t sure what was going to happen?