areas seeing nine inches, higher than hurricane irene. the p.g.a. tour and saudi-backed liv golf teed up for a merger. congress is stepping in. 9/11 families, betrayal to the community. obesity is body positive. neo-nazi and white supremacy ideology. if you are woke, be out of shape, fat, antifa. ainsley: president biden and leaders of g-7 will huddle up on the sidelines of the summit. todd: nato declined to invite ukraine into nato for now. steve: griff, day one got a deal with his best friends. griff: best way to describe what is about to happen is the consolation prize to not join nato. what we re watching any moment is president biden and g-7 leaders will have an official announcement. it wasn t on the schedule. they will announce joint declaration of support, similar to what we give to israel annually and it comes after we just heard president zelenskyy expressing frustration that the summit will end even without a conditional invitation to join nato.
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
a state of emergency and massive cleanup after a catastrophic flooding. these train tracks left hanging in the air. tonight, the warning from officials that a major vermont dam could overflow. this is devastating, a total loss. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has arrived in this we need to summit. not come fighting a concrete path for his country to achieve membership. norah: more california homes at risk of falling into a canyon after a major landslide. lawmakers grilled pga executives about the tour s controversial merger with saudi-backed liv golf. a brutal, repressive regime can buy influence, indeed even take over a cherished american institution. norah: our series, age of ai. how you can protect your family from phone scams that use artificial intelligence. what you are about to hear is something i never said beard hey, this is carter, i need your credit card number right now. i mean, that really sounded like me. it is you. it
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
so who s behind it? it comes as russia vows revenge for the cluster munitions the united states is now sending to ukraine. plus, trump running out the clock. why getting elected could be his best legal defense strategy. former trump white house attorney ty cobb is outfront. and if you can t beat him, join him. hear pga golf tour executives explain why they sold out to the saudis. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the two russian military giants dead tonight. one of them the most senior general to die in ukraine since the war began. lieutenant general oleg sokov killed on a strike on a russian military base in berdyansk. he was a rising star inside putin s military. back in 2021 picked to speak at a cadet ceremony that was attended by putin himself. and tonight it s not just him, the mystery is growing over why another top russian military figure was murdered, and this in broad daylight. this is a submarine commander shot multip