alliance, and it s good for sweden and turkey and all of nato and the baltic region. but the big topic of discussion at this high stakes summit is the war in ukraine. ukraine wants a path to nato membership, but the u.s. and other countries are reluctant to do so while the war is still raging. looking at this is josh letterman, and also joining us, jim townsend, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for nato. and a former deputy assistant second of defense. how did this happen? well, josé, according to the countries that are involved in this, nato and the u.s., and of course, turkey, they were able to move past long-standing concerns that turkey had about arms exports and terrorism within sweden and finland, the country that joined nato back in april. but behind the scenes there was a lot of wrangling by the turkish government trying to extract concessions on key issues, including trying to get the u.s. to sell f-16s to turkey, and we started to hear from presiden
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
reports. let s get right to it. at this hour, thousands taking to the streets in israel, blocking the country s main airport and make highways. prime minister netanyahu s latest attempt to curb judicial power just reignited massive protests. also, president zelenskyy arrives at the nato summit. he just addressed a crowd of thousands from an outdoor stage with many supporters in the crowd waving ukrainian flags. ahead, what to expect from his meeting tomorrow with president biden who says ukraine is not ready to join nato. and presidents of turkey just hours ago. his message of thanks now that turkey has lifted the last hurdle. our nbc news reporters are following all the latest developments. we begin in lithuania with president biden and president erdogan. chris, just a couple of days ago, the u.s. was suggesting that sweden would join nato but we didn t know when. they were not thinking it was going to be possible during the course of this summit. we got that surprise
he is probing the night the trump aides and some outside allies tried to hatch a military coup plot. again, if those words sound disturbing to think about your own american government and not something happening in some other region, buckle up. your government is investigating this with an eye on indicting potentially the people who wanted to abuse your military to take away your vote. it s a big story. i know it s summer, i know it s friday, this is a big story. the night of december 18th in the oval office where some of the most extreme trump plotters were working on tactics that allegedly even rudy giuliani warned would land them all in prison. they wanted to have soldiers seize election machines. they wanted to install one of trump s political legal operatives to try to dictate unlawful orders, both pertaining to the justice department and the military. that would be sidney powell. she had been on the campaign side, more or less, meaning arguing in court or making motions
party again. congresswoman becca ballet of the budget committee is here to discuss. reparations, a judge dismissed a lawsuit from survivors of the tulsa massacre as california considers its own a statewide plan. i will talk with the chair of a california s reparations task force and al sharpton about this burgeoning a national debate. i m jonathan capehart. this is the sunday show. this morning, president biden flies to europe. he will meet with king charles iii and the british prime minister on monday before heading to a critical nato summit in vilnius, lithuania on tuesday. looming over the discussions will be president biden s controversial decision to provide cluster bombs to ukraine as it defends itself in a now 500-day war instigated by russia. clustered munitions scuttle scattered stronger bombs over wider terrain because they have a high failure rate. they can linger on the ground for days, weeks, even years, and then detonate, creating a higher risk to civilians. tha