nato nations uniting on the world stage. ukraine's president says we want in. how the military alliance is responding to zelenskyy's big push. a jury of his peers is now formally selected. they're being sworn in and soon they will decide whether to charge former president donald trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election in georgia.

what we're learning about two grand jury panels and when they could issue a decision. plus, a state capitol under water, as officials in montpelier, vermont, monitor a dam that is just inches from being topped. we're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to "cnn news central." the proclamation from the nato alliance today was resounding, ukraine's future is in nato. the question remains when. ukrainian president zelenskyy wants his country to be admitted as a member as soon as possible. president biden has already made it clear that the position of the alliance that is not happening now while ukraine is at war with russia. all of nato seems to be on agreement on that point. zelenskyy is at the summit now. he will meet biden face to face

tomorrow in an effort, perhaps, to change some minds. natasha bertrand is there in lithuania. natasha, it's clear the ukrainian president could not have expected a vow to come into nato at this summit. is he leaving with something? is he leaving with an assurance it's going to happen perhaps sooner than expected or at least give some sort of path for how it will happen? >> reporter: yeah. so president zelenskyy said himself he did not expect nato would extend a formal invitation to ukraine at this point to join the alliance because he recognizes they are in the middle of a war with russia, but he does leave with somewhat of a concession by nato which is that they will be dropping a key hurdle in the process to becoming a nato member, which is that membership action plan essentially a series of steps any country that wants to join nato has to take before they're actually allowed into the alliance. ukraine has completed many steps including diplomatic, political,

legal, economic reforms that other countries have to carry out before they join, but still there is no clear timeline on when ukraine will actually be able to joint alliance, something president zelenskyy wanted, if not a formal invitation now, he wanted a signal from the alliance that he would be invited, ukraine would be invited into the alliance, once the war with russia ends. they did not get that commitment. nato said there are still conditions that ukraine needs to fulfill before it can join. they did not specify what those conditions are, but still, when president biden meets with zelenskyy tomorrow, we are expecting him to reiterate the u.s.'s enduring support for ukraine militarily, financially and, of course, morally. reit it ter rating the russian invasion of ukraine was illegal and it that it undermined, of course, the putin's belief that he could keep nato divided. jim? >> well, the biggest condition seems to be that it remains at war with russia and the alliance doesn't want to be drawn into a war or committed to a war with russia.

key point tonight the leaders meeting tonight at a state dinner in effect, biden skipping that dinner. did the white house explain that decision? >> reporter: so we don't know much. all the white house told us at this point is that president biden has a full day of events tomorrow, he is preparing for a big speech, and that secretary of state antony blinken is going to take his place. we didn't get much of an explanation there. they basically said he is preparing for this big day here at nato tomorrow. jim? >> natasha ber trands in vilnius, thanks so much. so we're joined now by former u.s. ambassador to nato, evo dauds her, the ceo of the chicago council on global affairs. thank you for being with us. you've had this job, right, this sort of tough job of being the top diplomat from the u.s. to nato in dealing with some of these sensitivities. knowing that, what are those sensitivities of communicating with ukraine right now about its

desire to be a member of nato? >> so there are really two sensitivities, brianna, that are important here. one is what natasha mentioned. the reality is that there is not a single nato country that today wants ukraine into nato because if ukraine were to be a member of nato today, then nato would be obliged to defend every inch of ukrainian territory, and it suspect prepared to do that. it hasn't been prepared since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, and it's not prepared to do so now. that's one problem. if you lay out a timeline that says the nato will be invite ukraine once the war is over, you give an incentive to the russians to continue fighting for as long as they can, therefore, prevent ukraine from joining nato. so that's the dilemma that they are playing with. the second piece is that there is disagreement among allies

about whether ukraine, even if it was not a war, is today ready to join the alliance. as natasha said, great step forward. by nato, ukraine no longer needs a membership action plan, but it does need to demonstrate its democracy is strong and vibrant, that it has dealt with corruption in the way that has defined the state for so long, and those are areas that need to be worked out and nato is prepared and the leaders said they were prepared to help ukraine move along. that's where we are. in the absence of the agreement in the alliance about how far ukraine has come and the reality that a country at war is not necessarily a great ally to bring into an alliance at this point in time. >> so when you see zelenskyy saying anything without a timeline here is absurd, how are you reading that? what is his audience for that? >> oh, i think it's a domestic audience, and an important domestic audience.

clearly zelenskyy and the people of ukraine are united in fighting against the russians in making sure they win this war and they want and deserve all the support they possibly can have, not only today, but in the long term. there will be agreements on long term security support for ukraine and ultimately for nato membership. i think what he's mentioning is we need to continue to fight, but he also needs a signal from nato that nato continues to be with them including the ultimate price membership of the alliance which again, the leaders reiterated will happen, that ukraine's place is in nato. that's an important statement. >> you see nato more united than ever. expanding. we've heard that from member nations that since this war has begun, nato has only gotten bigger. it has defied vladimir putin's expectations. is his war essentially backfiring on him? >> oh, absolutely.

this will be seen as one of the greatest strategic failures in history. the idea that you could invade a country, take it over, and that the rest of the world would stand by and let it happen, which clearly was what putin was banking on, has proven to be utterly disastrous calculation. first of all they weren't able to take over ukraine. the russian military has suffered incredible losses both in personnel and, of course, in the capabilities. it is a much diminished army. secondly it now faces a ukraine that is united completely united behind the idea of ukraine as an independent nation that belongs to the west. third, they face a nato bigger, larger, stronger capabilities and it is committed to remaining the defensive alliance dominant with the kinds of military spending that is now forthcoming for the long term. you can't think of anything worse when you think about where

russia is sitting today compared to what we're sitting on the 23rd of february 2022. >> ambassador, thank you for your time and perspective. >> my pleasure. >> boris? >> another headline we're following today after a three-hour process, a grand jury was sworn in fulton county, georgia. the local d.a. greeted candidates this morning in an atlanta courtroom and a new grand jury now raises the prospect that donald trump, the first former u.s. president to be indicted, could face even more criminal charges. specifically on allegations of 2020 election interference in the peach state. now, 23 grand jurors and three alternates were picked. at least 16 of those 23 will need to be present for a vote and at least 12 jurors will need to vote to indict. let's dig deeper on this case and more with cnn's sara murray who has the latest on the georgia case and with us, cnn's paula reid with new developments

on trump's federal case. sara, starting with you, these grand jurors in georgia are weighing a lot. is there the possibility that donald trump could avoid being indicted there? >> well sure. i mean, most of the cases that these grand jurors are going to hear are classic cases. they're going to be murders, carjackings, that kind of thing. at a certain point they are likely to see the d.a.'s team come in and say you're about to hear a different case today. it's always possible that somethings go goes awry, the d.a.'s case falls apart and decide not to pursue indictments are. that looks unlikely given the amount of work that has gone into this already. there's signals she's pursuing potential conspiracy and racketeering charges, a number of people in this investigation have been told they are targets or under scrutiny like donald trump, rudy giuliani, mark meadows facing potential legal jeopardy as part of this case. again, you still face the possibility that if this case is presented to the grand jury, they still will not hand up an

indictment. she still has to go in and convince this panel to go her way. again, we still have a couple weeks until we expect a big announcement on this. the district attorney said august is likely going to be when she's going to make her announcement whether anyone is going to face charges. >> you will keep a close eye on that expansive investigation. another big investigation, the classified documents probe that is now headed to court. we have a court date next week. is that going to happen? because donald trump's legal team keeps trying to delay and want this to start when? >> well, they were able to delay ate few days. it was intended to be on friday, but they were able to push it back a few days. those little day here, day there, that adds up over time and we know the central tension in the case is how long it's going to take for this to go to trial. the special counsel has said he wants a speedy trial. he suggested taking this case before a jury in december which given the complexity of all these issues, that would be speedy indeed. last night we got a preview of how the trump team intends to

challenge this. they're going to raise a lot of different legal issues. there's going to be a lot of lit shgs questions including were these materials actually classified, does the special counsel have the authority to bring these charges. look, i'm not sure their a going to win on the merits of any of those questions but it has the effect of delaying this further. the former president wants to push this back until after the election and question whether you can get an impartial jury leading up to a presidential election. the longer you delay this into is next year you are in unchartered territory. a potential criminal prosecution of a presidential candidate. this is going to continue to raise a lot of interesting legal questions a lot of litigation and it's unclear exactly when this will go to trial, but what's significant about next tuesday and the hearing is this is the first time they will be before judge aileen cannon and all eyes will be on here. the extent to which she allows

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just in to cnn, alabama senator tommy tuberville is now

condemning white nationalists after coming under fire for an interview last night with cnn's kaitlan collins where he did not. he said that white nationalists believes the white race is superior, quote, that's some people's opinion. we have chief congressional correspondent manu raju joining us on this. manu, what is he saying? >> reporter: yeah. he is now saying that white nationalism is racism. this after he danced around that issue last night in an interview with kaitlan collins who was asking him to clarify previous comments he made not going as far as denouncing white nationalism in the military but moments ago, asked by reporters about his past comments saying white nationalists are racists. that is his verbatim comment. now this comes amid criticism from members on both sides as well as a direct comment from senate republican leader mitch mcconnell who i asked earlier about tommy tuberville's refusal

to say it was racism. mitch mcconnell was clear. >> senator tuberville seems to have a hard time denouncing white nationalism as it pertains to white nationalism in the military. >> white supremacy is simply unacceptable in the military and in our whole country. >> reporter: now this comes as tuberville has faced some criticism from both sides of the aisle over his decision to hold up more than 250 nominees to the pentagon, mainly promotions, typically nominations that would be confirmed quickly in the united states senate. any one senator can place a hold and slow that process down. he has done that over his demands for pentagon change. it's a policy dealing with abortions services and providing reimbursement for individuals of a service who are seeking abortion services. he wants that policy dropped altogether which is why he has launched this one-man blockade,

but tuberville saying today and told me yesterday he has gotten no pressure from republican leaders, including mitch mcconnell, to drop that blockade. >> he has had a number of republicans who have suggested that he could do legislative alternatives, and he has faced from mcconnell disagreement over the way he is approaching this, so maybe he thinks it isn't pressure but they are breaking with him publicly. considering the fire he is under, manu, for the latest thing on white nationalism and just questionably being able -- unable i should say to denounce it and say it's racist, does this weaken his position and make it any more likely he would be willing to drop that block? >> reporter: it doesn't seem that way, brianna. i spoke to a number of republican senators today, many of them are supporting tommy tuberville's position because they know they, too, could use

that in some way to extract their own concessions from the white house. that is a powerful tool by united states senator to block any nomination, hold up the process here, so there are very few of them criticizing him. you did hear mitch mcconnell in the past criticize tuberville's position but that was only public comments about it when reporters asked him about it, tuberville saying he's not getting the pressure from mcconnell privately even though mcconnell made his objection known publicly. >> that is interesting. very interesting. great reporting. manu raju, live for us from capitol hill on that. jim? >> right now senators are getting their first classified briefing on artificial intelligence, and its dangers. the department of defense and other intelligence officials are providing details about potential risks as lawmakers work to create a framework they hope will regulate the rapidly growing technology. here with us now cnn media analyst and reporter for axios sara fisher.

as i watch hearings it strikes me it's the equivalent to a hearing on capitol hill in 1995. is there any sense in these hearings they have a handle on the dangers, how far they can go, the hill or intel agencies? >> they know it's a big deal and that's a huge step because they didn't take social media and misinformation and disinformation seriously enough ten years ago so that is an improvement. there's bipartisan support in trying to tackle a.i. but what i think is really important is, not only does the members of congress not really know what's going on with a.i., the makers don't even know. sam altman, ceo of openai testified on capitol hill a few months ago and said as such, sin dar pa chi has said as such. it's our job to regulate it is what senators are saying. they don't know what they don't know. >> how do you begin to regulate something you don't understand? that sounds futile. it sounds useless.

>> you start broad. what senator schumer has done is introduced a same framework, so broad there is not a lot of bipartisan backlash and not a lot of backlash from the companies. that's how you know it doesn't say much. then you're going to start to get to smaller pieces of a.i. that will have separate bills. think about things like copyright law. think about things like licensing. how do you train your algorithms. transparency. these are different issues they're likely to attack. right now what they're doing is hosting classified briefings with the white house around national security, how are our foreign adversaries using this tech that we should be using and private community. >> listen, now from the space that there's concern that this a.i. is playing a part in armed conflict today, right, so really folks need to be catching up. last month, 42% of ceos polled, this during a summit at yale, said a.i. has the potential to destroy humanity anywhere. 42%.

that's scary. right. >> hugely scary. >> when you speak to folks in this space do they speak about that as some sort of distant alarmist view or a potential reality? >> it depends on who you ask. definitely folks in your side of the world national security and the pentagon see it as being more life and death issue. i cover media, the music dustry and the arts don't see it as ing a life or death issue, but it's critically important to their livelihoods. the biggest thing is how we're going to take what we call a risk-based approach, taking a look at different things with a.i., whether it's a chat bot, seeing how much of a risk is this actually to our national security, to people's lives, with the eu has done, set a good example. look at something like a chat bot. we can't regulate that like it's the end of the world even though we know disinformation is a bad thing. if a.i. is being used to train weapons that's the type of thing we have to assess the risk more carefully. >> we know it is. and we know it's being used. so the idea, you know, of trying to regulate it in a way some

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vermont. an eerie sound, scene there in montpelier, vermont, after close to 48 hours of rain and flash flooding. residents being asked to stay off of the roads so that rescue teams can help anyone who is trapped in their homes. >> i understand the impetus to see what's going on, but as you observed it's not just water in the roads, it's a rapidly flowing river through the streets and it's dangerous for people to be out. >> more than 100 rescues have taken place across six counties and chris sununu just deployed black hawk helicopters trying to help those trying to reach higher ground in vermont. miguel mar guess there is witnessing what is happening in

montpelier. tell us what you're seeing? just incredible seacenes of flooding. >> reporter: the flooding has been unbelievable all day. look, they had a record -- set a record for the amount of rain in a 24-hour period here in the state capital. i was out in this area around 5:00 this morning trying to get to this car and see what was down here. it was flowing too fast to get to it. i couldn't get all the way there. now it has receded. the water was over that car about three or four hours ago. now it's about, you know, covering it up about a foot or so. it's amazing how quickly the water has come down here, but in many parts of the state the riskers are still overflowing their banks and there is still lots of water rescues going on. over 100 water rescues across the state so far. amazingly, we haven't heard of anybody dying in all of this

yet, but amazingly, there's been nobody that was killed in any of this. right now, there are a lot of people starting to come out, starting to clean up, starting to look to figure out how they can put their lives back together, but this is just -- it's so widespread. the entire state was pummeled by rain for weeks. the sponge was full and then they had this deluge for about 24 hours that just had nowhere to go except for over land. >> let's hope that number stays where it is. it is amazing considering that scene behind you. thank you for the very latest from montpelier. united asirlines appears to be taking responsibility for disruptions that left passengers stranded across the united states. remember when the company was blaming the faa. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean joins us now. what is the ceo of united saying? very different tune. >> huge reversal. you can't understand this enough. this is so big from united ceo

scott kirby in which he says that faa is now heroic. think back to not only a couple weeks ago, when kirby was putting the blame on the airlines melting down the last week of june, specifically on the faa, and its staffing issues at major air traffic control facilitiesp. in a memo to his employees slards with us, he said the faa failed us this weekend, the weekend of june 24th and 25th. now kirby saying the faa has been helpful over the last couple weeks, they are trying to make things right again, and in this first admission since this meltdown by united airlines, they had about 3200 flights canceled in june which was especially important leading up to july 4th, he's now saying that faa is trying to really help out the airline here. i want you to listen now to what

he said. >> they deserve a lot of credit for what they've been doing because, you know, they're 54% staffed in new york and to have that event be managed and contained, you know, was some heroic efforts. >> i just want you to remember back to last summer airlines canceled about 50,000 flights in total between memorial day and labor day. that's when this back and forth, the swipe from united ceo scott kirby and then answer by the faa, so that really sort of teed up this schoolyard fight and seems like they're burying the hatchet which is a good thing for passengers and so many of them were left in the lurch by united as they canceled the thousands of flights that last week of june. >> it's a tough argument to make that air traffic controller shortages are to blame when other airlines are not having those kinds of numbers of cancellations. >> there are layers on top of layers here. the weather, air traffic control, so many things at play here. the faa points to weather being

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now to a cnn exclusive. after russia launched its deadly war in ukraine, hundreds of companies including big names such as heineken, unilever, philip morris vowed to stop doing business in russia, but researchers have now found that some companies violated that pledge. cnn's matt egan has been reporting this out and has the details. they made these promises to great fanfare at the start of the invasion, got a lot of public adulation for it. what have the facts been showing? >> reporter: well, jim, this new research finds that a surprising number of companies are still in russia, even as this brutal war in ukraine drags on past the 500 day mark. yale professor sonfeld and his team of researchers are accusing some companies of breaking their promise to get out of russia or drastically scale back their promise there. that includes major companies such as unilever, mon da leez,

weework, heineken and philip morris international. son felds is not accusing the companies of breaking the law per se, but he is saying they have broke an moral code. listen to what sonfeld told me. >> it's beyond disappointing to the point of shameful and unethical. they're breaking their promises and functioning as wartime profiteers. >> reporter: now here's why this matters. it undermines what has been an unprecedented corporate exodus out of russia, an exodus that is directly aimed at pressuring vladimir putin and the russian economy. >> wartime profiteers that has echos of the run up to world war ii. how are the companies explaining this? >> reporter: well, heineken has been described as, quote, the poster child for this problem. 16 months ago they promised to get out of russia and according

to the yale research this company still has seven pressure ris in the country, employ 1800 employees. heineken told cnn in statement that, quote, the war is a terrible human tragedy and the company is committed to leaving russia but their preliminary deal to sell assets in russia has not gotten the green light from regulators in russia, not yet. that has been a common theme from companies that even if they want to get out, moscow has made it very hard for them to do so. >> probably a little sign they will relent on that, not in their interest. matt egan covering this from new york, thanks so much. a shakeup in college football. northwestern university has fired its long-time head fch pat fitzgerald over hazing allegations after an investigation revealed that 11 players past and present had come forward claiming hazing occurred within the wildcats football program. fitzgerald says he was unaware of any hazing cnn's jake tapper

is covering this story on "the lead." what happened here? >> it's really fascinating. so the college finds out about these allegations that the members of the northwestern university football team had been hazed, and they launch an investigation with an independent former politician and that politician comes forward with a recommendation and concludes there suspect enough evidence to show anybody on the coaching staff knew. there is a slap on the wrist for the coach and the university, obviously, thoepds m-- hoped to move on. but for the fact that some brave former and current players on the northwestern university football and brave journalists with the daly, the newspaper at northwestern university had another idea and wanted to bring their stories. on saturday the daly published a story that indicated there were a lot of former and current players who thought coach fitzgerald was well aware of what was going on and that other members of the coaching staff were involved even in some of

the hazing allegations, and then the university was forced to take another step. coming up on "the lead" we'll be talking to ramon diaz jr., the first former player on the northwestern football team to come forward with allegations he went through, he experiences, the that he describes and one of the team of the amazing student journalists that broke the story and showed what the power of journalism is when an administration investigates it itself, there tend to be slaps on the wrist that are issued. when journalists get involved in a perfect scenario and the scenario that is supposed to work as set up by the founding fathers, there can be real accountability. >> absolutely. sunshine, right, on injustice. jake, what is the fired coach -- >> the best disinfectant, absolutely. >> what is the coach saying now? he sought legal representation, night. >> he's denying he knew anything. he is suggesting that he's

surprised and that the university took the steps that it took. in fact, the football team is actually saying that the stories that were published in the daily were exaggerations, but as ramon points out f you're saying something is an exaggeration, you're also tacitly acknowledging that something did actually happen. you're taking an issue with the description of it. so we're going to dive into this issue coming up on "the lead". >> some very important stories and we look forward to those conversations. jake tapper on "the lead." just in, a jury has reached a verdict in the heated court battle over aretha franklin's will. specifically a handwritten will found in her couch after her death. we'll have details next. [music playing]

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this just just into cnn. a jury has reached a verdict in the battle over aretha franklin's estate. her sons have been fighting over whether a hand written will found in her couch is valid. let's go now to cnn entertainment reporter chloe malas. this is the discussion the jury had to figure out here, the 2010 will or the 2014 will. >> yes, so briana, aretha franklin had four sons. and three of those sons had a lot of infighting over the last several years since 2018. in 2019 one of her nieces found two wills you mentioned, one in 2010 and one in 2014.

and this is over two sons versus one son wanting a jury to decide which will was valid. so the jury deliberated for just about an hour and they have decided the 2014 will that was signed by aretha franklin is indeed val odd, where and it showed intent. and something that was very interesting is it was signed with her signature that had a little smily face on it, and that was very common as to how aretha franklin would smile her name. but this was not noterized and it was found in hoar couch in her cushion. there was a lot of debate over this. you might think to yourself, wow, this person is so famous and millions of dollars and a huge estate, how could they not have a will? but look at prince, look at bob marly. so many famous people they end up dying perhaps too soon and never having gotten their wills and affairs in order. it's definitely a cautionary tale and obviously a resolution

in the favor of two of aretha franklin's sons her 2014 will stands. it'll be interesting to see how all the assets and everything are divided up and when that will happen. again, there is a decision finally. >> worth pointing out it's not like anyone was written out of either will. i think that's important to note. it's a slight distribution change between the two wills here. chloe, thank you very much for the latest on these interesting developments. i do also want to say as i bring in joey jackson, our cnn legal analyst, we actually have a picture of this will so that people can see what it looks like, this hand written will that was found in a notebook in aretha franklin's couch, from 2014, found by her niece that a jury decides here, joey, this is going to stand. did that surprise you at all? >> so it didn't and here's why, briana. what happens is a will is nothing more than an evidence and intent, intent with respect

to the person who provides for the will how they want to distribute their assets, et cetera, anything that comes in. normally, yes, you would think of a will as a document prepared very professionally by lawyers perhaps with appendixes and indexes and exhibits with respect to any distribution. but at the end of the day i think the jury simply made a determination, listen, this was written by aretha franklin. when you write something you have to be intentional and purposeful about it. it was ultimately found by her with the signature smily face and they found that. the other learning tale is while you should see a lawyer and certainly you want to get your affairs together -- at the end of the day if the jury finds intent, that's exactly what they will do, they will give it value and that's what happened here, briana. >> yeah, and you look at this will and read through it, and it's hand written which makes it

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