Turkey agrees to back Sweden’s NATO deal

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 11 July 2023

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President Zelensky appears at the NATO summit, requesting membership in the alliance as Turkey agree’s to back Sweden’s NATO bid. Plus, a new grand jury has been selected to decide if Donald Trump will be indicted a third time for his alleged role in trying to overturn the 2020 election. Also, as extreme whether hits the northeast United States, catastrophic flooding swamps Vermont. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The head of NATO insists Ukraine will become a member nation Zelensky says when the lead
0:07.5	starts right now.
0:09.4	Let me in, the message from the Ukrainian President who showed up at the NATO summit cheered
0:14.2	on in a city square as he pushed to join the International Alliance his criticism about
0:19.4	the process as Russian strikes were hitting his cities back home and will Donald Trump
0:25.6	be indicted a third time.
0:28.3	Today a brand new grand jury was selected to decide just that while a different federal
0:32.8	grand jury in DC is also hard at work.
0:36.0	Plus, do you believe that white nationalists are racist?
0:39.8	Yes, if that's what a racist is, yes.
0:44.7	It's not really a difficult question, white nationalists are racists, that's what the
0:49.4	term means and yet Senator Tommy Tuberville of our Alabama keeps making a spectacle of
0:55.3	himself and his struggle with trying to discuss this issue.
0:59.4	He just gave yet another answer on the topic.
1:07.4	Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper.
1:08.6	We start with our world lead and one of the most consequential gatherings for world powers
1:14.0	in modern history in a blow to Russian leader Vladimir Putin amid his bloody war on Ukraine
1:18.8	today.
1:19.8	Americans reinvigorated by turkeys about face to make way for Sweden's membership put
1:25.8	out a carefully worded communique announcing quote Ukraine's future is in NATO, unquote
1:32.5	despite that assurance Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky is still demanding a clear
1:36.7	timeline on his country's accession to the international group as Russia launches
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