forces in america. from the voting rights crackdowns and assorted government plots, to the big lie attacks on election results that can stoke actual insurrections. we know the u.s. has faced many different types of crises before, but this era has been a perfect storm of right wing demagogues, weaponized propaganda from the internet to the fox news defamation we covered, and this is key, the perfect storm includes a high powered, elite driven effort to main streak attacks on democracy and try to write them into our rules. and that part of the effort is not, let s be clear, criminal activity like january 6th. it s not something people are going to go to jail for. it is what at least lawyers and others call arguably legal attacks that are still designed to hijack democracy from within. this is our top story tonight, because this brings us to efforts to bend or break current laws and rules, to try to foster more anti-democratic outcomes that would be technically legal if these pe
around the world are these new images of vladimir putin making his first remarks from the kremlin, since a military standoff inside russia over the weekend. now, this is widely viewed as the strongest challenge to putin in his 23 years of rule. tonight, what you see here is putin speaking in russia, addressing the rebellion. it s a matter so public that even this master propagandist couldn t just deny that it s happening. he is vowing in the translation that we have here to bring members of the rebellion to justice, telling fighters in this mercenary force to sign up with the military or go home. what putin is doing here is trying to rebound after russians basically waited around for what imagine if you lived there, would be quite a harrowing experience, while your nation is also at war, a once allied mercenary army group that used to be seen as really completely allied with putin was literally marching towards moscow over the weekend because its leader suddenly made a publ
inside russia. right now vladimir putin is still in charge. in fact, he might have just spoken for the first time since the attempted rebellion over the weekend. we ll tell you what he said and why there are questions about when and where this new video of putin the kremlin released this morning has come from. it has been a confusing and volatile 72 hours. longtime ally yevgeny prigozhin began and quickly called off an attempt to overtake the military leaders. how close did he get? why suddenly did he turn around? putin is known for viciously crushing dissent. why exactly did he let prigozhin go? the warlord hasn t been publicly seen or heard from since he apparently fled on saturday. we have reporters in moscow, ukraine and the white house along with experts on russia, putin and prigozhin. whatever happens in russia will have a profound impact not just on the stability of that country, but far-reaching consequences for the war in ukraine and well beyond that. it can affect
tonight from our team. dangerously bad air still affects millions of americans due to wildfires in canada. this weekend into early next week a system will come through, direct the smoke away from the u.s. in the eastern part of the country, ukrainian troops have stepped up offensive operations around the beleaguered city of bakhmut, which was only recently taken by russian troops. the main suspect in the disappearance of u.s. teenager natalee holloway has been arraigned in an alabama court. norah: paying with plastic. the shocking new data. americans owe nearly $1 trillion in credit card debt. the bear wandered into a northeast d.c. neighborhood. it showed up a little before 7:00 and got rather comfortable in the tree. this is a bear in a tree, and i was like, praise god. roderick duncan says real change never happens overnight. look at you, man. homeless? homeless, he had to be. and he kept coming back? and he kept coming bac
Everybody, especially my special late night hosts or whats left of them. James corden is on his way back to england. The rest of them are shutdown because their writers are on strike. Thats one way to make their show funnier. Who knew they had writer . On gutfeld, my writers dont strike, i strike the writer. And that was for writing a good joke. The only collective bargaining around here is which ones get to shave my back. Yes. But, there is big news out of arkansas this week. That has to be the first time anybody ever said that. Hunter biden appeared in court over a contentious battle. Hunter wants that reduced. I dont blame him. All those jobs and unqualified crack addicts have since dried up. Somebody got to take care of that kid. There is no such thing as someone elses child. There is no such thing as someone elses child. No such thing as someone elses child. Our nations children are all our children. Oh. That explains why he never asks parents if he can sniff near kids hair. [laug