an armed rebellion. and a key piece of evidence in the documents case against donald trump is revealed and we ll play it for you. nbc news reporters are following the latest developments but i want to start there with this new audio tape tied to the classified documents case. ryan riley is here. this tape was in the indictment but now the world gets to hear it. tell us more. that s right. you know, obviously this is a really critical piece of evidence for jack smith s investigative team here and now we get to hear for ourselves what donald trump said when he was discussing these classified documents. take a listen. this was done by the military and given to me. i think we can probably, right? i don t know. we ll have to see. yeah, we ll have to try to declassify it. as president, i can declassify it. no, i can t. isn t that interesting? it s so cool. one thing that s unique is that it goes to donald trump s state of mind and he s explicitly stating what the law
testimony to special counsel jack smith as his probe into january 6th zooms ahead. exclusive reporting from nbc news s julia ainsley says this, quote, about half a dozen secret service agents have testified before the grand jury that will decide whether or not to indict former president donald trump for his alleged role in the january 6th 2021 riot at the capitol, and efforts to interfere in the peaceful transfer of the presidency. that s according to two sources familiar with their testimony. roughly five or six acts have appeared in compliance with subpoenas they received. while it s unclear what testimony they provided, we do know that trump s secret service agents are very much in a position to corroborate some of the most stunning testimony of the star witness of the january 6th select committee. the meadows aide who pulled back the curtain on the inner workings and private conversations of the trump-directed coup plot. we are talking about cassidy hutchinson. hear is s
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
now. our second hour star welcome . i m yasmin vossoughian, if you just running, as welcome. if you re sticking with, us we re thankful for that. we have got a lot of developments in russia, as the head of the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, says his mercenary group is turning back and abandoning s march towards moscow. he made that announcement after the president of belarus claimed he held talks with prigozhin. i want to bring in nbc s met in standing back and trying. this math, you heard this thing firsthand. talk us through what you heard from prigozhin, the revelation of this, quote unquote, deal. thank you, yasmin. obviously, very shocking development, after what has been, as we ve discussed, very astonishing 24 hours in russia. we had another audio message from prigozhin. he speaks very intensely, always, part of his charm, for lack of better word. we saw that again in this latest message, also a little bit taking a step back. he s admitting that he stepping down
bedtime stories he told you about going to iowa in 1972 for george montgomery, the first time in a presidential candidate paid attention to the iowa caucuses, winning it, and how he created political history with everyone wanting to follow. karl wagner s footsteps, managing a winning, presidential the monster he helped create, in other words. we were working monday night, all because of carl. he did this to us. he was looking on us with a smile on his face, and probably, a frown. brilliant. a brilliant move when he did it, and i m just sorry that it has become an enduring phenomenon of this absurd thing. all i knew was karl said, no one is paying attention to this, we can get there, when it, and get credit for it. then we re off to the races. only a son of iowa would come up with a plot like that. thank you carl wagner. thank you kara wagner. have a good show, lawrence. thank you alex. today, on the witness stand, in federal court, in manhattan, e. jean ca