this is gps , the global public square. welcome to all of you around the world, i m coming to you from davos, switzerland. as titans of industry gather here for the world economic forum, today on the program, my talk with the foreign ministers of two of the most powerful nations in the middle east. saudi arabia and iran. we ll discuss the war in gaza, threat of a broader war and the prospects for peace. then on to the other major war in ukraine. this one has been disrupting the region and the world for almost two years now. i ll talk to two of ukraine s brave soldiers about what it is like to be on the front lines pushing back against putin s invaders. i also have the great pleasure of sitting down with that gift of humanity and animals, jane goodall. she s still going strong at almost 90 and you won t want to miss my conversation with her. but first, here is my take. the conversations swirling around the chilly mountain air of davos this week keep returning to one
sk crisis in russia. i m michael smerconish. putin warns those involved in the mercenary group will be punished. p prigozhin says they killed a, quote, huge amount of his men. a long-time ally of the kremlin, he claimed troops had taken control of facilities in the russian cities of voronezh and rostov-on-don without firing a shot. one general called it a coup d etat, but prigozhin deniesoco. there was an announced a criminal investigation of prigozhin and they were to stop and detain their leader. in an address to the nation, putin said this. translator: i repeat, any internal turmoil is a mortal threat to our statehood, to us as a nation. this is a blow to russia, to our people. so our actions to defend the fatherland against such a threat will be severe. all those who deliberately chose the path of treachery, who prepared a mutiny, who chose blackmail and terrorist methods will face punishment. joining me to discuss is retired u.s. attorney alexander vindman, on the
of course, you are sitting in iowa and you have republicans flocking in fast and furious to try to win iowa and get ready for the caucus as biden is trying to seize the national stage here. it is hard to imagine either side getting a lot of credit from the country for what is happening this week. it s a significant development. for the president, for doing what he said he would do, work with republicans and for speaker mccarthy as well. he has been underestimated throughout the first part of this year. the white house never thought he would be able to keep his republicans unified. that is what happened. i can tell you, being out here for several days talking to voters on both sides, there s not a lot of applause for washington. there s not a lot of credit for averting a crisis from happening. there is no doubt president biden despite if he doesn t on a friday night, how we consume the news now and everything that is chopped up and shared, this will get into the bloodstream
wolf blitzer s on assignment. i m alex marquart, and you re in the situation room. and first up tonight, our exclusive report on a federal criminal investigation into former president donald trump. attorneys for the former president unable now to locate a classified document that he referenced on an audiotape now in possession of prosecutors. kaitlan collins is on the team that broke the story and has the latest. take us through what we know. reporter: what happened is mario martin, this press aide to former president trump who was in the white house and now has followed him to mar-a-lago, went and testified as many people who were in that orbit these days have gone before jack smith s investigators. she was in there in mid-march, we re told it was shortly after she left that grand jury that prosecutors sent a subpoena to the former president saying that they wanted any and all documents related to iran and general mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs that trum
morning. absolutely. thank you. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. we are learning more about the man in custody accused of attacking a staffer, intern for democratic congressman gerry connolly. he didn t have any particular motivation, he was on a tear. we have to assess the security we do or do not provide district offices. it s concerning and quite frankly scary. the clock is ticking closer to what would be the first debt deno-fault american history. we don t know what the economic impacts will really be. and that s the scariest part. the fact of the matter is they re now negotiating. they have to. you have to have something done by this weekend. we are nowhere near any of that. after four years and millions of taxpayer dollars, durham report is out. got his own information, which is this information plus plus plus. this report does nothing. it is absolutely a big zero. florida governor ron desantis is expected to launch