go. let the review proceed. i m not going to resign. will it work? hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is springing forward. one year ago this weekend, reported deaths from covid-19 were still just in the double digits, just under 70 confirmed deaths as we all started to scramble to a sudden new normal life in the pandemic. tomorrow, march 15, 2020, president biden announced more sites to slow the spread. one in five americans have received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to the cdc. nearly 3 million yesterday alone. president biden has an aggressive timeline saying all adults will have doses by the end of may, and that july is the beginning of the recovery from the virus. health experts are continuing to warn that now is not the time to return to normal. here to explain why and what s next, the president s chief medical adviser, dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci, thanks for joining us. the government of italy is imposing another loc
putin s power is becoming tenuous for the first time in 23 years. good evening. good evening to you, trace. the civil war that appeared to be on the point of breaking out in russia has become a war of words with a clearly angry russian president lashing out at those who led what he called the rebellion. they wanted russian soldiers to kill each other. soldiers and civilians would die and russia would lose and our society split. choke in a bloody strife. putin never mentioned the mercenary leader by name but the notorious head of the group was central to everything putin said. once a close friend and ally he s putin s public enemy number one. locations and intents unknown. giving no clues in an audio statement released today in which he come papered the ease
country s president, alexander lukashenko. mr prigozhin issued an audio statement on monday but has not been seen in public since saturday. a little early in a moscow president putin thanked his security forces for protecting the country at last weekend, silently had stopped a civil war. the fsb have confirmed though that a criminal case against wagner has been dropped. the defence ministry says, the group will have to hand over heavy weapons and equipment. this was putin a little ealier. translation: soldiers and officers are the true defenders translation: soldiers and officers are the true defenders of translation: soldiers and officers are the true defenders of the - are the true defenders of the motherland, who in a difficult time for the country together with their comrades in arms stood in the way of the unrest, which inevitably would have resulted in chaos. you protected the constitution, the lies and the safety of our people. you save our form turmoil. and the safety of o
as we said insisted he was not trying to overthrow the government, just going up against the military. prigozhin was once known as putin s chef, who built a fortune providing food to the entire russian military. he was also indicted in absentia by robert mueller for his hacking operation, trying to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. join meg now, nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel, who s been reporting extensively on prigozhin, including his forces in syria and most recently in africa. and andrew weissmann, former senior member of the mueller probe, which investigated prigozhin s role in 2016. richard, what is your read of what s happening in russia? what are your ukrainian sources staying? and what does this tell you about prigozhin? reporter: well, it doesn t seem like it s over. you talked about that statement, the audio statement that he issued a short while ago. no mention of putin at all. no apology.
don t know, that helps us understand more of where prigozhin was coming from, says he was coming from? reporter: well, i think the most interesting part of that statement from the point of view of the ukrainians and what s happening on the battlefield in ukraine is the bit where prigozhin talks about this change in status. that on july the 1st, mercenaries were going to be absorbed into the russian military, and he says in this audio statement that they put it out to their guys and said, hey, who wants to join the regular russian forces and be commanded by essentially the guy at the top, putin and his defense minister choi gu, if you believe p prigozhin, he says only about 1 to 2% actually wanted to be part of the regular russian military. and then of course there are several other things that happened in between, and we have the march on moscow. what it means now on the battlefield here is it may, in