classified documents about ukraine, iran and united kingdom. how did the documents end up in that audience and why? a russian soldier talking about the ukraine. what did the el paso mayor show present biden? mayor is my guest. show his pictures first here out front. let s go out front. good evening, i am erin burnett. president speaking out here he is moments ago at a summit with other world leaders in mexico. people know i take classified documents and classified information seriously. when my lawyers were clearing out my office at university of pennsylvania set up a secure office. i was a professor at penn. they found documents in a box you know, locked cabinet. at least a closet. as soon as they did, they realized several classified documents in that box. they did what they should have done, immediately called archives, turned them over to the archives and i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn there were any government records taken there to that offi
this has been one of the most confusing and dramatic moments and recent russian history. we are very much still finding out how this armed rebellion came together. what the u.s. knew about it, what the fallout will be for russia and ukraine. frankly, the rest of the globe. on friday, the standoff began when the leader of a russian private military group posted a series of recorded video and audio messages on telegram. messages that under mind jet ross is justification for the war in ukraine and called for our march for justice. against the russian military. the man who posted these messages, the name you have certainly heard a lot through the past few days, yevgeny prigozhin. he is the leader of the russian private mercenary army known as the wagner group. a group that has been on the frontlines of russia s war in ukraine. now the wagner mercenaries are known to be some of the most brutal forces fighting in ukraine. they have recruited fighters in
weak and russia is weak the thing that they want the most is for us to lose interest in ukraine and for russia to be able to wait us out and now we know that russia actually is on a smaller timetable and that putin is basically hanging on by a thread and he s no longer the strongest man in russia. a third world rate power in belarus had to negotiate a peace treaty for him and at the end of the day right now we actually don t know who is in charge of russia one of the arguments that we can all make to our republican friends who are being more hesitant about funding ukraine, we are doing very well. what we know right now is that ukraine is more in solidarity in terms of their sovereignty than russia so we need to do is double down. we need to give ukraine the weapons and the backing they need to finish this war. they will get their sovereignty back. at the same time defeat russia and potentially push putin out. those are two when winds at the same time and this argument that russia is a
i m sure the u.s. and the ukrainians certainly probably have people on the other side of the front lines are reporting back with what s happening. there s a huge influx of information and it s how do you evaluate the information what you do with it and clearly they evaluated that something was about to happen and they decided this is an internal issue in russia and we re not going to be the narrator on this one. the same way that we were before the war because we don t know exactly where this is leading. congressman, given the weakness that we are seeing from putin and that there is a lot of analysis about what this is in terms of his future do you think that this change is any of the political dynamics inside of congress vis-à-vis the warning grain, republicans, your colleagues they have not been particularly supportive of the war in recent months. they have been strangely and weirdly in questionably supportive of vladimir putin in a way. does this change, do you is this a signal m
communication strategies coming from ukraine and washington. biden is very clearly not wanting to get in front of the cameras on this for a number of reasons. zelenskyy is very, you know publicly topping about his conversations with the west as a former u.s. ambassador, what guidance would you offer biden in this moment as he has to navigate various factions in a pretty complicated and shifting diplomatic moment to be use of it i d say three things. one, don t talk at all about what happened inside russia. that is good. that is wise and you don t want to get into that. two, take the message of putin s weakness to a lot of the fence-sitters. she isn t paying first and foremost say quietly and diplomatic channels is this really the guy that you want to be standing with he s a weak leader. chaos in russia will continue as long as the war in ukraine continues. maybe it s time for you to lean on your buddy vladimir putin to shut this all down and then