russian cities. the russian president vladimir putin calls the acts an armed mutiny. he s warning that those responsible will be in his words punished. wagner is said to be marching toward moscow, right now, and the governor of the southern region says wagner is moving heavy equipment through his territory, that territory by the way is about 250 miles from moscow. security is now extremely tight in the russian capital city, which is preparing anti-terrorist measures. that s what authorities are calling it. joining us now, peter bergen and beth sander, both cnn national security analysts. peter, at least one russian general has called this a coup. his word, a coup. prigozhin says it s not a coup but what he calls a march for justice in russia. putin likened what he now faces to the russian revolution back in 1917. so how significant is it? and how worried do you think putin is right now?
sit at a defendant table in federal court. so what is going to happen tomorrow is mundane. normally, you are fingerprinted and mug shotted and i don t know if they will do either of those things in federal court, because they gave a pass in manhattan, and they will look for the plea, and then the schedule is what you will look for. how quickly they do these things. usual will i in federal court they don t. but they say, these are the discovery deadlines and the motions and then set the trial date after that. and beth, let me ask you, we will see in all likelihood, a big pro trump maga crowd, and has january 6th changed the way we will see law enforcement prepare for the way that law enforcement prepare for such
support him. some of the supporters out here have said that they will be in downtown miami to show the support for the former president. and now in the 2:00 hour, the city of miami wrapped up a news conference where they did not get into a whole lot of the security posture ahead of the appearance tomorrow, and right now, they are anticipating some crowds showing up tomorrow, and a lot of the plans will be dictated by how many people show up. of course, the great unknown. carlos, thank you. jake? erin, thank you. the panel is back joining the cnn beth sander, and also, elie honig, what are you expecting to see tomorrow, and how about trump s kind of to last-minute scramble to get the defense attorneys in florida. well, in tomorrow, what is going to be historic and unpre unprecedented, because we have never seen a former president
he tried to blind it with the fuel. it could have been an intentional takedown of the drone. it s happened before. we had a chinese pilot 20 years ago who got closes to a u.s. navy intel platform out in the pacific and actually hut it and it landed in the chinese got intelligence because the system wasn t completely sanitized. hopefully this drone has been total ly sanitized. as to what happens next, obviously, we re going to put more drones up there. do they have to be protected is there som way to protect them, can yo put another platform up to warn russians to stay away from it, can you activate the hotline if it starts to happen before the russians interfere with it, all those option will have to be considered. . beth comes into the conversation.
officials who spoke yesterday at the pentagon said they do believe this drone broke up when it hit the water. butt u.s. is also tell ing us that they did take steps to wipe the drone of anything sensitive. in addition to the russian den denials, we are also told this order to harass the drone did come from senior russian officials within russia s defense ministry. this was not pilots going rogue here. this was a direct tasking from the russian ministry of defense. remarkable moment, appreciate you re kick us off. let s get perspective from general clark and deputy director of national intelligence beth sander. general clark, let s listen to mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. he says there s no doubt in his mind that russia was being reckless. the question he says he does not