behind a coup, alive and kicking in state houses across america. the authority for directing the manner of choosing electors belongs to the legislature. tonight, the massive supreme court decision that stopped a slow motion insurrection. van, the evolving alibi of an indicted ex president. you re not concerned, then, with your voice on those recordings. my voice was fine. i didn t even see the recording. just how bout of the new tapes in the trump document case is the other jack smith investigation ramps up. i did everything right, and they invited me. and why republican leaders finally acknowledging that donald trump is a loser is actually a big deal. the question is, is he the strongest to win the election? i don t know that answer. when all in starts, right now. we good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. it is not often the case these days but today the supreme court issued a long anticipated monumental ruling that actually bolsters america s democ
deadly, but they are actually effective. and now he s turned and gone back into the russia, he claims he s going to fix the situation because he claims that the russian military attacked his men. this has been a long simmering food between the russian defense minister and prigozhin, but prigozhin says he s doing something about it. we are unable to convert any of this, we have heard reports from ukrainians that they ve crossed into russia. that wagner group has crushed into russia. burgos russia is on high alert. moscow has tanks in the streets, they re calling it a coup attempt. he denies that s the case, it is all very confusing. but this guy is both volatile and dangerous. i will say on the american side, there is a concern. russia is a nuclear armed country, and having a whole bunch of people fighting about who s in charge of it is actually more serious than not. so, everybody tonight is on high alert about what s going on in russia. something is happening, we do not ha
prigozhin mercenary forces have pretty much taken over that every strategic town of rostov-on-don. i that s a very strategic part of this war. the russian mercenary groups have been launching offensive strikes in ukraine from there, so they ve been key to this battle. prigozhin says they have now taken that town completely. they are now firing eight shots, and what we re hearing now is that he s mercenary forces are moving north. possibly towards moscow, which is an incredibly significant development in what s happening in the last 24 hours, and the most curious challenge to the russian state in recent memory, now, prigozhin was saying that this wasn t a crew he was trying to get rid of the defense minister, shoigu, and the head of the armed forces, but this is a direct challenge to putin s authority when you re trying to remove his top military brass during a conflict with ukraine. what key right now, jonathan, is what happens over the coming hours. the loyalty of the rus
the whatsapp messages date back to 2017. what they show is hunter biden writing to a chinese energy official saying i can make $5 million in salary from any law firm in america. if you think it s about money, it s not. the bidens are the best at doing exactly what the chairman wants from this partnership. dana: republicans say the chairman is a chinese oil tycoon and that guy has since gone missing. meanwhile the i.r.s. agent who blew the whistle on the hunter biden tax investigation is talking. he said investigators gave hunter special treatment. bill: the agent is trying to expose corruption. because every taxpayer deserves to be treated fairly and it was my oath of office to make sure that happens. bill: new york post reporter john levine is here but first david spunt at the justice department. good morning. good morning to you both. several key points in this new interview between bret baier and gary shapley, the i.r.s. supervisor special agent who is the whis
undoubtedly been weakened. prigozhin announced his paramilitary fighters would pull back to avoid bloodshed. the kremlin later announced war lord could leave for belarus allegedly without penalty for his mercenaries taking hold of the critical russian city of rostov-on-don. they were going to dismantle pmc wagner. we came out on the 23rd of june to march for justice. in this time we did not 3eu8 a single drop of blood on of our fighters. now the moment has come when blood may still spill, that that s why understanding the responsibility, we are turning back our convoys and going back to field camps according to our plan. reporter: according to a spokesperson for secretary of state antony blinken, quote, support by the united states for ukraine will not change. the united states will stay in close coordination with ukraine as the situation develops. and russian officials offered this, quote: we ve warned the western countries against any hint of possible use of the domes