a good sunday evening to you. i m jim sciutto, and this is cnn s special live coverage of the extraordinary yet short-lived uprising in russia that has left much of the world asking exactly how this happened and what could happen next. is putin s leadership under threat? is this an opportunity for ukraine to repel russia s ongoing invasion? we do have new developments tonight, including reaction from the biden administration. but first video has emerged on social media which shows the crash site of a russian military transport plane, reportedly shot down in southern russia saturday by the wagner mercenary group which carried out this rebellion. the russian defense ministry still has not commented on the loss of any aircraft. also, there is still no sign this evening of wagner s leader, yevgeny prigozhin, after he apparently cut a deal with moscow and called off the insurrection. and there is no sign as well of putin after the most serious challenge to his rule since he came t
moscow was not to oust putin. here in washington, president joe biden says the united states and the west had nothing to do with the wagner rebellion. now cnn now learning that the u.s. had detailed intelligence on the plans for the mutiny but kept it secret for most of its allies. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer s off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com anywhere . putin going public just a short time ago blasting the rebels as traitors as he attempted to show russia and the world that he is still in control. cnn s ben wedeman has been covering it all and what it could mean for the war in ukraine. reporter: tonight, vladimir putin lashes out at those who led an armed rebellion against him. an armed rebellion would ve been suppressed in any case. the organizers of the rebellion could not fail to understand this. they unde
for alex. we re just a few point feet apart, getting ready for my own show, and all of a sudden you re swearing on television. [laughter] just to be clear, i m quoting. i m a journalist. people say it. i quote it, i let you decide whether it s appropriate. they re not my words. the use mentioned distinction is what we used to say in linguistic philosophy in my college years, important year. you re reporting marjorie taylor. i remember when we are talking about donald trump having sworn in at some point you just had to say the words that he said on tv. there are a lot of firsts for me for the last few years, but that was fun. don t you always i have not arrived at a consistent policy on this, because it is ludicrous either way. it is ludicrous when you actually say it, because it s silly. it is also ludicrous where you re like, he called her a b word. every part of this is a little surreal. you woke me, up you got me ready for the show. thank, you my friend, have a
we have got ten hours, ten hours is about how much breathable air time the u.s. coast guard estimates is live for the five men aboard the missing submersible which is named the titan, to begin its a descent to the wreckage of the titanic on sunday morning. the clock is tipping rapidly, as the coast guard has an incredibly complex search and rescue operation too find them in an area that is twice the size of connecticut in two and a half miles below sea level. multiple countries and government agencies are involved in the canadian effort, a bohemian research vessel, a french research vessel. a u.s. navy, and the air national guard. remote operated vessels are also being deployed in the search, and more ships are expected to be arriving in the next 24 hours. that is where things stand right now. as you can see the moving on is tracking map, as many as 11 ships were spotted today heading towards the location of the titanic wreckage in a remote part of the north atlantic ocean.
submersible and five passengers. the coast guard said they searched 8,000 square miles, the area the side of connecticut. we re going to talk to a former nuclear submarine officer who so happens to be a united states congressman today calling now on the navy to deploy a nuclear submarine in that search. welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s first now get the latest from molly line in boston. hi, molly. good afternoon, neil. at this point in time, the search has yielded no results. the coast guard said in their afternoon briefing that there s no sign of this submersible at this point in time and moving a lot of assets in the area as you mentioned as the oxygen continues to run out. the coast guard making a good effort on bringing an international community together on this private and public partnerships. there s a remote operated vehicle, rov, they re diving, hunting underneath the water. so near being used. private research vessels are rushing to the scene and there s coast guar