counsel s investigation of donald trump and 2020 election inter interference. prosecutors interviewing the georgia secretary of state who was on that infamous call from trump asking gop officials to, quote, find votes. and president biden promotes bidenomics, embracing the phrase as he tries to sell voters on his economic policies. but will that strategy work? i ll ask the man who coined the slogan it s the economy, stupid , the legendary democratic campaign strategist james carville. he ll join us live. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, new reporting suggests that the mutiny by russian mercenary forces had a truly stunning and very dangerous end game. cnn senior national security correspondent alex marquardt is following all the details for us. alex, what do we know about the goal of the wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin and his failed rebellion? well, wolf, what prigozhin s ul
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it has been a busy night here. 20 russian missiles fired at this city. most were shot down, but there was death and destruction, but you are right, it was even busier across the border. experts are saying this is the biggest internal challenge to russian president vladimir putin since he started this war. russian officials claiming the fogner group mercenary chief yevgeny is launching a coup, an armed uprising against the government, specifically its military leadership and is demanding his arrest. all started friday morning when yevgeny blasted the whole bases and conduct of this basis and conduct of this war. later, he launched one more threat against the government saying his 25,000 men would leave ukraine and take on the regime. all night, we ve been watching incredible scenes of russian military rolling out to protect moscow and a key city to the south and then columns of the trucks, tanks, armor and troops rolled into the city marching around and with barely any fight
for a long time. he uses maybe one part of his leadership. he was up one day then the other day, pushback on somebody else. kind of the classic divide and rule. i think prigozhin was a handy tool for him to put pressure on shrug you, maybe you blame shrug you or others for what was happening. but it is obviously gunning out of control. he thought he could control, now he can t. how does this and do you think? like i said, i think in the short term he will be able to squash this. but in the long term, dictators, it s when that shrink in the armor shows that things start to change. he has control moscow through fear for 20 years, just like in eastern me in other places. once they start to change, people become not afraid anymore. or they see the possibility of change, then things may spiral out of control for dictator. this is a really dangerous time for people. all right, thank you so much for your expertise. we appreciate the time. it is the most dramatic threat so fa
in ukraine, and we re learning wagner forces have reportedly entered the far west russian city of rostock been done without resistance. those forces apparently rolled into the city, with tanks and a large amount of troops taking over the military and police headquarters as well as the city hall there. russia s military is responding by ramping up security in and around moscow. those measures are said to include roadblocks and checkpoints, and we haven t heard from russian president vladimir putin on the developments tonight but one of his top generals is telling wagner forces to stop and obey the will of president putin. we re also hearing from the white house. we re told president biden is and has been briefed on the matter. that he is closely monitoring it again . if you were just now tuning in, we are following breaking news out of moscow. that is where russian forces are on high alert after the leader of the private wagner mercenary group called for a coup against russia