recognizing the january six investigation. renewed focus by jack smith s investigators on a 2020 oval office meeting where trump allies allegedly skimmed what the former president about seizing voting machines and overturning the election. also tonight, where s prigozhin? no word from the wagner mercenary leader supposedly ex out to belarus for leading a mutiny against the kremlin. as he returned to the motherland? and what will vladimir putin due to him there? and marjorie taylor greene, is she too much, even pretty conservative freedom caucus. a report that she may have been boarded up by her fellow republicans. we begin tonight with the breaking news, what multiple sources are telling cnn about that turbulent december 18th 2020 oval office meeting, involving the former president on the disgraced general michael flynn, lawyer sydney powell and former dot com ceo. our kaitlan collins is part of the reporting team that has the exclusive. she joins me here. what have you learn
look prigozhin is just as corrupt, you know, look at his gold bars and his everything he has. his mansion were his oldest. off he is corrupt too. so they may be trying to dim that message a little bit. and, also, i think his, let s say, his empire is so hard to unravel right now. the government wants to take it over, as the general was mentioning. they ve got a lot of work to do. this cannot happen really fast. so there may be something to that. let s him kind of wrap it up and remember, putin apparently thinks that prigozhin was not necessarily trying to bring him down. he was trying to bring down the generals. so that could be another wrinkle. jill dorothy, general appreciate it. next, what a federal law official was saying about when the secret service expects to finish its investigation into cocaine left at the white house and whether they will land the suspect. that s next.
but they may also, as one russian observer who pretty much knows a lot said, maybe they are just allowing him to wrap up his affairs before the government begin to take him over. what do you think is going on? it is bizarre, anderson. jill summed it up really well. but what we have to remember is this guy is the head of a global terrorist organization. it isn t just his actions inside of ukraine and the recent actions in russia that have caused some conundrums for mr. putin. he has still has forces in africa, in syria, he is considered an international terrorist by the u. s. . but the thing that i thought was fascinating was that, as jill just mentioned, the besmirching of his background, today on russian tv with the purchase of his villa and the
is it clear where lukashenko and prigozhin s relationship stands right now? you are right. he was really candid. it is unusual to have the sort of press conference. yeah, he played down the friendship between him and prigozhin. that s surprising because the kremlin said that friendship was the reason we took guys to the deal and the first place. lukashenko said that putin was much more friendly with prigozhin than he ever was. so, really trying to put himself at some distance between himself and the wagner leader. matthew chance, appreciate it, thank you. to try to unravel some of what is going on, we are joined now by joel doherty, a global fellow of the wilson center, from the georgetown school of foreign service. also retired generals and cnn analyst mark hertling. jill, i just found, i find an amazing. what does prigozhin tell you that prigozhin is allegedly in russia and the deal that lukashenko allegedly brokerage? lukashenko is an old soviet style publication.
reporting on him. this whole mess is just a typical russian nesting doll of craziness. i mean, yeah, jill, with prigozhin being beck and russia, could potentially the letter mirror putin be a threat to his authority? but to your point, the kremlin is really allowing russians that television to attack prigozhin, mocking him, showing these videos. that s all by design. rights. you know, those videos, i was thinking, they do something else. prigozhin s message to the russian people is, hey, these generals who were scrolling everything up and ukraine, they are corrupt. they lead president into this war. they are lining their pockets. it is kind of, you know, populist anti elite message. it is actually very effective. by doing this, and saying, hey,