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
6:00 eastern. > . tonight a critical moment in the war in ukraine and a crucial one for country supporting it with russia potentially just a couple months away from a spring offensive defense contact group led by america top military leaders met at the base failed to get german sign-off on the allies foremidible tanks, president biden was asked about it today. poland s goal to send the tanks by germany s other countries to ukraine, and ukraine needs all the help they need. as for ukraine s president, he says he needs more than western gratitude to hold off the russian hundreds of thank yous are not hundreds of tanks. also today, the white house told reporters the treasure department will designate the russian bogner group, mercenary fighters made up in part of russian convicts a trans national criminal organization comes day after we learned that c.i.a. director burns briefed president zelenskyy on how the spring russian offensive martin play out. lots to start o
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.