back their debt? president biden tweeting moments ago this, unthinkable. this fight isn t over. i ll have more to announce when i address the nation this afternoon. and on the final day of pride, the court backed a web designer opposed to same-sex marriage saying the business owner has a free speech right under the constitution s first amendment to refuse to endorse messages she disagrees with. lorie smith the graphic designer just celebrated her win in our last hour. this is a victory not just for me but for all of us. whether you share my beliefs or completely disagree with them, free speech is for everyone. but justice sotomayor in her dissent calls this ruling profoundly wrong and that today is a sad day in the lives of lgbt people. we re going to break down the massive legal and the political implications as well, by the way, for the court, congress, and the 2024 race for the presidency. we want to begin with the specifics of those two historic supreme court decisi
revolt retreat, an astonishing 24 hours in global history. russian president vladimir putin staves off the biggest threat ever to his quarter century leadership as his one-time ally yevgeny prigozhin abruptly calls off a rebellion as his marches closer to moscow. prigozhin has agreed to leave russia for belarus. the wagner insurrection revealed major cracks and put his armor at home, now the world watches to see how it will impact a 16-month war on ukraine. good morning, and welcome to a special edition of the sunday, show i m jonathan katie phang who you normally see at this hour as the weekend off. we start with a sobering realization, we may truly never know how close the nuclear armed nation of russia came to a full blown civil war. the toughest test ever, putin s presidency is over, for now after brokering a truce with belarus, wagner leader if ghani prigozhin, called off a just hours after his mercenaries took control of the military headquarters in south of russia.
bases. russian ally and neighbor in belarus helped broker a deal with prigozhin, to escalate the situation. prigozhin agreed to leave russia for asylum batters, but not before getting a heroes sendoff from russian residents. [crowd chanting] [sound of gunfire] nbc news correspondent ali arouzi joins me now, live from london. ali, thank you for being here. the situation in russia has changed dramatically in the last 24 hours, what s happening there now? jonathan, it has been an extraordinary 24 hours of mayhem, mutiny. and as quickly as all of this began, it ended. in a nutshell, where are we? the wagner group probably will be incorporated into the russian defense ministry, prigozhin is in exile in neighboring belarus, and vladimir putin is still in power, considerably weaker. and it is really extraordinary what unfolded in russia. very extraordinary how it all started. look at the beginning of the day, vladimir putin made that statement on television, visibly angry, calli
putin s rule now says he was not trying to topple the russian leader. it s the first time we re hearing from yevgeny prigozhin since he ordered a sudden stop to an armed rebellion just 120 miles from moscow. plus, what did the u.s. know and when did it know it about the plan to topple putin? the chairman of the senate intelligence committee mark warner joins me live in minutes. and ron desantis lays down a big marker on immigration, the florida governor says he will finish what donald trump started and build that wall. i m dana bash, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. today we go behind that power grab that was that wasn t or what was it exactly? right now we re going to try to answer all of the questions that we have about the revolt inside russia, the mercenary who led what looked and sounded like a revolt is now trying to answer one of those questions. why? cnn just obtained new audio of prigozhin and he says the march to moscow was not a coup b
mounting a mutiny gain ground. we will go live to kyiv for the latest overnight developments. here at home, one year later, today marks the full year since that supreme court set reproductive rights back 50 years by overturning the landmark roe v. wade ruling. congresswoman barbara lee and join us live to discuss the ongoing fallout. interlinks is. special counsel jack smith filed motions to delay trump s mar-a-lago classified documents trial, as a high-ranking trump 2020 campaign official talks to the january six grand jury. i am jonathan capehart. this is a special edition of the saturday show. we begin with breaking news on a pivotal turning point in putin s war on ukraine. internal military rebellion in russia is revealing a new threat to vladimir putin s ongoing 485-day war. nbc news reports russian generals are ordering the arrest of yevgeny prigozhin, the former putin ally and leader of the brutal wagner mercenary group now accused of trying to mount a armed pl