By former lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Paula reid has more. Reporter Special Counsel jack smith is now in possession of thousands of documents that were created by Rudy Giulianis team in the days and weeks following the 2020 election. This team was tasked with trying to find some evidence of fraud. One of the people on this team is the former new York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerrik. He is a close associate of Rudy Giuliani and he has been in possession of a lot of these documents, the january 6 committee was trying to get all these materials, but he would not hand them over even though he is not a lawyer, he claimed that he was working for the legal team and therefore they were privileged. But in recent weeks, the Special Counsel investigators have reached out to kerrik to schedule an interview and also to collect evidence and after they reached out, kerrik went to the Trump Campaign, had them review the materials and Trump Campaign were told said look, they were not going to argue privile
By former lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Paula reid has more. Reporter Special Counsel jack smith is now in possession of thousands of documents that were created by Rudy Giulianis team in the days and weeks following the 2020 election. This team was tasked with trying to find some evidence of fraud. One of the people on this team is the former new York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerrik. He is a close associate of Rudy Giuliani and he has been in possession of a lot of these documents, the january 6 committee was trying to get all these materials, but he would not hand them over even though he is not a lawyer, he claimed that he was working for the legal team and therefore they were privileged. But in recent weeks, the Special Counsel investigators have reached out to kerrik to schedule an interview and also to collect evidence and after they reached out, kerrik went to the Trump Campaign, had them review the materials and Trump Campaign were told said look, they were not going to argue privile
Of Rostov On Don. The Wagner Mercer group have seized key sites after launching that rebellion against the army in Rostov On Don and there have been reports of fighting in voronezh which is halfway between rostov and moscow after the wagner group claimed a russian helicopter opened fire on a convoy of their vehicles. Welcome back. We return to the developing situation in russia lets take a look at what we know so far following the dramatic escalation of infighting. Prigozhin says his forces have taken the city of rostov and have seized military facilities in Voroneszh Which is on the way to moscow as well. Theres increased security in moscow with whats being called anti terror measures the m4 motorway which links the russian capital with cities in south, such as rostov, is closed because of a military convey that is moving along it. The kremlin has called for prigozhin s arrest with top russian generals telling wagner forces to stand down. And the russian president Vladimir Putin has g
telling russians in an address that it appears to have been recorded before this weekend s rebellion, that he remains confident in his plans and ukraine. tomorrow has been declared a non-working day in moscow. but banks and russia s stock exchange will be operating as normal. outside of russia s borders, including in the u.s., putin s grip on power appears to be weekend, if not eroding. he s been very strong for three decades. this is the first time the veneer of instability, he just seems to be the strongman. now he is viewed as weak. this moment of weakness for putin, whether temporary or more permanent, may present a moment of opportunity for ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy and his military as they continue a counteroffensive against russia. britain s former army chief told sky news, mutiny is a moment of opportunity for ukraine. in washington, maine while, the white house says president biden reaffirmed his support for ukraine in a call with president zelensky
michael mcfaul says russia could be coming closer to a compromise with ukraine. the idea that the only thing that we can do to end the war in ukraine is to give them a face sitting way out which usually translates to by the way giving him ukrainian tele-tory think this is a whole episode has really undermine the hypothesis. maybe putin will negotiate not when he s winning or not when he s given a gift of territory in ukraine but when he s using, as he just did yesterday. joining me now with the latest nbc news foreign correspondent raf sanchez. what more can you tell us about president zelenskyy s conversation with president biden? well, alicia, these conversations between kyiv and washington are ongoing in regular and they are happening at all levels of government. president biden spoke to president zelenskyy but lloyd austin the u.s. defense secretary spoke to his counterpart ukrainian defense minister today also. and yesterday we saw that general mark really the ch