to make sense of the latest news that burst out this weekend. everybody in the world trying to figure out whether russia may be falling apart again, whether vladimir putin may be teetering at long last after 23 years of n increasingly consolidated, increasingly dictatorial power in russia. david remnick will be joining us live on that story in a moment. we are also keeping eyes tonight on our own supreme court where in the midst of their own serious and expanding ethics scandals among conservative justices on the court, that court is nevertheless expected to issue yet another round of hard right, very controversial,e possibly very unpopular rulings. we ve got more on that ahead tonight ahead of what is expected to be a big day at the court tomorrow. we are also watching one rr particular federal court in south florida. tonight the trump appointed judge who will apparently be tr overseeing the federal criminal trial of former president trump issued an order about witnesses in
them. tonight, how tenuous is vladimir putin s hold on power. what does russian infighting mean for ukraine s counteroffensive. and what did the u.s. and western allies know in advance. we gave putin no excuse to blame this on the west and blame this on nato. good evening from kyiv, ukraine. i am ali velshi. and i am here because something unprecedented unfolded over the weekend. never in 23 years under putin s russia has this happened. thousands of armed soldiers, mercenaries, taking up arms against their own country. [inaudible] this was a scene inside russia today, explosions in cities, and a private army marching through the streets, vowing to take the fight all the way to the capital. those rebel forces previously allied with putin and the russian military, even leading many of the battles in ukraine, but then that ship suddenly violently ended. what exactly they were marching for remains unclear. the mercenaries, part of the wagner group, wer
you can catch me weekend mornings at ten a. m.. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. mornings at 10:00 a.m. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, ali i am both glad and worried to have you where you are tonight thank you for being there my friend great report this whole hour. thanks for being willing to make that trip, man. we are glad and worried in equal measure. thank you, my friend. enjoy your home. thanks to you at home for being with us.th before he became the editor of the most important english language magazine in the world david remnick was moscow correspondent for the mn washington post and in fact won the pulitzer prize for his os landmark 1993 book about the er last time russia fell apart at the end of the soviet union.ss david remnick will be joining us live in a few minutes as we try