hour of chris jansing reports. i m alex witt. ahead for us, kevin spacey on trial. the oscar award winning actor appears in court on multiple count of sexual assault. we re live in london. plus, a scathing report in the wake of jeffrey epstein s death. the d.a. blasts prisoner workers for multiple failures. a russian missile strike targets a crowded ukrainian restaurant right at dinner time. also, trump s growing legal woes, word that his former lawyer, rudy giuliani, met with the special counsel s office. our nbc news reporters are following all the latest developments. we will begin with nbc s vaughn hillyard who s following the latest trump legal troubles. what can you tell us about rudy giuliani and the legal team. rudy giuliani is a lynch pin in so many of what is a large web around january 6th and the special counsel s investigation. at this point in time, we know that in fulton county in the district attorney s investigation there, he has already been togethe
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
prerecorded videos, when jordan neely was threatening passengers on board. on the flip side, we heard from jordan neely s family s legal team saying they are vowing to achieve justice for the homeless street performer who they say had been suffering from mental illness. they say any reasonable person would know that a choke hold of that length would result in a death. here s more from them. take a listen. penny killed a man. he took a life. for everyone who thought donating $3 million would somehow make this go away or buy his pass, it s not going to happen. reporter: both legal teams agree to keep the identity of the witnesses private. we still don t know if we ll see daniel penny take the stand when it moves to trial. the next court appearance, the next hearing is scheduled for october. in the meantime, lawyers from both sides will be reviewing
power to some degree at the heart of the russian government here. the defense minister releasing prerecorded videos, vladimir putin releasing prerecorded videos, the live respondent here still yevgeny prigozhin and that may be something the kremlin have to answer in the days or hours ahead just to reassure their own troops that there s somebody with their hand on the wheel. putin likes to basically set his own agenda and appear when he feels like it, but these are very different circumstances and yet again we just seem to see a russia elite here misco miscomm miscommunicating, misimagining what they can get away with, reversing that course exceptionally quickly. prigozhin, putin pardoning prigozhin, startling series of affairs and one i m sure ukraine will hope will yield disarray on the front lines on in the days and weeks ahead. no question. we are trying to read the tea leaves on a lot of these statements we re getting in the last hour from prigozhin. thank you so much for that. i