minister. this has multiple implications and curious to see how this plays out as wagner appears to be moving slowly toward moscow. neil: welcome back, everybody. moving slowly toward moscow in a surreal situation where the country would be under siege right now and its capital could be the next target. this of course, courtesy of the wagner group, a group of mercenary soldiers, paid by russia to do russia s bidding in countries all over the world and sometimes russia itself to put down protests and that sort of thing. and i say paid by russia, no longer as this group turns on russia. this happened about 18 hours ago when a fed-op, and prigozhin, the leader this have group often fought and criticized with generals and leaders back home at the defense ministry said enough is enough and making his fight in eastern ukraine in particular around the area that the russians on and off have control of, that might be in doubt given this craziness, but in part of the real nature of thi
systems underway in a delaware courtroom. with dominion seeking damages for repeated false claims about the 2020 election promoted by fox news guests and anchors on some of the network s highest rated shows. this hour, jailed american wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich losing his appeal of russia s baseless espionage charge, appearing in a glass box in a court for the first time since he was arrest nearly three weeks ago the u.s. ambassador at his side. president biden speaks to the unarmed black missouri teenager who was shot in the head by a homeowner after the boy mistakenly went to the wrong house to pick up his younger twin brothers with the alleged 84-year-old homeowner, the shooter, now facing a potential life sentence. good day, everyone i m andrea mitchell in washington opening statements begin this afternoon in that $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by dominion voting systems against fox news and fox corporation after jury instructions, do
julie: more americans coming home, nearly 80 of the u.s. citizens stranded in gaza making it out safely so far. hundreds more, though, are still trapped. the biden administration meantime pushing for what it calls a humanitarian pause, a stop in the fighting to get aid in and out to foreign nationals to get those out. this is the faulkner focus. i m julie banderas. good afternoon. i m in for maris today. blinken met with president netanyahu today. before the meeting he talked about possible pauses as we mentioned and the concerns around them. watch. we believe that each of these efforts would be facilitated by humanitarian pauses. a number of legitimate questions were raised in our discussions today including how to use any period of pause to maximize the fuel humanitarian assistance. how to connect a pause to the release of hostages and secure hamas doesn t use these to their own advantage. julie: senate majority whip dick durbin, the highest ranking democrat to back
ukrainians should have seen it coming as well because we ve been watching not only the war in general, but we have been watching the wagner group very carefully and given the last two or three weeks what s been coming out of prigozhin. what he s been saying and the criticism that he s levied not only on the other general officers leading forces, but also on the president himself. i don t think that this should be a surprise and i hope, i hope sincerely that the ukrainians have a plan developed to exploit the confusion that is going on right now over there, which gives them a window of opportunity to probably at least on the propaganda front to come out with something that could help their cause. neil: general. do you think this could be a false flag? i don t know where the false flag could be here or a distraction on the part of
a wall street journal reporter, he is accomplishing a bargaining chip he can use to extract spies that have been detained in the west he wants to categorize evan as a spy so that he can make some kind of exchange number two, he is chilling any independent reporting on what s happening in russia. evan was showing people the nuances in russian opinion about the war. putin doesn t want the world to see that he wants to project the propaganda front that he is leading. that s why his target was any reporter that might go out he is doing a couple things at once again, chilling reporting, and then having that thing to trade you for spies detained in the west we were talking with the congr congressman. he has sentenced to 25 years this is what his wife had to say