this has been one of the most confusing and dramatic moments and recent russian history. we are very much still finding out how this armed rebellion came together. what the u.s. knew about it, what the fallout will be for russia and ukraine. frankly, the rest of the globe. on friday, the standoff began when the leader of a russian private military group posted a series of recorded video and audio messages on telegram. messages that under mind jet ross is justification for the war in ukraine and called for our march for justice. against the russian military. the man who posted these messages, the name you have certainly heard a lot through the past few days, yevgeny prigozhin. he is the leader of the russian private mercenary army known as the wagner group. a group that has been on the frontlines of russia s war in ukraine. now the wagner mercenaries are known to be some of the most brutal forces fighting in ukraine. they have recruited fighters in russian prisons, they have s
strictly speaking, to do with them or with america. that effort began many years earlier. july 22nd, 2016. that s the day that wikileaks published thousands of emails from the servers of the democratic national committee in washington. those emails prove that party officials have rigged the democratic process, the primary process, in favor of hillary clinton, and against the insurgent populist candidate that year, bernie sanders of vermont. within days, the chair of the dnc, debbie wasserman schultz, resigned in disgrace. the wikileaks scandal broke on the same day that hillary clinton shows her running mate, senator tim kaine, and it overshadows the nominatit followed. but more significantly, the wikileakscen to split the democratic party into pieces. more than 13 million bernie sanders voters, many of the young people, learned that the process they had always believed in was, in fact, a sham. they had been cheated. democratic leaders had to act quickly in the face of this t
united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. today on the program president putin s most formidable political rival was locked two ed up two years ago. but he still has a voice, his message carried on by his inner circle that inspires russia s opposition movement. i have an exclusive interview with his daughter, dasha, on the state of her father and his mission to bring democracy to russia. and what might befall the world in 2023? ian bremmer will lay out the biggest political risk of the new year. the biggest risk is putin, agenting as the most powerful rogue state in history. and we ll have the economic outlook. but first, here is my take. it was hard not to be fixated on the drama that unfolded in the house of representatives this week, when the republican party had a nervous breakdown in full public view. this crisis was entirely of the party s own making. for decades, it has whipped its base into a righteous fury, by promising radical policies th
aide said after an abrupt end to his closed door testimony. and the united kingdom generally known to be prim and proper, but this time it seems like it could be a drag-out fight to be the uk s next prime minister. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in the politics lead on capitol hill. members of the january 6th committee are preparing for tomorrow s primetime hearing. the hearing is expected to cover the actions or lack thereof of former president trump during the three-plus hours that rioters were storming the capitol and the president s activities were unknown. but as committee members try to get to the bottom of the past attempt to teal the election, our democracy remains under attack by the same forces. let s start in wisconsin. cnn affiliate wism reports that donald trump called the top lawmaker in the wisconsin state assembly, republican robin voss, and asked him to overturn the 2020 election results. when did that call happen? that call happened las
Thats all the time we have. I hand it over to don lemon. 360 will be back tomorrow. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. The magnitude of this day is unbelievable. It is historic. It is a moment when our country is on the brink. On the brink of what could turn into a constitutional crisis and potentially on the brink of military acts in syria. A furious President Trump surrounded by grimfaced military leaders in what was planned to be a meeting of syria, his arms folded, blasted the fbi raid today on his personal attorney Michael Cohen. I just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys, good man,
and its a disgraceful situation. Its a total witch hunt. Ive been saying it for a long time. Ive wanted to keep it down. Weve given, i believe, over a million pages worth of documents to the Special Counsel. So let me be absolutely clear about this. The president is absolutely wrong. Nobody broke into Michael Cohens office. And nobody, not even the president , is above