russia in crisis. the weekend mutiny by russian mercenaries exposes putin s vulnerability, forcing him to cut a deal with the man he had called a traitor just hours before. that man, hot dog vendor turned war lord yevgeny prigozhin was apparently allowed to flee to belarus. we re going to take a deep dive into what happens next for him and his wagner group. and it s becoming increasingly clear that republican voters don t care how corrupt their candidates are. donald trump s lead is actually growing in the crowded republican presidential field. make that make sense. but we begin tonight with a wild weekend in the unprecedented challenge to more than two decades of vladimir putin s grip on russia. the armed rebellion has ended, but the uncertainty it sparked continues. the russian war lord behind that attempted insurrection. wagner group leader yevgeny prigozhin remains out of sight, but he released an audio message today, claiming he wasn t seeking to overthrow putin. h
around the world are these new images of vladimir putin making his first remarks from the kremlin, since a military standoff inside russia over the weekend. now, this is widely viewed as the strongest challenge to putin in his 23 years of rule. tonight, what you see here is putin speaking in russia, addressing the rebellion. it s a matter so public that even this master propagandist couldn t just deny that it s happening. he is vowing in the translation that we have here to bring members of the rebellion to justice, telling fighters in this mercenary force to sign up with the military or go home. what putin is doing here is trying to rebound after russians basically waited around for what imagine if you lived there, would be quite a harrowing experience, while your nation is also at war, a once allied mercenary army group that used to be seen as really completely allied with putin was literally marching towards moscow over the weekend because its leader suddenly made a publ
he lies about it. his own son tells herschel walker to stop the lies after new allegations suggest serious hypocrisy on abortion and reveal the scam of the christian rights family values brand. trump called the three justices, he picked my justices, he asked the supreme court to intervene on his classified documents, and i have two very special guests tonight, former attorney general eric holder joins me as the supreme court hears a case with major implications for what s left of the voting rights act, and john fetterman on his race for united states senate in pennsylvania. it is getting tighter and could decide which party wins control. we begin tonight with family values. as exemplified by perhaps the most iconic family in american sitcom history. the adventures of ozzie and harriet starring the entire nelson family. here s ozzie. here s harriet. here s david. and here s ricky. here they are, america s favorite family, the nelsons. yes, that s right, ozzie and harri
it s also an issue in many races around the nation. we are 35 days out from these midterms, and right now the scandal engulfing republican herschel walker in one race, but tells a similar story. he follows a report that states he has backed abortion in his own personal life, specifically funding an abortion for a woman in 2009. that was before the supreme court recently allowed states to ban abortions outright. and it is that personal act that is exactly what walker also claims to be run against. the beast, as you see here, documents what he allegedly did to support abortion in his personal life, including an account of the woman involved, while he publicly claims the opposite and wants to take away that right from others. it is running he is running on this plan to ban abortion while he has been allegedly caught supporting it. so in its own personal scandal louse way it is an echo about who makes the larger decisions, whether this is about what they say, or whether this is
tougher gun safety rules. president biden will be addressing in nation in just over an hour. he has been pushing on this harder in the last few weeks. in the senate there is beltway talk of a, quote, frame work, although gun safety advocates and other experts say they have seen exactly this kind of talk and this d.c. move before. now, in the house tonight, there are people working to make change, so the frame work, which requires republican support is something that many people are not optimistic about. but the judiciary committee, which is the pivot and powerful place where this stuff originates, you can see they re at work right now. the democrats using this time today, tomorrow, so really push new bills. and democrats say republicans must finally look at the carnage and act. it has not even been 24 hours since the last mass shooting. we re in a crisis of death. we have a war on the children of america. why don t they feel an urgency to do something? do not tell me