week but there s no question overall two big things stuck out to me. first of all this week was an extraordinarily reminder of just how much legal trouble the legal president is in. it s really something to have all eyes glued on the courthouse in washington, d.c. watching what jack smith is going to do, waiting for an indictment in the investigation and his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, only to have a new separate superseding indictment draft in the investigation into his mishandling of classified documents. all happening within the span of hours. you really can t make this stuff up sometimes. and put $1 figure on this mountain of legal trouble, just last night the washington post came out with a new piece detailing the more than $40 million trump s political group is spent on legal costs to defend not just trump, but his advisers and others in the first half of this year alone. the first half of this year alone, at $40 million from trump supporters all across the c
the us secretary of state antony blinken says the events show the cracks in mr putin s authority. yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner mercenary group pictured here leaving the russian city of rostov on don on saturday evening is reportedly going into exile in belarus after abandoning his advance on moscow. and with wagnerforces firing their guns into the sky and cheers from the watching public his troops also departed the city. tensions had been building between mr prigozhin and russia s military leadership for some time, over their approach to the war in ukraine. leaving as heroes. the wagnerfighters pulling out of rostov last night. you d think they d just won a war. the leader of the mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin, was off, too. he d just done a deal with the kremlin to end their mutiny. the rebellion started here, then spread north. it was the biggest challenge to vladimir putin s authority since he came to power. vladimir vladimirovich putin. russia s c
in belarus after abandoning his advance on moscow. gunshots and with wagnerforces firing their guns into the sky and cheers from the watching public, his troops also departed the city. tensions had been building between mr prigozhin and russia s military leadership for some time, over their approach to the war in ukraine. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. leaving as heroes. the wagnerfighters pulling out of rostov last night. you d think they d just won a war. the leader of the mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin, was off, too. he d just done a deal with the kremlin to end their mutiny. the rebellion started here then spread north. it was the biggest challenge to vladimir putin s authority since he came to power. vladimir vladimirovich putin. russia s commander in chief likes to project an image of strength. a mutiny on his watch is embarrassing. but is it damaging? for vladimir putin, will there be political fallout ahead of next year s election? he definitely looks
tonight straight from the source, breaking news from the detroit news. apparent recordings of donald trump himself in 2020 allegedly pressuring two election officials in michigan not to sign the certification of joe biden s victory. plus, the special counsel strikes back urging the supreme court to i merely consider amenity claims as rudy giuliani file for bankruptcy. willie pay up? his attorneys are here. and even more accusations of plagiarism against harbors in battle president. the two student journalists who broke the story joins us this hour. this is the source. we begin with at breaking news. randy reporting on yet another recording of a phone call allegedly made by donald trump in 2020 pressuring local election officials, this time in michigan on november 17, 2020, two weeks after he lost the presidential election in that state by more than 100,000 votes. cnn has not heard the recording, but the detroit news says it has. it reports president trump personally pressur
tonight on three, 60 only on cnn, our clarissa ward has more careful about civilian lives as he goes after hamas. also, tonight will rudy giuliani have to pay $48 million, or even more for the has election lies did to a moment daughter who did there come. violence plus iraq since fast, approaching how republicans are weighing their choices, or in some cases changing them. cnn s john king joins us in the latest on our election series. we begin with a close-up and unfiltered look at life and death in southern gaza. our clarissa ward and her team or the first many western media outlets to go there without an idf escort. now reporting airs with national security adviser jake sullivan and israel holding what he describes tonight, as, quote intense and it detailed conversation with prime netanyahu and his war cabinet. a conversation centered on, among other things, shifting to lower intensity, more surgical strikes, something that president biden underscored today. i want