hello, everyone. welcome to the amanpour hour. here is where we re headed this week. playing politics or playing with fire? the republican party tanks a border security deal that it had spent months demanding. that is the kind of chaos that donald trump instills. you have voter i.d. to buy a loaf of bread. what the polls aren t telling you about donald trump s re-election chances. also ahead the remarkable resilience of ukraine s war-weary children, still forced into subterranean schools. the islamic revolution came to iran 40 years ago this weekend. 20 years later, there was hope for reform. democracy in iran is literally being born in these newspapers. the struggle continues today. finally, the edgy little play that could. kim s convenience comes full circle as it lights up london with its slice of asian life. welcome to the program, everyone. i m christiane amanpour in london. the world is once again watching a congress in disarray, with literally lif
advanced knowledge of yevgeny prigozhin s plans to revolt. he is suspected of helping plan the events of last weekend. officials say there are also signs of other russian generals may have supported the rebellion which raises questions about putin s support inside the top ranks. meanwhile vladimir putin is attempting to portray himself as retaining popular support. you can see him there greeting crowds in a rare public appearance wednesday. he flew to the majority muslim city to mark the holiday where he took a tour, kissed fans and posed for selfies. he is also expected to deliver remarks in about an hour. clare sebastian is live in london with more for us. reporter: this is sort of a pr tour. kremlin trying to reassert his authority. he made public remarks, he commemorated the air force pilots killed in prigozhin s armed rebellion. and today speaking at a tech digital conference. but the visit really unusual. this is un-putin-like behavior. having actual human contact, a
collins in washington. reporter: good morning, christine. we are now learning that former president trump and his legal team are considering releasing the surveillance footage from those several hours when fbi agents were at mar-a-lago conducting that search of course of his property looking for classified information that they believe he took with him from his time in the white house to when he went to mar-a-lago as he left the day he was inaugurated. there were major questions of course this entire justice department investigation over how this information was handled and what exactly was taken down there and we re now told that despite that day when fbi agents showed up and they asked the trump team on the ground to turn off the surveillance cameras, they did not do so and they are now in control of several hours of footage of them actually being there conducting this search. and we re told that they are now considering releasing it, though there are some inside the form
They were skrecret. so it appears the excuses don t really pass muster. but of course it will be for the jury to decide. we know trump doesn t like to settle or bargain, he is right,s it is all fake news. so we ll see what a jury has to say about his continuing to shift explanations. and meantime the supreme court is finishing up its summer work. millions of student debt holders are on pins and needles about whether president biden s debt forgiveness plan will go through. what is your gut tell you about what the supreme court does on student debt relief? there is a lot there. we know that student debt is really significant. just behind mortgages as it ele relates to what people owe. as we look at all the cases they are looking at, affirmative action, student debt, discrimination protections, workplace religious accommodations. i think certainly on the issue of student debt, if it goes to the merits of the case, and what
A source tells cnn weisselberg is willing to testify in a possible future trial but he will not enter into a cooperation agreement with new york prosecutors investigating the finances of the trump family real estate company. in atlanta, rudy giuliani spent some six hours before a grand jury, georgia prosecutors have told giuliani that he is a target of their investigation into trump s effort to subvert the 2020 election results. sara murray has more from atlanta. we will not talk about this until it is over. it is a grand jury and grand juries as i recall are skrecret. rudy giuliani keeping a tight lip on the it him that just wrapped just days after prosecutors told him he is now a target in the criminal investigation here into efforts to subvert the 2020 election results. giuliani is the closest adviser to donald trump to be named a target in the georgia investigation raising questions about trump s own criminal exposure here. all i want to do is this, i