january 6th investigation in recent weeks. the interview of rudy giuliani finally, right? he s a key figure in former president trump s effort to overturn the 2020 election and then today the georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, i want to remind people why he is so key here. let s take a listen to a brief cliff from the january 2021 call between trump and the secretary of state. so, look, all i want to do is this i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. so raffensperger is not only a witness in the special counsel probe. he is also a key witness in the state level investigation. we expect the d.a., fani willis down there to make some sort of announcement about any potential charges she ll bring in august and it appears that special counsel jack smith could be on a similar time line to announce any charging decisions this summer. we are also hearing once again from former president trump responding to our excl
carley: russian president putin speaking to family of victims in fatal plane crash that may have been carried p prigozhin. investigators are still working to confirm what happened, but have not said what caused the plane to fall. a missile has not been ruled out. the bodies aboard the plane not officially identified. todd: evan gershkovich will
don t know. nobody knows except maybe vladimir putin. i was really taken with the fact that prigozhin has wigs. i think as someone who would need wigs to make a clean escape, that s pretty smart thinking on his part. you think that s a good idea? i do. but what i don t think is a good idea for prigozhin is to go back into russia, and he is there because putin wants him back, and i suspect what we re going to see is building case against yevgeny prigozhin. you know, his great friend lieu lukashenko says go to the battle, go to the hard spots. i think the hard spot he s heading for is la fortoe prison. that is going to enhance putin, putin wants to show the world he was not humiliated by this guy. watch for the humiliation of prigozhin. that seems to be a more optimistic end than we initially thought his end would be with p prigozhin, if you think he may be headed to prison, even building a case against him,
global south are not taking a side on the war in ukraine. but first, here is my take. in his important book the third wave, samuel huntington pointed out the division among the ruling elite is a key sign of weakness in authoritarian regimes. when members of the establishment break with the system, it triggers a larger set of changes. conversely, when you do not see such defections, it means the autocrat will probably be able to survive. syrian dictator bashar al assad is one example of this principle at work. so how would be apply to that russia today. p prigozhin s failed attempt, but vladimir putin was able to snuff it out within a day or two. it appears that prigozhin got no public support from any key figure in the kremlin which
board. we have all these stories coming in right now to cnn news central. new reporting today that wagner leader yevgeny prigozhin had some big plans, even bigger plans before calling off his brief revolt. western officials telling the wall street journal that the wagner leader planned to capture two of putin s top-ranking military leaders, the defense minister and the chief of russia s general staff. officials also say that p prigozhin sped up his plans after the kremlin was tipped off. we have cnn s nic robertson with us now on this story. a fascinating development here. what can you tell us, nic? reporter: yeah, sergei shoigu, the defense minister, valerri gerasimov, the army chief of staff, these were the two men who prigozhin had been ranting against publicly for months in advance of this situation. so there s context and history