Large interest most significant federal indictment of donald trump ever. This is in a way that well document more significantly than the legal headaches he already has. This will be tonight the first time any former president has been indicted by the Justice Department for trying to steal an election. Now, i mentioned, if you have been walking our breaking coverage, we have been going through what is a voluminous filing. Jack smith found six other coconspirators that are named in the filing. It alleges that trump spread lies, that there had been outcome determinant fraud, fraud that would have swung the election back to him, and these claims were false. And trump knew they were false. Ill put on the screen what were watching for. Want to share what were learning. S this a day we have been trying to hew closely to what we know and dont know. In the last several moments, the most heads up youll get from an agency that jack smith will approach the podium you see here. Some of the local Be
tonight, we begin with breaking news out of russia. a major twist in that country s war against ukraine. vladimir putin forced to confront a rebellion within his own borders. just hours ago, we learned that if guinea prigozhin, the owner and the head of the wagner group and mercenary force that has been fighting alongside the russian military and ukraine, halted his advance on to the country s capital. that announcement came shortly after prigozhin claimed he and his fighters had captured the city of rostov-on-don home to the russian military headquarters for its war in ukraine. since their invasion last year, moscow has become dependent on the back in a group to support the war efforts as they re dwindling russian forces struggle to make significant gains inside ukrainian territory. in december, the u.s. said it believed the group had an estimated 50,000 personnel inside ukraine alone. it made up of about 10,000 contractors and 40,000 convicts that were recruited from inside
just happened over 17 months ago. the hype is big. republican member adam kinzinger says the committee s findings will, quote, change history, but larks, particularly democrats, have a long history of over-promising and under-delivering. the mueller report, impeachment trials, often pointed out by skeptics. in fact we re already getting a preview. this is new video released to abc news that was taken on january 6th. it shows intense new scenes of the violence from inside the mob. it was shot by a documentaryian embedded with the proud boys. he will be a witness tonight we have known since day one. president trump urged the mob to march on the capitol and fight like hell. so what else can they tell us that we don t already know? will new evidence lead to new charges for the people involved? how do you engage the american people when roughly half the country says, they want to forget about the insurrection and just move on? i want to bring in nbc s capitol hill correspondent al
and this was, as you know, andrew, the effort and the plot and the new indicted plot went this far. deep into the days of 6th, after what you describe second down what he perceived as a safety issuing a threat to the vice president. now they re trying to get the fraud in his hands, trying to push it forward. this is paragraph 101. i want your analysis. seems like smith s prosecutors are saying here, what you did as an agent is conspiracy in concert with them and other people. went way beyond your lawful powers. absolutely. and i think paragraph 99, to me in something that i think, looking at this as a prosecutor, is something that is i think going to be readily provable and is really hard for the former president to counteract. that is where after being told repeatedly by the vice president that he is not going to disobey his oath of office and overthrow
that someone might challenge his week redeem. slightly, it looked positive on our side. but again, our main question was, will this lead to putin actually withdrawing some of the troops from the front line in ukraine? to counteract but prigozhin was doing? that was not happening. so we have not seen that. i think that is something that we are closely following over the last 24 hours as it lasted. let me ask you about that specifically. you said this is insurgency, it s inflicted the most significant humiliation on putin to date. revealing the fragility of his regime. nbc news reports today that ukraine officials have seen progress in their counter offensive attacks. how do you see them, the ukrainian officials, the ukrainian military, able to exploit, perhaps even build off of the monumental of the last couple of days and weeks, especially with what has