damage done to people and ideas. the wagner group mercenary fighters pulled out from the southwestern russian city which they basically took over as well as other locations that they reached including points closer to moscow. they are now headed back to their base camp in ukraine, with , it is said, their boss, pr ogosia. it has wees anger with the russian military and running of the war in ukraine that triggered this attempted upris ing as the symbols of russian power only to be diffused at the last minute in a deal brokered by belarus president with the agreement of russian president putin that saw all pretty much get off the hook for this attempted insurrection but he is being sent in exile to belarus. it s reported to the that u.s. intelligence was aware that something like this was going to happen especially as we kept a close eye on russia s nuclear arms. they wanted to keep an arms length so moscow would not accuse washington of meddling in russian internal affairs and
a good sunday evening to you. i m jim sciutto. and welcome back to cnn special live coverage of the russian rebellion that erupted without warning and ended quickly this weekend not long after it began. yet and we should be clear the world is only beginning to assess the fallout. there are growing questions tonight about vladimir putin s leadership going forward and whether his iron grip on russia is weakening. the crash site of a russian military plane reportedly brought down by the wagner group yesterday. the cause of the crash not clear. but footage indicates the aircraft had been struck by a missile or rocket. there s still no sign of vladimir s leader, yevgeny prigozhin, who led this march on russia, af he cut a deal to go into belarus. also not seen, putin. we re going to have the latest on the white house reaction and president biden s conversation today with ukraine s leader. first, though, an update from cnn s matthew chance, who is in moscow. reporter: jim,
they made it within 125 mistlesf moscow. the kremlin announced the war lord could leave for belarus allegedly without penalty for mercenaries taking hold of a critical russian city. they were going to dismantle pnc wagner which came out on the 23rd of june to the march of justice. in day we walked nearly 200 kilometers away from moscow. in this time we did not spill a single drop of blood. now the moment has come when blood may spill. that s why understanding the responsibility for spilling russian blood, we are turning back our convoys and going back to field camps according to our plan. reporter: according to a spokesperson for secretary of state antony blinken, support by the united states for ukraine will not change. the united states will stay in close coordination with ukraine as this situation develops. and russian officials offer this, we warn the western countries against any hint of the possible use of the domestic russian situation to achieve their russia phobi
harold by them. in the south, temperatures rising even faster. 120 degrees in some parts of texas. now not just texas. get ready, this could get worse. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. glad to have you. fox on top of more nature getting over the top. to rick reichmuth. what are we looking at, rick? not only is it abnormal to be the c-named storms, it s where they are that is abnormal. they ve been forming in the open atlantic. the waves that came off the coast of africa. that generally happens to mid september, we get into that type of tropical development. so getting there, we ve never had two that formed to the east of the lesser antilles. all forming in a time that we might be looking at a lower than average season. currently, we have bret, cindy. there s no real threat to land for this. we ve had some strong wind gusts. if you throw up weather max 16 behind me, i can show you what s going on here. wind gusts of 69 miles an hour in st. lucia. bret, down across parts
given by two i.r.s. whistle blowers. they claim that the president s son received preferential treatment during the department s investigation. but what s got everyone talking is the bombshell whatsapp message they gave the committee. the one that implicates joe biden. the 2017 text has hunter biden invoking his father s name while pressuring a chinese business associate connected to the chinese communist party for payment. i am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. i will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows, and my ability to forever hold a grudge, that you will regret not following my direction. the text completely blowing up joe biden s consistent claims he s never been involved in his son s business dealings. mr. vice president, how many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings? i have never spoken to my son about his ov