mounting a mutiny gain ground. we will go live to kyiv for the latest overnight developments. here at home, one year later, today marks the full year since that supreme court set reproductive rights back 50 years by overturning the landmark roe v. wade ruling. congresswoman barbara lee and join us live to discuss the ongoing fallout. interlinks is. special counsel jack smith filed motions to delay trump s mar-a-lago classified documents trial, as a high-ranking trump 2020 campaign official talks to the january six grand jury. i am jonathan capehart. this is a special edition of the saturday show. we begin with breaking news on a pivotal turning point in putin s war on ukraine. internal military rebellion in russia is revealing a new threat to vladimir putin s ongoing 485-day war. nbc news reports russian generals are ordering the arrest of yevgeny prigozhin, the former putin ally and leader of the brutal wagner mercenary group now accused of trying to mount a armed pl
jinping. they are trial stabilize the two super powers secretary blinken, we are following that meeting this morning, former president trump and his attorneys ordered not to disclose evidence in the mar-a-lago classified documents case members of his administration ramp up their criticism. do you believe he lied to the justice department do i personally believe it? yes. he constantly engaged in reckless conduct. ukraine making gains in its counteroffensive against russia, recapturing a village in the southeast on sunday. carrying out a strike on rusch s ammunition depot deep behind enemy lines this morning, an increasing tensions between the u.s. and china. secretary of state antony blinken became the highest ranking official in the biden administration to visit that country. he met with china s president xi jinping for 35 minutes and had an hour s long talk with china s top diplomats. the u.s. is describing the meeting candid and constructive and the china foreig
translator: we don t want to keep going through this. every year there are strikes. this is where the next phase of the war will be won or lost, in trenches like this. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is monday, august 8, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where new life is being breathed into president biden s domestic agenda after senate democrats finally passed their sweeping climate health care and tax plan officially known as the inflation reduction act. vice president kamala harris cast the deciding vote after a deadlock along party lines. on this vote the yeas are 50, nays are 50. the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the motion is agreed to. the measure represents the largest climate investment in u.s. history with $370 billion to combat climate change. it also makes major changes to health policy such as giving medicare the power to negotiate some drug prices and it imp
ukraine is winning. i said this a number of times. i stand by this. we have to remember this is not a film. this is not an action movie. in films, it s really simple. the first act, the aggressor swarms across the border and the ukrainians defend themselves. in the second act, there s a diplomatic effort. the international coalition of support. we give arms, equipment and training. and the third act, they get this decisive break through, they get to the black sea coast and the credits roll and, you know, the leading act is kherson. we wait for oscar night. in the real world, the russian forces spent the winter digging in. they riddled the southeast with minefields, trench systems, physical barricades. the ukrainians are regaining
you can see russia there, between russia, going through all of that red, which is occupied by the russian forces with about 600 miles of russian defense down to the crimea peninsula there. and so if you can cut that red there, then you can cut the flow of russian goods, services. you can seize back the oblast. and so that is the intent of this. but what is going to be a hard fight is in that red, you have tanks, artillery, infantry dug in. trench systems, wires, minds. you have everything that you would see in an elaborate defensive belt that has been dug in there for at least a year, and in many cases since 2014. so lieutenant general, as we were speaking there, it makes me wonder, especially with the