counsel s investigation of donald trump and 2020 election inter interference. prosecutors interviewing the georgia secretary of state who was on that infamous call from trump asking gop officials to, quote, find votes. and president biden promotes bidenomics, embracing the phrase as he tries to sell voters on his economic policies. but will that strategy work? i ll ask the man who coined the slogan it s the economy, stupid , the legendary democratic campaign strategist james carville. he ll join us live. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, new reporting suggests that the mutiny by russian mercenary forces had a truly stunning and very dangerous end game. cnn senior national security correspondent alex marquardt is following all the details for us. alex, what do we know about the goal of the wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin and his failed rebellion? well, wolf, what prigozhin s ul
health care. in a instagram post, her long-time manager confirmed that the pop singer is recovering from a serious bacterial infection which landed her in the intensive care unit for several days. the post goes on to say that madonna s health is improving, and she is expected to make a full recovery, but she is still under the care of doctors. the 64-year-old grammy winner was due to launch her celebration tour, traveling to 43 cities around the world. and we do wish her a speedy recovery. thank you so much for watching, everyone. i m bianna golodryga in for jake tapper. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in the situation room. happening now, vladimir putin puts on a show of public support amid new reporting that his top military leaders were targets of the wagner mutiny. we ll discuss new details about the rebellion and its impact on putin s war with the ukrainian ambassador to the united states. also tonight, significant new testimony in the special
moscow, thank you. let s go to the war zone in eastern ukraine right now. and cnn s senior international correspondent ben wedeman, who is on the scene for us. ben, what is president zelenskyy saying in the aftermath of that wagner mutiny? what s the latest? well, certainly president zelenskyy was probably one of the happiest people to see the disorder in russia during the weekend as wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin was leading his mutiny. a lot of the wagner mercenaries who were actually in this part of ukraine, in eastern ukraine were pulled out to participate in that mutiny. and as a result of the departure of most of them, president zelenskyy doesn t seem to look at least upon the wagner mercenaries as an immediate threat. translator: the wagnerites are occupied on the temporary occupied territory of ukraine. they are and they were present in the luhansk region.
just said, putin is the kind of guy who definitely would want to clamp down right now to show that he is in control and to seek retribution. there was a lot of anger in his voice. the first time he got in front of the people to talk about prigozhin and the traitors, and i m sure that anger has not subsided. if anything, it s grown. but the problem, the bind that he is in, as you referred to it, is the fact that prigozhin is on the nationalists side, and he s got a lot of support from more hardline nationalists that maybe putin himself. but certainly hardline nationalists. and he has probably the tacit support of the russian people, because he was standing up speaking for their sons and their fathers and their husbands on the battlefield. so how he navigates this will be tricky for him. very tricky indeed. matt, putin, as we know, relies on the wagner mercenary group for all sorts of activities around the world in africa, the
following all the details for us. alex, what do we know about the goal of the wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin and his failed rebellion? well, wolf, what prigozhin s ultimate intentions were in this insurrection do remain relatively murky, but there is new reporting from the wall street journal that prigozhin had intended to capture the heads of the russian military, the defense minister and the top general. that plan, according to the wall street journal, was foiled after the internal security service, the fsb discovered it and prigozhin was then forced to launch his march, his insurrection earlier than he had planned. but once he had done that, once he had crossed into russia and all but taken over the city of rostov, it became unclear exactly what his intentions were. wolf, you ll remember that we have reported over the past several days that u.s. intelligence did have indications that prigozhin was planning to launch something imminently, that he was massing troops, weapons and