but even if the threat is over and it s not at all clear that saturday s turn around was, in fact, the end, what did the flash of descent do to russia itself, not the government or security services but the people. what message did russians get over the weekend? what did they see when yevgeny prigozhin s tanks move toward the capital? what did they feel when his troops reportedly shot down several russian helicopters? that s according to ukraine s air force. what did they hear when vladimir putin called prigozhin a traitor and compared his threat to 1917. we re going to ask masha gessen of the new york. the russia public saw something extraordinary, a choice, it will something that changes russia even if it doesn t alter putin s control in the short term. let s get our reporting and the news from russian tv that vladimir putin will speak tonight. joining me now from moscow is nbc news chief international correspondent keir simmons. so keir, this news that he s going to speak,
has a rendezvous with destiny. we stand today on the edge of a new frontier. a whole world looks to see what we shall do. and we cannot fail that trust, an we cannot fail to try. this place called america, this shining city on a hill, this government of, by, and for the people. there is not a liberal america and a conservative america. there is the united states of america. as president, we will wage a war on the woke. we will fight the woke in schools. we will fight the woke in the corporations. we ll fight the woke in the halls of congress. we will never surrender to the woke mob. i m sorry. the soaring rhetoric of america s presidents versus the feeble rants of a wanna be, who was just called a small, pathetic man, by a fellow governor. woke, woke, woke, woke. plus, stand by for breaking news in the trump investigations involving his final white house chief of staff, mark meadows. also tonight, growing calls for justice following the killing of aj owens, a fl
absent from the campaign trailer from the courtroom that her husband has been in. thank you very much for joiningous this very busy news week. cnn news night starts right now. a jury gives rudy giuliani 148 million reasons to regret his lies, that is tonight on news line. good evening. i m in washington where today, cameras caught what might be a final chapter in a truly american story. a jury sentenced a man once known as america s mayor as a financial death penalty. he is on the hook for $148 million for the harm he caused to two women. moss and freeman. they are the georgia election workers whose lives were forever altered after giuliani made them the crux of a fraud conspiracy. the sheer size of this penalty is really stunning. $16 million for defaming freeman. $16 million for defaming moss, $40 million for distress to both and $75 million in punitive damages. the two woman thanked the jury but today s result does not a tone for two years of turmoil. the flame tha
ex-president very clear publicly known efforts and plot to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. a series of court battles over the last few weeks have largely gone in special counsel jack smith s favor, resulted if a whole slew of new trump officials and allies now being ordered to testify. some big names, none of them bigger than the one, vice president mike pence, news broke on tuesday that a federal judge had ordered him to answer questions under oath regarding conversations that may involve illegality on donald trump s part. here s what mike pence told nbc news about all of that this morning. i ll be in washington, d.c., later the week. i ll be meeting with my counsel that week and we ll determine the best way forward. again, i have nothing to hide. i believe we did our duty under the constitution on january 6th. nothing to hide, but that response begs the question, if that s the case, and frankly the fact that he wrote the book about it, why hasn t he testified
jury in georgia, at least three sections of it. the part of what the grand jury believes to be perjury is going to be the most fascinating part. we will be studying and discussing at this very hour. we will be using our magnifying glasses, we will have our thesaurus is, we will have our dictionaries, all resource materials possible to read between the lines. the first big georgia grand jury night, and there will be more after that one. they re sure will be, lawrence. thank you alex. the big news of the night is that the special prosecutor jack smith has subpoenaed donald trump s final white house chief of staff, mark meadows, test testify under oath to a grand jury in washington d.c.. cnn is reporting that mark meadows received a subpoena sometime in january, seeking documents and testimony related to the january 6th attack on the capitol by a trump mob encouraged by donald trump, the attorney for meadows declined to comment on that report. mark meadows also has rel