Codefendants. Also tonight, cnn has learned that Secretary Of State Antony Blinken just spoke by phone with paul wheeler, an american wrongfully imprisoned in russia. And as the death toll of the Maui Wildfire climbs above 100, there are now growing questions about the cause of the disaster and the governors response. Josh green will join us live this hour. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. Tonight the wheels are in motion for Donald Trumps arrest, arraignment and trial in the Georgia Election subversion case, the Fulton County District Attorney proposing some key dates amid negotiations with trumps lawyers about details of his surrender. Lets go to cnns sarah murray who is just back from atlanta where shes covered the indictment and done an excellent job. Tell us about the d. A. s proposed trial date and how it fits into this already very busy legal and political calendar for the form are prer president. As
Not giving him enough support or weapons, screaming at the defense minister and the head of the russian military. so that appears now to have reached a crescendo. i m told that intelligence officials saw the planning for what turned out to be this march towards moscow carried out by prigozhin, which ended very suddenly yesterday. they saw the wagner forces who had retreated from bakhmut start to gather and move and gather equipment and weapons and make this move towards rostov in southern russia, which they ventlv eventually took over to the point where intelligence officials briefed top members of congress, the leaders both republicans and democrats in the house and senate, as well as the top leaders of both parties in the intelligence committees to let them know that something like this would be coming. the surprise, wolf, i m told was when it actually was carried out
Back as the wagner group was prepared, in their words, at any rate to turn their convoy around some 125 miles, 200 kilometers short of the russian capital moscow. what we don t know now is what the longer term implications for the putin regime are or indeed for the ongoing conflict in ukraine because this clearly utilities the ukrainians very nicely, wolf. certainly does. sam kiley with an update for us. we re also learning much more about how president biden is trying to manage this moment and what u.s. intelligence officials knew leading up to this weekend s crisis. i want to bring in arlette saenz and alex marquradt.
And how little resistance there was. there was no resistance from the russian military, from the russian security forces, from the border guard. they met zero confrontation along that road to moscow. i m told there had been a u.s. as i assessment that a lot more violence and bloodshed was expected and that never came, wolf. thank you very much. let s get analysis from the former assistance secretary of state for political military affairs during the george w. bush administration. general, thanks for joining us. president zelenskyy says he and president biden discussed the hostilities in russia and putin s war on ukraine. how do the u.s. and western allies help ukraine capitalize on this russian instability? well, i think 24 hours ago there was an opportunity to capitalize on this when you had the instability, when you had the uncertainty about the
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