officials have been interviewed in the special counsel s investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. this is the former president s lawyers move to stop prosecutors this their tracks. plus, putin s spin. russian state tv in overdrive after a top general slams the country s military leaders and is fired for it. this as we learn more about putin s alleged meeting with the man who tried to overthrow him. and tonight, an arrest in serial killings othat terrorize new york for decades. the suspect, a married father of three, and an architect. let s go outfront. i m erica hill in for erin b burnett. cnn learning exclusively the special counsel has met with more top officials from states crucial to trump s attempt to maintain power after the 2020 election. interviewing the secretary of stays from pennsylvania and new mexico. these are the latest of course in a growing list of state officials whose cooperation with the special counsel is now public. the h
A member of his trusted inner circle dared to revolt and marched his army of mercenaries into russia. [speaking nonenglish] Yevgeny Prigozhin had reason to be angry. He had raised a private army called the wagner group and sent them to fight putins war in ukraine. His men were being slaughtered and prigozhin blamed russians Armchair Generals running the war of sabotage. [speaking nonenglish] there was a mutiny against Vladimir Putins armed forces. It is more like a fight between gangs, which is like a mafia state. Vladimir putin was rattled and seemed to be caught off guard. He had raised prigozhin and empowered him. Prigozhin is entirely a creature of vladimir putin. He does not exist without putin. This is a frankensteinlike scenario. Ive been following prigozhins extraordinary rise for years and seen firsthand how the onetime, petty thief built a criminal empire in syria, africa, russia, and ukraine. Making him powerful enough to challenge the boss. It is like, we know there is more
happening now, president biden is on his way back to the united states after a final round of talks with allies here in europe. he s touting the nato summit as a success and declaring that vladimir putin and i m quoting him now, already has lost the war in ukraine. also tonight, defense secretary lloyd austin tells me he has no doubt ukraine will join nato after the war ends. stand by for all of my exclusive one-on-one interview with secretary austin here in lithuania. the pentagon chief also telling me that gop senator tommy tuberville s hold on u.s. military promotions is a national security issue. and breaking news we re following right now. donald trump s son-in-law and former adviser jared kushner has testified before the federal grand jury investigating 2020 election interference. our correspondents are working the story. they re getting new information this hour. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in vilnius, lithuani
now, we do have new reporting on where yevgeny prigozhin was shortly after. the story keeps getting weirder. the only sort of bright spot for vladimir putin is ukraine s counter offensive has been slow. will cluster munitions change that, and how much blow back will president biden get for that. one nation against it is the uk, we have the latest on the president s stop in london this morning. there s a lot to get to. let us start with the reporting. joining me now, nbc news correspondent ali arouzi, and from kyiv, nbc news foreign correspondent kelly cobiella. let s get to lithuania, the president has just gotten there. what s the agenda for tomorrow? what s on the table? reporter: well, the summit really kicks off in earnest tomorrow, and president biden will be meeting other leaders of nato countries. he ll be very various bilaterals. there will be a nato family photo, and then a dinner at the presidential palace, where they will be able to discuss various issues that th
from california to florida, many states hitting triple digits. phoenix now reaching ten consecutive days of 110-degree temperatures. also developing as we come on the air tonight, the images coming in now, the massive landslide destroying at least nine homes and counting in los angeles county. the ground shifting 20 feet overnight, sending homes into a ravine. matt gutman on the scene for us. president biden on the world stage tonight. he has just arrived in lithuania for the high stakes nato summit. and already, major news tonight. sweden to join nato, and president biden is asked, should ukraine be allowed to join, too? elizabeth schulze traveling with the president. the news from the kremlin tonight. moscow now claiming that just five days after that attempted revolt, vladimir putin claims he held a three-hour meeting with yevgeny prigozhin, who led that failed attempt to march on moscow. james longman late reporting from inside ukraine tonight. here in the u.s., t