happening now, early voting is underway in the critical midterm election battleground state of georgia. we await the start of a high- stakes debate in the governor s race and a dustup in the senate showdown, as well. republican herschel walker s on the defensive for using an honorary sheriff s badge as a political prop. russia intensifies its attacks on civilians, unleashing a swarm of kamikaze drones on the ukrainian capital. i will ask a former cia director, david petraeus, about the u.s. response to this brutal phase of russian president vladimir putin s war. cnn is on the scene with an all-female fighting unit supporting protesting against iran. the battle and why they take it personally. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you are in the situation room. we are hitting a critical stretch for the candidates of both political parties. the final chance to make an impression on voters with early ballots already being cast. natio
pete: we re back with a fox news alert. the rucks administerny now reportedly using administer til and i helicopters to open artillery and helicopters to have the convoy 300 miles south of moscow. the wagner group loyal to the kremlin seized a key city without fire ago single shot. the leader of the uprising says vladamir putin is deeply mistake anne donovan calling his fighters traitors but putin is vowing to crush the rebellion. a developing story inside russia with a lot of ramifications as we get more information this morning, we ll bring it to you. will: meanwhile attorney general merrick garland pushing back against testimony by an irs whistle blower that the justice department interfered with the investigation into hunter biden. he was appointed by president trump as u.s. attorney in
and she said there s two possibilities. one, we re funneling prigozhin because he s a mercenary and maybe we have something to do with the so-called up rising and the other thing is he s looking to replace putin. here s what she told us earlier. there s a real threat of armed insurrection and possesses 6,000 weapons and a lot pointing to the u.s. homeland and any kind of instability is not good for anyone. what prigozhin is aiming potentially is to replace putin in 2024. russia will have presidential elections on march 17th of next year. prigozhin is actually aiming to replace this guy, to replace the current leader and that s why he s stirring up populous movement in russia so again, it s not in russia not everything is what you see; right? it s the wilderness of merits
these lies and perpetuating them. it is it s jarring and borders on surreal to watch the 19 members in the white house how they planned to overturn the election, and a lot of them were outed as having seeking pardons. it s amazing. and surreal is the word i keep coming to have them ascended to such power brokers in the house. i want to go back to your public statement from the public hearings about the chain of command for january 6th. donald trump summoned a violent mob and promised to lead that mob to the capitol to compel those he thought would cave to that kind of pressure. and when he was thwarted in his effort to lead the armed up rising, he insigated the attackers to target the vice president with violence. a man who just wanted to do his
a senator is opposed to the 15th amendment. by the way, the ratification of the 15th amendment, the 152nd anniversary is this coming wednesday, february 3rd. 150 years ago, we said everybody should have a right to vote, and now 152 years later, senators like in arizona are trying to deny the abridge to vote. everybody needs to be speaking out against this. i appreciate that you don t even need to say her name. reverend, thank you for your time. next, trump feels the heat, at least it appears he is after last night s ramblings in texas about a new up rising, and pardoning the capitol rioters if he s allowed back in the white house. and then one congresswoman joins us with a new plan being