man who threatened his grip on power, yevgeny prigozhin. but why? and did that meeting actually happen? plus tonight, major movement in the trump investigations. the doj going after trump s longtime aide in the classified documents case, while another grand jury is about to be selected. will it bring a third indictment against trump? and a massive manhunt tonight in pennsylvania. a suspected murderer with survivalist skills escapes from prison using a bed sheet. is someone tonight helping him stay alive and away and armed from police? let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, putin, the not-so-strong man. the kremlin revealing tonight that putin met with yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of that armed rebellion just five days after the attempted coup. the kremlin is giving some details. they re saying it was a nearly three-hour meeting. they re saying it happened on june 29th. so a lot of details there, including putin s spokesperson dmitr
legal, economic reforms that other countries have to carry out before they join, but still there is no clear timeline on when ukraine will actually be able to joint alliance, something president zelenskyy wanted, if not a formal invitation now, he wanted a signal from the alliance that he would be invited, ukraine would be invited into the alliance, once the war with russia ends. they did not get that commitment. nato said there are still conditions that ukraine needs to fulfill before it can join. they did not specify what those conditions are, but still, when president biden meets with zelenskyy tomorrow, we are expecting him to reiterate the u.s. s enduring support for ukraine militarily, financially and, of course, morally. reit it ter rating the russian invasion of ukraine was illegal and it that it undermined, of course, the putin s belief that he could keep nato divided. jim? well, the biggest condition seems to be that it remains at war with russia and the alliance doesn t wa
specifically president biden that ukraine needed to be invited into nato immediately, even though it wouldn t happen till after the war. but the invitation needed to come now. take a listen. invitation ukraine to nato. not down the line, now? now. it will push russia, it will push our soldiers quicker because of the mobilization of the people. president biden told fareed zakaria that ukraine won t be considered for nato membership until after the war is over. biden did not do what zelenskyy wanted, which ukraine should be in nato, we want to invite ukraine and come in after the war is over. do you support ukraine joining nato getting that explicit of an invitation now? look, i just don t think the timing is right. i think president biden is
that border from poland in great numbers. we know more lethal aid is arriving, i think from spain, from the uk. they re going to up that kind of weapons which are contributing to the defense forces. still short of what zelenskyy wanted, but he s getting much of the sort of the stuff he wanted, the armored vehicles, the increased range artillery. it s being evened out a little with the new military aid, which is on its way. good point. good point. good to see you there, my friend. i will point out it s probably 20 degrees warmer than when i was there, but good for you. good to see you, john. talk to you soon. thank you, mate. we ll take a quick break. when we come back, some of the measures president vladimir putin is taking to bolster russian troops in ukraine, as the conflict now enters its fifth week. we ll be right back.