come again. -sorry, what was that? introducing the next generation 10g network only from xfinity. hello i m alicia menendez the future starts now. with ali meridian thank you for joining our coverage as the world watches a crisis unfold in russia it has been a while 24 hours testing vladimir putin s hold on power. the kremlin now protecting the world and it reached a deal with the leader of a mercenary group that has gone rogue. prigozhin the leader of the mercenary group ordered his forces to return to their bases abandoning an armed rebellion that had them heading towards moscow the new video showing prigozhin greeted with cheers as he left the city of hours ago. that is where he had taken control of the key russian military facility an act of retaliation after russia s military launched a missile strike on wagner group camps, the kremlin has said that prigozhin would quote go to belarus and wagner soldiers would not be prosecuted, nbc news has not independently confi
Event and they were keeping it separate. With some prodding from the press, they decided to allow a few reporters in and one camera. Two hours later, they changed their minds. So theres no press inside this event right now. We have no idea what the president is saying to donors, and we likely wont find out unless one of the donors tells us. How much is the trump Hotel Getting paid to host this . I know you were asking some questions about that. Reporter thats a great question. We have no idea who is paying for this event tonight that the president is attending. We reached out for comment, and our requests have not been answered. So it could be the rnc. It could be the reelection campaign, and it could be that the hotel donated the space. We dont know. Is it normal for a president to hold a fund raiser for rhis reelection five months after taking office . President s obama and bush didnt
unprecedented and remarkable in and of itself. Put it all together and once again donald trump is so
this is something that he was were choir to do by the kremlin. so if you are a privateer, sometimes you get to make money for yourself, sometimes you have to do your obligation for the state. by the way, the russian hacking organizations that often attack u.s. government websites, and also private companies, operated in a very similar way. they make money for themselves and then occasionally the russian intelligence agencies will tap them on the shoulder and asked them to carry out a project in the national interest, in the state interest. that is what wagner was, wagner remains. what happened in ukraine s it was losing so many men, it was losing so many resources and prigozhin felt like he was deliberately being undermined by the jealous military establishment that the defense
this is a cozy relationship that needs to come to an end. and i don t think they will ever stop until we hit them back. we have a lot of offensive capability. we just choose not to use it apparently. senator graham tells me instead of handing putin a list of 16 sectors that are off limits to cyberattacks, president biden should have given him a list of hacking organizations operating right under his nose in russia and made it clear to putin that he is 100 percent responsible for cyberattacks coming from his country. bret? bret: hillary vaughn live on the hill. hillary, thanks. president biden has signed a bill june 19th known as juneteenth a federal holiday. all can learn and separate progress and grapple with the distance we have come. bret: juneteenth is the day that in 1865 union soldiers brought news of freedom to
the experts also say cutting off the flow of the millions in stolen money or bitcoin is also key to disrupting the hacking organizations. norah. o donnell: jeff pegues, thank you. we re going to turn now to the coronavirus pandemic. tonight, the white house is pledging to give 25 million vaccine doses to countries hard hit by the virus by the end of june. that s part of a larger pledge to send 80 million shots overseas. now, the donation comes as want white house is trying to improve low vaccination rates back here at home in the deep south, especially in places like alabama, where new cases have spiked nearly 50%. cbs mireya villarreal is there tonight. reporter: tonight, the biden administration is pushing to get 70% of adults vaccinated by july 4. this virus is an opportunist, and it will go to places where people are not vaccinated. reporter: the vaccination pace is slowing. among the 10 states with the lowest vaccination rates, mississippi, louisiana, and alabama have the