story for the last 18 hours or so. just across the border from where we are right now. huge ramifications for the war and world affairs. it s called the biggest challenge to russian president vladamir putin 23 weir t weir td the man responsible, wa wagner group chief prigozhin and he claimed his forces were fired on by russia and he took his fighters, as many as 25,000 along with tanks, armor, guns out of ukraine where they were deployed to nearby key southeastern city of rostov-on-don and population is 1 million. with almost no fight put up, they took over the main military headquarters there, which runs this war here and plus other official buildings. the demand for the top russian military brass comes to him to discuss the complaints. lets to move onto threats to move onto moscow if the demands are not made and another town 30 o 0 miles close toter capitol and vladamir putin lashed out at prigozhin and a once friend and key ally and threatening decisive action. take a li
january 6th, and attempting to overturn the last presidential election. in a sealed legal filing, donald trump is appealing a federal judges order in washington d.c. for donald trump s white house staff to testify. to jack smith s grand jury. the order, the judges order, requires donald trump s last white house chief of staff, mark meadows, to testify to the grand jury. along with donald trump s last director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, and donald trump s last national security adviser, robert o brien. along with other trump white house officials, the trump appeal is trying to claim executive privilege. to block that testimony, we are always lucky when we have neal katyal appearing on this program, we are especially lucky on appeal news nights. because former acting solicitor general the united states, neal katyal, is one of the top federal appeals court practitioners in the united states. in a moment, neal katyal will give us his assessment of the prospects for
states supreme court. we begin tonight with investigation news. the latest legal development of the day is the news that donald trump has launched another delay tactic. in special prosecutor, jack smith, federal grand jury investigation of donald trump s activities leading up to an on january 6th, and attempting to overturn the last presidential election. in a sealed legal filing, donald trump is appealing a federal judges order in washington d. c. for donald trump s white house staff to testify. to jack smith s grand jury. the order, the judges order, requires donald trump s last white house chief of staff, mark meadows, to testify to the grand jury. along with donald trump s last director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, and donald trump s last national security adviser, robert o brien. along with other trump white house officials, the trump appeal is trying to claim executive privilege. to block that testimony, we are always lucky when we have neal katyal appearin
i m ari melber live in washington where congress held this historic vote to expel indicted republican congressman george santos. on this vote, the yeas are 311, the nays are 114. two-thirds voting in the affirmative, the resolution is adopted. the chair announces to the house that in light of the expulsion of the gentleman from new york, mr. santos, the whole number of the house is now 434. that is exactly how it just went down. george santos, the now-former congressman, could be seen walking off the house floor for the last time during this session of congress. there he is with a handshake. this is a major shift, because republicans had previously, until today, stood by santos through the earlier scandals, the bad press, and even his initial indictment. this change came fast, santos going from that floor to exiting capitol hill as staff literally changed the locks to the offices, you see there, that he is no longer holding. this dam politically and legislatively broke wi
is? what if the question isn t are we really going to do this, are we going to maybe elect a convicted felon running explicitly on a platform that ends the american experiment in democracy but on a more basic level should we be asking a different question like is he all right? watch as the presumptive republican presidential nominee celebrates a deadly domestic terrorist attack he helped incite on the united states capitol, as he openly shows contempt for and toward his own supporters standing in front of him, as he rambles on and on and on and on about sharks of all things in rants so bizarre that unhinged doesn t come close to capturing it. he just came up. are the teleprompters not working? said not even a little bit! great job. and then i don t pay the company that does it, right? and then i end up with a story, trump doesn t pay. i don t pay contractors that do a [ bleep ] job. and that s a [ bleep ] job. that s a [ bleep ] job. this is the worst border in the hist