future of russia. among them what is prigozhin s next move, what concessions if any did he get to reverse course, and where is he today? this is treason. in the face of those who are fighting on the front. this is a stab in the back of our troops. plus, what does vladimir putin s unprecedented admission of vulnerability in a national speech mean for his hold on power and on the war in ukraine? this is just the latest chapter in a book of failure that putin has written for himself and for russia. economically, militarily. his standing in the world. all of those things have plummeted. we ll have insight and analysis this hour from former cia director john brennan, former u.s. european command deputy steph twitty, a former top adviser to president zelenskyy in ukraine, and senate intelligence committee chairman mark warner, who was briefed on prigozhin s plans in the days leading up to the weekend rebellion. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington, where pr
earlier than previous known. in fact, for more than a year. and the death toll is rising tonight in kentucky. homes completely under water. in just a matter of hours, we will speak to a pastor whose church was entirely washed away. let s go outfront . good evening to you. i m jim sciutto in for erin burnett. outfront , breaking news. the white house responding here on outfront after putin ups the ante on a prisoner swap deal. cnn exclusively reporting that president vladimir putin is demanding even more when it comes to the swap. according to sources, not only does he want viktor bout in exchange for brittney griner and paul whelan, the russians also now want a convicted murderer to be released. he was sentenced to life in president there. you broke the story. what more can you tell us what about the russians are demanding here. reporter: yeah. what we are told is earlier this month after they proposed the deal for viktor bout for paul whelan and brittney griner, they
their next moves are. and interesting that you ve heard we ve heard from beijing today saying that it supports russia and particularly supports russian stability and we ve heard from minister lavrov today, the foreign minister. one of the notes from what he said was interesting was he says that the u.s. ambassador reached out and wanted to reassure russia that america did not have any involvement in what was going on but also to get reassurance about russia s nuclear capability because of course this is a country with about half of the world s nuclear warheads and it is the defense minister who is in charge of those. exactly. keir, it s so great to have you there on the ground. thank you so much. keir simmons. and so let s turn to ukraine for our latest reporting on the situation on the ground for front line troops. and what we re hearing from president zelenskyy. what s the impact of all of this, what s happening in russia on the ukrainian counteroffensive?
brittany and paul come home to their families. they are wrongfully detained there. and we are just going to keep at that work does russia have the cards here in effect? it doesn t seem like they re in any rush to release whelan or griner. they are slow rolling any response to the initial offer from the u.s. do they have the leverage here? what they have are two americans that need to be home. two americans that are being wrongfully detained. we put a serious offer on the table that we think they should definitely consider. and, again, it was done in good faith on our part to try to see if we can get these two americans back home, and we urge the russians to take that deal and to have a serious conversation with us. now, i know secretary blinken talked to foreign minister lavrov today. this came up. he, again, urged that the russians to move on this proposal, and we certainly hope they do. of course the danger here, right. the griner family, whelan
about what, you know, one of the most official most senior russian officials, i mean, i think these came from lavrov today, and now it s from sergey lavrov certainly always thought to be very close to vladimir putin, what is the sense from the people you talk to in ukraine about the real risk of putin using nuclear weapons there? the ukrainians don t put much stock in what president putin says or what foreign minister lavrov says. they have lied to the world, and they ve lied to the ukrainians. they ve said they were not going to invade. they said all the troops around ukraine were there for exercises, so the ukrainians they re concerned like everybody else, like general mccaffrey just said. the people are concerned, it s unsettling to hear that kind of talk from senior people in what you would hope to be responsible government, but they re not. and they lied, and so the