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good morning, everyone. it s d.c. it s friday. we made it to friday. poppy s off this week. pamela brown is here with me once again. let s get started. five things to know for this friday, july 14, 2023. new overnight, culture war fights take center stage in a house vote for normally a bipartisan policy bill. late into the night after republican hardliners attacked several controversial amendments, including some that would end diversiity rules at te pentagon. sources telling cnn, hicks and kushner were questioned before a grand jury. actors joining writers on the picket line today. it s the first joint strike since 1960. tens of millions of americans under heat alerts from coast to coast. some areas could see records this weekend. some areas reaching 120 degrees in some spots. and the world health organization warning that the widely used artificial sweetsweetener aspertane could cause cancer. cnn starts right now. good morning, everyone. i kind of froze wh ....
betrayal. he essentially called yevgeny prigozhin a traitor. the kremlin said that yevgeny prigozhin was going to have to go to exile into belarus. now we re learning that prigozhin was inside the kremlin with 35 other commanders just a couple days after that mutiny took place and the kremlin, jake, gave some details as to what was spoken about. they said that vladimir putin listened to what these commanders had to say. apparently they pledged allegiance to vladimir putin. there was one thinat caught our attention. i want to read you what was said. quote, the president gave an assessment of the actions of the campaign at the front during the military operations, essentially how the war was going, as well as events of june 24th, the mutiny orchestrated by yevgeny prigozhin. putin listened to the explanations provided by the commander and offered them options for deployment. there are some that believe that means the wagner military company could make a comeback to the ba ....
this is cnn news central. already this morning, donald trump arrived in federal court and donald trump left his next stop. everyone was waiting to see if trump would take the stand today in his defamation trial, but then court was adjourned. so now he ll leave the courtroom campaign to head to the actual campaign trail in the final hours there before polls open in new hampshire. nikki haley is out talking to voters already this morning and as we have just heard, is taking it to donald trump. here she was moments ago. when you hear trump speak, what s he talking about? grievances, the past, he s talking about vendettas, today he s in court. biden is talking about investigations. neither one of them is talking about the future. we have live team coverage for you this hour. crist tennessee holmes is in new hampshire. court was cancelled a short time ago. what more are you learning about what happened? reporter: there was a delayed start to court. once the judge g ....
secretary of state tony blinken is pointing to cracks in putin s grip on power, but in, but is the world looking at an entirely new reality in russia for vladimir putin this morning after the chaos over the weekend. released today, a video of putin you see there, but we don t know when or where this video was shot and putin makes no mention of the rebellion. and also unclear, the fate of the man who started coup, and the fate of yevgeny prigozhin to have him live in exile in belarus, and he has not been seen since saturday night. nic robertson is joining us from london to track all of this, this morning. nic, what can people read from that? yes, it is typical of the kremlin, and putin wants to be distanced from the trouble over the weekend, but he wants to project the image that he is still there, and still in control, and he has delegated it appears the prime minister today to speak about a internal stability of the country and moving forward about the unity of being ....
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, wh ....