where is prigozhin? the world thought that the question was answered last week, but now the world is looking with intrigue once again. the russian president is asked once again. and walt nauta is set before a federal judge again on charges that he helped to conceal secret files and then lied about it, and we have more on the search before mar-a-lago. and now, two charges against ghost gun manufacturers. we have more as the news is coming into cnn news central. this morning, the kremlin is refusing to say whether the man responsible for staging a rebellion against russia is in russia, yet the president of belarus actually won t say whether he is in st. petersburg, russia, and yet it is that same president who said in the days after the rebellion that he was in belarusbelarus. though it is unclear where the wagner leader is, it looks like they have launched a classic smear campaign against him, they have launched a raid of his home and office. there are some images of w
and is probably in the russian city of st petersburg. that s according to the belarusian leader, alexander lukashenko. mr prigozhin led wagner s short lived mutiny in russia last month. mr lukashenko said he had in his words offered to let mr prigozhin bed down in belarus. nine days ago, he confirmed the mercenary group leader had arrived in the country as part of a deal to end the rebellion. in a news conference, mr lukashenko also said that he planned to discuss mr prigozhin s activities with the russian president, vladimir putin, and he said he had been assured that mr putin will not wipe out the wagner group leader. mr prigozhin was last seen in public when he left rostov on don in southern russia. there has been speculation about whether he was sticking to the terms of the deal. he has not been seen in public since the mutiny was called off. a plane linked to mr prigozhin has flown between belarus and russia several times in the past two weeks. meanwhile, in ukra
you are in the cnn newsroom. i ll paula reed in washington. jim acosta has the day off. we begin with this hour with evidence of former trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. after the votes were cast, trump called then governor doug ducey of arizona in an attempt to pressure him into overturning his state s results. sources say the former president also pushed his then vice president, mike pence, to help him in this pressure campaign. cnn s jeremy herb joins us now. all right, jeremy. the former governor is down playing this alleged call. what have you learned? yeah, that is s right, paul. he basically said this call is old news. while it is true that we knew about this call after it happened in 2020, what we re learning today is new details about what president trump said to former governor ducey. sources telling cnn that the president pressured the governor to try to find enough fraud so he could overturn the results of the election in arizona. we re also lear
a good sunday evening to you. i m jim sciutto, and this is cnn s special live coverage of the extraordinary events this weekend out of russia. moscow s red square blocked off again today after the brief but stunning insurrection that s gripped the world, could perhaps weaken vladimir putin s grip on his country. we should note it s far too soon to know. so much we don t know about what led wagner mercenary group leader yevgeny prigozhin to launch a march on moscow and what convinced him to abruptly call it off. and then, it s said, go into exile. u.s. secretary of state tony blinken today called the whole series of events extraordinary, believes it indicates that cracks are emerging in putin s rule. the very latest now from cnn s sam kiley live from london. sam, we re watching russia closely, ukraine, also events in belarus. any developments to indicate to us what s actually happening right now? reporter: well, jim, i think the most stunning development so far is an absence
# hold me close, tiny dancer. and sir eltonjohn brings the sun down on glastonbury in the final uk show of his farewell tour. in a weekend of dramatic developments, russian president vladimir putin faced the greatest challenge to his authority, analysts say president vladimir putin faced the greatest challenge to his authority since he came to power, when the wagner mercenary group leader yevgeny prighozin launched a brief but damaging mutiny. mr putin s standing at home and abroad as well as russia s strategy in ukraine are under scrutiny. these pictures are just coming into these pictures are just coming into us by a newsagency feed, which we of vladimir putin, sent over. engineers of the future, that address there. we re not sure he is exactly, or the timing of this, but we have been talking about how we haven t seen or heard from vladimir putin since saturday, since his address to the nation, when this rebellion was very much under way. it is very significant we