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desperate measures to try to hold the front line. vladimir putin inspecting his troops and firing a rifle himself in a new wartime show of force. also this hour president biden is in the critical midterm battleground state of pennsylvania touting infrastructure spending as many voters are stressed out about inflation and the economy. i ll ask former treasury secretary larry summers for his up to the minute assessment of the recession threat. and new turmoil right now in britain after the prime minister liz truss abruptly announces her resignation after six short but troubled weeks in power. we ll get a read on the instability and what it means for the uk and the world. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. all right. let s get straight to the new developments out there on the battlefield in ukraine. we re tracking very fierce fighting in occupied territory, especially in the south, as mos ....
Tonight, ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy, he s accusing the russians of mining a key dam down in that area. the russians did blow that up. it would lead to severe flooding that could also endanger that zaporizhzhia power plant, which of course has been in such a precarious situation already. the russians have denied doing this. they say they would have no reason to do so. but as you can see, there s a lot of tension there right now and also a lot of fierce fighting going on, wolf. indeed there is. fred, stay with us. i also want to bring in retired colonel cedric leighton. he s a cnn military analyst. we re also joined by cnn contributor on russian affairs jill dougherty. jill, how do you interpret this extremely rare visit today by putin with these mobilized troops, notably alongside his defense minister as well? yeah, it was really very interesting. i think number one, we ve seen video of president putin the action man over the years. and there he was, you know, firing th ....
What is your reaction? it is against the back drop. no one is prosecuted who did leaking since the administration took over. michael flynn was a fisan intercepted and that was leaked by somebody, probably an obama hold over. there was a cascade of leaks and no one was held accountable for any of these things. i need more inform foreman on what is happening here. i know there is a former staffer on the senate intelligence committee that will probably be indicted. i am not sure working for a democrat or republican. i have a guess. but in the end of the day, you had series of leaks and no accountability up to this point. sean: news media and write this. consider mining a journalism records a mess. sarah carter, we work sources last night, and it is none of ....
With spirit and human support and human efforts and the strength of all the miners, all of these feelings are coming to my mind now. it was amazing to see at that spirits they were in almost to a person. of course, it was demonstrated by super mario, mario seeppulve. but the question is who is going to play super mario in the movie. nasa officials who went down there in the early going said that the chileans are basically writing the book about mine rescue. what led to the success? well, sometimes, when you re ambassador like me here and you are forced to talk about your country and to say that we have a mining a leading mining industry in chile. we have good professors there, we have good universities there, sometimes, it s very hard to explain that part. but with a story like this, it s easier to get the feeling that we are really a good country, in ....