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overthrow vladimir putin. and we re learning more about where yevgeny prigozhin might be at this hour. also ahead, ukraine tries to make the most of russia s crisis on the battlefield after a slow, bloody start to their counter offensive. plus, president biden s first public comments on everything that s unfolding in russia, and on capitol hill, lawmakers voicing their concerns but will that translate to more dollars and supplies for ukraine? our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, but we begin with nbc s matt bradley who has the latest on this challenge to putin s leadership. so matt, how significant is this new audio from prigozhin who has not been publicly seen since all of those people were coming around him in russia as he was getting ready to leave. well, it s pretty significant, chris, when you consider the fact that we haven t heard from this man in the past two days. it shed just a little bit more light on an episode that has re ....
welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. we are tracking several stories tonight, including another supreme court ethics scandal, tying gop appointee samuel alito to another billionaire on a fishing trip. we ll get into that later. it s a big story. but our news program begins tonight with not only the criminal trial of donald trump, now slated to begin on august 14th buck the broader ongoing threat of right wing individual lantyism and authoritarianism. tonight we begin with a special report on that very challenge, and trump s efforts to hijack the criminal justice system that now is trying to potentially hold him accountable. we re talking about a range of actions that has prompted already fear of violence over the violent rhetoric and whether that could turn to action. we re about one week out from the federal arraignment that trump did try to prevent. we remember he was forced to sit silently in that miami courtroom. outside cameras showed a very small crowd. the scen ....
tell us right now that there were kids inside that classroom. no response. did you know there were kids inside that classroom? no response. really? all right. time to get out of here. we re cnn, we re journalists. tell us no, no, no. sir, sir, it s okay. it s okay. we were told to come. we did. we are yes, but we sir, sir, we are. we are. they said go. mr. mccarthy, do you think you have the votes to be elected speaker tonight? yes. you do? yes. you re going to be able to do rosendale and crane. i have the votes. why don t you have concerns? because i can. there you have it, he said, yes, he s got the votes to become elected speaker if you re still with me, jake. he said he has the votes to be elected speaker. that is news. this is cnn breaking news. i m max foster with bianca nobilo in london getting breaking news out of italy, the italian prime minister silvio berlusconi has died. he died and in april he was hospitalized for com ....
hello. thanks for joining me. i m paula reed. it s been two weeks since the fiery train derailment in east palestine, ohio, and residents are still frightened and frustrated. governor mike dewine says fema is deploying an assistance team. residents were given the all-clear to return home, but test results haven t been reassuring. folks are worried rashes, headaches and other symptoms may be tied to the chemicals. they say something is making them sick even if officials can t find it. we need help, we do. we need president biden. we need fema housing. people are getting sick. the railroad sent out a toxicologist who deemed my house not safe. had i not used my voice, had i not thrown a fit, i would be sitting in that house right now when they told me that it was safe. i don t recommend you put anything in the ground. vegetables or tomatoes or anything this year, because we don t know. cnn s polo sandoval joins me. what are you learning? officials on the ground m ....
on the political front, our correspondents have the latest on tomorrow s two big primaries for prominent republicans on opposing sides of the trump divide. january 6th vice chair liz cheney and former vice presidential nominee sarah palin. we begin with the fallout from the fbi s search of former president trump s home in mar-a-lago. joining me, nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken delanian. ken, the latest on the investigation, the increased security, the concern about threats to the fbi and to law enforcement, the criticism of merrick garland, all of it. the most disturbing part is the fbi and dhs issued a joint intelligence bulletin yesterday saying they had seen a massive uptick in specific and credible threats to federal law enforcement. this was reflecting reporting we did last week and open source intelligence firms are also seeing this in message boards and chat rooms online. we re not just talking rhetoric here. we re talking specific threats. they ....