they made it within 125 mistlesf moscow. the kremlin announced the war lord could leave for belarus allegedly without penalty for mercenaries taking hold of a critical russian city. they were going to dismantle pnc wagner which came out on the 23rd of june to the march of justice. in day we walked nearly 200 kilometers away from moscow. in this time we did not spill a single drop of blood. now the moment has come when blood may spill. that s why understanding the responsibility for spilling russian blood, we are turning back our convoys and going back to field camps according to our plan. reporter: according to a spokesperson for secretary of state antony blinken, support by the united states for ukraine will not change. the united states will stay in close coordination with ukraine as this situation develops. and russian officials offer this, we warn the western countries against any hint of the possible use of the domestic russian situation to achieve their russia phobi
sk crisis in russia. i m michael smerconish. putin warns those involved in the mercenary group will be punished. p prigozhin says they killed a, quote, huge amount of his men. a long-time ally of the kremlin, he claimed troops had taken control of facilities in the russian cities of voronezh and rostov-on-don without firing a shot. one general called it a coup d etat, but prigozhin deniesoco. there was an announced a criminal investigation of prigozhin and they were to stop and detain their leader. in an address to the nation, putin said this. translator: i repeat, any internal turmoil is a mortal threat to our statehood, to us as a nation. this is a blow to russia, to our people. so our actions to defend the fatherland against such a threat will be severe. all those who deliberately chose the path of treachery, who prepared a mutiny, who chose blackmail and terrorist methods will face punishment. joining me to discuss is retired u.s. attorney alexander vindman, on the
monday we have two massive pieces of nose, special counsel jack smith s investigation into the former president trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. one of this is just broken, and this is about this guy. who is not exactly a household name. this is mike roman. he is the director of election day operations for trump s 2020 campaign. you might know him as the guy who ungenerous, sixth try to physically deliver certificates of the fake a lectures from trump s fake electors scheme. to vice president mike pence. and that act, being the bag man trying to deliver the fake electors on january six, to stop the certification of the 2020 election. that is actually a pretty good encapsulation of his larger role in all of this. you see after the election, there was not all that much to do for trump s director of election day operations. so mike romance shifted to a new game, he acted as the go-between, the vote weber of sorts, doing the legwork to get state level officials on
overturn the 2020 election. one of these has just broken, and it s about this guy. he s not exactly a household name, this is mike roman. he was a director of election day operations for trump s 2020 campaign, you might know him as the guy who, on january 6th tried to physically deliver certificates of the fake electors from trump s fake electors scheme to vice president mike. pence electors schem about act, bek man trying to lure the fake electors on january 6th to stop the certification of the 2020 election, that there is actually a pretty good encapsulation of his larger role in all of this. you see, after the election, there was not much to do for trump s director of election day operations. so mike roman shifted to a new gate. he acted as a go-between, the vote whimper of sorts, doing allegra to get state level officials on board with trump s fake electors plan. he was an illegal mastermind planning, he was in the brains of the operation, he was the legs of the operati
coincidences in this there are reasons to be suspicious as well. thank you, defence editor of the economist magazine. of course, we are bringing you all the latest on those reports coming in from russia that the leader of the wagner mercenary group, prigozhin has been killed in a plane crash, this as was mentioned two months after his forces launched that mutiny against the russian military. now, what we can confirm at this point is that prigozhin was indeed listed as a passenger on a private plane which did crash north of moscow. emergency services say that all ten people on board where killed. so at this point we are trying to verify whether indeed mr prigozhin was on board, even though we do know that his name was on the passenger list. let s go live now to