Newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington in just a few hours from now. Vice president Kamala Harris will pitch her economic vision to the nation. And this morning were learning about some of the policies she is set to unveil and just a short time im from now including Tax Cuts for lower and middleclass americans and expanded Child Tax Credit, a fouryear plan to lower Housing Costs in a federal ban on Price Gouging. Lets discuss with cnn political Commentator Shermichael Singleton and democratic campaign consultant tim hogan. Guys, i want to get to the battle over the economy in just a moment. But first i want to talk about this comment that trump made last night as he was praising one of his donors. He said the president ial Medal Of Freedom for civilians was superior to the Medal Of Honor because those recipients of the Medal Of Honor are often wounded or dead soldiers. Lets listen to this we gave miriam the president ial Medal Of Freedom. Thats the highest award you can get as a civilia
tonight, we begin with breaking news out of russia. a major twist in that country s war against ukraine. vladimir putin forced to confront a rebellion within his own borders. just hours ago, we learned that if guinea prigozhin, the owner and the head of the wagner group and mercenary force that has been fighting alongside the russian military and ukraine, halted his advance on to the country s capital. that announcement came shortly after prigozhin claimed he and his fighters had captured the city of rostov-on-don home to the russian military headquarters for its war in ukraine. since their invasion last year, moscow has become dependent on the back in a group to support the war efforts as they re dwindling russian forces struggle to make significant gains inside ukrainian territory. in december, the u.s. said it believed the group had an estimated 50,000 personnel inside ukraine alone. it made up of about 10,000 contractors and 40,000 convicts that were recruited from inside
is still ongoing. in fact, as we speak, there s a remote operating vehicle that is 400 miles out at sea searching the bottom of the ocean floor. now, it has gone to the bottom. ocean a total of four times. and there s several pieces that have been recovered since it began its mission, including the nose of the vessel, the front and the back of the pressurized hull and two other debris fields. we also learned today, fred, that the company that s been operating the adissius was using its heavy lifting capabilities. that gives us a clue about what they might have possibly found during these search operations, that they might have been lifting debris from out of the bottom of the ocean floor. and that is what we are hoping that the u.s. coast guard can provide more details on today. why is that so important? well, authorities have said that they need to gather as much evidence, as much materials as possible in order to understand what happened here and to make sure that nothing l
putin s rule now says he was not trying to topple the russian leader. it s the first time we re hearing from yevgeny prigozhin since he ordered a sudden stop to an armed rebellion just 120 miles from moscow. plus, what did the u.s. know and when did it know it about the plan to topple putin? the chairman of the senate intelligence committee mark warner joins me live in minutes. and ron desantis lays down a big marker on immigration, the florida governor says he will finish what donald trump started and build that wall. i m dana bash, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. today we go behind that power grab that was that wasn t or what was it exactly? right now we re going to try to answer all of the questions that we have about the revolt inside russia, the mercenary who led what looked and sounded like a revolt is now trying to answer one of those questions. why? cnn just obtained new audio of prigozhin and he says the march to moscow was not a coup b
It, the suggestion over the weekend was that the members of the wagner group would be accepted into the russian military. what prigozhin said today was that doesn t seem like it s going to happen. he wants to keep them intact. how significant is that? so i think what we re seeing is of course, this has to be caveated with the fact that we don t have the full details on all of the terms of that agreement, but what has been reported is that essentially prigozhin was able to secure an option, the option is that anyone who participated in this march towards moscow will be able to potentially remain autonomous as part of the wagner group. others who did not participate in this activity will be able to sign with the ministry of defense. and that is more or less one of prigozhin s goals in doing this. this is something that we as analysts have identified as probably the motivating goal for him actually, striking out with overt violence, that seems to be