vladimir putin today appearing with his advisors as he tries to reassert his authority, saying he is in control despite the wagner group s weekend rebellion. translator: you can see the army, society, and people were one. this has allowed us to overcome the extremely dangerous situation that the country was in. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we have breaking news from the supreme court as the session comes to a close this week or next. a decision written by chief justice roberts rejecting republican efforts to allow state legislatures authority to regulate federal elections without review by state supreme courts. the decision was a big relief for voting rights groups who had feared the high court would validate republican efforts to prevent any challenges to gerrymandering of congressional districts. the dispute began in north carolina after their supreme court struck down a new congressional map drown in 2021 by the state s republican-controlled legislature
menendez. we begin tonight with what comes next after this weekend. short-lived yet startling rebellion against russian president vladimir putin. saturday s march on led by the one-time protegee did a head blow to the strongman image. he still wages war on ukraine. today, we learned president biden spoke by phone with ukraine s president on the sudden instability in russia. the white house says president biden offered his, quote, unwavering support for ukraine s counteroffensive against ukraine. the revolt is the first serious threat to putin s power in decades. secretary of state anthony blinken today said could it could change the port of the democracy in ukraine. i think we ve seen more cracks emerge in the russian facade. it is too soon to tell exactly where they go. and when they get their. certainly we have all sorts of new questions that putin is going to have to address in the weeks and months ahead. and we also confirmed that u.s. intelligence agencies knew in ad
if you paid any attention to the u.s. jobs report at any point over the last three years, there s a good chance you ve heard the phrase, better than expected. you ve probably heard it again over the last few days following the latest job in december. 216,000 new jobs were created. much better than expected for cnbc. back in the old days, weeks 150,000 or more jobs created in one month was good. there are now 100 one point 42 open positions for every job seeker in america. well every available job is not matched every available job seeker, mathematically, america has more jobs than it has available workers. that s just the fact. december s 2100is not anomaly either. that s largely been the trend of the biden presidency since the office in 2021. you can find similar headlines about better than expected numbers for june 2021, january 2022, june 2022, september 2023, for example. this has been one of the top achievements of the biden presidency. it shows that he s been able to
ally rudy giuliani decided to scapegoat me and my daughter. whatever happened to them, which is unfortunate for other people overreacting. but everything i said about them is true. not true, rudy. a judge has already ruled that you defamed ruby freeman and shaye moss who tonight are awaiting a jury s decision on how many millions you will have to pay for your election lies. also tonight, the strange axis of putin, orbon, and the republican party and their embrace of authoritarianism. plus, the court trump largely built, and now trump is banking on his hand-picked justices to come through for him and keep him out of jail. but we begin tonight in a washington, d.c. courthouse, where an eight-person jury has begun their deliberations into how much one rudolph william giuliani should have to pay in damages to the two georgia election workers he defamed following the 2020 presidential election. accusing them of engaging in election fraud. giuliani was expected to testify
70 days of serbia leaves a dead and a suspect on the run. a former uc davis student has been arrested in that series of stabbings, near the campus in california. and, eight jury finds four out of five men, this is the far-right proud boys group, guilty of seditious conspiracies while they were all in the january 6th capitol siege. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. we begin with a massive manhunt underway, in serbia after the country s second mass shooting in as many days. officials say, at least eight people were, killed 13 others wounded in several villages southeast of the capital belgrade on thursday. hundreds of police and special forces are now searching for the suspect, who fled the scene. serbia s public broadcaster say he was in a vehicle with two other people before he got out and shot victims with an automatic weapon. local media report a police officer and his sister were among those killed. all of this, happening as serbia is stil