good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, june 24th. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for spending part of your saturday morning with us. we begin with breaking news. vladimir putin is accusing a mercenary group of an armed rebellion and he warns those involved will be punished. yevgeny prigozhin says his forces have taken control of russian military facilities in the region of rostov-on-don. he threatens to move on to moscow if russia s top general and defense minister don t meet him. translator: again, we came here. we want to receive the chief of general s staff and shoigu until they aren t here. until they are here, we will be located here, blockading the city and will go to moscow. president putin calls the move a betrayal and a stab in the back to the russian people and he says those who follow him will pay the price. translator: all those who deliberately closed pa october of trechly, armed mutiny, blackmail and
Good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, june 24th. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for spending part of your saturday morning with us. we begin with breaking news. vladimir putin is accusing a mercenary group of an armed rebellion and he warns those involved will be punished. yevgeny prigozhin says his forces have taken control of russian military facilities in the region of rostov-on-don. he threatens to move on to moscow if russia s top general and defense minister don t meet him. translator: again, we came here. we want to receive the chief of general s staff and shoigu until they aren t here. until they are here, we will be located here, blockading the city and will go to moscow.
Going on. we had ukrainians telling us there were dozens and dozens of wagner mercenaries who kept charging their positions all the time and it was very difficult for them to hold the line. however he claims he had success in back mood and rubbed that in the face of the defensemen industry, obviously claiming he was better than the defense ministry and now there s the full on feud bates s out in the open. fred pleitgen, thank you. let s go to the white house reporter jasmine wright. the president has been bleacher report ed and is monitoring the developments in russia. tell us more. reporter: yeah, victor. lo look, as we heard from nic and fred, it s fast moving. the white house is monitoring this very closely, taking this very seriously. i have to say as of last night, the white house and national security council have been very particular on what type of information, statements they re
Relates to the polls, donald trump doesn t think it s a good idea to talk about abortion. we saw how hedgy he was during the town hall on cnn. is he right here this really isn t a winning issue, although he claims kind of cleanly i ended roe? good morning, victor. look. mike pence is trying to win a republican nomination, and so he is talking directly to the antiabortion, very conservative base of the party, that he thinks is going to carry him to victory. that may or may not happen. donald trump, although he s not one for basing his actions on polling data is actually tracking with the polling data. he knows that it is a loser for him. in fact, he lost an election, so he knows what it s feels like when the country is going in a different direction. all of the polling suggests in the last yearing a lot of the americans, including republicans, have decided that these extreme bans where doctors
Victor wellmbanyama arrived in e lone star state with some fans chajt chanting. this is not a sequel to the 1996 adam sadler movie. this is a 17 high schooler from indiana named landon gilmore but he goes by the make name of happy and he s a good golfer, qualifying for the u.s. amateur yesterday. and adam tweeted, go happy. i guess if your last name is gilmore, you have to be happy. can you do anything else? if your last name was burgundy, i d call you ron. these true. thank you. next hour of cnn this