longer fully in control. his fear of nuclear terror attack and how he finds moments of calm in the face of war. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. welcome to this special edition of outfront. tonight, our exclusive interview with ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy. russia s unprovoked and barbaric invasion of ukraine remains one of the most important stories in our world today. and that s why we will be devoting the next hour to our interview with zelenskyy. an interview that comes at a crossroads for ukraine. its much-anticipated counteroffensive is underway. zelenskyy discusses the timing with us and why he says there will be no end to the war until crimea is back in ukrainian hands. it also comes after the armed insurrection, led by putin s one-time loyal lieutenant and the head of the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin. you ll hear zelenskyy discuss his intention about how much russia supports putin right now and the cracks in his inner circle.
counsel s investigation of donald trump and 2020 election inter interference. prosecutors interviewing the georgia secretary of state who was on that infamous call from trump asking gop officials to, quote, find votes. and president biden promotes bidenomics, embracing the phrase as he tries to sell voters on his economic policies. but will that strategy work? i ll ask the man who coined the slogan it s the economy, stupid , the legendary democratic campaign strategist james carville. he ll join us live. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, new reporting suggests that the mutiny by russian mercenary forces had a truly stunning and very dangerous end game. cnn senior national security correspondent alex marquardt is following all the details for us. alex, what do we know about the goal of the wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin and his failed rebellion? well, wolf, what prigozhin s ul
january 6th investigation in recent weeks. the interview of rudy giuliani finally, right? he s a key figure in former president trump s effort to overturn the 2020 election and then today the georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, i want to remind people why he is so key here. let s take a listen to a brief cliff from the january 2021 call between trump and the secretary of state. so, look, all i want to do is this i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. so raffensperger is not only a witness in the special counsel probe. he is also a key witness in the state level investigation. we expect the d.a., fani willis down there to make some sort of announcement about any potential charges she ll bring in august and it appears that special counsel jack smith could be on a similar time line to announce any charging decisions this summer. we are also hearing once again from former president trump responding to our excl
vladimir putin in a surprisingly quick advance on moscow. the wagner group claimed to seize control of an important russian military facility in the city of rostov-on-don. [ applause ] the leader of the wagner group says they captured the facility, a key operations base, for the war on ukraine without firing a single shot. the cheers you just heard are locals showing their support ahead of wagner. yevgeny prigozhin also claimed to seize a military facility in another city about halfway to moscow. that s when prigozhin said he ordered his mercenaries to suddenly turn around. this is video of them pulling out of one town. and here s prigozhin receiving a hero s farewell as he leaves. he said he did it to avoid a bloody conflict. translator: therefore realizing all the responsibility for the fact that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides, we turn our columns around and leave in the opposite direction to the field camps according to the plan. we re following all
Apti Alaudinov, commander of the Russian Chechen special forces unit Akhmat, has said former Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) fighters are joining Akhmat en masse and are being deployed in the combat zone in Ukraine.