one expert says nothing gets the jury s attention like the defendant on tape. and he will join me next. also this hour, defiant words, steps from red square, president vladimir putin s new message to military and law enforcement in the wake of the rebellion. does the west now have an opening to negotiate? and from sweltering heat to grape-sized ice shooting from the sky, tens of millions across the country are being hit with extreme weather as flights across the country are hit with massive delays and cancellations. but we begin with a key piece of evidence in the classified documents case surrounding former president trump. now available for everyone to hear. this new recording obtained first by cnn takes us inside a 2021 conversation in bedminster between trump, his staff and people working on a memoir for mark meadows. the sound putting trump s voice to the text in the federal indictment with him clear as day declaring this is secret information. take a listen. this
whole world on a nerve s edge? yevgeny prigozhin out of sight. this is the last-known image of the wagner leader fleeing, striking a deal to go to belarus after leading an armed rebellion over the weekend. but is there a deal really? what does it say about his motive in that new audio recording? plus, the kremlin scrambling pro project control, releasing new video of vladimir putin today. we hadn t seen him in more than 48 hours since releasing a short statement during the most dramatic challenge to his power in decades. his whereabouts officially are still unknown since we don t know exactly when or where the video was recorded. president biden, though, making it clear in the last hour putin can t point fingers at his enemies. he gave no excuse to blame this on the west or blame this on nato. we made clear that we were not involved, we had nothing to do with it. this is part of a struggle within russia s system. in about 15 minutes we ll hear from the u.s. state departme
good to be with you. i m katy tur in for chris jansing. a lot is happening now. any minute president biden will speak at the g7 summit in italy sending vladimir putin a message that the west is still united. announcing a new deal to fund ukraine s defense. will that hold if president biden loses in november? donald trump is in washington making his first visit to capitol hill since the insurrection he inspired. what gop lawmakers are promising him today. and the supreme court protects access to mifepristone, at least for now. what the justices said to unanimously reject the effort to pull the abortion pill off the shelves. why the ruling itself leaves the door open to a future effort to further restrict access to abortion. let s begin with the high-stakes summit in italy where president biden faces the challenge of convinces g7 allies that the united states will stand with ukraine. president biden is expected to announce a new bilateral security agreement with ukra
themselves, are over the border in belarus. one woman we spoke to earlier said people in this city are taking the air raid sirens a lot more seriously than they used to, you see fewer people on the streets than you did before. in terms of the big picture on the battlefields, ukraine is looking for a way to capitalize on this infighting on the russian side. they have not yet found it, chris. we have not yet seen any sign of a kind of major breakthrough as the ukrainian counteroffensive continues in the south and the east. we are seeing some indications that the ukrainians are taking the fight to the russians over the dnipro river down by kherson, it was so flooded after the dam exploded that ukrainian forces seem to be making forays by a key bridge there. but, chris, ukrainian officials from president zelenskyy on down will tell you progress has been slower than they hoped. they are facing a real russian advantage in the form of built in defensive positions, in terms
hearing about this? give us an update from the perspective there on the ground. reporter: ukrainian officials from president zelenskyy on down have acknowledged progress has been slower than they hoped and this is very, very difficult fighting. in terms of the bradley vehicles, many of them were lost literally in the opening hours of this counteroffensive. there s a lot of video we have analyzed that show some of these bradley vehicles, they re designed to carry infantry quickly over a battlefield. they run into a minefield and then come under very intense russian fire. the ukrainians are very badly outgunned in the sky as they have this kind of aging flight of soviet era aircraft, helicopter gun ships. the russians have many more and much more advanced air power. at this point there really isn t much the ukrainians can do to match them in the skies. they say that s why it s so important that they get their hands on those american-made