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they were trying to do that even before you were sworn in. >> well, with milley, let me see that. ill show you an example. he said that i wanted to attack iran. isnt it amazing? i have a big pile of papers. this thing just came up, look, this was him. they presented me this. this is off the record. but they presented me this. this was him. this was a defense department and him. we look at some. this was him. this wasnt done by me. this was him. all sorts of stuff pages long, look -- >>...

a good sunday evening to you. im jim sciutto, and this is cnns special live coverage of the extraordinary events this weekend out of russia. moscows red square blocked off again today after the brief but stunning insurrection thats gripped the world, could perhaps weaken vladimir putins grip on his country. we should note its far too soon to know. so much we dont know about what led wagner mercenary group leader yevgeny prigozhin to launch a march on moscow and what convinced him to ab...

and what it means for the war in ukraine. then, despite the mounting legal troubles, the twice and i did former president is still the republican front runner. why some democrats are sounding the alarm. as that 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. tonight, for the first time, we are hearing donald trump on day in 2021, discussing a secret document about attacking iran that he did not declassify. as we reported, the ...

inside eastern ukraine where the war is playing out. horrors striking a city center as a top russian investigative reporter has new details for us about the phone calls leading up to the insurrection against putin. that reporter is my guest. and my full explosive interview with the ukrainian foreign minister, why he thinks the threat to putin is far from over, and his fears of an attack on europes largest nuclear power plant. plus, a wagner commander speaks out to cnn about yevgeny...

future of russia. among them what is prigozhins next move, what concessions if any did he get to reverse course, and where is he today? >> this is treason. in the face of those who are fighting on the front. this is a stab in the back of our troops. >> plus, what does vladimir putins unprecedented admission of vulnerability in a national speech mean for his hold on power and on the war in ukraine? >> this is just the latest chapter in a book of failure that putin has written for himsel...

10:30 local time. prigozhin calling for a march for justice into russia, not a coup, he insisted. by 7:30 saturday morning, prigozhin facing little resistance, takes over russias military headquarters in rostov-on-don, berating to russian senior commanders, demanding they hand over shoigu. president putin then going on national television, accusing prigozhin of treason, vowing to put down the uprising. by saturday afternoon, wagner troops are on the moves to moscow. at one point, video showing t...

Moscow. i said, halfway there, theyll squash you like a bug. negotiations went on throughout the day. six or seven rounds of negotiations. >> well, since that deal, however, it was brokered, whatever hyperbole is in that statement from lukashenko, we still have not seen prigozhin, just that 11-minute video message that he posted addressing the insurrection. nothing else. putin, though, we did see again today going before cameras. this time he was there to thank his security forces for stopping w...

Ukraine, specifically because of the threat posed by nato, were invalid. and thats something hes going to really struggle to recover from, jim. >> that is a genie you cant put back in the bottle. question about vladimir putin. he was public in the midst of this, making a national address in which he accused prigozhin of treason. hes been largely invisible since. do we have any idea where he is? >> reporter: thats the other guy in this drama whos absent from the stage. you rightly point out there...

Russia, an armed insurrection threatening the russian state, ending as suddenly as it began. it kicked off on friday with allegations of a deadly strike on a wagner military camp in ukraine, the leader of the russian mercenary group yevgeny prigozhin accusing his rivals in the defense ministry of ordering the attack. russian officials denied any role. but a furious prigozhin, wh repeatedly accused the military of mishandling the war in ukraine, vowed revenge. >> translator: those who destroyed o...

For a moment, if you were advising the president how would you assess vladimir putin going on national television interrupting their tv and really for the first time in 23 years that hes been in hour conveying his vulnerability, his weakness and that there was insubordination in the ranks? >> i think it just underscores the weakness of putin right now. and im sure the people around putin are continuing to try to figure out which way to go. but the fact that putin would do this, i think it just r...