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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...

Likely to get away with it. im not so sure that hes going to disappear into exile in belarus or that hes going to get killed because, look, putin clearly wanted him dead, and he couldnt deliver on that. that is a major sign of weakness, and i think the way that prigozhin survived, he wasnt led out in handcuffs. he left with his force, with his weapons, with his equipment intact while crowds were cheering him, and some of them were even hugging his soldiers in wagner. that was remarkable. he over...

I want you to know we share this pain. of course, we will be doing everything so that you dont feel forgotten. >> its been said that women and quit a few took to the streets in protest after mobilization was announced this fall. could ultimately prove to be real trouble for the government if their sons, boyfriends or husbands die. the majority have not questioned the war so much as questioning why their sons have been sent unprepared without food or equipment. this activist group confronted puti...

They point to the fact that the president confronted putin at a meeting at the g-20 summit back in september right before the election. and its also important to point out that donald trump himself has been very skeptical of russias involvement. he suggested that maybe china was responsible or maybe a man in husband pajamas could have involved. and ochg president obama was also concerned that if he took too dramatic of action that it may look like he was trying to help hillary clinton in the ele...

Revenue increases on the wealthy ax and the republicans rejected that offer. the left is happy that it is off of the table, and obama can say, i compromised and you were not willing to compromise, so i dont know how this is going to be of benefit to the republican s. and now to putin and the olympics. and viviana, a big showcase here, and he has been successful with the games, and so as they wind down, is putin a winner in this or not? >> well, with the international criticism and the spotligh...

Confronted putin on ukraine the other day, and he said they disagree for the basic freedoms of people protesting in ukraine and that is why you will see the lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to get president obama out ahead to impose the sanctions which he can do using his executive authority, and the state department to send a message has placed a visa ban on 20 people who are involved in the crackdown. and also, there is a bill that will be picked up when congress comes back from recess nex...

Seeing the isolated tornado will be until 2:00, but you can see that the line of rain, just starting to enter into washington, and so it is very concentrated and very intense and maybe going to the last an hour as it makes its way through, but we cant rule out the isolated what i would say weak tornado this afternoon, betty. >> all right. wrcs amelia seigel thank you for that. developing right now, president obama making yet another pitch to raise minimum wage. i want to give you this new video ...

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