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a good sunday evening to you. im jim sciutto, and this is cnns special live coverage of the extraordinary yet short-lived uprising in russia that has left much of the world asking exactly how this happened and what could happen next. is putins leadership under threat? is this an opportunity for ukraine to repel russias ongoing invasion? we do have new developments tonight, including reaction from the biden administration. but first video has emerged on social media which shows the cras...

degree murder and home invasion in the shooting death of his estranged wife. the tv appearance from three years ago did not come up at the trial but the marital troubles were central to the prosecutors theory of the motive in that case. thanks for joining us. cnn tonight starts with alisyn camerota right now. >> that was a plot twist, abby, that i did not see coming. i thought that was your kicker. >> do not kill your wife. thats not a good idea. >> thank you for sending us off on that...

>> hi everyone. happy friday. it has been building all week long, you can feel it, the drip, drip, drip of disclosures about the strength and the specificity of special counsel jack smith evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. and today the new york times is naming names. new york times today reveals the workers who removed boxes caring white house documents ahead of a meeting between don trumps legal team and doj at mar-a-lago. the times reports that the two employees wer...

long. you can feel it. the drip, drip, drip of disclosures about the strength and the specificity of special counsel jack smiths evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. and today, "the new york times" is naming names. "the new york times" reveals the workers who moved the boxes containing white house documents ahead of a meeting between donald trumps legal team and doj at mar-a-lago. "the new york times" reports that the two employees were a maintenance worker and trumps va...

thank you for your time. the ron desantis wait is almost over. sources saying the paperwork will be filed next week. his how to beat trump battle p plan is a blizzard on abortion, guns and transgender rights. plus the paper trail punctures a donald trump defense. new reporting reveals the special counsel will soon have his hands on 16 records that show, yes, the former president and his advisers knew how the declassification process was supposed to work. and president biden is in jap...

when you have the man that set up the illegal server taking the fifth, i think its disgraceful. >> have you seen whats going on in front of congress? fifth amendment, fifth amendment, fifth amendment. horrible. horrible. >> lawyers are deposing him in a civil investigation by the new york attorney general looking into the trump organizations allegedly misleading lenders and insurers and tax authorities by providing them inaccurate financial statements. now, this case is separate from t...

Gosh acrbachev is the only examf a few years of a kind of liberal government. mostly its been power that matters, and its authoritarians who can wield power over this vast land. but im not sure it would necessarily be worse because the most likely alternative is probably somebody from the army or the security services who might be, in an odd way, a more conservative figure, who would, you know -- putin has been fairly rash in the last few years in terms of his assaults on ukraine, on georgia, th...

Power. what he meant by that was that all authority in russia flowed through him and that he had created this very tight, absolutist state where power was centralized, consolidated through him. remember this is very important in russia. this is the largest country in the world, 5 1/2 thousand miles. so the way you maintain authority is by this aura of invincibility. and what has happened here is that the aura of invincibility has been cracked. heres a guy, prigozhin, who was sort of his chef, hi...

Likely no. you know, the events there have been unfolding very quickly over the weekend. president biden making his way back to the white house here from spending the weekend in camp david. and they frankly do not know what the current position is of the stability in the region. but they do not, as we talked to officials, believe that this was a one-off, believe that things have passed. there are deep questions tonight about the power that vladimir putin holds. but the president, as you said, di...

With putins power under threat to a degree that russia and the world have never seen during his time in power, president biden has spoken with staff and with ukraines president, but has remained silent publicly. the white house says he also spoke with the canadian prime minister trudeau today to discuss recent events in russia following that short-lived rebellion. for more on the administrations reaction, lets go to cnns jeff zeleny. he is live at the white house. jeff, i know that there was gre...