moscow was not to oust putin. here in washington, president joe biden says the united states and the west had nothing to do with the wagner rebellion. now cnn now learning that the u.s. had detailed intelligence on the plans for the mutiny but kept it secret for most of its allies. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer s off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com anywhere . putin going public just a short time ago blasting the rebels as traitors as he attempted to show russia and the world that he is still in control. cnn s ben wedeman has been covering it all and what it could mean for the war in ukraine. reporter: tonight, vladimir putin lashes out at those who led an armed rebellion against him. an armed rebellion would ve been suppressed in any case. the organizers of the rebellion could not fail to understand this. they unde
residential health in the area of kabul. he was in the capital of afghanistan. he spent time in united states, and in 2021, released a video to celebrate america s withdrawal from afghanistan. people have been saying he was dead. but here he is. in his video, he is heard being fake, quote, let us not forget the warriors of islam stabbed america in its heart. which america had never tasted before. today, making his exit from afghanistan, broken, deceased defeated, 20 years of war. in the years to follow, he continued to lead al qaeda he prays terrorist to targeted americans. he prays the second lieutenant of the saudi air force who shot and killed three navy s.e.a.l.s in pensacola just in 2019. according to zawahiri wanted poster, the reward for the most wanted terrorist with up to $25 million. there are things we do not know tonight. details of how they found where he was, how they got it. we do know, 25 years on the list, $25 million, they say, the ward. outside the white ho
Angeles. Israel Conducting Airstrikes and localized ground raids in gaza at this hour, the Israeli Military says the latest rounds of attacks killed a senior hamas member involved in planning last saturdays horrific attacks in israel. Murad abu murad was killed in a strike targeting a building in the gaza strip. It comes as israel continues to urge palestinian is to leave the northern part of the gaza strip, warning the combat will intensify. Theyve also extended a 24 hour window to leave that was issued early friday local time. And new video also coming in overnight showing damage from the israeli city of ashkelon. Hamas armed wing al qassam saying friday that it launched 150 rockets toward that city. There are now reports whether or no new reports yet whether any israelis were injured in that attack. Its been exactly one week now since hamas staged those shocking, brutal and deadly attacks against israel. Israel has been striking back hard all week. In addition to airstrikes and targ
that has frustrate someday nato officials that we spoke to who say they really wish the u.s. had shared this intelligence with them. but, at the same time, sources told us that this would have compromised potentially very, very sensitive sources and methods and so they really wanted to keep it close-holed here. and the ukrainians were not told either before all of this played out because of fears that those plans might be intercepted in the conversations between u.s. and ukrainian officials. there was a lot of concern about keeping this intelligence very closely held, but then, of course, once this all started to play out on friday, the u.s. began scrambling to clue their allies in on this intelligence, and, importantly, advise them to stay quiet on the matter and not give vladimir putin an excuse to say that the u.s. or the west had anything to do with this. very interesting to see how this intelligence was handled in this seminal moment. natasha bertrand, thanks very much. let s ge
invited him to come visit the white house, because, as the administration has said, this is a new era in this war. if you would, beth, tell us how so. well, i think that as director panetta just mentioned, we re in this war for the long haul, i think that we are going to be probably, you know, still engaged in this in a year from now. and so this is about preparing everybody mentally for what lies ahead and, you know, president zelenskyy is a master at public diplomacy and i think that he s going to be able to really rally the spirit and the spirits of americans behind this effort and that s really what s needed. we just talked about u.s. security assistance to ukraine including nearly 2 billion. also that includes the patriot missile system. that is something, director, that the administration had been reluctant to provide to ukraine.