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mar-a-lago. an urgent new warning that a ukraine knew clear plant may be on the brink of a disaster. theres shelling around the plant as images of the facility seen first on cnn are casting doubt on vladimir putins claims. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation room." we begin with a new legal blow for a key trump ally. senator graham losing, losing a new attempt to try to avoid facing a grand jury in georgia ne...

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Prigozhin, and i think this is because putin doesnt have a real system of check and balances so he needs, specially with this war, he needs to rely on some completely unorthodox methods to keep his people, the military generals and his elites, if not under control, but a list of balance. prigozhin, who is happy to play the role of weak jester, while he is happy to provide putin with this option. so hes attacking these people sending a message that, look, you cannot be completely safe and nobody ...

>> we are back with andrei soldatov from london and julia yoffi correspondent at pak news. julia, you are attending a future of russia conference. what is your sense and what is the general sense of what is going to happen next with this ukrainian counter offensive? it has been, you know, its been much telegraphed. are the ukrainians going to be able to take back the territory they lost in 2022? >> i think the offensive has become a punchline in washington in the sense that any question you ask ...

This andrei soldatov and julia yafi. andrei is a russian investigative journalist living in exile, of course, in london and julia is a founding partner and russia correspondent at pak news. >> julia, give us an overview from what you can tell, are we overdoing it? in all this reading of tea leaves and looking at the fact that putin doesnt discipline prigozhin or the defense minister or allows this all to happen and theres more going on underneath the surface than we think? whats your basic read?...

Hours from colleyville. >> you experienced the kind of hate that no one should, and lost your parents because of it. but youre a proud american. do you see some of that hate bubbling up here? >> absolutely. b but first it was just once in a while. now it seems to be in the air all over. all i say is never again, but guess what, it is again and again and again. >> melania trump has a half brother that apparent slly she not know about. >> i heard the article was nasty. >> some of your supporters h...

Now to discuss it is julia yafi, washington correspondent. i want to play for the audience some of what griner had to say today and get your view. >> we have used my phone for -- google translate to be able to tell me a little bit. >> there was a lady that was there that they said was an interpreter but it was more her telling me name, sign. really short words. she didnt explain the content of the paper. like i didnt know exactly what i was signing. no, my rights were never read to me. no one ex...

Very different. >> julia, let me get your thoughts on how putin actually views ukraine right now. does he think he would be welcomed as a conquering hero? >> i think he images that he would be welcomed by the russian-speaking east, at least of ukraine. although, you know, people reporting from the ground there show that it is not the ukraine he thought it was and it is not the ukraine it was before he invaded in 2014, started a war in the east in 2014 and annexed crimea, a friend in moscow put i...

Plus, they can now go to cseh china. >> thats correct. oil and gas is important in their economy, its about 10% of their economy. ours is like 1%. still, it is only 10%. they have an economy. theyre major exporters of other commodities that boomed in this market and is more valuable. >> what has putin done to turn this around? >> hes just done really tight fiscal management. for example, they put import tariffs on a bunch of stuff, including things like european cheese when they got into a trade...