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"the lead" starts right now. a city center in eastern ukraine rocked by a missile strike. why this target and why now. cnn is live on the scene. plus contrasting claims. what persuaded prigozhin, the wagner boss to stop his apparent revolt in russia. the leader in belarus has his version. and while vladimir putin puts his own spin on what went down. erin burnett is leading or coverage tonight in eastern ukraine into and donald trump lashing out after a cnn exclusive audio of the pr...

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a former president donald trump. mr trump landed at laguardia airport, just a short while ago. the former president expected derives soon at trump tower. he is expected to spend the night there ahead of his arraignment tomorrow afternoon at the manhattan criminal courthouse, where mr trump is expected to voluntarily surrender sources tell cnn that the former president faces more than 30 counts related to business fraud that we should note the indictment. remains under seal. these charg...

That could benefit ukraine or if hes irrational, it could be very dangerous. erin. >> nick, thank you very much. as nick points out, we did see putin today but it was with troops. four days after the attempted rebellion by prigozhin. not walking the streets, as we remember president zelenskyy. so famously did that after the invasion of kyiv. very different profile. were joined now by alexander vindman in kyiv. hes a retired colonel born in soviet ukraine who found himself at center of former pre...

>> weve seen success. we will achieve success and well take time -- to avoid the number of people arriving at our southern border, we need to fix the broken immigration system. by the way, a broken immigration system that was dismantled by the prior administration. >> reporter: thats the key, sara. this is an outdate system facing historic numbers. thats why the administration has been calling on congress to pass reform. ive been talking to homeland security officials all week. they tell me the ...

Appointees were owned by him, but thats not the way our system works. this proved that. the same thing that happened in watergate, the same thing that the supreme court upheld the rule of law with respect to executive privilege. >> emily? >> this is a very conservative, ardently conservative court. and it is going to change the law and move it to the right in important, dramatic ways this year and in the years to come. however, as nick points out, theyre not loyal to the person who appointed the...

There need to be changes in leadership at the top of the doj and the fbi. >> and thats whats going to be so interesting in the days to come. were going to hear more. and when we hear either more about the fisa application itself, more statements from people at doj and fbi and around them, more statements from the speaker who as nick points out is trying to straddle a middle ground. he said i dont want this to be commingled. so because this is actually designed to conflate opinion, the memo with ...

Donald trump, it would make a huge difference. >> can i make one poichbts about this, that donald trump got a big cheer if front of that audience when he said, i only said this about rosie odonnell. and none of the people whove been interviewing donald trump on this, and he says i got a big laugh about rosie odonnell. when did we decide as a society that its okay to use these words in relation to one person. that you can call this one person these words. and before we go, the truth is, he did no...

Why did they put them somewhere that is such a vulnerable zone? >> well, look, its the right question. its -- these are very competitive. as nick points out, putin viewed this as an opportunity to sort of showcase russian pride and russian capability. looking back now, its the right question to ask. why would you have picked this spot where terrorists are nearby and have access and capability. >> all right. and then the step forward, which is the u.s. peoples introduction to the caucuses. the bo...

Conventional military. at the same time significantly increase the military aid we are giving to the secular rebels. nick points out they have been fractured. that is true. al qaeda has superior funding, they have superior organization, they have superior discipline. >> let me bring in fred real quick. fred is the one in damascus risking really his life to bring us amazing reporting. we have exclusive video of mass graves in syria from one of the areas allegedly hit by a chemical weapons attack....