they were trying to do that even before you were sworn in. well, with milley, let me see that. i ll show you an example. he said that i wanted to attack iran. isn t it amazing? i have a big pile of papers. this thing just came up, look, this was him. they presented me this. this is off the record. but they presented me this. this was him. this was a defense department and him. we look at some. this was him. this wasn t done by me. this was him. all sorts of stuff pages long, look wait a minute, let s see here. oh, my gosh. yeah [laughter] isn t that amazing. this totally wins my case, you know? except it is like highly confidential, secret secret information. look at this, you attack hillary would print that out all the time, you know. no, she would send it to anthony weiner [laughter] the pervert. by the way, isn t that incredible? i was just thinking because we were talking about it. and you know, he said he wanted to attack iran and what these a
exploit for your political purposes my opponent s youth and inexperience. if kitty dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer? no i don t bernard. i think you know i pose the death penalty during all of my life. he mentioned the navy for example. we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. governor we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. i was looking at my watch to, even the simple act of checking the time can her and the debate. president bush went on to lose that to bill clinton with a little bit of help from ross perot. debates allow us to see the candidate side-by-side, to not only hear the answer but watch their facial expressions and body language. after all, we are going to be spending a lot of time with whoever wins the white house so were likely to be watching everything. the first gop presidential primary debate is less than two months away. candidates are crisscro
u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, former nato supreme allied commander, james to read us, and cia analyst from congresswoman, elissa slotkin. later, my sunday exclusive with house speaker nancy pelosi. get her reflections on the one year anniversary of roe v. wade being overturned in the future of abortion rights in america. over just the last 48 hours, the yevgeny prigozhin a brutal shadow commander of mercenary forces staged a short-lived attempt to seize more power in russia. briefly taking control over rostov-on-don a key military logistics have on his way to march towards moscow. in the 11th hour, a shady and mysterious deal was struck by valery gerasimov valery gerasimov a leader of belarus that led putin in power, and to prigozhin packing his bags to move to believers. we know the story is unlikely to end there. back in 1991, another russian leader, gorbachev, also survived a coup. he only relinquish power for months later. even a short-lived attempt to take
official here says russian spies are plotting to assassinate yevgeny prigozhin. this as a top russia investigative reporter uncovers new information about what led up to the coup attempt. plus, a life-or-death mission. i ll speak with ukrainian troops who trained in oklahoma. they are trained to take down putin s prized hypersonic missiles on the patriot system. and they ll tell you what happened when one of those missiles was aiming directly at their unit. and another major story we are following tonight. the supreme court ruling in favor of a web designer who says she didn t want to make wedding websites for same-sex couples. but there s a late-breaking twist tonight to that story. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, putin s alleged assassination plot. ukraine s military intelligence chief tonight saying russia s security service, the fsb, has been given the mission to assassinate yevgeny prigozhin. the wagner group leader, who
video of him leaving rostov-on-don, where he had taken control of a key russian military facility. the kremlin says, he is now heading to neighboring belarus, wagner soldiers would not be prosecuted. again, all of this is from the kremlin and unverified by nbc news. new reporting from the washington post reads, quote, while putin seemed to avert his greatest prices crisis in more than 23 years as russia s supreme political leader, grief armed rebellion, presented the starkest evidence yet that his brutal invasion of ukraine could backfire. leading to instability at home and exposing his growing isolation from reality and weakness as a leader. joining us now from kyiv, nbc news correspondent kelly cobiella, nbc news white house correspondent and on capitol hill, and pc news correspondent julie adjuster. kelly, let s start with you. how is the kremlin trying to explain what s unfolded over the past 24 hours? well alicia, it s interesting. they re not trying to explain, it t