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
russian president vladimir putin trying to project an image of strength as he faces the biggest threat ever to his authority. is putin still in danger of losing power? his former prime minister says yes, and he will be outfront next. plus, where is yevgeny prigozhin? no confirmation that the wagner chief ever made it outside russia. as the fsb keeps its criminal investigation on prigozhin wide open. two moscow reporters who have covered him extensively with be reporting this hour. i m going to talk to the mayor of kyiv who warns ukraine is not prepared if putin attacks the biggest nuclear plant in all of europe. let s go outfront. and good evening, and welcome to a special edition of outfront. i am erin burnett live from ukraine tonight. tonight, putin on defense. the russian president speaking out three days after the armed rebellion led by his former ally yevgeny prigozhin. and make no mistake, a threat to putin s authority tonight is very well. putin right now
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the secret service agents thought the gunfire came from an automatic weapon fired possibly from a grassy knoll. i saw some police run up the i thought they re chasing a gunman. i ran with them. i got to the top, looked around. a policeman went over the fence so i went over the fence too. there was nothing there. a television newsman said he looked up just after the shot was fired and saw a rifle being withdrawn from a fifth or sixth floor window. it was originally thought that the shots came from in here. and now it is believed the shots came from this building here. the police officers are running back to the texas school book depository building. they are going to continue searching in that building for the would-be assassin of the president. in the federal downtown building, they are combing the area in an effort to find the suspected assassin. in the building on the sixth
so i went over the fence too. there was nothing there. a television newsman said he looked up just after the shot was fired and saw a rifle being withdrawn from a fifth or sixth floor window. it was originally thought that the shots came from in here. and now it is believed the shots came from this building here. the police officers are running back to the texas school book depository building. they are going to continue searching in that building for the would-be assassin of the president. in the federal downtown building, they are combing the floors of the texas book depository building in an effort to find the suspected assassin. in the building on the sixth floor we found an area near an area that had been partially blocked off by boxes of books and also the three spent shells that had apparently been fired from a rifle. crime lab lieutenant jayce