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wagner's moving deep into russia and taking certain regions, showing how easy it is to do. putin doesn't control the situation in the regions. he doesn't control the security situation. all of us understand that his whole army is in ukraine. almost entire army is there. that's why it's so easy for the wagner troops to march through russia, -- >> steve, is that true? let putin does not control some territories? >> alison, let's start with the fact that it's extremely difficult to determine what was precisely going on inside of the kremlin. the reason that i say that is because the first question that pops up, and what salons he was trying to get at, how could this have happened? i think that he's saying a lot of things that are correct. i think that it is the case that there are so many russian focuses, so many russian troops in ukraine right now. to include his internal security services like the fsb, the primary responsibility in
the past has been to project the regime. these focuses have now apparently shifted into ukraine, which of course has indeed -- i think zelenskyy is right, make some parts of russia less secure than they were before. i think that he's right. there are a lot of people saying that we should be careful when we talk about putin being weak. nevertheless, there are some facts on the ground. one of those is that a mutinous group of russian military guys, the wagner group, almost made it to a mosque, out to the gates of moscow under putin's watch. i think just a couple of weeks ago, many of us would've said that is virtually unthinkable. that cannot happen. zelenskyy is right, he's not as strong inside of russia as he was before this happened. >> what do you think, general? >> i think the same thing. steve is exactly right. remember, alison, we haven't just seen the puck grosjean troops, the wagner group heading back into russia and
election. >> kristen osborne, and constitutional law a source tells cnn that trump professor at john j college of called than governor dog ducey criminal justice, gloria brown marshall. i don't know, jay, should ducey to pressure him to find fraud in the states results that could switch the outcome. sources tell cnn that then vice not have mentioned this pressure campaign a little sooner than. president pence also called now >> he's between a rock and ducey several times but did not a hard place. you would love to move on so put pressure on the governor's. that he doesn't have to get any negatives from all the people cnn national correspondent kristen holmes has the latest that are still election deniers. but i am struck by somebody details. kristen, what do we know about unlikely heroes in some of the this phone call? >> alison, before we get to stories. people who i may disagree with pence's response to this call, strongly, ideologically, i i do want to get a bit of context around these calls. would never think i would be praising liz cheney or chris we did know at the time the former president donald trump christie or people like that. and then governor of arizona >> mike pence. >> and mike pence but these are people that are standing up dog ducey did speak. against someone who they kind of agree with. we just know the context. maybe not on the election, i learned over the weekend that again, but politically they want the republicans to succeed, ducey has told people behind closed doors that it was a and yet they are taking pressure campaign from the former president to try and courageous stands. rather the political football find widespread fraud to of who met with whom and whatever i'm struck by the overturn the results of the 2020 election the state of public ethics of this moment, arizona. as you will remember, trump was that there are people standing losing by a small margin. up. >> i wouldn't be to strike. about 11,000 votes. i mean, first of all, are we we also learned that pence made
we hear that 180,000 russian troops moving into these eastern fronts. what does that mean for the ukrainian counteroffensive? but >> it is not that they're moving in, alison, it's that ukrainian commander suggested that he had estimated there were at 150,000 troops in the eastern part of the country. there are military reasons for that, tactical operational reasons for that. i believe that what the russians are doing, is try to shore up the central part because mr. putin cannot afford to lose the donbas. that was the first area that he attacked in 2014. there have been some gains by the ukrainian forces, but in gained back territory in the east. in the donbas region. ukraine also wants to liberate kherson and zaporizhzhia provinces in the southeast. by the russians moving more and more forces into the east, ukraine has to stay there to defend against that. they cannot reinforce some of
decision actually walk people through what affirmative action is and isn't, and we shouldn't believe how it's being distorted by folks. >> alison, let me get your reaction to a 2022 study. professor quartey is a pros fesser. this is what was found from the study in 2020 from the university of california. black and latino admissions at the more competitive campuses of ucla and berkeley dropped 40%. annual wages of underrepresented minority university of california applicants dropped by 5% from ages 24 to 34, and early career underrepresented minority californians broadly making over $100,000 dropped by at least 3%. your reaction to the impact
former president barack obama's washington aber hood with multiple firearms and materials to make a molotov cocktail. according to law enforcement the suspect, taylor toronto, claimed on an internet live stream that he had a detonator. toronto also had a open warrant for his arrest, related to the january six insurrection. let's get right to cnn -- andrew mccabe he's the author of the threat, how the fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump. so, andy, this is scary obviously. do we know how law enforcement was able to zero in on this guy? >> alison, some of the reporting that i've seen indicates that the secret service in the area around the obama residence observed him acting suspiciously or running through the neighborhood, things like that. they interacted with him, identified him, and determined that he has an outstanding warrant for his activities in the capital on january six. i think the whole thing
completely -- the politics are very clear, every national poll, every major national poll i have ever seen that you reported on tonight, alison, shows that americans do not want this, if they do not like, it they think it is fundamentally unfair, and so for a court that is often -- has its legitimacy question, this was the most uncontroversial decision of the term. it is the most lopsided decision of the term. you just look at public opinion, they got it right by the law, they also got it right by the old famous kentucky supreme court justice john marshall harlan, and -- our constitution is color blind, thanks to clarence thomas and the court today, they finally lived up to that. i'm glad for the decision, every conservative i know is as well. >> i know you all have very different perspectives and opinions on, that natasha, i get it -- and we should say that -- harvard admissions rate has gone up in the past years.
prosecutor's own investigation into alleged attempts by trump's and his allies to steal the election there. for the record, the former president has insisted time and again that he did nothing wrong, and many of his team have said they just want to make sure that the election was above board. alison? >> tom,,, thank you very much for all of that. let's bring in former trump white house lawyer jim schultz along with cnn legal analyst, -- cnn law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. great of all of you. jim, we've all heard that call to brad raffensperger where donald trump asked him to find 11,780 more votes, and in brad raffensperger's book, he said that he believed that it was a threat. what does jack smith, what more does jack smith want to know from brad raffensperger today in this interview? >> well, my sense is, when you are seeing folks like raffensperger and other public officials, and folks closer to the inner circle of donald
i running into an ambush? so, i think that is such a remarkable video. we saw that, we saw it in nashville, at the school. we saw it at louisville, in the bank. we have seen the flipside. if you take this week, alison, what are we going through? we've got three officers indexes who opened fire far too quickly on a woman who was charging at them with a hammer. they are charged with murder now. you have scott peterson in florida, in parkland, on trial, literally, for not doing what we saw here. it underscores that being a police officer is complicated under pressure, being driven by fear, trying to control that, and make sensible decisions. >> so, john, the backstory, or more to flush out the story, eight people died. that shooter, that active shooter, k killed eight people shopping on any given day at a mall in america, and that police officer killed him. >> yes, and it was entirely