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when you have the man that set up the illegal server taking the fifth, i think it's disgraceful. >> have you seen what's going on in front of congress? fifth amendment, fifth amendment, fifth amendment. horrible. horrible. >> lawyers are deposing him in a civil investigation by the new york attorney general looking into the trump organization's allegedly misleading lenders and insurers and tax authorities by providing them inaccurate financial statements. now, this case is separate from the federal criminal probe of presidential documents. that one led to the fbi search of trump's fl...

Gosh acrbachev is the only examf a few years of a kind of liberal government. mostly it's been power that matters, and it's authoritarians who can wield power over this vast land. but i'm not sure it would necessarily be worse because the most likely alternative is probably somebody from the army or the security services who might be, in an odd way, a more conservative figure, who would, you know -- putin has been fairly rash in the last few years in terms of his assaults on ukraine, on georgia, the intervention in syria. so you could imagine somebody who was more -- you know, maybe as authori...

Power. what he meant by that was that all authority in russia flowed through him and that he had created this very tight, absolutist state where power was centralized, consolidated through him. remember this is very important in russia. this is the largest country in the world, 5 1/2 thousand miles. so the way you maintain authority is by this aura of invincibility. and what has happened here is that the aura of invincibility has been cracked. here's a guy, prigozhin, who was sort of his chef, his caterer, who has become powerful enough that he had this band of soldiers, only 25,000, but it cl...

Likely no. you know, the events there have been unfolding very quickly over the weekend. president biden making his way back to the white house here from spending the weekend in camp david. and they frankly do not know what the current position is of the stability in the region. but they do not, as we talked to officials, believe that this was a one-off, believe that things have passed. there are deep questions tonight about the power that vladimir putin holds. but the president, as you said, did spend the weekend talking with allies, speaking with the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy e...

With putin's power under threat to a degree that russia and the world have never seen during his time in power, president biden has spoken with staff and with ukraine's president, but has remained silent publicly. the white house says he also spoke with the canadian prime minister trudeau today to discuss recent events in russia following that short-lived rebellion. for more on the administration's reaction, let's go to cnn's jeff zeleny. he is live at the white house. jeff, i know that there was great nervousness among administration officials in the run-up to this. they believed something wa...