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conspiracy to defraud the government. deprivation of rights, tampering with a witness. the new details this morning about the possible new charges donald trump could soon be facing. >> a top uk intelligence official says russian president putin was forced to cut a humiliating deal with the man who tried to overthrow putin's government. ahead, new details on wagner chief yevgeny prigozhin's short-lived rebellion and new video has just surfaced believed to show prigozhin. >> the pentagon working to secure the release of the u.s. soldier who is still detained in north korea. no indication he was trying to defect though he was facing disciplinary action and about to be separated from the army. what his mother is now saying. i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman, this is "cnn news central." ♪ ♪ >> so this morning for the first

time there is reporting about the possible laws the special council thinks donald trump might have broken. the statutes listed in the target letter surrounding the january 6th investigations. those statutes reportedly involved conspiracy to commit offense or defraud the united states, deprivation of rights and tampering with a witness, broadly speaking. what still has to be determined exactly what acts correspond to those statutes. what can we discern based on the people the special council has been speaking with. cnn's kaitlan polantz joins us now. it has been a whirlwind 24 hours and first the target letter and the report of what's inside of it and what's the latest, caitlin? >> a whirlwind 24 hours realizing that it is very likely that he could be arrested and charged with federal crimes related to january 6's actions related after the election and it's been a whirlwind of an

investigation. the special council's office when we look at what they've been doing after several months and even prior to the special council jack smith the justice department has built a very, very good picture of not just what happened in the white house, what donald trump was saying and doing before this grand jury, they have also looked at the states across the country and talked to election officials, talked to people who were receiving calls directly from donald trump receiving direct pressure from him either to find votes or to somehow deliver states he lost to his column for the electoral college so that he could overturn the popular vote in the closest states across the country, and so when you look at that list of witnesses, that's quite the board of faces there. it's people like former vice president mike pence who was compelled to testify to the grand jury not just about what he witnessed generally on january 6th and leading up to

that day, but also his direct conversations with donald trump, the former president, when he was at times being essentially berated by trump for not doing what trump wanted. there are other really key people there on that list that would have been around trump, testifying to the grand jury, speaking and being forced to answer questions they had not answereded to any other investigative squad that had looked at what happened. people like mark meadows who had refused to talk to congress about what happened and compelled to testify to the grand jury. the white house council's office folks, the people who are there as attorneys protectionng the presidency who would have been in the room in the crucial talks right before january 6th when trump wanted to overhaul the justice department and they were telling him those aren't legal things we can do or we really advise you not to take those steps and then his closest advisers, people like his son-in-law, jared kushner,

people like hope hicks, stephen miller who he was on the phone with discussing what he would say on the ellipse and mike peps. take this all together and put it on top of what the special council's office has also been confirmed to be looking at. these state officials they've talked to across seven battleground states where trump had fake electors and was trying to send people out in different ways or put pressure there. all of that together, john, is quite the investigation. we'll see what's in the charges ultimately, but they have a lot to work with. >> katelyn, very quickly, if donald trump was given days to appear which no one expects him to do, when would that put the earliest day for a possible indictment? do we even know? would it be friday? >> that sounds like it could be a possibility. also thursday could be a possibility. we don't know if there is a deadline when he needed to inform the justice department, but yes, we do know that there

will be grand jury activity on thursday and there has already been some this week. things could happen very fast. john? >> very quickly potentially. thank you. joining us on exactly that is u.s. attorney michael moore and senior atlantic editor ron brownstein. they went through the statutes contained in the target letter, three, deprivation of rights, conspiracy to defraud the united states and tampering with a witness. of those three, does something stick out to you? >> yeah. i'm glad to be with all of you. i really think that tampering with the witness charge may be the cleanest case and the simple reason is by all accounts at the january 6th committee in the presentation that occurred post-trump's presidency and there were essentially some efforts that he made to contact people to reach out to potential witnesses and so those seemed to

be cleaner because you don't get into issues of executive privilege and presidential powers and immunity and all of those things. it's not the most serious charge. when you start looking at the charges that are possible. the idea of deprivation of rights that someone tried to deprive a person or group of people of the laws of the united states and that is obviously the most significant charge that may be out there. you will get into questions then about what can he say as president and what could he do as president and was his speech protecting political speech at the time? i really think a cleaner case may be the latter, but we'll see which way they go. >> michael, real quick. again, in talking as if the indictment has come. we have not seen an indictment and if the indictment comes and the charges are related to this would it be a surprise to you that incitement of insurrection isn't a part of this?

>> it's not particularly surprising. i mean, probably special counsel is looking at all of the possible defenses and arguments and pre-trial motions and appeals that are likely to follow in this case, and so i think he's looking at things that he can say i see trump's fingerprints on it and just trying to catch his whispers in the wind with a net and so i think he's really looking at those things that he can actually put trump's hands on. >> i see. ron, part of, you know, there's the legal and the political and some crossover here when you talk about donald trump and the defense that he is trying to put out publicly already. we know the reporting from the whole team is that trump spoke yesterday with kevin mccarthy and elise stefanik to strategize on how they can help defend him if charges come. what could the inback be of any effort like that and just an indictment related to january

6th if it comes on the republican party trying to hold on to the majority in the house? >> it could be very significant. i mean, look, every opportunity the republicans had to take an offramp from donald trump over, what? eight years now, they have gone past and they've more often doubled down on their support for him. it's likely that this is the way it's going to end, too. we are past the preliminaries, kate. these earlier indictments on classified documents and the hush money payments really set us up for this which gets us to the core offense, most consequential offense which is alleged to have engaged in which is trying to overthrow the 2020 election and trying to undermine american democracy. we know the vast majority of republican voters that it's politically motivated and not fair and biassed and outside of the coalition there is clear evidence in polling that most other americans view this as, in fact, very serious. >> so, ron --

>> the npr poll shows 75% of independents say he should not be president again if convicted of a crime where as roughly 3/5 of republicans say that's fine with them. by identifying, and wrapping themselves further around trump there's undeniable risk here and beyond the electoral risk there is risk for the american political system when the dominant faction in one party is willing to countenance such openly anti-democratic behavior. that does not lead to a good place. >> that's an important point, as well. throughout all of this, does he remain the front-runner in spite of or because of the growing list of charges against him? we will continue to see as you're saying is already showing some evidence in polling of what people think. michael, what impact would an indictment here from the special counsel have on -- i'm going to call them related charges. at least related issues that we've now seen charges coming out of michigan related to

charging the fake electors there or the fulton county, georgia, that's ongoing or the other way around if that impacts this or this impacts that. i'm just curious. >> well, i've always felt like the special counsel's case is the one that should be brought and that is at the department of justice when you talk about indicting a former president that you do it with the weight of that office and the clearer picture of impartiality and nonpartisanship as opposed to some of the locally elected prosecutors who run on partisan tickets and they can claim that this is just a rogue democrat d.a. out to get the republican front-runner. so i do think that it should have some impact. i think the reality is that it will not have much impact and no decisions to bring charges, and you'll see charges brought in fulton county, i believe. you are seeing the special elector charges brought in other places, and i think these multiple indictments are doing more to strengthen his arguments

and the likelihood that the jury may buy his aurguments of persecution as opposed to a fair prosecution. >> interesting. good to see you both. thank you so much. michael moore, ron brownstein. sara? >> still ahead, this is new video that appears to show wagner mercenary chief yevgeny prigozhin in belarus. why uk intelligence says he's still a free man after his failed mutiny against putin's government. the details on that ahead. also what we know about the moments before the u.s. soldier, quote, willfully crossed the dmz and ended up in north korean custody and what his mother is saying about him now. also donald trump's republican primary rivals say he's a target of the special counsel's january 6th investigation. all of that coming up. this is sr at fairfield-suisun unified. they switched to google tools for education because there'e's never been a reported ransomware attack on a chromebook. now they're focused on learning

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>> the man who led the revolt against putin's government may have just resurfaced in public. cnn has found video posted on a pro-wagner telegram channel that appears to show wagner mercenary boss yevgeny prigozhin greeting fighters in belarus. however, we do not know exactly when that video was taken. this video surfacing as britain's intelligence chief tells our cnn's nick peyton walsh that he believes prigozhin is now likely floating about alive and at liberty. cnn's nick paton walsh is live with more on this. what more are you hearing from this official? >> yeah. it's interesting to see this video, sara, emerging just hours

after we heard from britain's mi6 chief sir richard moore in prague that from their assessments yevgeny prigozhin, is he alive? is he healthy? we haven't seen him since rostov since the failed rebellion and he appeared in the dark and then vanished from public view and seemingly re-emerging in this unverified video and we don't know what it shows. it suggested the public version of what we've seen with the failed mutiny that signals we were getting from the cremkreml and the belarusian, that the assessments from the western intelligence and it was a rare moment. what you saw was what you got and behind closed doors the same thing was happening with public signals and it was an interesting rare speech here from the head of mi6 essentially at times expressing what we all felt, shock, bewilderment that

that was indeed even happening. richard moore referred to the deal cut with putin, with prigozhin with the assistance of belarusian president that putin had cut to save his own skin, and he also talks about the extraordinary changes in loyalties that happened during that weekend. here's what he said. >> if you look at putin's behaviors on that day. prigozhin started off, i think, as a traitor at breakfast. he'd been pardoned by supper and a few days later he was invited in for tea, there are some things that the mi6 finds difficult to interpret in terms of who's in and who's out. >> certainly a message here that they continue to see fissures in the russian elite, that they think russia won't be able to regain momentum on the battlefield, importantly for ukraine in the months ahead, and using that clear sign, they believe, of putin's

unprecedented weakness over that weekend to launch an abnormal appeal, frankly. he stood on the stage here at the british embassy, if you are a disaffected russian, come and spy for the united kingdom. we are in unprecedented times here and fascinating, i think, what we saw publicly that weekend appears to be what most intelligence assessments think actually occurred in private. sara some. >> it is fascinating. we haven't seen him for weeks. people who have done much less to the russian government and to putin have either been jailed or worse, killed and now here we are learning according to uk intelligence is free and walking around. this had to be a humiliating negotiation for vladimir putin. nick paton walsh, appreciate you for that reporting. >> ukraine shot down dozens and dozens of russian drones and cruise missiles over the port city of odesa. the mayor of odesa called it one of the most horrible nights of

the year. odesa, ukrainian military officials say the attack did manage to hit grain and oil terminals, tanks and loading equipment. cnn's claire sebastian has the latest for us. claire, what have you learned? >> john, this was a pretty large-scale attack. there were more than 30 cruise missiles launched from sea, air and land by russia. that's five times from the previous night which was not an insignificant attack. the key focus, odesa, the ukrainian authorities including president zelenskyy accusing russia of deliberately targeting grain-related facilities and this comes, don't forget, two days after russia pulled out of the crucial plaque black sea gr initiative. 60,000 tons of grain was destroyed, grain that was supposed to have been loaded on to a ship to transit through the safe maritime corridors some 60

days ago. that was in the port along the black sea coast from odesa. a terrifying night for the city that has a population of almost a million people. russia's account, they don't admit targeting grain facilities. they were targeting military, industrial facilities and fuel and ammunition storages and things like that and separately, john, quickly, russia is dealing with the fallout of a pretty major incident it seems in crimea. a fire broke out at a military training facility and ammunition deep owe. several people had to be evacuated and no official word yet on the cause of that. >> clare sebastian, thank you for that. kate? we'll take it. donald trump turning to his allies on capitol hill looking for help as he could be facing new criminal charges in his effort to overturn the 2020 election. what the coordinated effort to defend donald trump from capitol hill will now look like, and a

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with former president donald trump facing a potential third indictment, this time for efforts related to trying to overturn the 2020 election results, he is now strategizing

with his closest supporters on capitol hill. multiple sources say trump spoke with both house speaker kevin mccarthy and the house republican chair elise stefanik yesterday. the conversations focused on how they will go on offense as soon as an indictment would drop. cn cnn's alayna treene is with us. what is the strategy? >> well, kate, i think what donald trump is trying to do here, really is control the political aspect of this, and it's what he's always tried to do when he's been faced with legal issues like this with the past two indictments as well as when he faced impeachment on capitol hill, and we know that house speaker kevin mccarthy called donald trump yesterday shortly after learning of him receiving that target letter and he had a conversation with elise stefanik and a source familiar with the call told me the conversation was pretty long and they talked about her going on

offense both through her roles in the committee, specifically the house subcommittee weaponization, but also how she could rally support from the republican conference around him and ultimately try to defend him, and that's exactly what we are already seeing many republicans on capitol hill do, and we've seen it again with the previous two indictments. they are coming to his defense. they are criticizing special counsel jack smith and they're labeling these investigations as political, and i also think that's why you saw donald trump try to get out ahead of this yesterday by announcing him receiving that target letter on social media. he is trying to control the narrative around this. i also think it is worth noting, kate, that donald trump and his team have been reaching out to lawyers and allies over the past 24 hours or so trying to figure out exactly who else might have received a target letter and really try to put together what a criminal case against him might look like. they are very much expecting an indictment to be brought in this

grand jury investigation around january 6th and they want to have all of the tools in their arsenal to try and defend him politically. kate? >> good to see you, alayna, thank you very much for that. john, while want surprising that he would be reaching out to capitol hill folks for backup, it is left to be seen in the middle of all of this how dangerous that game is for republicans on capitol hill. >> that's one group of republicans. the ones from capitol hill, there's another group of republicans that are running against him. >> oh, you mean those guys and gals? >> i happen to have a picture of some of them here. let's look, shall we? there is a smatters of some of the people running for president against donald trump. let's hear what they have had to say about news of this new, pending possible indictment. >> i mean, the rest of this primary election is going to be in reference to trump, it's going to be about lawsuits. it's going to be about legal fees. it's going to be about judges and it's just going to continue

to be a further and further distraction, and that's why i am running is because we need a new generational leader. we can't keep dealing with this drama. we can't keep dealing with the negativity. >> i think it sets a daefrm ro dangerous precedent in our country and i say this running against president trump in this election in this election in the g, p primary. i do not want to see my opponents eliminated because of the actions because of a corrupt, federal administrative police state. >> cnn's jeff zeleny is with us. you just heard from two candidates and let's hear from a third, governor ron desantis who is running closest to donald trump in national polls. he, of course, spoke exclusively to our jake tapper. listen. >> i want to focus looking forward. i don't want to look back. i do not want to see him. i hope he doesn't get charged. i don't think it will be good for the country. >> are you say that if he finds evidence of criminality he

should not charge donald trump anyway? >> what i'm saying is when you're going after somebody on the other side of the political spectrum, if you're stretching statutes to try to criminalize, maybe political disagreements that is wrong. now, look, this is all speculation. >> all right, jeff, how about that? a little bit of a dodge there to jake's terrific direct question. >> for sure, and he went on to say that he believes the presidential election should be about the future. he said the word future a handful of times in about a one-minute span. so clearly, he knows he cannot pivot directly. all of these republican candidates really with the exception of nikki haley and chris christie and asa hutchinson have been sort of having donald trump's back here, but the florida governor there clearly saying he thinks it's bad for the party and bad for the country to look backward and talk about what happened four years ago and he says he should look forward, but the challenge here for all of these

candidates, of course is patience. they don't all have a lot of time. they need to start making some headway and gaining some ground and donald trump has time on his side, but if indictments do come out, the variety of republicans i'm talking to point out the differences between the march indictment, the june indictment and this potential indictment because this would be about january 6th. this would be about clinging to presidential power. so for all of the thought of trump fatigue and there is trump fatigue out there, the question is is there fatigue over these indictments and this, of course, could help donald trump, but we are going to have to be patient, take a deep breath and watch all of this play out and watch how the voters ultimately digest it all. >> you are so well sourced, jeff, among all of the campaigns. what do the opposing campaigns actually think? we hear pundits on tv say the indictments help donald trump. do the campaigns running against him think the same? >> so far they have helped him

because they have strengthened his base. they have gathered around his core supporters and it's helped him in fund-raising. we have seen since the beginning of the year, donald trump, no question about it and his rivals would agree reluctantly that he's in a stronger position, but what they say privately is they see the exhaustion. they see the interest among some republican voters to turn the page and move beyond donald trump. why? because of electability. because they believe in a general election, a rematch between donald trump and joe biden about the 2020 campaign that simply is not a winning argument. so what they hope, obviously is that donald trump begins to falter. the question is that's not likely to happen on its own organically. so who will make those inroads here, and again, they have to be patient and watch all of this and the first debate on august 23rd would normally be the metric and the place where all of this comes together and we don't know if donald trump will show up to that debate or not.

so they do have to run their campaigns and wait and see how the public reacts to these indictments and of course, they would like them to have a detriment effect and there's no sense that they would, at least at this point. >> we have seen some recent polling including this new poll out of new hampshire and this is a poll and trump is at 37%. ron desantis at 23%. it's actually a closer margin than we've seen in new hampshire of late. look at tim scott at 8% now. again, when the campaigns and republican officials are looking at a poll like this, are they thinking there's a possibility for a tim scott to rise here and maybe be a viable challenge to donald trump? without question. one of the other things in this poll inside the numbers, strong favorability ratings for tim scott. republican viewers view them in a positive and favorable light. he also has a backup to the tune of $40 million. the super pac supporting him

announced yesterday that they plan to spend $40 million in television ads alone in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina, the three early-voting states to promote his candidacy. with people viewing him favorably woulgi him a boost. this poll is fascinating. 37% support donald trump and better than anyone else. six in ten republicans want to choose someone else. this is not the strength that donald trump has nationally, necessarily. so there aren't many state by state polls like this. this is one reason we know the republican party is, indeed, divided. but 37% is not a good sign for the incumbent which is essentially what donald trump is in this republican primary. again, one more reason we say it all of the time, but we have to be patient and watch as this plays out. we do not know if the summer numbers will hold, but 37% is want the position of strength that donald trump would like to be at least in the early voting

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. >> the pentagon is working this morning to get an american soldier out of north korea and back on u.s. soil, something that hasn't happened in over 40 years. this week army private travis king crossed the demarcation line. u.s. officials say they believe he did it willfully, in other words, on purpose, and that he is in north korean custody now. today we are learning more about what preceded the incident. the u.s. private was about to be administratively separated from the army and flown back to the united states because of assault charges he faced in seoul and that was in october. on july 10th, he was released from custody in south korea. on monday he was supposed to fly back to america, but he went to the airport and never boarded that flight. then on tuesday he went on that fateful tour of the dmz, a private tour. we are learning from his mother she talked to abc news. she said she is shocked and that

she just wants her son to come home. cnn's natasha bertrand is joining us from the pentagon. what are we learning about this timeline? what more do we know about what happened leading up to going across that border? >> yeah, sara, the army did confirm last night that this is private travis king and he was d to u.s. forces korea. essentially what we know at this point is he was on a tour of the dmz and then he crossed that demarcation line to north korea willfully according to the u.s. military. in terms of what led up to this it is a very interesting timeline and he is facing assault charges for assaults from south korea back in september and october. he ended up spending 50 days in a detention facility in south korea doing hard labor. then on july 10th, he was ultimately released from that detention facility and set to fly back on july 17th where he

was going to be separated from the u.s. army. he was going to fly back to fort bliss and there he was going to be essentially removed from the u.s. military, but he went to the airport with u.s. military officials escorting him, but they couldn't take him all of the way to the gate and they essentially lost him. he was supposed to board the plane and he never did. on july 18th, that is when he took that tour of the dmz and at some point during that tour he ran across that line into north korea into, of course, the arms of north korean military. now, we have heard from his mother who spoke to abc and said that she doesn't think that travis would do something like this and she is very surprised because just a few days ago she had spoken to him and he said he was planning to return to fort bliss and now, of course, sara, all she wants is for him to come home. >> can i ask you whether or not whether the pentagon has released information about who

they are talking to or if they've had conversations with the north korean counterparts? >> yeah, sara. we have gotten some conflicting information on this. u.s. forces korea did release a statement yesterday saying that he -- that the u.s. military had been working with north korean military officials to try to resolve the situation. however, the senior military demander in charge of the pacific, he told a forum that they had tried reaching out to the north koreans and this is not typical and the biden administration has been trying to conduct diplomacy with the north koreans since they took office and the north koreans never responded. so it appears that while they are trying to work with the north koreans on this, they are still getting radio silence from them and it remains unclear at this point where travis king actually is, what his condition is and if he will be released any time soon, sara. >> natasha, i should mention, we

spoke last hour to the former diplomat and longtime negotiator and former governor of new mexico bill richardson and said, look, if you're not hearing anything from north korea, if north korea isn't making a statement at the time, the likelihood is they're interrogating the army private and it's actually good news at this point, but you are saying that the pentagon hasn't really been able to get in contact potentially with north korea. do we know anything more about the army private and whether or not he potentially tried to defect? >> so the state of mind here is something that officials are really trying to figure out. they're not using the word defect because, of course, they simply don't know what his motivations were for crossing this lean line and he was facing further disciplinary action and

was going to be removed once returned to fort bliss. there was a sense that he was trying to avoid that, that he was trying to buy time and trying to escape any further disciplinary action, and there are no signs at this point according to the senior commander in the pacific that he had any sympathies for north korea or that he was trying to defect, for example, in order to give them secrets, perhaps, that he'd learned in his time in the u.s. military. no signs of that as of now, but obviously officials are still working on this and trying to get more insight. natasha bell trand, we appreciate. >> we are looking live right now and a look into the halls of congress and minutes from now a bipartisan show of support on capitol hill with a key ally. the president of israel set to address the joint meeting of the house and senate. plus, indictment watch part 3. the possible charges that former

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