david sanger, stick with us. we've got a lot more to come including my favorite story. >> perfection. >> it's perfection. >> were you pointing at me? >> yeah, perfection. >> thanks, pal. >> every professional athlete strives for the idea of perfection. rarely is it ever achieved, wednesday night domingo german was perfect. >> esteury ruiz stands in his way. grounded to third, donaldson has it! there it is, perfection for domingo german! >> here's why this was absolutely awesome. domingo german was only the 24th person ever to throw a perfect game in a major league game, and he did it against a team that hadn't even been no hits since 1991. he owes a lot to his defense. you saw josh donaldson there, but especially first baseman anthony rizzo, made that diving stop in the fifth inning to preserve history. german becomes the first dominican born player to retire 27 straight batters in a single game. also became the fourth yankee to do it. david cohen was the last to throw a perfect game, he did it in 1999, just 88 p

. >>> joining us, national security analyst david sanger, david, thanks for joining us. putin's future is on the line presumably right now, prigozhin is seeing what happens to people who cross putin in the past and he wouldn't do this, presumably, if he didn't think he has enough support to win. either in the fsb, or in the defense ministry, the fsb, the russian intelligence agency. do we think we know the cards that prigozhin is actually holding? he has to be very careful right now, given the fact that he has directly challenged putin. >> he does, and i think what's really truly remarkable about this moment, wolf, probably three remarkable things. first, until now, we have suspected that there would be cracks at some point, because of the war in putin's regime, we haven't really seen any, other than this troubled war that had gone on between prigozhin and the defense ministry. and putin allowed that to happen. until last night. or this morning, when he gave, this morning moscow time, when he gave his speech. and there, while he never mentioned prigozhin's name directly,

>> with us now cnn political and national security analyst david sanger. d, secretary of state said he accomplished what he set out to do. how much of that was just being in the room with xi jinping? >> oh, i think a lot of it was, john, and the fact that xi jinping saw him was a good sign that the president of china doesn't always see a visiting secretary of state, this obviously a somewhat difference in status there, and so that was an indication that, in fact, xi jinping did want to put a floor on the relationship. i think as kylie described there, and as we heard from secretary blinken during the press conference, it was sort of a mixed score card. the fact that they agreed to work together on a couple of issues that they did not specify is good. the fact that they couldn't get something as basic together as communications during a military crisis or another spy balloon incident, that's bad, because that's how accidents happen. and the big fear, john, is that these two powers as their relationship has been spiraling downward get into some kind of accide

with us now david sanger, cnn political and national security analyst and cnn global affairs analyst anaging editor of military times kim dozier. david, the lead article in your paper today says that what vladimir putin has provided to russia for decades is unconditional stability, which i thought was a very great phrase. what does what has just happened do to that and where do you see his grasp on power? >> well, stability is gone. think about where we were a week ago. a week ago i was talking with senior administration officials who were struck by the fact that putin had gone through this war for 16 months and there weren't that many tracks that were visible, in fact, very few. a week later we see a huge crack that's out there. you heard secretary blinken on tv on sunday making the point that 16 months ago we were wondering what it would take for putin to take kyiv. now we were wondering whether or not he could defend moscow. so he's got ordered back, he's once again got monopoly on violence which has always been the main thing for him, but we don't know where prigozhin s i doubt th

joining us is cnn political and national security an lived david sanger. you so much for being with us. interpreting the inner workings of the kremlin, the power struggles, it's almost sort of an art form. i'm wondering beyond the rumors and speculation what do you imagine is happening right now? should we anticipate another purge? >> well, victor, good to see you. you know, they call it kremlin-ology for a reason because it was hard in the soviet era, and it's hard in the putin-russia era. we know a couple of things. you know, a week ago we would have said that putin's control over his own military was complete and total. we now know that there is suspicion about one very senior general, as we've just discussed. and it would be hard to imagine that he would be the only one. p opene's got to be -- putin's got to be worried that when the uprising began the wagner forces made it down to 150, 125 miles from moscow without any real significant opposition from the russian military. now, we don't know if that's because they were cooperaticoop because they were i

. >>> here with me is cnn national security and political analyst david sanger, and a white house reporteriated press. david, in the federal indictment trump is accused of lying and scheming, and showing them off to people with no security clearance, documents with information about her nuclear capabilities and vulnerabilities. how do you square the evidence and what's laid out in the indictment with the political attacks that we're hearing from some republicans? >> well, you know, it's interesting, the report we just heard suggests, amara, the reason that people are going a little more quiet is that the indictment was highly specific. it was illustrated with these damning photographs, you've shown them many times of the stacks of boxes, and a bathroom on the stage of the ballroom, so obviously places where people had access to them. and then the specificity of what some of these were, and we've reported at the "times" that a number of these documents dealt with, as we have suspected all along, with contingent war plans for dealing with iran, not for the u.s. to attack iran, but how the u.

david sanger, the federal indictment the first ever against a former president, it's a huge test fore american judicial system, i think it's not -- it can't be overstated. how important is it that the justice department doesn't swing and miss here? >> well, it's very important they don't swing and miss and it's also important, jake, that they don't appear to be swinging and missing. we are all going to be watching this, fascinated, but so will the rest of the world and when the rest of the world looks at this they say, okay, we've seen this before, former leaders who are put on trial. the former italian prime minister who just died himself was on trial. and there is a big test when that moment comes, which is the world is going to be looking at a united states that clearly is split in many ways politically at home, but they're also looking for a test of this message that president biden is sending out about the difference between democracies and autocracies, how you run a democracy, and so the justice department has to not only show that this is not a swing and a miss, but that they

. >> connell layton, david sanger, thank you for your expertise. great to have with us tonight. >> thank you. >> we are more to come on the breaking news tonight. a chaotic situation in russia. the russian military is accusing the leader of the wagner mercenaries of an attempted coup. we'll be right back. we're carvana the company who invented car vending machines and buying a car 100 percent online now we've created a brand new way for you to sell your car whether it's a year old, or a few years old we want to buy your car so go to carvana enter your license plate answer a few questions and our techno wizardry calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer in seconds when you're ready we'll come to you pay you on the spot and pick up your car that's it so ditch the old way of selling your car and say hello to the new way at carvana with downy infusions, let the scent set the mood. feel the difference with downy. when it comes to your hair, ingredients matter. that's why herbal essences is packed with naturally derived plant ingredients you

. >> oren liebermann and david sanger, thank you both. >>> we turn now to the race for the white house. this weekend marked the unofficial start to the caucus season. on saturday eight gop presidential hopefuls gathered in des moines, iowa. the expanding gop field is expected to get even more crowded this week, as three more candidates, including former vice president mike pence and former trump ally turned critic chris christie are poised to join the race. donald trump -- the republican presidential race picks up more team as cnn hosts a town hall with gop candidate nikki haley in iowa. give us a recap of how events are playing out there this weekend. >> reporter: paula, the republicans candidates have been fanning out for several days but they descended to the same room on saturday, the jody ernst's gathering. the candidates are sounding some themes that may work in campaigns. they are joined in unison in their criticism of the biden administration. most of them held their punches when it came to define or distinguish themselves with former president donald trump. listen as nikki hay

global affairs analyst and senior managing editor of military time, and david sanger, national security correspondent for the "new york times," general, let me get back to you. we were speaking in the previous hour. what do you think prigozhin's intentions were? was this all some big stunt that succeeded a lot more wildly than he could have possibly imagined? is that potentially what happened here? why did he stop so abruptly? >> i would suggest it was a stunt that got a little out of control. all indicators, the government assessment was prigozhin was attempting to counter the new law within russia to make all the mercenaries that are part of the dmc, sign contracts with the government, in effect, putting prigozhin under the control and command of the minister of defense shoigu. sho they can't stand each other. neither one are soldiers. they see thing from a very different perspective. prigozhin is out after power. as we talked the last hour, he's looking to be his own personal war lord with no ideology. shoigu is attempting to make as much money and grip as he can and he's been doing

. >> joining us now to discuss this, we have dan rapoport, and also david sanger, white house and national correspondent for the "new york times." dan, to you first. what changed? how did this come together? >> yeah. you don't want to oversimplify it but it is safe to say that money always wins. i think the pga tour a really hard-line stance on this. they said you have to choose one or the other. the saudis are so bad. they thought they could stamp them out. cut this problem at the root. if they turn the saudi entity, if they turn it into a money loser, maybe they would get bored or go somewhere else. that won't happen. the saudis have money on a different level than the pga tour. they could keep pouring money and money and money. the pga tour couldn't just do that. they don't have a fund of $600 billion to start funneling to the players. they had to go deep into the reserves. some are suggesting they borrowed money to fund tournament this is year. they had to ask the sponsors for more and i don't know if they thought that was sustainable. when the facts say the person you were fighting ag

analyst and former cia chief of russia operations, steve hall, and cnn national security analyst david sangeri have so many questions. i'm going to start with you, steve. putin has just spoken and used the word civil war, saying that his troops helped avoid a civil war. what do you make of his latest statements? we have never heard him say that. >> he's definitely in a position that he hasn't been in in pretty much forever. i think we're seeing a lot of looseness, slackness in terms of what do we do now. you remember on sunday, it was all the wagner guys will be pardoned. then on the next day, maybe they are going to be. it goes back and forth, back and forth. the other indicator is where is prigozhin. and then you have all the stuff we have seen before, putin standing in front of the guys with the big hats. this is not something he typically has to do. this sort of press repair work. pr work. this is not something that dictators normally do. they can normally just repress. the fact he feels he has to do this stuff is an indicator he himself is concerned about his situation. >> a real sign ju

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global affairs kim dozier, david sanger, and retired u.s.rmy major mike lions, we appreciated you. nick paton walsh in the middle of his reporting from kyiv this weekend wrote a really fascinating piece and in it he said it's impossible to imagine putin's regime will go back to its previous heights of control from this moment, what does this mean actually for russia and for putin? >> well, we have to start, poppy, by saying we don't know but we do know that if you think about everything that we conceived about vladimir putin last week and what we think about on monday morning it's different. last week i was seeing a senior administration official and we were musing about the fact, this was probably early in the week, that we had not really seen any of the cracks in the putin regime that many had expected. okay? by this morning, boy have we seen them. it's a really open question. how did prigozhin not only plan this out, which u.s. intelligence, we think, had some sense of. >> this was "new york times" reporting and cnn reporting as of wednes

and with us david sanger, and cnn senior political commentator, former republican congressman adam kinzingerthank you for being with us. how important you think it is that nato was so in lockstep in response to this. >> well, given the fact they had no idea what was going to transpire as all of these rebel troops were heading towards moscow they did not want to create any provocation. and what we saw was nato in absolute lockstep. low level officials were in touch with russia letting them know there was no need for a high-level direct contact between the americans and the russians. also making it known that no nato troops were moving while any of this was going on. the only thing that implied a level of concern around the crisis was that american officials on the ground with the embassy were all basically on lockdown in the embassy in the diplomatic complex. that was it. know evacuation. every member of nato had the same talking points, doing their best to ensure that nobody was blamed for interfering with what was happening domestically inside russia at this time. let the russians have thei

joining us now is david sanger.nd a white house and national security correspondent for "the new york times." we're also joined by cnn military analyst and retired u.s. army general "spider" marks. last month in japan, we heard from president biden. he was predicting a thaw in these u.s./china relations. are we seeing that yet? is that the goal here? and is that possible at this point? >> well, that's certainly the goal. the effort is to rebuild communication. as spider will tell you, the military communications have been non-existent here. the diplomatic communications have been pretty well frozen, in part because of the spy balloon, but in part because it's just a fundamental disagreement about what the future of the relationship would look like. with the u.s. saying, look, we can compete in a whole number of ranges, technology, trade, even some security issues, but there are areas where we can go cooperate. and the chinese saying, you can't really have a bifurcated kind of relationship like that. >> how concernin

i'm joined did i david sanger, national security analyst as well as a white house and national securityle more to prigozhin's use of telegram, the platform, to try to get the message out? >> it's been pretty brilliant. that shouldn't sprass us given the fact that prigozhin himself is no amateur when it comes to social media. you'll remember, if we just wind the clock back seven years ago, he was running the internet research agency, the group that went out, sent people to the united states to go figure out divisive issues. came back and started posting from the internet research agency on facebook and elsewhere efforts to basically send out disinformation and try to get, to open up divisions within the american body politic. and they did it very effectively. they de clara protest in one place and then a counter protest the same day in the same place, and try to create a small riot. they did this in texas. they did it in other places. so satisfied that forward seven years and he he's using telegram, a widely used messaging app, and social media app as well. and he is announcing each of h

stan or, lamar fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, cnn political and national security analyst david sanger, and cnn legal analyst elliott williams. beth and andrew, both of you, great people to have on a night like tonight as we go into tomorrow. beth, first, you reaction to what shimon just laid out. are you worried? >> i've seen high school graduations and concerts with more security than i see at an event that is likely to attract all manner of humans. >> to me, to be honest, i have as well. >> so -- yeah, anything, we've all been to events in our hometowns that have more security than that. and it just seems a little bit out of sync with the experiences that we've all encountered. >> yeah, agreed. you know, there's no shame in being over prepared. but there is great shame in being underprepared and not ready. the way that you secure locations where you expect an event that could draw protesters, counter protesters, and the combination of very-charged people, is to prevent those crowds from accumulating close to the target, which in this case is the federal courthouse, and to keep those

chief international krifrten ann amanpour and white house correspondent from the "new york times" david sanger. christiane, to you first. what is biden's motivation here in warming up to india at this time? is that about pulling india closer as the u.s. standoff worsens with russia certainly but also china? is it about making them a friend in all of this as best they can? >> i think that's a huge part of it. absolutely, and, of course, as you know, india has not joined many of the u.n. resolutions. it is against russia. it is still importing russian oil. that oil that moves by sea from russia. and actually over the environment. it is still very much invested in coal mining and that is a very degrading aspect to the environment. and it also, as you know, has a, an alarming crackdown on the muslim minority there. the very significant muslim minority on the press on political opposition. i'm talking to you from athens, because i than exclusive interview with former president barack obama and asked about the complicated visuals of president biden's pledge to defend democracy as it collides with au