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♪ major new questions this morning after the failed revolt in russia. the u.s. secretary of state says we have not seen its final act. a video emerges of vladimir putin just a few minutes ago, so what message is it supposed to send? we are live in moscow with the latest. russians cheering in the streets as wagner mercenaries made their moves. shaking hands with wagner's leader in the last images seen of him before he was to escape to exile. the mood inside the country and the potential cracks in putin's rule. and what does all of this
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mean for russia's war in ukraine? kyiv now claiming it's gaining ground in the east. will the russian infighting have devastating consequences for russia as some analysts predict? we're following all of this and more right here on cnn "news central." ♪ just a short time ago we saw vladimir putin on video for the first time since the most serious test to his authority in his decades in office. now, we do not know when or where this video was shot and putin made no mention of the rebellion. major questions remain this morning. where is the man who launched the revolt against putin? what impact is this all having on the ground in ukraine? and what has this done to putin's grasp on power? cnn has reporters and analysts stationed all around the world to find answers to these questions, questions that get to the heart of international
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security and world order, an order that was thrown out of balance in a remarkable 48 hours. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken says it shows cracks in the russian regime, a crisis in which he says we have not seen the last act. now, the march of the renegade mercenary wagner group was halted before it reached moscow as part of what the kremlin claims was a deal to drop charges against the leader, yevgeny prigozhin. and for prigozhin to leave for belarus, but prigozhin has not confirmed the deal and has not been seen since saturday night. as we said, putin himself only just appeared in video for the first time since saturday. cnn's matthew chance is live in moscow this morning. matthew, what are you seeing there? >> reporter: well, moscow, of course, john, is breathing a sigh of relief because, you know, after that weekend of mayhem in which armed wagner mercenaries were making a
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beeline for the russian capital, threatening a confrontation with the security forces here, there was a last-minute deal, the violence was averted, yevgeny prigozhin, who is, of course, the leader of the notorious wagner group was meant to be packed off into exile in the neighboring country of belarus. so relief in moscow. they have lifted the tight security measures that were imposed over the weekend in preparation for that entrance of wagner forces, but it's really -- i have to say, john, it's relief that's coupled with a high degree of anxiety as well about what this armed rebellion will unleash, whether it will spark more kind of cracks appearing in the regime of president vladimir putin, and what president putin might do in order to consolidate now his very increasingly tenuous grip on power, john. >> we saw putin in this video, matthew, also the defense
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minister shoigu on video for the first time since all of this. what's the significance of that? >> reporter: well, i mean, look, we have all been waiting to see where these key players are. sergei shoigu is, of course, the defense minister, he is the person, more than anyone else, who yevgeny prigozhin has been criticizing for mishandling the war in ukraine. the whole march for justice as prigozhin called his drive towards moscow, was an attempt to seize shoigu and oust him from the office of the defense ministry. the fact that he has now appeared on russian state television, inspecting the sort of western military region of the russian military, sort of implies that no action by putin is being taken against him at the moment. so it's not clear, of course, when that video was filmed. equally we are looking for signs from vladimir putin himself about how this weekend may have shaken him.
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about what measures he may take to consolidate his grip on power in this country after such a challenge to his authority and what we got is not a live appearance, not even an appearance that was -- that was recorded recently, we don't think. this was a prerecorded video message to a forum -- an international youth trade forum, apparently, which is taking place in the russian region, and he didn't even mention the events of the past 36, 48 hours. so we're none the wiser as to where putin is and to what -- what steps he may -- he may now take. we also don't know where prigozhin s by the way. >> or is he under investigation, matthew? is prigozhin being investigated or the insurrection or not? there seem to be mixed signals. >> reporter: yeah, mixed signals indeed. when the deal was done the kremlin said that part of that deal was that all charges of insurrection, for instance, which is very serious, of course, as you can imagine in
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this country against prigozhin were going to be dropped, but now the state news agency saying that hasn't happened and he is still being investigated. >> matthew, great to have you there. please keep us posted. stay safe. kate? this weekend's insurrection was a surprise to many but u.s. intelligence community had been tracking for days that prigozhin had something in the works against russian leadership. let's go over to natasha bertrand, she is at the pentagon for us tracking all of this. natasha, we know that the reporting is that u.s. intelligence had a sense in the days ahead that something could be happening, but still in seeing how it played out, did it surprise u.s. officials? >> reporter: that's right, kate. we reported over the weekend that u.s. intelligence officials did pick up some signals that prigozhin was perhaps planning a major challenge to russia's military leadership and that he was perhaps even massing weapons and equipment to prepare to actually move into russia and
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challenge russia's defense leaders, but there was some surprise about how this actually unfolded. namely, they were surprised that it wasn't bloodier. u.s. officials did expect that there would be a lot more resistance from russia's actual troops to russia's -- to the wagner troops that were entering the country and they expected that there would be a lot more blood shed. essentially they thought that there would be more of a fight put up by russia's troops to wagner's procession into russia and, of course, up towards moscow. they were also surprised by the swiftness of the deal that was reached between belarus and wagner forces, between belarus and prigozhin that essentially ended the entire thing. part of this, of course, may have to do with the fact that prigozhin did not actually end up getting to moscow, which is where u.s. officials would have expected the fiercest resistance to come from russian strtroops. he turned around before there was an opportunity to do that, but there are big questions here
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about why russia's military did not put up a bigger fight. in terms of what comes next, u.s. officials are still unclear as to what happens from here and secretary of state antony blinken said that it is too soon to say where this all goes and what it means for putin's leadership but that cracks have certainly emerged. here is what he said. >> it's too soon to tell exactly where this is going to go and i suspect that this is a moving picture and we haven't seen the last act yet. but we can say this, first of all, what we've seen is extraordinary and i think you see cracks emerge that weren't there before. >> obviously the most serious challenge to putin's leadership in his over 20 years of rule and u.s. officials will be watching for how putin responds to all of this in the coming days and week, kate. >> thanks for the reporting as always. not a surprise as the white house says it's monitoring the situation in russia very closely. president biden was briefed and met with officials behind closed doors at camp david. american embassies across the
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globe were told to convey that, quote, the united states has no intention of involving itself in this matter. i want to bring in cnn's arlette saenz, she is at the white house for us. arlette, we know that the president has spoken to a lot of world leaders. did he actually have a conversation with ukraine's president zelenskyy? >> reporter: yeah, he did, sara. president biden spent the weekend at camp david working the phones with allies as the white house and its allies are continuing to assess what the broader impact of this short-lived rebellion will be in terms of putin's rule in russia and also the war in ukraine. now, the president spoke with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy yesterday and he also placed calls to some of the u.s.'s topical lies, including the leaders of france, canada, germany and the united kingdom. what is key among all of those allies is they have been a central part of the west efforts to counter putin's war against ukraine. these phone calls not only touched on those recent events in russia, but it also talked about the ways that they could
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continue supporting ukraine as this war continues to play out. another message that was relayed in these calls was the need for essentially everyone to lay low, allow the events in russia to play out. one things that officials have been cognizant of is they want to avoid giving putin any reason, any fodder to make claims that the west was interfering in these matters in any way and that is why president biden has really adopted this very cautious and quiet strategy. we have yet to hear directly from president biden himself, he spent the weekend huddled with his national security adviser jake sullivan at camp david. in a short while we will see the president at an unrelated event but it could be a chance for him to face some questions on this matter as the u.s. is trying to get a handle on what kind of impact this will all have on water in ukraine and putin's hold on power in russia. >> yeah, of course, putin already sort of trying to hint that they are looking at what the u.s. involvement was, but in this case u.s. trying to
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distance itself saying this is a you problem, not an us problem. arlette saenz, thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> as arlette said, sara, we will see president biden for the first time since this deal was struck, this will be his first chance to comment publicly. we will bring that to you live when it happens. as we said, we don't even know for sure where yevgeny prigozhin is, the leader of the wagner group, he was supposed to go to belarus. also, what about his forces? what happens to them now? cnn's international diplomatic editor nic robertson is with us. give us a sense of what we expect and where we expect those forces to go. >> reporter: look, i think prigozhin is in the position right now of trying to figure out has the kremlin duped him by saying they were giving him an essential amnesty and the indications are at the moment that the kremlin are saying they haven't dropped the charges against him. we know putin likes loyalty and dislikes and will distance himself from people who aren't
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loyal to him. prigozhin was in his inter cirque m, was having a big spat with snow gu. so when prigozhin decided to do this about face and u-turn and pull his troops back from their road to confrontation in moscow and cut this deal, it was lukashenko, the president of belarus next door who got to cut the deal but i don't think anyone is fooled that he was the front on it. that putin wasn't really behind it. belarus is a weak client of russia right now. lukashenko only just scraped through in his last elections, widely seen as fraudulent, brought out massive protests on the street in 2020. he has been in control of the country since 1994, seen as europe's last dictator and needs putin to prop him up and he has used his country has a base to attack ukraine. so lukashenko the cheap and, if you will, weak partner to putin.
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so this is the place that prigozhin has gone. so really? if he still faces charges is he really going to feel safe there? do we expect him to pop up and spend any time there? again, it's all unclear. and would putin in this scenario want to leave prigozhin with his troops? wow, that would just seem so unlikely. >> these are crucial unanswered questions, nic. we are waiting for some answers. maybe we will get them in the next few hours. thank you for being with us. absolutely. it seems more only questions now ahead in the immediate and long term. ahead, we have a closer look at how this situation inside russia rapidly escalated and then just abruptly ended within 36 hours. plus, we're also tracking other big headlines like the weather. a deadly tornado hits indiana. today more than 90 million people are under the threat of more severe weather. and the u.s. coast guard now leading the investigation into what caused the titan sub disaster.
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all right. we want to break this down for you. it could be weeks or months until we understand the full significance of what happened this weekend in russia, but what is clear the mutiny itself seems to have ended as quickly as it began. it started friday morning when wagner founder yevgeny prigozhin blamed russia's defense minister for what he said was an air strike on his mercenaries in ukraine. now, we don't know if or how many wagner fighters died in the strike, but prigozhin responded by questioning the kremlin's motives for starting the war in ukraine, and said its military leadership must be stopped. then wagner mercenaries began their march toward moscow.
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within hours the fsb, russia's main intelligence agency, opened an investigation against prigozhin for armed rebellion and military officials began deploying armed vehicles and the russian national guard in the capital. as saturday unfolded prigozhin led his fighters into the southern russian city of rostov-on-don where they took over the headquarters of the southern military district. wagner forces continued to push north getting within about 150 miles of moscow. there were few signs of resistance which surprised a lot of people from russian troops but there were a few skirmishes. wagner forces appeared to have shot down at least two russian helicopters and a plane. a visibly angry putin gave a nationally televised address saturday calling the mutiny treason, betrayal and a stab in the back. he warned of punishment, but then an abrupt reversal from the wagner chief, alexander lukashenko the president of belarus and a putin ally suddenly announced he had brokered an agreement with
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prigozhin. prigozhin called his troops back and agreed to go into exile in belarus, but as he left rostov-on-don he was greeted like a hero and people on the streets chanted for his fighters. listen. [ crowd chanting "wagner ]" so gr we right now? prigozhin has yet to show up in belarus and no one has heard or seen him. russia's prosecutor general's office said the investigation for inciting armed rebellion is still under way. >> the big question is what now. with us now david sanger, cnn political and national security analyst and cnn global affairs analyst and senior managing 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
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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 this is over in some form, and the fact that you heard that cheering, that we didn't really see much military opposition to prigozhin as he was heading to moscow with the possible
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exception of this set of air strikes that we are still trying to learn something about, tells you that putin has got to be a little bit nervous. he doesn't have very many troops left in moscow -- or in russia because they're mostly in ukraine and he's not sure how loyal they are. >> so a fundamental paradigm shift. kim, the nato secretary general stoltenberg a few moments ago said we should not make the mistake of underestimating moscow. what are you looking for next? >> i'm looking for how putin might try to downsize prigozhin. now, look, we don't know where prigozhin is, is he really going to go to belarus which is in moscow's pocket? i think he's more likely to reappear somewhere in africa, take a jet from crimea to somewhere where he's safe from russia's fsb. but putin if he had taken prigozhin out right now, he would be taking out a folk hero who moscow helped build up and every man who was at the front
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lines at this tough war against ukraine and who spoke truth to power over and over and over in a way that putin allowed. i think then he was faced with prigozhin holding the wagner gun to his head, the possibility of open warfare on the outskirts of moscow that made them both blink, but we have to measure the importance of prigozhin in how putin reacted to him. he didn't go to that open warfare, he blinked, he let him live another day. >> really is interesting to see what he did, but why he did it and what happens with it still very much unknown. david sanger, how can ukraine and perhaps the united states or the western alliance exploit this, or can they? >> well, they're going to certainly try. i thought it was interesting that on the u.s. side president biden was on the phone to all of the allies with a singular message, which is everybody stay
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in lockstep and everyone make the case this is an internal issue for the russians. because he knew that sooner or later putin is going to say this was all a u.s. and nato plot. remember, we only have, john, 17 days until the nato summit in lithuania, right on putin's border. you are going to have all the nato leaders there, putin is obviously going to try to make the case that they are once again plotting to expand nato and threaten his regime. that was his ultimate argument over the past year. and so i think president biden is trying to be very careful to say, hey, this was your internal issue. now, if you are zelenskyy, you probably enjoyed the weekend, but my guess is that over time this is going to make it harder for putin to compromise on anything that would lead to an armistice or peace deal. >> we have yet to hear publicly from president biden since this
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really all began. >> amazing. >> it is interesting. he's speaking in a couple hours on another subject, we will bring that live to you when that happens because one might expect he will say something about what's going on in russia. kimberly, a vladimir putin who cannot guarantee unconditional stability, what kind of a leader of russia is he? >> well, look, inside russia he still has control of information operations, the majority of people within the country will be seeing what he wants them to see and likely you're going to see an information campaign now to degrade prigozhin, especially since the legal case against him is still live, despite this assurance that all the cases against wagner forces would be dropped. but if you are sitting in beijing or delhi, or any african capital where you rely on wagner forces for everything from training your own forces to foreign policy advice, you're
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wondering does putin really have his house in order? it doesn't look like it. why should i side with putin against the west? he's no longer the safe bet that we thought he was. >> and we are hearing phone call after phone call from vladimir putin to different world leaders around the world trying to reassure them, hey, i'm still here. you do wonder how effective that is. kim, david, great to have you both here. thank you so much. kate? lay low and let the situation play out. that appears to be the message from the white house as you all were just discussing to allies around the world as the chaos unfolded in russia. will it have an impact on the battles in ukraine now? and the work is far from over for the u.s. coast guard as its investigators now begin looking into what exactly caused the titan sub to explode and what can be learned from this disaster. ahead the evidence that they will be reviewing. [ applause ] >> the day you get your clearchoice dental implants makes every day a confident day... a never-hide-my-y-smile day...
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the u.s. coast guard has launched an investigation into what exactly happened to the titan sub. an underwater voyage that turned into a deadly disaster. yesterday the coast guard announced what's called a marine board of investigation, its highest vel of probe. the effort will include collecting da brew from the sea floor, conducting interviews and also reviewing voice recordings that are available. all of it will be used to determine what caused the tragedy and also offer possible recommendations for further action. cnn's miguel marquez is in newfoundland with more on all of this. miguel, this is not the only investigation that's happening
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at the very same time. how will all of these pros work together? >> reporter: it is a lot of investigating, kate. at least six investigations, four different countries, the tsb, the transportation safety board, the canadian agency, will probably be doing the heaviest lifting, the u.s. national transportation safety board, the british and the french marine accident agencies, they will be involved, and then the rcmp, the royal canadian mounted police here, sort of the national police, will look for any possible criminal activity or concerns with this investigation across all those investigations, all of them will be sort of managed by international norms and laws so that they can all sort of cooperate together, but in the meantime the polar prince that took the titan out to sea, it is now ported in its home port, at its home dock the horizon maritime, it was across the harbor at a coast guard dock for the weekend while they were
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doing some investigating. the wife of mr. dawood and his son, the wife and mother of two people who died on that titan spoke out about the last time she saw them. >> we just hugged and joked, actually, because shahzada was so excited to go down. he was like a little child. >> a lifelong dream of him to do it? >> yes, absolutely. he had this ability of child-like excitement, so they both were so excited. it was supposed to be shahzada and i going down and then i stepped back and gave the space to suleman because he really wanted to go. >> reporter: now, we know the canadian transportation safety board spoke to family members that were on the polar prince this weekend as well as crew, as well as took data, everything
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they could, whether it's video, sound or computer data from that mission so that they can begin their investigation and most likely share that with other agencies around the world. kate? >> miguel, thank you so much for putting that all together. really appreciate it. many investigations, coast guard saying their main goal is to try to get some answers for these families. >> and the families so deserve it. all right. joining us now to talk about the recovery work is underwater explorer and ceo of tiburón sub sea tim taylor. thank you so much for joining us. what is this investigation going to look like? we know they've been scouring the bottom of the sea to try and get some of these pieces or at least map some of these pieces to try to figure it out. what happens next? >> well, they're going to -- they're going to -- highly unlikely they are going to be able to recover every little piece as if this was a plane crash and put it back together. they're going to have to rely on
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imagery and technology. i'm not sure what pay loads are loaded on the boats that are out there, but they especially pay loads like light armor, a lacer scanning as well as high definition 4k imagery cameras. not all rovs are set up with that. if they can put those assets on these rovs they can actually scan the debris area and do photogramatry work two enough high definition and enough scans they can reconstruct the whole thing in a digital world. they can then start piecing things together in a digital augmented reality or reality type thing and see if they can get any clues. >> you know, the industry sort of regulates itself, i mean, that was reflected in some of the papers that people had to sign. does that need to change? i realize that usually this is explorers or it's scientists doing this, but this has turned into now an industry where people, regular folks are going
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down in these submersibles. do you know there should be a regulatory agency for this? >> well, i think that just an overreaction at this particular time for industry, be careful. the industry has self-regulated and for 50 years, in the '70s there were lots of accidents so they solved that with some really, really good methods and practices within the industry and had a stellar record. this is an example of someone steps aside those processes and certifications and the way i look at this, it is a consumer affairs problem now, a consumer -- consumer protection. so someone has taken a technology and is marketing it as a ride. they're using organizations to help sell those rides and people believe that it's all been vetted and safe because people that are selling it to their members, to their client tell
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base or whoever these adventure people are, they have to be aware that if they are helping third-party vendors take advantage of their clients or members, there's some responsibility here. i don't think it's an industry thing as well as a consumer affair and protection issue, but, again, you have multiple countries, multiple jurisdictions, multiple rules and then the high seas are kind of a wild, wild west. >> yeah, truth in advertising you're saying is something people need to understand what they're getting themselves into. tim taylor, thank you for break that go down for us, appreciate you coming on. this morning 90 million people across the united states are under severe weather threats. authorities say at least one person was killed when tornadoes and severe storms hit southern indiana and several southern states as well. video shows a funnel cloud from a tornado tearing through buildings, you can see it spinning out debris there. the local fire chief says at
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least 75 homes near indianapolis were damaged. today in pittsburgh the penalty phase begins for the man convicted of the deadliest anti-smik tick attack in history. the jury found the killer guilty of all 63 counts against him including 22 capital charges. that jury will now decide whether the killer should be sentenced to death. brittney griner has been named as a starter in the wnba all-star game. greener is a two time olympic mod medalist. she spent 300 days jailed in russia and missed all of last season. she was freed in december in a prisoner swap. the all-star game will be in las vegas on july 15th. sara? >> good for her. russia may have avoided an insurrection over the weekend but now questions are being raised about whether the revolt has weakened president vladimir putin's grip on power and what impact this will have on the war
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puts you on the path to your full potential. old school grit. new world ideas. morgan stanley. this morning the european union agreed to add $3.8 billion to its ukraine military aid fund as ukrainian officials are calling on the block to help accelerate russia's defeat and in his first address -- first address since the chaos unfolded on russian streets over the weekend, ukraine's president zelenskyy said the longer the invasion of ukraine continues, the more russia risks violence
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and instability within its own borders. >> translator: the longer russian aggression lasts the more degradation it causes in russia itself. one of the manifestations is that russian aggression is gradually returning to its home harbor. >> joining us now is a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, ambassador john herbst. what do you take from this address, this statement coming from president zelenskyy, kind of after this weekend of chaos? >> well, i think he has a point. the tensions that led to this insurrection in ukraine -- excuse me, in russia -- in russia, has been building since the successful ukrainian counteroffensive last year and putin speaks as if the war in ukraine is a war -- a an existential war for russia when it is a war of choice for putin and more and more people in russia are coming to understand that and more and more people in
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russia are frustrated by the dreadful performance of moscow's military. so zelenskyy has a point. >> ambassador, you said this weekend that what happened in russia is not a 24-hour blip. if it is not, what is it? >> it's a sign that this war is a dreadful thing. obviously not just for ukraine, but also for russia. russian soldiers are dying in ridiculous ways to satisfy the whim of a leader. and prigozhin began to point this out indirectly back in the fall and increasingly directly, especially in the address he gave just before he launched this coup. and one of the reasons why prigozhin is popular in russia is that people see that what he's saying is right and he is speaking on those issues truth to power, although of course we know that prigozhin himself is a
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rogue. >> one of the big questions -- one of many big questions in this moment is what happens to prigozhin. he hasn't been seen, he hasn't confirmed that this deal really has been struck, that he has agreed to. do you think he is out of the -- out of the -- out of -- you can say out of the game in terms of, you know, the russian fight in ukraine. what happens to him? >> i think that prigozhin right now has been neutralized at least for the moment as a political force against putin. i suspect he is on his way or in belarus. many people speculate that putin will have to deal with prigozhin in his own way, meaning liquidate him physically, but that's a danger for putin because prigozhin has a real legitimacy in russia and that's why putin decided to make this deal, a deal that makes putin, in fact, look very weak because within, you know, 12 hours of saying that prigozhin was
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committing treason, he had agreed to the dropping of charges against prigozhin, and to his safe passage to another country. again, i think putin did that because, one, he wasn't sure that his military would rise to the challenge of stopping prigozhin, and two, because, again, he realized prigozhin has a certain popularity in russia. >> we see that in the videos coming out just from saturday of people cheering in the streets as prigozhin himself -- this is one of the final images of prigozhin as people were going up to his vehicle to shake his hand as he was -- as he was driving through. ambassador, thank you, as always, for your time. john? >> where is he now, though? that's one of the questions we need answered. all right. why three police officers in texas are being charged with murder. the swift response by the city's police chief. it. - keep going. - we should've used behr. yeah. today let's paint. right now, getet america's most trusted paint brand at a new low price starting at $28.98. behr. ononly at the home depot.
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we wanted to warn you that this video is disturbing. >> this isis not going to work. >> wait, watch out, watch out. [ gunshots ] >> hey, hey. >> back up. [ gunshots ] >> the three officers were suspended without pay as the investigation continues. san antonio's police chief says that deadly force was not needed. cnn law enforcement analyst john mill ser wer is with us, and wh the latest? >> the officers were fired rapidly, and we are cueing off of what we saw in louisville, kentucky after the beating of an
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unarmed man there, and these are not the things that you need to let simmer for a long time before being able to look at the video and assess what happened and whether or not it is within the policy, and clearly this was not. >> there is a distinction, because they can make a distinction of the employment of whether it is within policy and whether or not it was criminal, and the criminal charges are apart are the that, right, john? >> yes, and the police chief, phil mcmanus who is very experienced. he was chief in minneapolis and dayton and came out of the washington, d.c., police chief and was an executive graduate who is with great depth and taking cue here. john, what we have here is emotionally unhinged woman here going through some mental crisis and she has run into the house,
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and that is some kind of containment, and you can see the sergeant there on the scene firing weapon. the sergeant is the one who is typically trained to slow things down, and bring in crisis negotiators and mental health personnel on to the scene and make sure it does not rapidly escalate, but as a law enforcement why let it escalate and move so fast the other way when she was inside of the residence. >> i am sure they will try to address that as part of their defense. sara. >> ukraine is making gains on the back of the failed revolt inside of russia, and how big of an impact will that have on the war. and a tornado tore through indiana and millions more in the united states are under a severe weather threat.
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where is the wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin? he has not been seen in days. some say he is in belarus in exile. >> new details of the mood inside of russia after the failed rebellion. video emerging of the embattled defense minister, and this is happening as ukraine saying they are gaining new ground. this
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