[inaudible] of those who delivery embark on the path of betrayal, who prepared an arm rebellion. on black mail and terraced methods will suffer inevitable punishment. eric: stunning and shocking rebellion in russia showing

signs it seems for now perhaps cooling off. thousands of mercenaries who have fought for russia and ukraine have been marching rapidly towards moscow as they turned on vladimir putin. just in the last half hour halting their dance we are told on the capitol the head of the wagner groups and he gave the order to avoid shedding russian blood. this, after letter potent valid decisive action against what he calls treason. it is ongoing and fluid situation here at fox news we are on top of it all. hello everyone what would fox's life i am eric shawn. hi arthel. arthel: hi eric hello everyone i'm arthel neville. today stunning developments represent the first major challenge to putin's decades long grip on power. the head of the wagner group is a long time kremlin. he has been increasingly critical of russia's military in recent weeks. he says his forces have seized key russian military facilities knew that near the ukraine

border. again they are being ordered to return to their field basis in ukraine. general jack keane early on fox news before at least breaking development. >> this is a surprise. there is nothing planned about this in terms of russian intelligence i'm aware of. its ability to react to this. so we do not know what that outcome is going to be. the implications going forward, they are certainly wagner and prigozhin is their entire existence. putin is absolutely going to be weakened by this. eric: live team fox news coverage with dan hoffman who served five years with the cia as a station chief in moscow and intelligent expert rebecca koffler who was born and raised in soviet union. also standing by international correspondent, alex hogan both worked in the region first were going to senior foreign affairs

correspondent greg palkot who is live in kyiv at the very latest from there. i'd say eric. you said at the top we have important developments in the last half hour or so. that could at the very least mean a cooling off of tensions inside russia just across the border from where we are right now in kyiv. it had been quote russia lender putin's toughest text and attempted coup an armed uprising a military mutiny. the man responsible in the middle of all of this wagner military group yevgeny prigozhin. he complained about russian military leadership, that is when he took his fighters plus armor out of ukraine to take the key southeastern russian city of rostov-on-don with very little trouble. with the demand the top russian military brass address his complaints. also prigozhin had moved his forces moving on to moscow some 5000 we are told set to be within 130 miles of the capitol after some resistance from

bracing for trouble provide a report in branding the actions treason. no outward coming from first the office of belarus president on the authority of vladimir putin and that wagner chief has agreed to halt movement of his forces and de-escalate tension. just a couple of minutes go we hear from the wagner boss he confirm this he gave the order for his troops to return to field camps presumably back to ukraine to avoid quote the risk of blood being spilled for the very least it means those forces that were just about to reach moscow will be turning around. still again developments in last half hour still a lot of questions where does everything stand? what about the wagner forces that took over that city in southeastern russia? what happens with them? what is vladimir putin's reaction? did he make any concessions remember prigozhin was very critical of the russian military brass.

of course key officials here are wondering what impact if any does this have in their war with russia. eric: very flexible situation on the grounds the moment. is there a sense perhaps prigozhin wanted the defense minister to resign and others blaming them for the failures in the ukrainian war he called a racket to help feed the oligarchs and the russian elite. as you said we do not know putin has given any concessions but clearly seems to be some type of standoff. >> that is what we will be looking for exactly. we will be looking if perhaps vladimir putin has agreed to some kind of change in the top military brass that prigozhin was so critical about or not. and what happens? prigozhin basically invaded with his forces does putin turn the other cheek and say that is fine and go back to your battle in ukraine? there's still a lot of questions here think it underscores a lot of personalities are pretty

volatile. including prigozhin who is been quite a mouthpiece criticizing russia for months and months perhaps he overreached in last 24 hours per. >> will see as this develops meanwhile ukrainian authorities how are they able to exploit this or are they in order to try to push the russian troops out from putin's illegal invasion? >> eric, they are very careful about this. they were watching we heard from president zelenskyy and other officials certainly wagner forces had left ukraine, other mercenary forces look like they were going to get leaving ukraine russia distracted by this. that might have presented a good opportunity for ukraine to push forward its counteroffensive. now in its third week which has to some degree been faltering and maybe take advantage of this. there still might be the chance of that. i think the officials here in kyiv are watching and waiting to see how this all shakes out.

>> as we all are and they are the white house and the pentagon two. greg palkot in kyiv thank you. arthel: eric, thank you right now for more regard and former cia station chief dan hoffman for he served in moscow for five years. also a fox news contributor. dan, really good to have you here. want to start the headline which is wagner then to order their mercenaries to halt their march to moscow to avoid shedding russian blood. what could be behind this order to stand down? is there a behind-the-scenes deal in the works? >> well, clearly he made the assessment it would not be worth the risk to carry on to moscow. he was really close. obviously did not detail what the deal was if any deal at all. but keep in mind the russian federal service issued a warrant for trenches arrest. i think this standoff is going

to carry on. i think prigozhin is made putin's enemy that is not going to change. their other long-term consequences surgeon to the fighting force of russians have to be concerned about this mutiny from prigozhin and the impact on russia's army the capacity that they might or might not have to carry on waging war against ukraine. click stand, you say this standoff will remain, are you saying prigozhin will not rise again so to speak? >> you know, i think he's going to carry on. as long as he is alive he's going to be vladimir putin's enemy. he absolutely has spoken out and rightly so about the war and what a farce it has been. publicly saying all of the things i think many russians understand and agree with themselves. russians are not allowed to speak like this publicly. they go to jail for that. that has caused harm certainly

to the russian fighting force into vladimir putin as well. look, wars and when both sides are too exhausted to fight one side this is will to fight. these episodes cause a serious drop in morale for the russians. one last thing i would emphasize is this all began in bakhmut or the ukrainians bravely carried on fighting courageously against mostly mercenaries they killed reportedly 20000 of them. prigozhin knew he led his own troops into slaughter there. and had to blame somebody and he blamed yevgeny prigozhin and trip that's what causes a rift it has caused so much harm to the russians fighting force. that is good on ukraine because that is how you do it when you're trying to defeat the russians. arthel: meanwhile communication for those russian soldiers fighting in ukraine is critical. do you think they are aware of prigozhin's aggressive threat to

president putin? >> yes, i think they are aware. the word is probably spreading through social media the way that they run it through telegram and other apps the russian forces are using but i'm pretty sure they are aware because the russians, wagner was in control of the russian military district. and they were receiving water and food from the local population. it's not like this is a secret at all. vladimir putin's public address to the nation made it clear that russia was at grave risk. i think there's going to be long-term consequences for vladimir putin it has never been more tenuous the risk to the rest of the world has never been more serious. >> talk about them for that for every first of all seven things you said to the seat of russia's military power it's a transportation logistics hub if you will.

wagner still maintains control of that. correct? >> yes and the military district responsible for in the military in ukraine but this does not mean ukraine is going to defeat russia tomorrow for the still have to deal the massive amount of minds along the 600-mile border. they do not have the long-range artillery and the abrams tanks in the f-16s we should have give them months ago that would've helped them take the fight to the finish. this is still going to be very difficult for ukraine curing forward. arthel: i want to ask you how they could take advantage of this but go back i want to talk about the russian fighters. their morale because you are saying communications are such they are aware of this major threat to putin on the part of wagner and his mercenaries. how would they respond question rick would this make them give up the will to fight and say wait a minute what are we doing here?

>> that is the value at least two ukraine but wagoner said publicly. this is not ukraine or the united states or another nato member saying it is wagoner's leader putin chef. the guy who runs the internet research agency which interfered in the u.s. presidential elections in 2016. he is the one think russia never should've launched the war. there were no nazis in ukraine ukraine that russia is much weaker as a result which is spilled so much of russia's blood and treasure. until all of that does contribute inducing a lot of questioning along the russian recruits. we already know that 1 million or more of them have fled russia a massive brain drain makes mobilization further mobilization were difficult for those ready on the front lines have to be asking themselves why are they there? until i would be concerned if i were vladimir putin that's going

to seek to infiltrate russia's military units. he is probably academic to some extent to win more of them over to his side. we may at sea russian military putting down their arms. arthel: you got actively present zelenskyy saying guys, you can stay here i will grant you amnesty whatever kind of deal he can make with those russian fighters think just give up lay down your arms come to our side will take care of you. you do not have to go back and face that horrendous leader of yours. you said what is at stake here, dan for putin? what is at stake for the rest of the region? >> vladimir putin's hold on the kremlin is extraordinarily tenuous right now. if you go back in history look at the failed kgb coup of 1991 the concerns we had over russia's nuclear weapons the potential for a loose nuke where someone may seek to gain access to russia's nuclear weapons.

those are things have to be of grave concern to the bite administration right now. i am sure it is a high priority requirement for intelligence community. russia's nuclear weapons putin's plans and intentions and who might follow vladimir putin? who might that be? those are things i'm sure president biden is asking about right now. there is also a policy opportunity for the united states to jump into this and say look, russia can find their way back into the community of nations if they withdraw from ukraine. vladimir putin may not have it off a but russia does if they do the right thing. at this point it's hard to imagine anything getting any better in russia. i once did see that happen when i was there. there's an opportunity for president biden chooses bully pulpit to try in some capacity to influence this for the be better. except putin would not take the olive branch than who could in russia? >> that is the question.

he relies on his minister of defense yevgeny prigozhin and the director of russia's federal security service fsb. but it does not mean all of russia's military the other senior military leaders are his intelligence officers would not turn against vladimir putin. in the early days of the were vladimir putin the fsb officer in space bar the for intelligence and the former union putin tried to make him a scapegoat for intelligence failures in ukraine are absolutely vladimir putin's alone. so it is possible there may be groups forming among the security services and in the military that might decide to launch their own coup against vladimir putin. we have already seen rearguard action from anti- putin elements. we have seen drones in moscow. there are those who are counting vladimir putin and see an opportunity right now to take the fight to the kremlin.

that is why now more than ever intelligence collection is so vitally important. i say that again and tell us w why. >> the intelligence, our administration presidential ministrations over the years have relied on our intelligence collection to understand what is really happening in russia. we have journalists on the ground but we know vladimir putin treats journalists very, very harshly. we've got one right now who is in jail. it is very opaque in russia a real fog of war proved really do have to rely on other means of collecting information to determine what's happening on the ground. is helping us he's giving us insight into how things are playing out in russia. we clearly need more information but i'm sure we are reaching out to our allies in the region the baltic states among others. there's a lot of work for the u.s. intelligence community to do its a great day to be serving

in the u.s. intelligence community. make me long for those days. arthel: you are a former cia station chief. mr. dan hoffman thank you very much for joining us here. we really appreciate your expertise freethinker didn't take care. eric: for more on the huge developing story the first major challenge to vladimir putin's decades long rule in moscow, alex hogan is here she's been covering the region and the russians invasion of ukraine since it began 16 months ago. so alex winchester dan talk about the intelligence community perhaps maybe at some point turning on vladimir putin. how much damage do you think has prigozhin's defiance done to putin's aura of invincibility he has been able to so far maintained until now? >> hi eric. it is impossible to understate just how damaging this will be former russian president vladimir putin as this image really has been struck by someone who was for so long such a close ally. we looked prigozhin's image in

russia yesterday we heard talks of him being seen as a hero. how just 24 hours later how quickly that change the tone change the partnership falling apart. it is also quite dramatic to see how quickly things have shifted on the road for the last several hours we have seen troops continue to advance at a very, very fast speed toward moscow to give reviewers back home a little bit of context of what exactly that looks like in the last 24 hours these russian mercenaries part of the wagner group have moved the equivalent from wilmington, delaware to new york city and again less than 24 hours after four months so many of these mercenaries have been essentially at a standstill. bakhmut is one of the contested towns that is been fought over for months and months it has been one of the bloodiest battles of the war that is been the reality for so many of these mercenaries day in, day out fighting and not moving more than essentially what is a mile.

now moving about 124 miles within just one day. and then just before arriving on the doorsteps of moscow, hearing prigozhin had decided to de-escalate to prevent another bloodied battle. so this partnership this key ally that vladimir putin had for so long, to have this person this hero turned on him, this'll be a lasting impact. not only for his image, but it's also very important to state what this will do for russian soldiers. the russian military has been largely supported by the wagner groups. they have been the ones to go in quickly, to seize some of the contested towns before it is handed over too russian shoulders. so then to see a shift take place in last 24 hours and only for the image of the president before his soldiers and what this will likely mean moving forward. especially as ukraine is targeted spring counteroffensive which no forces turning into the summer counteroffensive do that

on top of that mercenaries pull out of the fight. it is impossible to note this point how long-lasting some these impacts will be felt. it is a very likely difficult day for russian president vladimir putin to say the least. parks when you make of the fact prigozhin has halted his forces according to reports as of right now? perhaps negotiating strategy one of the top official to resign or could he be just stopping in order to gather more forces to then continue a march to moscow? >> it's also worth noting just how many people he has lost mercenaries fighting for him remember this started yesterday claimed russian troops had fired on thousands of his fighters. so for him, whether he is doing this as part of a proposal, whether there was a deal struck, there is a lot of talk in last several hours of russian president vladimir putin wanting these mercenaries to surrender.

that was largely not believed to be a peaceful surrender. or if again this is a means to prevent more bloodshed as they have lived, they have experienced for months on end. we will see how this plays out in the next several hours. it's really these develop it's out within the last 30 minutes he officially confirmed that statement from president press office that they were able to strike this deal. where this moves from here, that is a very interesting question. it's also interesting for the people live in moscow right now who have been told to stay home, to not go outside. for them to hear this is de- escalated definitely a of relief for them as well. c4 at least for the moment will see that changes alex, good to see it from london thank you. arthel: alex and eric thank you. much more head of the rebellion in russia including reactions from the white house for that io cap n. together we provide nutrients to support immune,

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potential de-escalation rebellion in russia the head of the wagner mercenary group has ordered thousands of his soldiers to halt the march on moscow parties doing that to avoid spilling russian blood. there is other speculation many negotiations.

the wider group mercenaries and infighting on said russian forces in the four on ukraine for their leader the longtime allied but in recent weeks he's been complaining more and more about russia's military brass, they were ignoring his troops. this called for to return to their field base and ukraine for now. comes after the belarus government set is president had reached a deal with the wagner boss to stop the march we are continuing our continuing coverage on fox news. the very latest developments and what they mean for world peace and for the situation in ukraine, arthel. >> of course invited administration is closely monitoring this unfolding in russia the national security officials keeping in very close contact with u.s. allies. lucas tomlinson live at the white house.

do you have any read out from that call at this time or is there any statement from the white house cluster quickly sure do. that is right. president biden was giving updates around clock. certainly the national security team was watching situation develop overnight in russia. they have been on the scene around the clock. in fact before he gets that statements things have gotten so serious in russia president biden's top u.s. military advisor the chairman joint chief of staff missed mark millet cancel previously scheduled trip to israel jordan biden's national security advisor also canceling a trip to europe. never read out of the statement this morning. president biden spoke to the leaders france, germany and united kingdom of course okay nato allies. according to the white house quote the leaders discuss the situation in russia. they also from their unwavering support for ukraine. now who is gennadi gerasimov leading this army called the

wagner group. it was used to dispatch to sierra and africa way to spread russian influence and maintain deniability. putin recites that the source and ukraine as regular porpoises failed to take kyiv over a year ago hundred been locked in a stalemate integrated forces for months for the introduction of the mercenaries that proved decisive the 11 month battle. with the city of kyiv, prigozhin rose to power after getting out of jail flip if you hot stand turning them into successful restaurants and a catering business in putin's hometown sto power acted prigozhin together. is been sanctioned since 2016 by the u.s. government for interfering in u.s. elections, you remember that one. it was notable for the midterms are in the u.s. last year prigozhin boasted openly he was behind those millions of bots and fit person is an incident his wagner group in fact was sanctioned later by the u.s. treasury this past january in fact retired u.s. air force general spoke earlier today about this uncertain future.

exit could be disastrous as desperation overcomes logic and rationality. anyone who reads history recognizes that. putin could resort to anything to keep power and stabilize the situation that has occurred over the past 24 hours. so, as i am sure they are nato forces need to be put on alert and pay attention to what is going on because we really do not know the outcome is going to be. quickset is the case right now some sigh of relief at the white house certainly official still monitoring the situation on the ground just as quickly on things happening over the weekend. of course they can turn around again it is notable of course russia maintains the largest nuclear stockpile in the world certainly there's plenty of nervous officials are at white house, pentagon, langley and of course present by cia director former u.s. ambassador to russia back to the bush and musician

george w administration. quickset part is indeed the crux of this consternation if you will. you heard the general say you have got to maintain in alert status here. so will president biden in his administration and allies maintain a measured posture which we have seen thus far? >> official time and they do not want president biden to be the face of this that's why you have not seen him publicly today. president biden issue heard earlier in the report he is spoken to his closest nato allies in europe. certainly everyone is watching situation but nobody wants to be seen as influencing the situation. we heard early the russian foreign minister saint anyone supporting the mercenary army of the wagner group this going to be essentially to pay for moscow. so right now people are looking at this very closely. but do not want to put a face on this right now. arthel: yes, i understand but lucas tomlinson thank you very much life in the white house will speak to you again within

the shower the next one. thank you lucas. we will have more on the rebellion in russia. our own greg palkot and ryan chilcote extensively reported from the region for their going to give us their take on how all this could impact russia. that is up next. stay with us please.

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[background noises] [inaudible] spieth i'm getting back to our top story. a stunning turn of events in russia after the mercenary or wagner group that is been fighting and ukraine staged a rebellion and started marching toward moscow. then, about an hour ago the group's leader ordered them to return to their bases saying he did not want to spill russian blood. now, we are told the president of belarus claims he brokered the deal for this retreatment let's bring in rancho cotton

also bring back palko. ryan, you have been in and out of russia since 1990 but you've covered the country from inside for three decades. include into the war and ukraine broke out last year. i want to start the of. you have interviewed president putin's i want to get to that in a minute. if in practice president yevgen2 when he has spoken with the putin verse and could there have been a compromise offer? proxy one 100% but is spoken to president putin verse. there is no chance he could broker a deal between new guinea and letter putin without speaking with vladimir putin and getting his expressed support. in the relationship between alexander lukashenko the president of belarus and vladimir putin is clearly vladimir putin who is in charge. belarus is kind of like a client

state of russia. the real question is where does this leave us? first of all is it true? it is not enough for prigozhin to say is returning his troops to their barracks in ukraine. we are going to have to see that actually happens. and two, how can vladimir putin agree to this? he looks weak. alexander lukashenko cutting the deal basically putin just hours ago it's only russian nation perpetrators of this rebellion will be held accountable. that was inevitable and now what, it's all over? i do not buy it. arthel: corrects for you said weak as a result of this. so what did he do question what his reputation is on the line. does anything go? can anything go at this point in terms of putin in his reaction? >> will well look, the press office of alexander lukashenko the president belarus said he

had negotiated this deal and the deal including security guarantees for the wagner messenger group it's a private military that new guinea runs. presumably that includes gennadi gerasimov himself. he said that. vladimir putin again really honor that? and just an hour or two ago you remember and i was talking about how there's only one thing on vladimir putin's mind right now. that is how quickly he can kill gennadi gerasimov and do it cleanly. visa promised the country's going to punish the person behind this, i do not really understand how he can allow basically settlement with brushes perceived as his lackey president alexander lukashenko to cut this deal and somehow frees the guy he's a kill from any kind of responsibility. it does not add up. but again a lot of things that happen at russia over the past several months do not add up. i guess it's possible.

as it ran just late at the high-stakes infighting have been there the very top of russia i was president zaleski react reacting? is he made directives to the people there in ukraine or may be sort of root issue of new orders to his troops? >> yes just in the last half hour or so he delivered his nightly message to the people of ukraine. he talked about vladimir putin as running scared. as out of control a sign he used the word chaos in russia. the feeling here is you probably made that message before the break in the story. perhaps it was when there was still a lot of danger there still is. but it has cooled off a little bit since then. within a couple of other items we were at last with you. again, with the wagner chief had

said he would be returning his troops to the base camps to avoid bloodshed. we certainly know that probably meant to those troops that were at about 133 miles of moscow. now we are seeing new images from rostov-on-don which basically wagner forces took over earlier today we are seeing scenes the wagner forces there packing up. we could see a complete withdrawal of the wagner forces in russia and returned to ukraine in the activity there. the other interesting point that came out in the last half hour is there is one report that vladimir putin agreed to modifications in the russian military brass remember that is prigozhin's really big beef with both the defense chief of russia as well as the head of the commanders that something had to be done with them. he had a lot of complaints about

them. we wonder what kind of deal could have risen to change the whole picture so rapidly that so threatening to the regime. and possibly a some kind of concession on the military fr front. i think ryan is correct. there's been a lot of damage done both of vladimir putin's reputation and you tran threes and it will be hard to pull back from this too quickly after what we have seen last 24 hours. arthel: maybe we will see if prigozhin has more stake in making the calls in ukraine we will see. greg alcock, frank chilcote thank you very much. sue for arthel, right now with wagner head telling his mercenaries to stop their march to moscow. a lot of people are basically scratching their heads. some say the damage has already been done to vladimir putin.

the defiant challenge that shocked the world on the saturday. rebecca claflin is a former intelligence agency officer born enraged in the soviet union rebecca yoon of letter putin's thinking very well you are the author putin's playbook russia secret plan to defeat america. as of right now, rebecca, let's start prigozhin's move. what you make of the fact he has stopped his march and order his mercenaries to return to base and there may be some type of deal do you think there has been some agreement with putin? >> my intelligence analysis suggests this is a classic false flag operation. it has been orchestrated by putin and prigozhin. prigozhin is not a stupid man. he is a highly intelligent he turned his life around from a prisoner to a hot dog stand on to the owner of a multibillion

catering business that serve the kremlin including putin himself. putin is paranoid of being poisoned let prigozhin serve them food and drink. there's actually no chance that prigozhin could have possibly orchestrated this march for justice as he called it all the way to moscow. the wagner group has about 50000 in ukraine. putin's national guard created specifically in 2016 to put down social unrest like the one that is supposedly going on right now in russia, has three to 40000 men. prigozhin is tracked every minute by the g.i. you, the fsb the russian domestic security

service including a mvd. so again, what has changed in the last few hours all the sudden he decided to turn his troops around and make this d deal? note this is all staged. quick to say it is stage shall be the purpose of them both putin as you say and prigozhin's agent together? >> sure. this is exactly the reason for them. what we are talking about right now, all of the analysts that have spoken prior to me have said those words. putin is weak. putin's hold on power is weakened. it is exactly what putin wants us to believe. remember there is eight russia/ukraine comfort going on right now. putin is hemorrhaging forces. which he is afraid is the

deployment of nato forces into the theater into ukraine. in which case he would almost certainly lose the war. and so he wants to demonstrate the cognitive disconnect in the analysis of washington establishment specifically president biden. on the one hand people like lindsey graham and others in president biden himself said this man can no longer remain in power. on the other hand they are saying he is weak but then they are saying he is going to go after a nato country but if he is a week putin wants to believe that he is weak. that there is an ongoing threat of a military insurrection. there is an actual doctrine called reflexive control that the general staff has developed. what does it mean?

the study the mindset of the adversary, meaning us and they figure out what is the confirmation bias? what are we likely to believe? this is a pretext to declare martial law which putin has already done. he made an amendment today that anybody was violating the martial law is going to be in prison for 30 days. another very interesting and revealing point is that putin just authorized that men with criminal record can join the military. this is a justification for extra mobilization of the russian forces to send them to the meatgrinder in ukraine. it is also to demonstrate to president biden russia is not a threat. russia is actually involved in its own domestic turmoil.

this is all classic distraction. before what you are describing is like 3d dimensional chess is a type of thinking that is just beyond. so, by having as you say the false flag operation that is domestic in russia, putin then comes out as you say stronger. claiming there are domestic enemies for example. so he clamps out even further in russia, mobilizes more and in the end you believe comes at stronger? >> possibly. he also wants to deter us from continuing to supply military hardware to ukraine and continued to provide assistance, cash. because without us ukraine government the key of the regime cannot operate. so he was to demonstrate to the

american people your leaders are illogical. that is russian doctrine. they want to place pressure on the population of the emissary. so that the population places pressure on the political leaders, right? but underneath it is against all deception. i have a whole chapter in my book potenza playbook that is exactly that. it's called reflexive control. anybody can look it up. they've already done a series of false flag operations. that dan both of these my intelligence analysis tells me russia is behind those. they already have supposedly attacked the kremlin with their drones. it is all to demonstrate to the russian population, look russia is under attack. in fact the very revealing point putin has made to date, during his speech he said russia is under attack by the west entire

western military economic and informational machine is deployed against us. he also threats and the russians the possibility of 1917 type of revolution. the word of revolution puts the fear of god into them and they would make any kind of sacrifices. sacrifices of freedom, sacrifices of all sorts of rights. they will rise up. putin wants him to rise up like they did in the second world war in which the last 20 million more than 20 million troops. he needs that type of populist, patriotic, passionate right now. that is what he is trying to do tell us. he is not a threat. arthel: 's sardis abbey 40

seconds left what he thanks going happen in the next week? will putin still be in power? will there be resignations? what is the result? >> putin will remain in power absolutely. it is possible that the defense industry will go. putin is possibly looking for a way to get rid of yevgeny prigozhin he's not liked because he is not a military person is no military background. putin himself gave him that. this conflict is going to go on. the supposed conflict because they want to distract us. and look, president biden just pulled out some of his leaders from trips. we are watching this, we are hyper focused on this. in the meantime putin is going to gain momentum, mobilize additional personnel and re- energize his offensive on

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the head of the wagner group organ thousands of soldiers to halt their march toward moscow. this is happening about an hour and a half ago. prigozhin saying he wants to avoid spilling russian blood. the wagner group mercenaries have been fighting alongside russian forces in the ukraine

war. their leader is a long talk kremlin ally. however in recent weeks has been complaining more and more russia's military brass were ignoring his troops. his coffers mercenaries to return to their field basis and ukraine coming after the belarusian government said it president alexander had reached a group to halt the march of course will continue to bring you the latest updates on this developing situation. eric, lots of information but lots of questions remaining. eric: a very intriguing interview would just conduct with rebecca koffler who basically staged by vladimir putin to try and strengthen his rule. we will see. scratching their heads, was onas call all for now. we will continue after this. treatment option.

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arthel: a march on moscow stopped in its tracks. the stunning rebell onin the russia, well, it appears to be cooling to down for now. thousands of mercenaries who fought for russia in ukraine were advancing towards moscow with lightning speed after their leader turned on vladimir putin's military brass. that leader ordered them to turn back about 90 minutes ago. the head of the wag wagner group saying he gave that the orde