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hours. fox news senior correspondent, all over this, live in kyiv. greg, it dizzying. what's the latest? >> it's an incredible last 24 hours. it looks like we are back from the brink of this drama in the country next door to us as we stand here in kyiv. it looks like a lot of damage. twenty-three years in office, attempted coup and armed uprising. the man responsible, mercenary chief yevgeny prigozhin fighting about the war about the russian military leadership, about his conduct and then pulling fighters out of ukraine into the russian city and they took over the city. forces towards moscow with 120 miles of the capital in the kremlin raising for an attack. vladimir putin branding actions,

it reportedly took belarus president alexander acting with authority of putin speaking to change things. the chief agreed to pull forces back in exchange for security. he later confirmed he ordered fighters to returned to field camps including those hold up in the russian city. overall, it certainly looks like a loss for the mercenary. charges against him were not pursued, the kremlin said so far at least, there would be no changes in russian military leadership which is what he wanted and they are dispatching and saying belarus. also a loss for putin. images hired buyers running rampant across the country, that's got to hurt this longtime autocrat. maybe the winner, ukrainian military. new and road announced saturday all across the long front line with russian forces.

ukrainian soldiers taking advantage of little bit of confusion on the other side. back to you. >> thanks so much. what is the uprising and the threat of violent confrontation mean for russia's war on ukraine? let's hope this hurts the russians. fox news correspondent alex hogan spent a lot of time in ukraine in the beginning and now we are past the year. live in london with more. alex. put this in perspective. >> we seen obviously as you mentioned, so many changes minute by minute, hour by hour. volodymyr zelenskyy this evening saying the developments today showcased to him that no one essentially is in control and russia. these developments prompting world leaders to be in close communication following will could potentially have happened had these mercenaries not been called off returning back to their posts. some countries neighbor russia that lafayette and escalating the situation on their grounds

by ramping up security on their orders just to make sure their national interests were safe. preventing any russian citizens from coming into the country today given everything taking place. we seen leaders today, members of nato, european union close communications, actually the president of turkey who called russian president and said they needed to be a clear effort to create briefings back to normalcy according to the conversation. as far as the sylvania, they issued a statement today urging ukrainians not to take this is a moment of pause but continue to push forward. vladimir putin who last night promised there would be a swift punishment to anyone behind this armed uprising now changing tune. he dropped charges against yevgeny prigozhin and any fighters in the rebellion. new video leaving the military

headquarter in rostov-on-don, he's seen smiling as he leaves the headquarters. there's a lot more to follow now in the coming days of what was said in this proposal laid out by belarus and president and what role yevgeny prigozhin will take. the troops are reportedly heading back to basis, it's still unclear in what form they will take exactly where they will go in sleeving questions for ukrainians of how they will approach what is this spring turning to summer counteroffensive and what it means for them right now. >> thank you. let's bring in this for discussion, a lot to unpack. the one thing i don't understand, why are people cheering on the possibility of a warlord for higher access to a nuclear state? >> the russian people?

>> people on twitter support what's happening, pro- intervention in ukraine. >> president trump tweeted out, be careful what you wish for. vladimir putin heavily has been the example of an evil leader on the world front and he showed himself or changed psychologists could probably have a field day on that. his absolute power rains terror not only on people but this war kyiv started for no reason, flat out disaster for him, his economy and people and 200,000 casualties plus. put it this way -- i'll tell you what, any type of chaos inside russia and has the country weakened is good for america and bad for china. those two things is why we should be cheering here at home because of them turned their

bloodthirsty nature on each other. let them kill each other and go ahead, russian troops on the front line right now, let them say good luck, fighting a war you don't want any part of and then do it knowing your country is falling apart and there's no public support for this mission anyway and to me, they've got to say is this what i'm dying for? is this why i'm in ukraine? >> i have more questions about what to believe, a sound from nikki haley 2024, presidential candidate former un ambassador, let's listen to what she had to say. >> i wish i could say biden and kamala would be on this but i'm worried they are not. it's an opportunity here. you know putin has been caught but put it, they didn't see this coming with their intelligence. he's at a difficult road in the fact that if he goes into destroy them, he's destroying a major part of who's helping him push through this war in ukraine. >> what doesn't make sense to

me, why with the group that in with an 200 kilometers of moscow and then be like no, we don't want russian blood to be shed, wouldn't that be something you thought of before? it doesn't add up to me. >> one of the things i've seen all day and since this played out, people going out over their skis even what nikki haley says right there. there isn't a way to go in. when you look at russia and how things played out, it's history. you got two stages, the initial shock date and we are seeing that play out. it's in the middle of the night right now so not much going on overnight. they don't do a lot of nighttime group fighting. neither do the russian troops so doesn't play out overnight. we'll see what happens in the morning there are third parties, there's something missing in this story. there are others in the wings waiting and have been for years that transition from the kgb to new generation that came over 20 years ago. there are others, nikolai and

others in russia waiting to see what happens and have been for some time. putin gets week, it's likely within the kremlin quarters and it's unknown, you've got putin, the belarus, a puppet of putin negotiating, something doesn't add up and then another office that should be brought in which is the office of overseas cooperation. what are they doing? likely they will be heavily engaged because this is where people talk to each other across europe. nato and the eu are different, different mission sets but the osce would likely be more involved in this. >> there are some saying, i want to play this clip from rebecca on "fox & friends" this morning. >> she previously said --

>> a series of operations, my intelligence analysis tells me russia is behind these. they already have supposedly attacked the kremlin. it's all to demonstrate to the russian population look, russia is under attack. >> fox news live earlier today. was this a false flag? >> she's basically saying putin wants to appear week, a move by putin. i will say something you're not supposed to say on tv like i don't know. nobody knows. i'm old enough to remember february of 2022 when this thing was supposed to be a couple of days. there's a lot of things that don't make sense. you brought up some of that. also, there's a peace deal with a guarantee of safety, from whom? putin? does that make you feel better?

i marched all this way and that i was like i don't want bloodshed so i will turn around but don't worry, i'll be safe. i have more questions than answers when it comes to this. it will be something completely dems that happens. >> vladimir putin is weaker because his opportunity for ukrainians to make up ground. forty-four square miles so they are taking over eight villages, it's opportunity. number two, what's interesting is he said it's a dumb war. which people are not fighting in this war. it's working class people, nothing to do with it. the rich -- >> many are like that. >> 200,000 casualties, they have no tactics, no communications, no logistics and the report earlier said choppers shot out of the sky by the group that don't have an air force, they are able to shoot things out of the sky so yevgeny prigozhin goes to belarus, i'm sure we definitely have to watch out for security but my sense is those guys are loyal to him. are you going to have 25000

soldiers, go ahead and be members of the russian army? they want no part plus, they are utter fighters and the russian fighters so they will go take orders from people they don't respect and you see how he was greeted, you see on telegram greeted as a hero so he's more popular now than vladimir putin. >> if they were -- if they shot down as you said, they shot do down. >> it was reported on telegram. >> but wide retreat? >> that's the million-dollar question, vladimir putin and yevgeny prigozhin. he knows he would make that 125 miles, it's going to get bloodied so who's left to fight what's going to be the result? the other people were supposed to join him and didn't but the fact that he moved down that highway unopposed is insane. thus like people going down 95 to take out the white house. are you kidding me? >> i more skeptical of everything but coverage of the

chaos in russia continues. katie mcfarlane is next. stay with us

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back with fox news alert, new video was look at it together from the faulkner chief leaving

russia. this was a telegram, he retreats with his forces, he was greeted there on a military base supplying most of the war effort in ukraine. he took it as part of a deal. he exits. joining us now to wait in his former deputy national security advisor in the president trump, k. t. mcfarland. the deal was he goes to belarus the faulkner group gets folded to regular russia is that the way you see this ending? >> i don't think we are at the end. if you're going to go after a dictator, go after the king and you want him but don't kill him and you probably are in big trouble. don't see how putin can stand. he can't let this group go home and say we made a mistake, we didn't mean this so everybody will go back to the way it was. putin is in a position where he will look strong and doesn't

look strong right now you one or at least for now but you got to look tough and strong, where does he look tough and strong? you will not want that in ukraine but whose is fighting for ukraine? putin is in this weird position. he cannot appear to be strong and weak at home and week of brought, he's losing everything but then what happens? look at russian history, they -- the last revolution they've had in the sense of popular uprising revolution was the communist revolution in 17. since then all the revolution governments have been behind closed doors and the kremlin so i've got to assume there's a lot going on behind closed doors and the kremlin that got to assume putin can't let go on. he cannot appear to be as weak as he now seems to be. >> first of all, great to see you again. a couple things there if you shoot the king, make sure he's dead.

go to putin where they are now, i think also you have to look at this group. when you look at it must they've lost something here as well even though there is moving back retreat, there is something missing, a third piece missing. >> it doesn't make a lot of sense. why are they going to do this knowing they were probably not going to succeed? is a suicide mission. on the other hand, where are they going to go? will they continue to fight in ukraine? the same time in 2024, there's a lot of dissatisfaction within russia, the economy isn't as bad as it might have been as long as oil prices are high putin has revenues to continue to fight but ukraine hasn't been a success and everybody knows that and the people feeling the brunt of that are the average that industry, not the elite, not the

people who have big jobs and moscow so where does this go election wise? maybe somehow they think i will run for president, the russian dissident, maybe we will somehow have an electoral challenge to putin. we've only started to see ramifications of this because it plays out in ukraine, in the kremlin and it plays out on the battlefield. >> lisa boothe here, it's great to see you. is there a chance we are not being told the truth? perhaps it's a false flag operation of some sort? it doesn't add up to shoot down seven planes and helicopters to get close to moscow and then retreat because you want bloodshed, a warlord who fought in something like 30 countries, there's a lot that doesn't add up to me with this.

>> and you know, false flag operation, that's not out of the range of possibility. if you're putin, you're looking for scapegoats. even looking for a scapegoat for the ukraine for and he's not fired the senior military leadership, he's replaced some of them but not the top guys, the defense minister or chiefs of staff. maybe putin is looking at this saying it gives me an excuse to go after the guy, bringing in the group to fight for us because our own military is in good so maybe there is a false group. maybe we have not seen the pieces of the puzzle yet, we are still trying to figure it out and the people who think they know the answers, i don't think they do. >> as you said, this is not over and i agree. it's been over a bit of whiplash from one thing to the next, what are you looking for into the next week with this? >> to see if anything happens in ukraine, the spring offensive that has been going all that

well, what happens to that? will the russians continue to fight? what happens on the battlefield of ukraine? the other thing is where are the senior military leadership and russia a week from now, a couple of days from now? somebody mysteriously died? somebody replaced an office? the other thing is putin has managed to get rid of almost everybody who might be a political challenge. is there somebody we don't know about who might be coming up potentially to challenge putin? and of the get comes out in front of the kremlin, it comes out behind the stores so suddenly we will see a new leader people will rally around? stay tuned. >> thanks so much. a fascinating topic. when yelton was sitting on a tank, that was crazy then. we'll see what happens now. meanwhile, straight ahead, the liberal media takes a page from their playbook and calls

governor ron desantis, drumroll, racist as he talks sports. you will not believe this one. don't move. ♪

♪ welcome back to the big weekend show. the last doing that thing again and called for governor in 2024 presidential candidate ron desantis a racist. so why is he racist? he said this -- >> i think there is a place for everybody on a baseball team if you're willing to work hard and practice and if you're willing to hone your skills. i thought it was always

democratic game, meritocratic game i kind of viewed like basketball like these guys are freaks of nature, incredible athletes. baseball you have some guys who might not necessarily be the best athlete but maybe they've got the slider that nobody can hit her the skills that allow them to compete at the highest level. >> media outlets from usa today to newsweek quickly junking because basketball -- basketball athletes are incredible. interesting. when it comes to the 2024 election democrats think they have to genesee vote locked and loaded. >> what the republican party doesn't understand about genesee is you claim he wants to appeal gen z but you call stupid, say we are dumb, indoctrinated, it is a losing strategy. >> could one republican hopeful maybe give them a run for the

money by spreading a positive message about the country? >> we have a generation of americans, gen z less than 15% of whom say they are proud to be an american. 25% recruitment deficit in the u.s. military. 60% of whom say they would sooner give up their right to vote then to give up their access to tik tok. >> like everything else, gen z is not a monolith. you think maybe the kids yelling into the phone camera had points? >> i think tik tok is the devil but probably never going to be banned so if you can't beat them, maybe join them. tik tok is comprised of something like 60% of gen z.

this is where they get their news from so they are not hearing from republicans and puts us in a position to lose and gen z did turn out in droves for democrat last midterm election so i don't know, maybe republik and need to use it a little more but i also believe republicans like government desantis has done in florida the overall public education particularly diversities. twenty-two republican trifecta is, every governor should get an education because it's pushing these young people to vote left and democrat. >> let's go back to desantis. we have quote that says desantis was essentially talking about to please and the most black one, and via is full of freaky ethics fast twitch muscles and not as democratic or meritocratic or whatever craddick is baseball players. then there is baseball or mlb, mostly white, is that true spo sport, do they work hard and democracies and meritocratic -- republics.

they are not freaks, they are real americans. it's not true, i want to disagree, it's not true, if you try hard, you could be good at it, i wasted my childhood trying. i got a strike out in t-ball, it should have been my first clue but you will not see a basketball player who is a short man with a beer belly. you can see that when you watch baseball. >> i know the new york mets 270 pounds, i know he hits with power and has great fast and slow twitch muscle and great hand eye coordination. he is 60 pounds overweight, when is the last time you saw him bring the ball up? if you want to say basketball because it's genetic weeks, maybe want desantis knows the best player in basketball right now is you chose gift. the second best player is also quite so the problem is michael

friedman of i think the new york times is going out of his way to try to marginalize a republican who seems to have everyone pretty unnerved because he's anti-gay, he has not talking about gender until eighth grade or picking a gender and number two, just saying as a baseball player in basketball players are better athletes. >> as a libertarian i have disagreements with desantis about certain things. i don't understand how you could write these pieces, are they just pretending to not know what he meant? just look at a baseball player and say could this person play basketball? >> there just pretending to not know what he meant. first of all, the shortest guy ever -- 5-foot three. by the way, i could don't let a 6-foot 11 and three quarters, i

did robert parrish, i know a lot of basketball players, one of the greatest of all times. look at these guys. basketball evolved into a 6-foot seven plus sport. policy and it goes beyond. baseball when you look at it, i've been watching baseball, one of the most diverse ports on the planet. it really is. probably soccer, football for the europeans. >> i'm still stuck on 5-foot three and can don't. >> amazing ability. >> i'm going to keep trying. [laughter] , tigers fan. the triple crown, straight ahead. her side of the concert this weekend, that blood. that's next. ♪

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we really need to come together and tackle this issue as a community. (classical music) ♪ i'm never the problem. back to the big weekend show, swifties are going crazy for taylor swift this weekend in minneapolis. even the mayor is in on it to mark taylor is one of the most popular female artists in our history selling more than 200 million records and winning 12 grammies. we are renaming minneapolis to swifties annapolis. >> you heard it right there. maybe the name of the city but fans are told to stay away

unless you have tickets to the show. will the crowds listen? they been there for days in the stadiums message to fans is you need to calm down tweeting dance with tickets are strongly discouraged from gathering outside the stadium this weekend. kat, taylor swift has potential to generate 4.6 billion in u.s. consumer spending. insane. >> it is. i've never gotten into the taylor swift thing that i respect that. as someone who's been broken up with a lot -- [laughter] when i got married -- 1000% and everyone was like what? especially me so i respected people are going to have fun. if you can't afford a ticket which is thousands, you should have fun however you can. my tickets are a lot cheaper. the real kat timpf.com to get yours. >> is a huge swifties yourself

-- i want to get your perspective. >> i'm just here for good sides and to see what it's all about. >> we love it. trading friendship bracelets and everything. >> i've saved for five years to be here. >> it sounds crazy but it taylor swift we are talking about. >> what is your taylor swift bank account like? >> going in there have to type something out and you know what i'm talking about. he was to save money, i got to $176 and i bought a guitar.

>> has a guitar going for you? >> not good. [laughter] i would say this, i am in all of the excitement around her and if i am in minneapolis, i'm getting a food truck there, so great to have tailgates, you have no revenue or stores, just looting. as soon as i saw the mayor, i got flashbacks of george floyd rights. imagine. those periods. >> these tickets are not cheap. they are so expensive. $6400 is a price for the ticket. how much money have you spent on concert tickets? >> the greatest deal of my career because i had to broadcast and introduce during

the music days so i've seen the greatest concerts out there. a gun from pink floyd to garth brooks to selena, janet jackson, hank williams, i've seen all over the years. i've seen them across generations. i wasn't a big fan of grunge back in the day but go out and have a lot of fun. enjoy. i've been to festivals with hundreds of thousands of people doing things they want to have a great memory and life. do it in the parking lot. look at these venues, red rocks, look at burning man that started in of mayor concert. here's the thing with jacob fry. he's such a hypocrite if this is the guy who abased themselves in front of antifa and now is going out there telling people with white privilege and white supremacist to come out and party so i don't want to bring it down but look at jacob fry

for what he is. >> our parking lot safe in minneapolis? i don't know but probably not the best place to be. after the break. could it be elon musk or mark zuckerberg trading? big weekend show dates which will have the upper hand in each match. we also have our own. stay tuned. ♪

♪ ♪ >> welcome back to the big weekend show. i can't resist that one kung fu fighting. tech billing or cage match could become reality. can you imagine? elon musk, mark zuckerberg in the pan and they say they are serious about the octagon. it started with a tweet. we thought they were joking on social media but this week is instagram story, send me location. by the way, i have locations to recommend. i want to see a billionaire fight and mail me where it's

nice and warm. >> i think it's for real? >> i think if they put an angle on it like raising money, doing something good with it, billionaires to help somebody, my pick? musk. i'll tell you why. fifty-seven versus, the height difference but it's an attitude when you're in the octagon. look at frank mir, all of these, tyrus, when they get in their into that ring as boxers, it's about the attitude. so and ready to do it. i think zuckerberg was more of a soy boy with musk who's an alp alpha. >> you want me to respond? i did the first four ufc squares the 600 power under, assume are restless before they were around choked out to do it so you can watch online. i watched 160-pound guy crush 250-pound guys. if you know jujitsu, if zuckerberg is really training and elon musk prides himself, 45

seconds. >> elon has a move he calls the walrus so he lies on top of his opponent and does nothing because he is larger in stature. >> that -- how do you beat that? >> i want to make my argument for elon. he's taller and smarter, his iq is higher. he's got some winsome but still able to move around and be scrappy. he had hardship growing up so he's tough and has had to go through stuff. when he was young. his dad was not nice, he went through a lot so he's gone through hardships. i think elon musk the size, the age, the height, the scrapping us am i think it's over for zuckerberg. >> i don't think this actually happens. there's no way this actually happens. it would be so stupid which means yes. >> they don't want to deal with it. >> they are too rich.

>> it's like we have to take our ceos and fight, can we put them up on a pedestal? create jobs and industry? >> presidential debates, just a cage match. everyone in. >> i mentioned dana, we need to get dana white in here. he said this would be the biggest fight ever in the history of the world, it would break all paper view records, they raise hundreds of millions of dollars for charity. that's the angle. it works. >> they don't want to sweat. zuckerberg was to fights others. musk doesn't work out. you do not lift the octagon for two minutes. >> he has a lot of energy. >> your comebacks are ridiculous. >> my brother would do that because he was so much bigger, he would hold me down.

>> have you see me? i've been a trinket fighter my whole life. >> it's crazy if you're that rich, it may be it's hard to get excited because you're so rich you need to go to these to feel life. >> let's go with zuckerberg awkward moments. let's try this. >> i know we don't exactly have the strongest reputation on privacy right now to put it lightly. if i get through this speech today, is the first time i finish something here at harvard. [laughter] while we may not live our lives a quarter mile at a time. [laughter] i know at least some people her- >> it's a robot human fight. >> should he be scared? >> i see soy boy. >> there's speculation he might not be human.

a robot. that's not a fair fight. >> jujitsu, i've heard something. you are trained and do whatever. >> whatever it is. >> okay but it's real. >> even more. >> the longest segment and the two russian segments combined. >> commercial to talk about a fight that will never happen. >> thank you. by the way, zuckerberg is trying to kill twitter so that's what started this whole thing, he's coming up -- >> putting it on the line. twitter versus facebook takes all. >> the loser has to take twitt twitter. >> is -- what is it called? meta? >> you think twitter -- look at the comments. some of your grandmother a really mean. >> next and an update on our big story tonight. rebel russian military group retreated from moscow and a live update from the white house next. ♪ ♪

>> the military group in russia drew back its march on moscow. lucas tomlinson is live at the

white house with an update from the biden administration. what you didn't see today was yevgeny prigozhin and vladimir putin duking it out. how porous was the russian border when thousands of percent marries crossed the border. they sacked the city of one million people. it didn't look like the russian forces put up any forces to fight back. some of them bought la ttps. what you didn't hear, you didn't hear much from vice president harris or anything from the white house. president biden just augmenting the phones, calling nato allies and reassuring and huddling with the british, and french.

they didn't want to put an american face on this. we'll probably hear vladimir putin blaming the united states. people are calling this a mutiny, not a coup. >> what are you watching? >> look at the war on ukraine. if you are a ukrainian soldier in east ukraine, you are probably happy the mercenaries have leften gone back to russia. now they are leaving. we'll see if this deal holds up. the president of belarus, a satellite of russia says there is a deal that he's going to go to belarus and not be arrested, not going to be killed. many people are wondering will this truce hold up. david: lucas, it's david. what do you make of erdogan

calling putin? reporter: especially a nato ally. erdogan wants to play the role of peacemaker. he has a home defense system around his house. that's our seeing. putin wants to see erdogan help out, a nato ally, perhaps to rub it in the united states' face. but you are not seeing president biden stepping far to broker a deal. kat: some people are saying this might be a false flag operation. reporter: that's what many people woke up to this morning. the russian forces, you wouldn't think they would let all these mercenaries cross the border and walk away, a sea of one million people virtually unopposed. there were photos of these

mercenaries buying coffee and standing in lines with their rifles. reporter: that does it for us. "one nation" with brian kilmeade has continuing coverage of the chaos in russi brian: welcome to "one nation." i'm brian kilmeade. we'll go straight to a fox news alert. the rebellion in russia. so far it looks like it's halting. we have seen the greatest threat to vladimir putin's power. he turned his forces from ukraine over to moscow, getting within 125 miles before pausing. a deal was cut