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neither was brian whitmore or russia analyst with the atlantic council. no, i'm not surprised at all. i mean i, i expected from the moment that pre collision of boarded his, his march on moscow back in june, and he was effectively a dead man walking. i mean, the way you have to look at the way politics works in russia is to throw your, your political science textbooks and read the godfather or watch good fellas are watching f 3 a watch, a couple of seasons of the sopranos. this is a reasoning that operates like a crime syndicates, improvements the godfather, inter goshen was a capital who obviously didn't understand his play. what of what is place for us? and to quote, you know, the immortal character, omar a little from the, the us television series, the wire, you come at the, can you best not missed well, well for goes and came with the kid. and he miss, we're, i think it was just a matter of time and i think good. so, you know, with i thought the risk of stating the obvious, this was i dealt with this was an accident, this plane crash, the cat. okay. u

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so we asked brian whitmore in atlanta council, senior fellow for russian politics. what is changed for you've gaining precautions since leaving that failed? cool, in russia. so yeah, well i, i'd preface my remarks about this with, by saying that we all need to have a little bit of a piston illogical modesty about what's going on and rush. all right, next week, even rush experts don't have the kind of visibility into the inner workings of the kremlin right now. but what this seems to suggest right now is that reports of pretty goal sions demise were greatly exaggerated. and the question is, why is that? um and i can come up with a couple of, of, of prophecies about that. on 1st and foremost, i tend to look at the putting machine uh and its behavior. like looking at like a crime syndicate. what is the godfather precaution with a couple i, when i went to the crime scene to get a cup of comes after the godfather, you expect a couple of days to be number, but in this case they aren't. and there's a couple of reasons why that might be the case. um, one reason is that it g

recorders were confiscated and a detailed examination of the crash site continues but cannot talk to brian whitmore and atlantic castle senior fellow, an expert on russian politics. glad to have you with his brian would ad confirmation now from russian authorities that pre goshen was on board. that plane i wanted to do, we have any way of knowing or at least gauging how many russians think the state had a role in his democracy. but i think there are very few people that think the state didn't have a role in his demise here. um, this is, this is what the russians like to call a new tray, at least the china ste or, and unfortunately of ara unpleasant accident, which wasn't really an accidental. so i don't think, i think it's, it's very clear to everybody what happened here. the confirmation today was simply again confirmation of something we all intuitively new up to this point. so that seems pretty clear what's happened to us. i think what comes next. that progression was such a popular figure. is there any risk to prove that they will be some sort of backlash to his desk is i think i think this has

lots of moving parts at this point though, it's brian whitmore of the atlantic council. thank you so much for your analysis and your time. thanks for having our correspondent anal. dm alone is following the story from our studio in washington. janelle, what's the white house had to say about the reports about for goes and stuff slow? we know that the white house has breeze the joe biden, not much else coming from the white house, but that, but joe biden himself made comments in lake tahoe, where he said that although he doesn't know exactly what happened, he's not surprised. he also pointed out that very little happens in russia, the vladimir putin is not behind. so that tells us a little bit about who enjoy biden's mind is responsible for this. now he's also been known to make jokes about what might happen to pre goshen a months ago at a press conference in helsinki. he said that if you were for goes and he'd be watching what he ate, he'd be looking very carefully at the menu, alluding a very perhaps to the kremlin, linked the allegedly crumbling link poisoning of criti

and we want to dig a little deeper and bring in brian whitmore. he is in atlanta council, senior fellow for russian politics and joins us from washington. good to see mister whitmore and us presidential bible says he's not surprised by today's events. are you? oh, no, i'm not surprised at all. i mean, i, i expected from the moment that pre goshen aborted his, his march on moscow back in june. and he was effectively a dead man walking. i mean, the way you have to look at the way politics works in russia is to throw out your, your political science textbooks and read the godfather. um, or watch good fellas are watching f 3 a watch a couple of seasons of the sopranos. this is a regime that operates like a crime syndicates, improvements the godfather, intrigue. goshen was a capital who obviously didn't understand his play. what of what is placed with us? and to quote, you know, the immortal character, omar, little from the, the us television series, the wire, you come at the, can you best not missed well? well for goes and came with the kid. and he mi

so i asked brian whitmore, i'm at lunch at counsel senior fellow for russian politics was changed for his getting precautions since leading about failed co. yeah, well i, i'd preface my remarks about this with, by saying that we all need to have a little bit of a system, logical modesty about what's going on and rush. all right, next week, even rush experts don't have the kind of visibility into the inner workings of the kremlin right now. but what this seems to suggest right now is that reports of pretty goshen is demise or greatly exaggerated. and the question is why is that? and i can come up with a couple of, of, of pipe prophecies about that. on 1st and foremost, i tend to look at the, put in the machine and it's behavior. but we're here to like a crime syndicate. what is the godfather progression was a couple i, when i went to the crime scene to get a couple comes after the godfather, you expect a couple of days to be numbered. in this case they aren't. and there's a couple of reasons why that might be the case. um, one reason is that the ghost that might be be given a 2nd chanc

as i'm brian whitmore is a senior fellow at the atlantic council and he's an expert on russian politics. i asked him earlier if there was any way to guides, to what extent russians think the kremlin may have been pun precautions that i think there are very few people that think the state didn't have a role in his demise here. um, this is, this is what the russians like to call a need to at least the china ste or, and unfortunately the arab unpleasant accident, which wasn't really an accident. so i don't think, i think it's, it's very clear to everybody what happened here. the confirmation today was simply again confirmation something we all intuitively new up to this point. so that seems pretty clear what's happened to us. i think what comes next. that progression was such a popular figure. is there any risk? supposing that they will be some sort of backlash to his desk is i think, i think this has to be looked at in kind of a broader context and you're correct, anthony. that goes, it was particularly popular among the very hawkish and nationalist elements in the russian lea, in, in rus

let's get more on this from brian whitmore. he's in atlantics council senior fellow of russian politics. he joins us from washington. welcome cdw. what does change for if any precautions since leaving that failed to in russia? because this video seems to indicate but other than not being able to go home. it's business as usual for 5. so yeah, well i, i'd preface my remarks about this with, by saying that we all need to have a little bit of a system, logical modesty about what's going on and rush. all right, next week, even rush experts don't have the kind of visibility into the inner workings of the kremlin right now. but what this seems to suggest right now is that reports of pretty goal sions demise were greatly exaggerated. and the question is, why is that? and i can come up with a couple of, of, of pipe prophecies about that. on 1st and foremost, i tend to look at the, put in the regime and it's behavior by looking at like a crime syndicate. what is the godfather precaution with a couple i, when i went to the crime scene to

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