washington i m bret baier. president biden n says neither us or nato played any part in the weekends a brief but meaningful insurrection in russia. this afternoon russian president vladimir putin thanks the nation for its unity. questions remain on how much control potent still house in the wake of the ukraine invasion and rebellion that for some time this weekend seem to be getting russian soldiers on board. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live in the capital of kyiv tonight. good evening greg. hi britt. restaurant present president biden repaired met with his defense minister and top security and put a short video out on state v. with one more attempt by the russian leader to regain control of the narrative in his country which the past few days has been spending badly out of control. more follow-up from this week it s probably events in russia. the mercenary group for time saturday took over major city in southern russia. then headed to moscow only to
on the eve of the first anniversary of the dobbs decision overturning roe v. wade, conservatives like mike pence say they want to further crush reproductive rights. it will be pardon to say it was rigged with a trump friendly judge. what kinds of an edge do those two facts give the former president? good evening. i m ali velshi filling in for joy reid. we begin with post roe america. one year ago the supreme court ruled in dobbs v. america. the ruling overturned roe v. wade, the law of the land for 50 years, and remains as unpopular as ever. today major 2024 gop contenders shared the stage at the faith and freedom coalition conference to push more restrictions on abortion. thank god almighty for the dobbs decision. we are creating a culture of life in america. i will sign a federal law to restrict abortion as well as president of the united states. we must not rest and must not relent until we restore the sanctity of life to the center of american law in every state i
in ukraine, and we re learning wagner forces have reportedly entered the far west russian city of rostock been done without resistance. those forces apparently rolled into the city, with tanks and a large amount of troops taking over the military and police headquarters as well as the city hall there. russia s military is responding by ramping up security in and around moscow. those measures are said to include roadblocks and checkpoints, and we haven t heard from russian president vladimir putin on the developments tonight but one of his top generals is telling wagner forces to stop and obey the will of president putin. we re also hearing from the white house. we re told president biden is and has been briefed on the matter. that he is closely monitoring it again . if you were just now tuning in, we are following breaking news out of moscow. that is where russian forces are on high alert after the leader of the private wagner mercenary group called for a coup against russia
because of an insurrection led by the leader of the wagner mercenaries that ended nearly as soon as it started. an apparent clash between wagner and russian troops which was followed by a fire at that oil refinery you see on your screen there. under the deal done, the kremlin says wagner troops will not face any legal action, but they ll sign new contracts with russia s defense ministry while moscow will drop its charges against prig prigozhin, who will go to belarus. wagner s leader says he agreed to that in order to avoid bloodshed. translator: therefore, realizing all the responsibility for the fact that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides, we turn our columns around and leave in the opposite direction to the field camps, according to the plan. the kremlin says it doesn t know where prigozhin is right now. what you see there is video of people cheering as he left ross stor-on-don where his troops seized military facilities on saturday. officials now tell c
putin s power is becoming tenuous for the first time in 23 years. good evening. good evening to you, trace. the civil war that appeared to be on the point of breaking out in russia has become a war of words with a clearly angry russian president lashing out at those who led what he called the rebellion. they wanted russian soldiers to kill each other. soldiers and civilians would die and russia would lose and our society split. choke in a bloody strife. putin never mentioned the mercenary leader by name but the notorious head of the group was central to everything putin said. once a close friend and ally he s putin s public enemy number one. locations and intents unknown. giving no clues in an audio statement released today in which he come papered the ease of his troop s movement through russia to the failures of russia s regular army when they invaded ukraine 16 months ago. a master class on how february 24th, 2022 should look like. did not have the goal of over thr