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Anger here toward russian military leadership, toward putin himself, to some degree that make sense. the motivation behind leading this armed rebellion. how does someone who has such an intimate knowledge of russias military and intelligence apparatus, how does he think he have what it took to revolt against putins government on a friday and then just turn around and hightail it in the other direction on a saturday? what made you johnny prigozhin change his mind? here with us again, ben rhodes, ...

Uprising, this march unarmed mutiny, he accused prigozhin of treason, and then vladimir putin sort of disappeared. nobody has seen him since. wagner group forces made it within 134 miles of moscow. the situation shifted abruptly once again. alexander lukashenko. the authoritarian leader of belarus, he announced that he brokered a deal between prigozhins forces and putins government to end the standoff. the wagner forces advancing on moscow were reversed their course. prigozhin and his man evacua...

Three, we should not talk about it. on your program and on many conversations throughout this war weve always talked about escalation and putin is in the corner right in the corner he needs to save his face and we cant do this if you cant do that because he has seen that as an escalatory step. well, putin played a game of chicken with prigozhin over the weekend and you know what? he did not double down he did not escalate. he capitulated and i think that is a really important message for everyon...

The reason i do think that ultimately this is a challenge to putins authority no matter what prigozhins intentions were is that putin whos trying to lay low, he doesnt come out and bury the war. he had to go on television and say somebody is engaged in immunity and that was something that all russians saw and so for the first time, russians are seeing their own leader having to say one of my guys when my guys whos been a trusted lieutenant in line for a long time it is engaged in our mutiny agai...

Run down into the war in ukraine. so, now theres been a de-escalation. theres been this partial resolution for the time being. i think everybody in russia vladimir putin go on television and say this guy is in the community. he has to be detained. they were putting out threats. he was going to be thrown in prison. just the fact that they even let prigozhin for the time being off here into belarus. thats not what putin told his own people he was going to do. so russians are feeling the war coming...

The system that he is set, up again, these different thief times, these different players jockeying for his favor, nobody quite knows what happens now. so, even though we dont necessarily know exactly what prigozhins endgame was, was a scene latching out, we still are in a new era in russian politics? >> in terms of the view from russia, masha, and what russian citizens make of all of this, how are you understanding this moment? >> how much fear should there be in russia that are wounded putin i...

He went from selling hot dogs to running grocery stores to opening high and restaurants. restaurants that serve world leaders, like vladimir putin and directly bush, scene right there. it was that will, being putins chef, that got to mr. prigozhin his fortune. biden gave prigozhin beginners loans. so prigozhin can open factories that, for more than a decade, have made school lunches for almost all of the public schools in moscow. that gave way to more government contracts. until eventually prigo...

Dirty work off the battlefield as well as on it. do you remember, for, example of the internet research agency? it was the russian troll farm that was run out of this completely nondescript office building down at st. petersburg. it was fake accounts like that one to spread disinformation and to try to swing the 2016 presidential election for donald trump. again, this wasnt vladimir putin directly, it was certainly what vladimir putin wanted. again, it was give getty prigozhin giving vladimir pu...

Prigozhin increasingly was taking aim at the russian military high command. particularly under the -- he was saying they were hanging the forces to. dry they werent providing with ammunition or cover. threatening all kinds of things towards russian military on command. now the way putin has set up the regime, hes had this kind of competing and corrupt the thumb. prigozhin is corrupt. there are other war lords. their provincial leaders. but we have not seen thus far is somebody standing up from w...

Stronger position when it comes to ukraine is no longer valid. so, for those of you who are actually potentially on the sidelines saying that we have to start tailoring and tampering down our support of this war, now the argument is no longer valid and we can win this war ukraine can win this war russia can and putin is not fully in control. >> congressman ruben gallego thank you very much for your time this evening. we will have more of our special coverage of the crisis in russia when we turn ...