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And the way that putin has run his regime for a long time, he does have these competing corrupt fiefdoms incredibly corrupt -- good deal of money on the side. hes church and roll on kadyrov. is also played a role in the fight in ukraine, hes dependent on these, people also at odds with each, other nickel. this is not a unified command structure. and that is been boiling underneath the service in unexplored interview. so good to putins next prestige actually running the unified command over the l...

Real going forward. its a supply issue. its a command issue. and so the repercussions here, certainly inside russia, but also inside russias campaign in ukraine. >> let me follow up with you on that, jim. can putin really afford to allow someone to remain in command of this sizable force, the command that wagner now has, can putin allow that to remain in force? >> the view of western intelligence is no, its such a direct and open challenge to his leadership, and this is putin who, listen, you ha...

Ambassador, help me make sense of this video. it does not make sense to me right now. as you said today on twitter, what happens? he goes to belarus and just chills? it doesnt all add up. >> youre right. i cant explain it because i dont know what the deal is. i want to remind everybody, we actually dont know -- there has been allegations on different social media platforms that one of the quid pro quos was that the minister of defense, mr. showing you, and the general in command of the armed for...

Fighting power, its going to be significant blow to them, and precisely the time that ukraine has launched this counteroffensive. . with amped up nato weapons. since the invasion of ukraine, the first time around 2014, the wagner group has been increasingly essential to putins policies. they were at the tip of the spear of his activities in syria. theyve been at the tip of a spear in some of his activities again influence in africa. and when the war started, we saw prigozhin come back to russia ...

Last 24 hours only add emphasis to the perception-— the perception. what you think the us military generals _ the perception. what you think the us military generals will— the perception. what you think the us military generals will also - the perception. what you think the us military generals will also be i us military generals will also be thinking about putins grip on power and this timeline? i thinking about putins grip on power and this timeline?— and this timeline? i think the us mi...

Your mac i think the situation has been resolved at the moment. and been resolved at the moment. and demetri is not _ been resolved at the moment. situc demetri is not clarified been resolved at the moment. fific demetri is not clarified it been resolved at the moment. el“ic demetri is not clarified it and it doesnt seem to be any changes in russian command. a lot of speculation that prigozhin was going to abandon the school and theyre about to get dismissed and he was asked about his positio...

Early as june 10th when the defense minister issued that order to basically dismantle private military companies like wagner and make them all sign up with the russian ministry of defense, something that prigozhin refused to do. i think that was the time when you started to plan this operation to try to pressure the russian military to cancel those plans and let him continue running wagner. we will see if he gets all of what he wanted, which is certainly to keep his business operations, the wagn...

Joining me now is our security correspondent, frank gardner. how do you see the position of the main characters in this ongoing conflict? ., u, main characters in this ongoing conflict? ., , , main characters in this ongoing conflict? ., , conflict? you can sum it up by sa in: , conflict? you can sum it up by saying. wagner— conflict? you can sum it up by saying, wagner finished, - conflict? you can sum it up by - saying, wagner finished, prigozhin excelled, saying, wagnerfinished, prigozhin e...

Development thats out of russia as the wagner group, an army of mercenaries led by yevgeny prigozhin has halted its march to moscow. the kremlin claims it reached a deal with prigozhin, allowing him to move to neighboring belarus. in exchange to escape criminal charges. again, thats according to the kremlin. nbc has not confirmed details of the agreement. but if it shakes out, it is a total change in putin from just this morning, when he called the wagner group tweeters. that -- think of the con...

Counter special operations forces. not heavily armed, hardened military leaders. the fact is, theres an element of self preservation with all the moves that prigozhin was countering, wagner have been encountering, they were not gonna go up against tanks in these heavily armed formations. an air force that looks like it did, some six or seven combination of planes and helicopters were shot down. you know, the biggest takeaway for me from this, this is not the end of the story. each all a dark wil...