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we re on the california coast and this is cnn happening now new developments in israel s war with hamas. he is really prime minister benjamin ateneo disbands his war cabinet the ivf is not clarifying what it s calling a quote, tactical pause plus, the house speaker mike johnson, heads tamara logo in florida to meet with former president donald trump what s on the agenda as they look ahead to the november elections? and evacuations are underway near los angeles right now, as firefighters work to contain a very fast moving wildfire. hello, i m waffling sir, in washington and urine, the cnn newsroom we begin this hour with the israel hello, hamas award knew this morning, there s really prime minister benjamin ateneo is dissolved. his war cabinet, the move comes just days after a senior member of the work cabinet resigned in a show of very dramatic vote of no confidence in the ten you and a strategy for the war in gaza. meanwhile, israel has begun what it s calling a tactical p
former deputy director of national intelligence. what do you make of it? do you think netanyahu has already decided, you know what? i m with these two, and biden, you can take a hike? or do you think this is still a delicate balancing act that he hasn t fully decided yet? i think netanyahu has decided that netanyahu is for netanyahu. right. which means siding with those two. which means right now siding with those two, and it s hard to see how that turns out somehow differently. right now, he can govern without these two. as long as the war cabinet is in place right, the war cabinet put into place after october 7th. those two don t get a vote in that. exactly. once that disbands, then he s back to relying on these two parties, and these two individuals to stay in power. and why does he need that?
do they head back to the front lines in russia, is there a risk to putin s regime if many of them remain on russian land and still loyal to prigozhin? yeah and the answer to the latter question first, there is no doubt in my mind that vladimir putin is significantly weeker today than he was before these events. there is a greater threat against him. he s shown weaknesses that we simply haven t seen before. that said, i m not sure that the primary threat comes from the wagner guys. so the first stop for the wagner guys is the local ministry of defense office to sign the contract they re going to be asked to sign which will make them part of the russian military which in one sense sort of disbands or weakens the wagner group. but i so that is good for putin because at least nominally he has more control over them than he had before. however, i think the biggest threat for putin is for those that are very close to him,