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A member of his trusted inner circle dared to revolt and marched his army of mercenaries into russia. [speaking nonenglish] Yevgeny Prigozhin had reason to be angry. He had raised a private army called the wagner group and sent them to fight putins war in ukraine. His men were being slaughtered and prigozhin blamed russians Armchair Generals running the war of sabotage. [speaking nonenglish] there was a mutiny against Vladimir Putins armed forces. It is more like a fight between gangs, which is ...

a member of his trusted inner circle dared to revolt and marched his army of mercenaries into russia. [speaking non-english] yevgeny prigozhin had reason to be angry. he had raised a private army called the wagner group and sent them to fight putins war in ukraine. his men were being slaughtered and prigozhin blamed russians armchair generals running the war of sabotage. [speaking non-english] >> there was a mutiny against vladimir putins armed forces. >> it is more like a fight betwee...

Typical for a state. >> volodymyr putin was rattled, and he seemed to be caught off guard. he had raised yevgeny prigozhin and empowered him. >> yevgeny prigozhin it was entirely a creature of vladimir putin. he does not exist without putin. this is a frankenstein-like scenario. >> i have been following yevgeny prigozhin extraordinary rise for years, and seen firsthand how the one-time petty thief built a criminal empire in syria, africa, russia, and ukraine. making him powerful enough to challe...

[speaking non-english] yevgeny prigozhin had reason to be angry. he had raised a private army called the wagner group and sent them to fight putins war in ukraine. his men were being slaughtered and prigozhin blamed russians armchair generals running the war of sabotage. [speaking non-english] >> there was a mutiny against vladimir putins armed forces. >> it is more like a fight between terrorist gangs, which is like a mafia state. >> vladimir putin was rattled and seemed to be caught off guard....

Mafia state. >> vladimir putin was rattled and seemed to be caught off guard. he had raised prigozhin and empowered him. >> prigozhin is entirely a creature of vladimir putin. he does not exist without putin. this is a frankenstein-like scenario. >> ive been following prigozhins extraordinary rise for years and seen firsthand how the one-time, petty thief built a criminal empire in syria, africa, russia, and ukraine. making him powerful enough to challenge the boss. >> it is like, we know there ...

Policy. boy, his name kept coming up today. >> reporter: right, because the president empowered him to be this person running this suboperation and kept in constant-- or regular communication, as the testimony today suggested. >> odonnell: and were going to hear from him. >> reporter: yes, we are, and we will either refute or challenge some of the things asserted about him today. the point is the president empowered him. that was outside the channels, and for these career diplomats today they fo...

Any specific activities who knows how much donald trump was made aware? but i dont believe donald trump is an innocent operating in the dark victim here. i think hes a colluder with giuliani and i think he aided, abetted and empowered him. >> the president today was talking about the kent testimony, that it was good for him, right? that maybe this would be the first non-fake news, obviously it was before he heard this report. perhaps what he did here, though, is what we understand is that kent s...

>> i told him, john, if too many people, youre not getting along with people, and a lot of us, including me, disagree with some of your tactics and some of your ideas, and i wish you well, but id like you to submit your resignation, and he did that, and i really -- i know hes going to do well. i hope hes going to do well, and i wish him well. >> so that wasnt date stamped but i believe it was somewhere around september 10th. it was right after -- september 11th. it was right after the calamity, ...

Schumer and anyone else that wants to invite us and have a substantive conversation and believe in the same things we believe in. >> before you came out bernie sanders said you should get equal pay. >> thank you, bernie. >> particularly to say hello. if this is too personal, you have -- you tweeted your brother tweeted you, you tweeted your brother, he was -- my understanding is hes the person who got you into soccer when you were a little kid. that you really look up to him. hes obviously and i...

He was saying how you were his hero. that you always looked up to him and now he looks up to you. and that your protest helped him and sort of empowered him. >> yeah. youre going to make me emotional. yeah, he definitely is someone that is very special to me and, you know, ive just seen firsthand, you know, how the sort of prison system has ruined his life in a lot of ways. at least ruined the first 38 or -- lets see 39 now, 39 years of his life. so to be able to share this moment with him and h...