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Happening, ever. it is totally irresponsible in my view. >> i want to bring in wolf blitzer, jointly from lithuania where he has been covering this weeks all-important nato summit. he also had an exclusive one-on- one interview with secretary austin. im so glad to see you, and is it to be that you have the secretary is so impactful it illuminating. what else did secretary austin say about senator tommy tuberville ? >> he is very unhappy with whatis trying to do. blocking these promotions of gene...

Right now? >> its just the generals are frustrated theyre not making more progress, looking for additional support, they want to do a better job defeating ukraine and following through with the overall mission. so i take this as a sign of some disruption, some disunity, but i think weve got to not overplay this. in the soviet military history, in the world war, stalin often cleaned out the ranks, this is whats going on with putin to some extent and putin does view himself as a successor to stali...

Attack a member of nato. its highly unlikely. if they do, theyre not just attacking finland. theyre attacking 31 other countries. >> next question for president biden. >> im sorry. i guess its arlette from cnn. >> reporter: weve seen disarray of russian generals. does this lead to anything like election interference? >> theyre already interfering with elections in the u.s. thats not new. i dont think theres any real prospect -- you never know -- of putin using nuclear weapons. not only has the w...

Nations offending is highly unlikely. and so, if they were to understand that theyre not just attacking offend them but they attacking 31 other countries yes. >> next question will go to president biden please. >> im sorry. >> thank you mr. president. weve seen more disarray with bressan generals with the firing of a fine general who criticized the defense ministry following the -- this is raised in a new concerned about put in doing more drastic things regarding ukraine? like nuclear weapons fo...

Full. now theyre dealing with the loss of senior officers including generals. how do you think that might manifest itself on the battlefield going forward? >> well, it is quite chaotic at this point. you have to have leadership on the battlefield. you have to know that youre fighting for a specific cause and the country is behind you, and i think to the extent that the russian soldiers who have been pulled out of prison, who have been pulled out of the middle of the country, the poor people, com...

Pretty stunning statement, one of russias top generals saying his soldiers are being betrayed by vladimir putin and his leadership. the newest sign of a war effort undermined by ineptitude and distrust. in an audio tape, the command ertz of the 58th combined army major general ivan popoff is reportedly heard telling his troops he was fired for calling out the lack of military support. he also said that while ukrainian troops couldnt get through their front lines, quote, we were hit from the rear...

Theyre being just butchered on the front lines, and thats why youre getting this pushback coming from the generals who are fighting saying if you want us to go and fight on behalf of russia, give us the equipment to do it. and apparently youve got top people saying youve failed in that regard and thats why theres so much dissension inside of russia and there are others who dont want to continue the battle. hes getting it from both sides, those who are pro more activity militarily, and those who ...

Dangerous occupation, indeed, and on top of that, the commander of the 58th brigade, ivan popov, who is also a general, who was removed from his post he says, by what he said was the treacherous activities of the commanders behind him, namely general gerasimov, the head of the russian armed forces and shoigu sergi. what were seeing here is a first time public statement or a statement made public by a russian general indicating the stresses within the russian armed forces during this very aggress...

Issues. so basically yesterday the rules committee and with the speakers agreement, they allowed for several hundred amendments to be attached to the national defense authorization bill. the amendment votes are going to get started later today. originally it was mostly noncontroversial amendments that were added, but some of these more controversial amendments were agreed to to be added to vote on in the rules committee meeting last night. these are amendments that have to deal with abortion pol...

Prigozhin, god only knows what hes likely to do. im not even sure. were not even sure where he is and what relationship he has. if i were he, i would be careful what i ate. id be keeping my eye on my menu. >> matthew chance is out front live in london. what mju how deep this goes ins the russian army. this is obviously not just prigozhin, not just people in the wagner group. it seems to be much deeper. >> it does, and the fact that this is all meant to be behind cl closed doors, i think indicate...