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Plus, 48-month financing on all smart beds. shop now only at sleep number more news from russia, where dramatic developments are raising questions about president vladimir putins grip on power. putin is accusing the wagner mercenary group of an armed rebellion. the head of the wagner group, prigozhin, said his forces have taken control of military facilities in the city of rostov-on-don. he threatens to move on to moscow if russias top general and defense minister dont meet with him. >> transl...

And so he has had a tremendous amount of wealth and can fund this fight probably more so than putin can fund his own forces at this point. >> one more question on the russia aspect of this. what does this internal rebellion say about putins grip on power in russia? >> i think what it really says is, and i alluded to it earlier, but the last thing any country should do is allow militias to form and you put no guardrails associated with them. prigozhin has had free rein throughout this particular ...

So my theory is is that what hes doing is perhaps slowing down for now having made a very important point to putin, and i think having weakened putin significantly. the lukashenko part of this, lukashenkos a puppet, these are table scraps for him. stuff that makes him look like the big man he wants to be and every once in a while putin will send something. i dont think its important, and i dont believe he was instrumental in reach something agreement with prigozhin on this. >> given that people ...

Certainly, it is him or prigozhin at this point, i think, if you look at the way he stood there and made comparisons to 1917 for out of world war i by russia because of the revolution. this, he sees, as a historic moment. it is one, quite frankly, he has been allowing to approach him fast over the past months. >> nick waypeyton walsh fro london, thank you for the report. more on russia. how will the actions of the wagner groups leader impact the war and putins grip on power? form per u.s. amba...

Anymore really by anybody in the kremlin. >> well, exactly. and i guess obviously the west and ukraine looking aing carefu and hoped there would be a proper challenge to putin to stop this war. theres also the battlefield to talk about. we just spoke to a putin ally from his own party who said that putin could not afford to have a multi-pronged, multifronted war against him, whether within with the paramilitary group, whether its with ukrainians, whoever else its with. so putin has dodged a bit ...

Putin is warning those who follow prigozhin that they will pay the price. >> all those who deliberately chose the path of treachery, who prepared an armed mutiny will face punishment and answer to the law and to our people. >> despite that threat, russian state media is reporting that authorities have offered amnesty to any wagner fighters willing to lay down arms. we just learned that president biden has discussed the situation in russia during a call with france, germany and the u.k. sources s...

Is possible that wagner could begin to run into some supply shortages within the next 24 to 48 hours. all of this coming at a moment when president biden is going to camp david, expected to be accompanied by some of his national security team, including jake sullivan. they are continuing to watch how much this destabilized russia, whether any weapons or equipment there are put at risk and whether this could spread further and destabilize the broader region. >> im being told that the top nato all...

I dont think this crisis is finished and what is not finished, the perception that putins grip on power in russia, fair to say, not what it was 48 hours ago. >> quickly get general clarks reaction to that. what do you think, general? >> well i think its true. no doubt this makes putin look weak and also true we dont know what the full answers are. but its -- its also a fact that if you look, for example, at 1999 and how putin took charge, blew up his own apartment buildings to start the war in c...

Government, in effect, putting prigozhin under the control and command of the minister of defense shoigu. sho they cant stand each other. neither one are soldiers. they see thing from a very different perspective. prigozhin is out after power. as we talked the last hour, hes looking to be his own personal war lord with no ideology. shoigu is attempting to make as much money and grip as he can and hes been doing it ten years. they hate each other. so this was an attempt by prigozhin to make putin...

Would they be looking out for? it is actually very _ would they be looking out for? it 3 actually very difficult to monitor these kinds of events. i was in fact in moscow in the embassy in 1991 when the last event of this sort happened and in fact an attempt by a sort of right—wing nationalist element to launch a coup against the regime. i think we can do really is try and monitor things, communications, what you see, and i think the difference may be now if you have things like social media a...