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jon: it is perhaps the most serious challenge to the vladimir putins authority, although at this moment it appears the challenge has edged. yevgeny prigozhin has turned his forces around and is said to be heading back to belarus. lets check in with our greg palkot whos covering the story from that part of the world. greg. >> reporter: jon, it looks like were back on the brink in russia just across the border from where we are right now in kyiv, but it also looks like a lot of damage wa...

Military contractor business in the same way. but hes made his point and that is to show the terrible price of this war in russia, the shock of getting mercenary forces heading up the freeway towards moscow, and he has shown that putin has him really in a tight spot and is going to have to be rethinking how putin holds control of russia and, of course, what he does about ukraine. prigozhin has made his point. jon: but it would seem that prigozhin probably doesnt have a very long life expectancy ...

Some of the scenes we saw when the war first broke out, only these sights were taking place on ukrainian soil with ukrainians packing train stations hoping to leave. again, it was 16 months exactlied today since the war first broke out, and last year 1 in every 3 ukrainians was displaced because of this invasion. so a lot to watch, jon, of what will take place in the days and, if anything, just the hours ahead with so many changes taking place this just -- in just 24 hours. jon? jon: you have to...

Jon: back now to our top story, the wagner mercenary groups rebellion against russia for whom its been fighting in ukraine. that revolt and its march toward moscow -- pardon me -- over for now as the kremlin now says the groups leader will move to belarus to the avoid prosecution for what vladimir putin earlier today called treason. that deal reportedly broker brokered by the president of belarus. lets bring in the president of iris inif dependent research and national security and military anal...

It -- after it began, and he doesnt normally do that. he doesnt normally go on television and talk to his people unless he knows that everything is button thed up and urn control. that seems to be a sign of his concern here, maybe his desperation. >> i think he was very concerned. i think he was very concerned. when he saw those troops, that long convoy of armored forces coming up the m-4 from the south toward moscow, he was worried. he probably left moscow, jon. he probably left moscow, which i...

Prigozhin was making demands, that he wanted sergei show guy out as the leader of the army, and he wanted the defense minister sacked. but that, apparently, has not happened. >> apparently not. prigozhin for a long time has been criticizing harshly shoigu, the defense minister, and gerasimov, the chairman of the joint chiefs. and so for me ghosn to get nothing out of -- prigozhin to get nothing out of this negotiation with, again, lukashenko who doesnt have much authority anyway, this deal doesn...

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Federal lawsuit in the case. i did speak to the chairman of the board, kentucky licensing board, who told me her main problem that in his syndicated columns, rose monday describes himself as a psychologist when he is a psychological associate. rosemond disputes the lyle tiff. jon: he says theyre going after him because these guys are much bigger. he is a small guy. what do kentucky officials say in their defense? >> they say theyre just following the law. he is by writing this column, hard to wr...