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hes a leader of the wagner group, which are soldiers for hire, violent mercenaries with reputation for ruthless violence. they have fought for russia in ukraine and in conflicts across central africa in the middle east. saturday, prigozhin stage in our midst mutiny leading his mercenaries on a march that threatened to reach moscow coming within about 120 miles of the capitol. the crisis ended when prigozhin agreed to pull back his forces in a deal it allowed him to leave russia and avo...

hello, everyone. at this hour, president biden heading back to the white house to face more questions over still more classified documents found at his home. plus, it is raining again right now in california. the relentless storms are causing widespread destruction. well take you there. were also going to speak to the lieutenant governor about the situation. and the search for survivors amid the rubble of a bombed out apartment complex in ukraine. now one of the deadliest strikes o...

The wagner group was not the decisive force on the battlefield. so taking them out of the fight, they were already out of the fight tactically, isnt going to change the dynamic of power. theres still a huge russian air force, a very capable cruise missile equipped russian naval force. theres all the armor in the artillery, the artillery in principle combat arm of the russian army is still intact. so ukraine hasnt committed their maneuver force of the regalia. but we cant take our eye off the bal...

Ukraines army is trying to effect the russian army and get them out of the country. that is a strategy of attrition. forced decisions because you are defeating the security force of the enemy. so this is certainly not a stalemate. but what needs to happen, you know, unfortunately, a couple of things. russia has to run out of ammunition which i dont see happening any time soon. there are certainly indicators that they have less and less ballistic missiles to fire. but in this case, i mean, as an ...

Actually using belarusian military. what does that mean? do you believe the worst is yet to come? >> well, i do believe the worst is probably yet to come. if belarusian forces -- ground forces -- enter the war, it would increase the footprint so that the russians and belarusian forces could conduct attacks against cities, including kyiv. and as spider just outlined, we are seeing towed artillery. armored personnel carriers. the general approach in a situation like this and the russians showed in...

Operational force. they suffered enormous casualties, we think in excess of 25,000 killed and wounded. their chain of command appears to have melted down. we are seeing gross signs of indiscipline, murder and abuse of civilians at a tactical level. putin has changed his strategic aim with civilian populations as the target of strategic strikes of cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, aircraft. the russians are in a mess. now theyre going to try to straighten it out. the key question, joe, it seem...

Iraq in brigade headquarters, does that mean ground forces? are they ground forces? are they in combat? well, its not like its a maneuver force. its not like its an armored division or an infantry battalion, but these guys are special forces. >> yeah. and theyre in harms way. if theyre on the ground, they are in harms way no matter what you call them,er er ithey are line of fire. can you hold that thought for a second? i want to go to the line of fire and nic robertson. theres mixed messages. if...

Political ambitions of the previous administration after 9-11 without going to war in afghanistan, could we have gone after effectively al qaeda without going into afghanistan, for example? >> first of all, i am one of those that strongly believes that the invasion of iraq was a strategic blunder. and it took our eye off the way we could have been dealing with situations in a number of other places. i was in afghanistan as a journalist in 04. spent most of my time with a marine corps unit there,...

9-11 without going to war in afghanistan, could we have gone after effectively al qaeda without going into afghanistan, for example? >> first of all, i am one of those that strongly believes that the invasion of iraq was a strategic blunder. and it took our eye off the way we could have been dealing with situations in a number of other places. i was in afghanistan as a journalist in 04. spent most of my time with a marine corps unit there, and the way they were handling the situation i think was...

I just got back from a trip to japan. you know, we really need to focus again on our economic, security and cultural relations in asia. >> could we have achieved the political ambitions of the previous administration after 9/11 without going to a war in afghanistan? could we have gone after al qaeda internationally without going into afghanistan, for example? >> first of all, im one of those who strongly believes the invasion of iraq was a strategic blunder and it took our eye off dealing with s...