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Hours ago. that is where he had taken control of the key russian military facility an act of retaliation after russias military launched a missile strike on wagner group camps, the kremlin has said that prigozhin would quote go to belarus and wagner soldiers would not be prosecuted, nbc news has not independently confirmed the details of that deal. >> so how did we reach this moment, the wagner group is what russia calls a quote private military company, the u.s. calls it a proxy force for the r...

>> thank you. and i want to go now to the retired air force lieutenant general charlie "tuna" moore. general, i appreciate your time. you hear that conversation with the ambassador. ukraine, obviously, is not taking responsibility for the attacks on moscow. they deny them outright. what do you think is the most likely scenario of who is responsible? >> well, good evening, erin. obviously, this could be some type of false flag operation conducted by the russians for the reasons that you just pl...

Again human rights watch documented summary executions of civilians. you look at the wagner group today, this sort of proxy force for the russian government. theyre under sanctions by the european union because of summary executions and torture in libya, ukraine, syria and the central african republic. so unfortunately, this is just the way they operate. obviously, these pictures are shocking, but i dont think theyre really surprising. >> elliott, you so often, when discussing this war, people c...

Going to have a proxy force for afghanistan. theyll pump up in the proxy force. it will look like what it used to. a proxy war of six different fashion. its a terrible picture in the future. you hope we are not going to be vulnerable to attacks in our homeland and that chaos. >> the other thing as complicated as you know, the idea that you can pour money into afghanistan and sort of do it in a way that does not touch the taliban. the pristine sort of self-contained and you can use ngos. its a fa...

>> so yes, i have confirmed with an sdf commander this is the kurd heish militia that indeed camp has fallen. this was a camp that included civilians as well as isis supporters and isis relatives an as my colleague mentioned, the 25-year-old woman that we know was being housed at this camp has been described to me as ha hard core isis supporter. she is involved in recruiting many other women to the group. we dont know where she is. but of course this is exactly what people predicted would happen...

>> chuck, it looks like we are seeing just the early stages of this campaign. and most of the turkish military activity is focused on two villages. what the turkish forces are doing, the turkish military air force, they are attacking the towns and villages around these two large population centers, softening them up, frightening the people, hoping that the people will leave, and according to different ngos, about 65,000 people have already left, predominantly these two areas. and then, theyre go...

Toward saudi arabia, that they should pay for our security. i mean, i just find it kind of repulsive, the idea that we are saying that saudi arabia should hire us as mercenaries and, look, i mean, saudi arabia -- my guess is that president trump and saudi arabia are right, that this probably was iran, theyre probably using a proxy force. if it was iran, saudi arabia has the right to respond. they have fighter planes. they have missiles. they flew sordies against isis. we dont need to do that for...

The houthis have been using which tells you it was a little more sophisticated and likely came from the shia militias in iraq which are proxy forces for iran. they are definitely using their proxy forces to the fullest. remember hezbollah, proxy force for iran, actions in syria, so they have been disrupted in the middle east of late and i think this was a pretty serious attempt. with the precision, the targeting, the ability to get those drones on target to do their mission, shows you how much t...

Its a very potent proxy force and the iranians know how to keep their fingerprints off an operation like this, but the suspicion as i said, fred, will be iran. >> so the two attacks alone have shut down half of saudi arabias oil output. how vulnerable would saudi arabia be feeling about now? >> reporter: well, fred, its hard to overestimate the effect of this attack because its not just a fire thats the problem, it is release of poisonous gas, h 2 s, hid row general sulfide. it is deadly gas, wi...

With a mine. they said the crew saw some kind of flying object strike the ship. joined now by msnbc political contributor ben rhodes former deputy security adviser to president barack obama. this is a frustrating situation as a journalist and a citizen. we dont see the intelligence and i am a, you know, grew up during the iraq war. i am skeptical. youve worked with the white house, dealt with iranians. what is your read on all this? >> well, my read is in this part of the world all kinds of acto...