i have much more to ask you including what is going to happen to prigozhin s private army, which we don t know if he gets to take with him on his all expenses paid trip to lovely minsk. we ll be right back with david remnick right after this. stay with us.
you can catch me weekend mornings at ten a. m.. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. mornings at 10:00 a.m. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, ali i am both glad and worried to have you where you are tonight thank you for being there my friend great report this whole hour. thanks for being willing to make that trip, man. we are glad and worried in equal measure. thank you, my friend. enjoy your home. thanks to you at home for being with us.th before he became the editor of the most important english language magazine in the world david remnick was moscow correspondent for the mn washington post and in fact won the pulitzer prize for his os landmark 1993 book about the er last time russia fell apart at the end of the soviet union.ss david remnick will be joining us live in a few minutes as we try
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with this other country with belarus and lukashenko now being in the middle of this? what happens with this immense, well experienced, well armed private army that just tried to mutiny against russian forces and they re now maybe cooling their heels in this neighboring country that s kind of forming a union with russia anyway? are they no longer fighting russia s failing war in ukraine? how did this all happen so fast and what, pray tell, is on the menu of things that may happen next? david remnick joins us live here next. stay with us.
investigation assembled evidence prigozhin ran this social media troll farm that targeted the u.s. public in 2016 to try to make americans hate each other more than we already do, to support extremism of all kinds, to promote secessionist movements in the united states, to promote violence in the united states, and most centrally to try to get donald trump elected president of the united states in 2016. prigozhin was indicted by federal prosecutors for his role in running that operation around our 2016 election. there remains today a quarter million dollar reward for information leading to his arrest by u.s. authorities because he is under indictment in the united states. that was one of the odd jobs he was able to do for his friend vladimir putin. one of the other things was build putin a deniable private army. so why would putin want a deniable private army when he s got, you know, the russian army? well, turns out it is helpful, handy sometimes to have guys who