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Anger here toward russian military leadership, toward putin himself, to some degree that make sense. the motivation behind leading this armed rebellion. how does someone who has such an intimate knowledge of russia's military and intelligence apparatus, how does he think he have what it took to revolt against putin's government on a friday and then just turn around and hightail it in the other direction on a saturday? what made you johnny prigozhin change his mind? here with us again, ben rhodes, former deputy national security adviser to president obama. ben, i know you don't know conclusivel...

Uprising, this march unarmed mutiny, he accused prigozhin of treason, and then vladimir putin sort of disappeared. nobody has seen him since. wagner group forces made it within 134 miles of moscow. the situation shifted abruptly once again. alexander lukashenko. the authoritarian leader of belarus, he announced that he brokered a deal between prigozhin's forces and putin's government to end the standoff. the wagner forces advancing on moscow were reversed their course. prigozhin and his man evacuated the military headquarters in rostov-on-don. they had been just getting coffee a few hours earl...

Three, we should not talk about it. on your program and on many conversations throughout this war we've always talked about escalation and putin is in the corner right in the corner he needs to save his face and we can't do this if you can't do that because he has seen that as an escalatory step. well, putin played a game of chicken with prigozhin over the weekend and you know what? he did not double down he did not escalate. he capitulated and i think that is a really important message for everyone to understand that, yes we have to worry about escalation. most certainly when it comes to nucl...

The reason i do think that ultimately this is a challenge to putin's authority no matter what prigozhin's intentions were is that putin who's trying to lay low, he doesn't come out and bury the war. he had to go on television and say somebody is engaged in immunity and that was something that all russians saw and so for the first time, russians are seeing their own leader having to say one of my guys when my guys who's been a trusted lieutenant in line for a long time it is engaged in our mutiny against me. the whole world saw that to the chinese saw it. all the countries that even sitting on ...

Run down into the war in ukraine. so, now there's been a de-escalation. there's been this partial resolution for the time being. i think everybody in russia vladimir putin go on television and say this guy is in the community. he has to be detained. they were putting out threats. he was going to be thrown in prison. just the fact that they even let prigozhin for the time being off here into belarus. that's not what putin told his own people he was going to do. so russians are feeling the war coming home into their internal politics in a way they haven't before. i think now we know that russia ...