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Of all the people who have ever challenged him in any way, yevgeny prigozhin did it in the most humiliating way two months ago. so it's just plain as day that vladimir putin assassinated his chief rival, and that's where we stand as of now. >> if you're right, would the motivation have been to remove a rival who threatened putin, or to serve public notice that this is what happens when you come for the king? >> both. first of all, he had to get rid of this guy, because for every day that prigozhin was running around was a day of humiliation for vladimir putin. putin has been in power for 23 ye...

And pretty successfully, to say the least, they were laying down their arms and so on and so forth. and to have this person not dead says to everybody, well, maybe putin has lost his touch. maybe he's not such a mean guy or maybe it's not such a dangerous thing to do. putin had to get rid of him to reestablish himself as the meanest, toughest guy in the prison yard. >> at the time that the plane went down, vladimir putin was at a solemn world war ii ceremony. i happened to be looking at the print edition of "the new york times." is he so calculating and sophisticated that he would time the eve...

Betrayal. there's a long list of dead bodies of people who he's killed. of all the people who have ever challenged him in any way, yevgeny prigozhin did it in the most humiliating way two months ago. so it's just plain as day that putin assassinated his chief rival. that's where we stand as of now. >> if you're right, would the motivation have been to remove a rival who threatened putin, or to serve public notice that this is what happens when you come for the king? >> both. first of all, he had to get rid of this guy because for every day that prigozhin was running around was a day of humilia...

Evening, russia time, celebrating the anniversary, the 88th anniversary of the victory of soviet troops in the battle of kursk at the same time this was going on. brought up this frame of reference, kind of like the scene in "the godfather i" where michael is at the baptism of his child, and the meantime all the families of the heads of the families are getting executed. so putin is at this grand celebration and his chief rival is taken out of the sky by a soviet ground to air missile. it's a soap opera. >> that's the image he wants to convey. he sees himself as a godfather figure and he appea...

The trump show this weekend as thousands of people surrounded the pork tent, just trying to catch a glimpse of the former president. >> are you going to come to the debate in milwaukee. >> ha ha, that's a good question. >> just states away, trump's chief rival, florida governor ron desantis, who plans to hit all 99 iowa counties. >> do you think it's going to pay off for the election. >> i think so. we did a bus tour leading into this so we did six counties yesterday. these are a lot of these are very rural counties. candidates usually don't show up there. when you show up, people appreciate i...