now. our second hour star welcome . i m yasmin vossoughian, if you just running, as welcome. if you re sticking with, us we re thankful for that. we have got a lot of developments in russia, as the head of the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, says his mercenary group is turning back and abandoning s march towards moscow. he made that announcement after the president of belarus claimed he held talks with prigozhin. i want to bring in nbc s met in standing back and trying. this math, you heard this thing firsthand. talk us through what you heard from prigozhin, the revelation of this, quote unquote, deal. thank you, yasmin. obviously, very shocking development, after what has been, as we ve discussed, very astonishing 24 hours in russia. we had another audio message from prigozhin. he speaks very intensely, always, part of his charm, for lack of better word. we saw that again in this latest message, also a little bit taking a step back. he s admitting that he stepping down
this is the most serious challenge he s ever faced, it s a humiliating defeat. not only on the eyes of the russian people, also the eyes of the world. that s something that i m sure putin just wants to be able to reverse. and we re going to see whether or not he s going to demonstrate the strength that is needed in order to restore his image inside of russia. john brennan, former director the cia, thank, you sir. thanks, yasmin. we re gonna continue to follow the latest development out of russia, everybody, throughout the hour. coming up in just 60 seconds time, how pivotal is this moment for russian president putin s control of the country? i m gonna ask chief foreign affairs correspondent host of andrew mitchell reports, andrea mitchell. coming up next. ng up next our heritage is ingrained in our skin. and even when we metamorphosize into our new evolved form, we carry that spirit with us. because you can take alfa romeo out of italy.
previous broadcast. here we go again. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is monday, july 29th. with us we have white house reporter for the associated press jonathan lemire. columnist and associate editor of the washington post david ignatius. senior adviser on moveon.org and an msnbc contributor, careen yaen pierre will be with us. and james fellows and nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent host of andrea mitchell reports, andrea mitchell. in a moment, we re going to get to the president s torrent of tweets against congressman elijah cummings. and the city of baltimore. in total, 15 new or shared tweets over the weekend. of course it comes on the heels of his ongoing attacks on four congressional women of color whom he said should go back to where they came from. in part because of the quote, filthy and hate-laced things he says they have said about the country.
right. they came forward with a plan for how are we going to grow incomes? i think they have a powerful message. also income inee quality, all of these things. i have to say, bottom line willie, if you re preaching gloom and doom in new hampshire and they have 3.8% unemployment you re selling snow to igloosigloos. if it s 10% unemployment go. with that message. but it s 3.8%. you re going to have to come up with an alternative. see what you started, mike allen. he is a trouble maker. we are wun day away from a nuclear deal with iran. john kerry is warning things could go either way. with us now live from vienna nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent host of andrea mitchell reports, andrea mitchell. what is the latest on this deal? well i asked john kerry whether he was willing to walk away if there is no real progress. i asked him that yesterday when he came out.