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russia. another hour of christiansen reports starts right now. ight now good morning, it is sunday june 25th. i am chris jansing. velshi is in -- he's making his way to ukraine to report on the events of the last few days. that's where we begin this hour. an extraordinary, tell, and potentially game changing 24 hours. this morning, this leads the u.s. and the world with questions in the aftermath of the greatest threat in vladimir putin's 23 year rule. it's weakened his authority? but does it tell us about his country's defense. what might be the impact on the war in ukraine? we've g...

Front yesterday, and gains by the ukrainians as well. chris. >> el rio -- clint watts, thank you so much. joining me now, former cia officer, john cipher. cofounder is by cropped entertainment, and a nonresident senior fellow at the atlantic council. it's great to have you. here for the institute and the study of war, as you, know as a washington d.c. based think tank, which has been intently following russia's invasion of ukraine, says that the kremlin failed to mount a response to -- underscore an internal security weaknesses that is due to weaknesses that we have talked about, also the elem...

Luxury of numbers. he can continue this type of an engagement, and look, let's be frank with each other. every time the russians have engaged with the ukrainians in close combat, they have lost. so what the russian forces are doing, we see this, it's now become the standard operating procedure. they use dumb rockets and they target from a distance indiscriminately. this can continue for the longest time, and i think it's safe to say, erin, that putin is not going to do an about face and depart russia. >> reporter: so john, let me ask you, there are reports that some russian troops aren't liste...

Push forward and kill until he can figure out a way that at least makes him look like he's had some sort of victory. >> thank you both very much. i appreciate your time. john cipher and retired major general spider marks with us here. victor and alisyn, back to you. >> erin, thank you very much, we will check back with you. meanwhile. >> prices at the gas pump soaring to new highs. what, if anything, can the white house do now? “few of us will ever dive so deep into our cars, but those who do venture down into the nuts and bolts...” “you hahave to give all of yourself when you do somet...

I'm erin burnett in kyiv, and there's a grim warning if the u.s. intelligence community that the war here in ukraine will likely drag on much longer than expected and will likely get worse in the coming months. >> the uncertain nature of the battle which is developing into a war of attrition combined with the reality that putin faces a mismatch between his ambitions and russia's current conventional military capabilities likely means the next few months could see us moving along a more unpredictable and potentially escalatory trajectory. >> more unpredictable and potentially escalatory. john c...