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It is 12 00 in new york. Were following what has already been a dramatic day of testimony on capitol hill from two key witnesses, former nsc Senior Adviser fiona hill and current u. S. Diplomat david holmes, both witnesses raising alarms today about the conduct they witnessed between the Trump Administration and ukraine, namely the conditioning of both military aid and a white house meeting on a commitment from the ukrainians into those investigations designed to hurt the bidens, a Smear Campaign against Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch who was apparently standing in the way. The conduct o...

Have warned that the prigozhin led rebellion risks pushing russia into a civil war. in a televised statement addressing these advances from within, putin said the wagner group's actions were a quote, stab in the back to russia and its people. so how could this infighting impact putin's hold on the country and his hold in ukraine? -- are back with me. collin, you've been following the wagner group's movements over the past year and earlier this month you wrote about how these boiling tensions between prigozhin and the russian military could signal that putin is losing his grip on power. explain...

Happening there on the ground in russia? >> well, it's a confused mess, amara, and i think one of the key things to think about here is the historical precedent as nick mentioned earlier is really not there in modern russia. you have to go back several centuries before you see something like this. it's kimd of like napoleon coming back from alba and retaking control of france, except the one big difference is putin has never held absolute power in russia. he's never been the head of state. it's clearly a power play. at the very least what prigozhin wants to do is give his force, the wagner gro...

Descending into some kind urban warfare and also a full-fledged civil war, especially when prigozhin says he's taken control at a post in southern russia, which is, you know, many -- a 10, 15-hour drive from rostov-on-don. and also which military has the advantage? especially when we talk about numbers, we know that putin has a much larger military than this private military group, wagner, but we know, you know, the wagner group has been much more effective in its war against ukraine. >> i think this is clearly a battle of effectiveness, right? we're looking at which force can bring the most p...

Stopped the group of the wagner mercenaries, and they've taken control of at least one of the major buildings that the military occupies in rostov. so they're going to have to dislodge them -- the putin side is going to have to dislodge the group from that building and possibly the other buildings. and the same thing is happening a lot closer to moscow. i think what we can see is some pitched battles between the two sides potentially, or, the other side of this is that they will kind of fraternize with each other, commingle the horses, and something will be worked out in the back room and puti...