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hi there, everyone. i'm nicole wallace, thanks for being here with us. we've got a lot of places you get your news today, we're glad you're joining us. four pm in the east, it's 11 pm in moscow. we're following breaking news this hour, with the latest on the revolt unfolding in russia. and we see news is confirming, yevgeny prigozhin is the head of the wagner group, which is a private mercenary army in russia, that's done a lot of the fighting in the war in ukraine. he has called for his moscow bound convoy to stand down for now. that's only after advancing to within 120 miles of the...

I just think there is so much uncertainty as to what happened today. what was in that deal? and what things look like going forward. >> that's so interesting. general twitty, a military expert positive to me -- just what julie is explaining. he's on the battlefield leading his men. he saw, he saw them stacked the bodies. he saw the horrors of the incompetence of the way the war has been conducted by vladimir putin, and his military officials. does the west, does ukraine and nato make a different calculation about the ability of russia to combat ukraine's latest counter offensive? it hasn't gon...

-- to putin, really. now maybe standing up and showing that he's a player. it remains to be seen. >> one thing our friend -- tweeted was that there was a possibility that the internet would be shut down tonight for several hours in moscow. she made the point that this is the closest that the war has come to russians living in moscow. and that while putin has maintained a pretty high level of support in the country, the war, by and large, is going to wage far away in ukraine. but now here it is, literally on his doorstep. what do you hear about folks watching that part of the putin puzzle? >> a...

Vehemently refutes. he was doing some reporting on the wagner group. what would move putin to do a deal, given prigozhin amnesty after this international humiliation of vladimir putin today? >> well, i think it's a sign of weakness, really nicolle. on the one hand, if prigozhin really was making a move for power in moscow, he may need to see if he could've peeled off some of the other russian command structure. some other russian units or regional figures. that didn't really happen. we saw circling of the wagons, and some of russia's political leadership around putin. but at the same time, you...

Fighting power, it's going to be significant blow to them, and precisely the time that ukraine has launched this counteroffensive. . with amped up nato weapons. since the invasion of ukraine, the first time around 2014, the wagner group has been increasingly essential to putin's policies. they were at the tip of the spear of his activities in syria. they've been at the tip of a spear in some of his activities again influence in africa. and when the war started, we saw prigozhin come back to russia and ukraine, and really take command as a fiefdom within the russian command structure. it was wa...