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ability to overcome them than be anywhere else in the world. we begin tonight with growing presidential primary field. will hurd, former texas congressman and former cia officer, has thrown his hat in the ring. re-election was a tough fight, and he served on the house intelligence committee. why is he running for president? will he sign the pledge and support the nominee no matter who he or she may be? what will he do if he were president? let's find out. congressman will hurd, thank you for joining us. thank you, and amen, i agree, we are lucky to live where we live. >> trey: what d...

deadly, but they are actually effective. and now he's turned and gone back into the russia, he claims he's going to fix the situation because he claims that the russian military attacked his men. this has been a long simmering food between the russian defense minister and prigozhin, but prigozhin says he's doing something about it. we are unable to convert any of this, we have heard reports from ukrainians that they've crossed into russia. that wagner group has crushed into russia. burgos -- russia is on high alert. moscow has tanks in the streets, they're calling it a coup attempt. ...

>> good to be with you on this big news day, i'm anita vogel. the leader of the armed militia is asking for an armed rebellion. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is track the latest from kyiv. what more can you tell us? >> it's a story building minute by minute and hour by hour, and you've got to believe that they're watching closely a disruption of instability inside of russia, a country that's waging now 16-month war against ukraine, is big, big news. let's recap. yesterday we heard from yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner military group. and he went really bal...

jon: it is perhaps the most serious challenge to the vladimir putin's authority, although at this moment it appears the challenge has edged. yevgeny prigozhin has turned his forces around and is said to be heading back to belarus. let's check in with our greg palkot who's covering the story from that part of the world. greg. >> reporter: jon, it looks like we're back on the brink in russia just across the border from where we are right now in kyiv, but it also looks like a lot of damage was done. it was the biggest risk to russian president vladimir putin's more than two decades of r...

yesterday. but still so many questions about the wagner group's descent into russia. it ended almost as quickly as it began. yevgeny prigozhin's mercenaries got within 120 miles of moscow, the only to turn back to the races after a deal was brokered to prevent the armed rebellion. a spokesperson for the kremlin saying the wagner group leader will avoid prosecution and be exiled in belarus. his troops will be given the option to join russian military forces. prigozhin seen leaving russia last night as crowds cheered him on. meanwhile, new reporting revealing that u.s. spy agencies had...