michael mcfaul says russia could be coming closer to a compromise with ukraine. the idea that the only thing that we can do to end the war in ukraine is to give them a face sitting way out which usually translates to by the way giving him ukrainian tele-tory think this is a whole episode has really undermine the hypothesis. maybe putin will negotiate not when he s winning or not when he s given a gift of territory in ukraine but when he s using, as he just did yesterday. joining me now with the latest nbc news foreign correspondent raf sanchez. what more can you tell us about president zelenskyy s conversation with president biden? well, alicia, these conversations between kyiv and washington are ongoing in regular and they are happening at all levels of government. president biden spoke to president zelenskyy but lloyd austin the u.s. defense secretary spoke to his counterpart ukrainian defense minister today also. and yesterday we saw that general mark really the ch
menendez. we begin tonight with what comes next after this weekend. short-lived yet startling rebellion against russian president vladimir putin. saturday s march on led by the one-time protegee did a head blow to the strongman image. he still wages war on ukraine. today, we learned president biden spoke by phone with ukraine s president on the sudden instability in russia. the white house says president biden offered his, quote, unwavering support for ukraine s counteroffensive against ukraine. the revolt is the first serious threat to putin s power in decades. secretary of state anthony blinken today said could it could change the port of the democracy in ukraine. i think we ve seen more cracks emerge in the russian facade. it is too soon to tell exactly where they go. and when they get their. certainly we have all sorts of new questions that putin is going to have to address in the weeks and months ahead. and we also confirmed that u.s. intelligence agencies knew in ad
breaking just moments ago, the kremlin says vladimir putin will be giving a speech at any moment now to law enforcement units who helped defend russia from the armed mercenary rebellion over the weekend. the russian government announced it s dropping all charges against the wagner mercenary group for that attempted revolt. the russian defense ministry says they re preparing to hand over heavy military equipment directly to russian troops. we don t know this morning where their leader is. we have not seen prigozhin since saturday when he abruptly ended his march on moscow and struck a deal to go in exile in belarus. what do you expect putin to say? reporter: hi there, poppy. first of all i think he ll thank those units that were part of that but perhaps also say that certainly seemed to be issues for the russians defending that territory and stopping that convoy from prigozhin and those wagner units. some of the things we saw unfold on that saturday was those units
congresswoman jayapal on where reproductive rights in this country stand now. this is american voices. we begin this hour with a new stage of the war in ukraine. as russia moves forward from an armed mercenary rebellion inside its own borders. the latest, ukraine s president zelenskyy spoke on the phone with president biden just hours ago. zelenskyy calling it a quote positive and inspiring conversation. ukraine is counting on u.s. support for its counteroffensive against russia. with the wagner rebellion against putin could also provide an opportunity. lorenzo tundra writing quote since the beginning of the full scale invasion ukraine has crept internal instability in russia with hope that the turmoil could somehow undermine putin s power and result in the end of the war. the lasting impact on putin s power yet to be seen. but former u.s. ambassador