washington i m bret baier. president biden n says neither us or nato played any part in the weekends a brief but meaningful insurrection in russia. this afternoon russian president vladimir putin thanks the nation for its unity. questions remain on how much control potent still house in the wake of the ukraine invasion and rebellion that for some time this weekend seem to be getting russian soldiers on board. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live in the capital of kyiv tonight. good evening greg. hi britt. restaurant present president biden repaired met with his defense minister and top security and put a short video out on state v. with one more attempt by the russian leader to regain control of the narrative in his country which the past few days has been spending badly out of control. more follow-up from this week it s probably events in russia. the mercenary group for time saturday took over major city in southern russia. then headed to moscow only to
windows there. prigozhin said his military firm was bound to and we quote cease existence on july 1. but with no wagner, does success in ukraine look more like no chance? we re on it with greg palkot on how anxious europe is responding. gillian turner at the state department on what the administration is saying. and senate intelligence committee chairman mark warner on the potential fallout he s seen and retired major general david petrard with putin back in charge but unclear how much in charge. forget about from russia with love. it s like russia with the world at a loss. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. you think you had this whole thing in russia figured out? in a world, not even close. greg palkot in kyiv with more. greg? remarkable stuff, neil. today we re dealing with duelling statements from two very large figures and all the turmoil in the last couple days in this region. nothing really syncs up. let s back up for a little bit. remember the wagner mercenary gro
putin s power is becoming tenuous for the first time in 23 years. good evening. good evening to you, trace. the civil war that appeared to be on the point of breaking out in russia has become a war of words with a clearly angry russian president lashing out at those who led what he called the rebellion. they wanted russian soldiers to kill each other. soldiers and civilians would die and russia would lose and our society split. choke in a bloody strife. putin never mentioned the mercenary leader by name but the notorious head of the group was central to everything putin said. once a close friend and ally he s putin s public enemy number one. locations and intents unknown. giving no clues in an audio statement released today in which he come papered the ease of his troop s movement through russia to the failures of russia s regular army when they invaded ukraine 16 months ago. a master class on how february 24th, 2022 should look like. did not have the goal of over thr
week and begged to the administration to take action. but instead of biden being empathetic, the president was more concerned than the congresswoman got one of her facts wrong. isn t she amazing? [laughter] she was very specific in saying that a mom who lost two kids to fentanyl, that i killed her sons. the interesting thing is, that fentanyl they took came during the last administration. don t even get me started. jesse: to keep this in mind, biden gave a half-hour speech and that was only mention of fentanyl or the board. the grieving mother now taking the comments not taking lightly. what a horrible human being. how can he sit there and joke about it. somebody asked me, oh, did he misspeak? this shows his heart. you don t have to think about what you say in a moment like this. to me this shows why he just opened the border so wide. he just doesn t care. he is completely heartless. the president owes me an apology and all of the other parents who have lost their child
that raises new questions whether the president was so right to wait so long before taking out the previous balloon. we have got fox team coverage for you tonight. lucas tomlinson in the bureau. additional details from today s pentagon briefing. we begin with white house correspondent jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, john. only hours ago the biggest news out of the white house today would have been the announcement that the president will visit poland later this month to reaffirm nato s strength ahead of the one year anniversary in war in ukraine. then the news of the object shot down over alaska broke. success. a single word from president biden on his decision to shoot down an unidentified up manned object over alaska. u.s. officials can t say right now whether it was another spy craft or whether it came from. but the president s biggest concern was its altitude and unpredictable path. and pose a reasonable threat to the sa