were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave pete: we begin with a fox news alert, armed rebellion by russian mercenary forces raging inside russia. a group that wants back in ukraine on the company s behalf claims to have control of the key russian city. will: president putin calls her betrayal as the us and the west wait to see if a move is made on moscow. rachel: alexandria is live with the latest. reporter: this focuses away from the offensive on ukraine into defending itself and the man leading this rebellion represents a striking turnaround in allegiance. former longtime valhalla mirror putin ally is promising to leave the private wegner military group into moscow, a meeting with the defense minister. he claims his group now controls the russian
just a month ago, yevgeny prigozhin was hailed by president vladimir putin for seizing the russian city of bakhbut. he was known as vladimir putin s chef because of his hospitality contract. rachel: he was a restaurant tour at a hot dog stand, he leads 50,000 mercenaries. will: he met vladimir putin when he was the mayor, they have been very close. the war has not gone well, vladimir putin has leaned on the wegner group to ultimately help bring the war back. for our viewers, this would be like him because it is not on moscow, the coup is not in the capital city, not as if he marched on washington dc to use our analogy. it would be like the war in iraq wasn t going well, not