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 city of moscow. in the biggest threat to russian president vladimir putin s grip on power that we ve ever seen. prigozhin sent a voice note, signaling that the forces would stand down, saying the group understands, quote, the responsibility for spilling russian blood on one of the sides. we are turning back our convoys, and going back to field camps, according to the plan. this comes just hours a
we ve known that he s behind several assassinations already. so, other turncoats and all sides. i don t think anyone is safe right now, except lattimer pond is behind the walls of the kremlin. right, there s probably a reason. he doesn t go out very much. right, right not outside. let me just ask you personally, we ve all covered some pretty extraordinary international events. this one is, the government will not acknowledge being surprised by it. i wonder if you have any insight into that. it is something you don t see very often, and that is putin s russia, the head of the wagner group, one of his great military allies marching toward him and against him. no, it s a credible. i was up i m actually in aspen, color audio. i was interviewing dr. vivek