good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, i m katy tur here from new york. and i m chris jansing with special coverage on what is happening inside russia. for the first time, we are still waiting to hear from vladimir putin. now, we haven t heard anything since his former ally and the head of the ruthless mercenary wagner group attempt add revolt, and this new video released by russia, is it new or just something put out by the kremlin? who knows when it was taped. we can t say. and where is the man responsible for the dramatic weekend events, yevgeny prigozhin. right now we still don t know and he hasn t been seen since saturday when he decided to turn his forces back after marching toward the kremlin. and seemingly agreed to live in exile in belarus. so now russia, a country armed with more nuclear weapons than any other nation led by a man desperate to proclaim the old soviet union glory is at a crossroads. and while the world watches, ukraine is acting. ukrainian forces
and that s where he is right now. and he is at this point potentially in an erratic or volatile moment. that s the fear in the west. what does he do in this moment to reassert himself, to a show he is the czar, to show he is the boss in effect. does he do something in ukraine, something he might not have cone before. that s where you re most concerned. over the weekend american officials told us they saw no evidence of any issues with the russian nuclear arsenal. that, of course, is concern number one in the west. but you never know what he might do as a result of feeling cornered. peter baker, thank you for that. joining us now, clint watt, at microsoft who worked as a consultant to the fbi counterterrorism decision. he s also an msnbc national security analyst ask retired four-star general barry mccaffrey. we ve been watching ukraine, watching vladimir putin s moves
strange bed fellows there. i want to bring in clint watts now who worked as the fbi counterterrorism decision and research fellow at the research institute. clint, i can t think of a more difficult case to investigate, to get to the bottom of what may have happened here. if there s not a claim of responsibility for a bombing like this, how does the united states go about putting together the pieces and figuring out exactly what happened outside this gate today? garrett, what s interesting about this one, the u.s. intelligence community had sent out warnings for americans to stay away from the gates yesterday. there were discussions already about isis-k simply trying to set up some sort of suicide bombing or attack at the gate. it seemed like there was some forewarng of this and they were trying to mitigate that this morning as much as they could.
0 there in afghanistan. we continue our coverage right now. let s toss it over to garrett haake. garrett? chris jansing, thank you. i m garrett haake. there has been an explosion outside the kabul airport. you re looking at live pictures of the airport. it s 6:30 in the evening tonight. pentagon says casualties are still unclear at this point. we know that the president has been briefed on the explosion. he was in a preplanned national security meeting this morning. white house officials are huddling as we speak. we hope to learn more from them soon. the airport has been under a terror threat all morning. this was going to our top story even before this attack. so, americans have been told to leave the airport gates and to stay away. all of this is happening as the pentagon is set to give an update in the next 30 minutes. we ll see if that remains on schedule and we ll bring it to you live when it happens. meantime we ll try to stay on top of this with our reporters. courtney kube is