rachel: wow. greg palkot is live in kyiv with the latest. good morning. reporter: good morning, folks. yeah, it has been an amazing night with some amazing news just across the border from where we are right now with ramifications potentially for the war here and much more. it s being called the biggest challenge to russian president vladimir putin s 23 years in power, an attempt thed coup, an armed uprising, a mutiny. the man responsible, wagner mercenary group chief. he complain about russian military leadership even saying his forces had been fired on by russians. that s when he took his 25,000 fighters plus tanks, armor, guns to nearby kyiv, population 1 million. with almost no fight put up, they took over the main military headquarters there plus other administrative buildings with the demand that the top russian military brass come to them to discuss complaints. now, threatening to move on to moscow if if not happy if and some of his forces getting closer to the capit
correct. [laughter] pete: i m not surprised. good morning, everybody. it was friday night, so that means we needed to get some information released that they probably didn t want us to hear about, and i think it was about 7:15, 7:30 on a friday night was the declassified covid origins report that congress had mandated the biden administration ad that to release. where did this virus come from we all know where it came from, but what is the government saying about it? here s a portion of the report that was, well, it was underwhelming. variations of ic, meaning intelligence community, analytic views on the origins of the covid pan domic largely stem pandemic largely stem from differences in intelligence and scientific gaps. all agencies continue to assess that both a natural and laboratory-associated origin remain plausible hypotheses to explain the first human infection, so that s gobbledygook speak for different agencies assessed different things, so we re basically