but even if the threat is over and it s not at all clear that saturday s turn around was, in fact, the end, what did the flash of descent do to russia itself, not the government or security services but the people. what message did russians get over the weekend? what did they see when yevgeny prigozhin s tanks move toward the capital? what did they feel when his troops reportedly shot down several russian helicopters? that s according to ukraine s air force. what did they hear when vladimir putin called prigozhin a traitor and compared his threat to 1917. we re going to ask masha gessen of the new york. the russia public saw something extraordinary, a choice, it will something that changes russia even if it doesn t alter putin s control in the short term. let s get our reporting and the news from russian tv that vladimir putin will speak tonight. joining me now from moscow is nbc news chief international correspondent keir simmons. so keir, this news that he s going to speak,
neil: the rare sound of sirens blairing in jerusalem today. hamas terrorists fire up missiles in to israel. the war still on despite pressure on israel to start cooling things off. now the israeli military said that they mistakingly shot and killed three hostages held by hamas. could this only increase that pressure? welcome, ever. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it to peter doocy at the white house where tensions are getting higher now between our serves and israel if you re to believe the revelations including within the walls of the white house itself. hi, peter. yes, that is because white house officials would like to see this conflict end at some point, but they don t want to tell israel that they have to stop going after hamas. white house officials all the way up to the president know that israel right now is in a position where they risk losing international support for their cause. so we re hearing from the national security adviser in israel and who has been there
[ chanting ] all of east germany, angry crowds lashed out on the streets. that night in dresden, they found a target. the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building, as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside, peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. he was terrified they were going to storm the building. putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away. he was in charge. the berlin wall had come down, police weren t going to help. he called for instruction. desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow, over and over again. finally, one official told him simply, moscow is silent. i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the building and fired up the furnace. he finds himself in the basement, at a furnace shoveling documents, as he hears protests on the street. they were filing so many documents, that the furnace was
yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of the wagner group who led the rebellion group through the weekend despite the fact that he had allegedly been kind of sent off to belarus, he said that he was not going to disup and down his militia, continued his criticism of the so-called special military operation in ukraine, even suggested that his march on moscow here, they didn t reach moscow before they turned around, that that had exposed holes in russian security that was a benefit to president putin effectively, really, utter defiance from prigozhin and now i think we ll wait to hear whether or not president putin has an answer. is it any different in moscow today? anything change from the last time you visited? reporter: well, honestly, the answer i guess is probably not really, that s one of the surreal aspects is that things