[national anthem] if. will: we begin this morning with a fox news alert, the wagner chief who threatened a march toes moscow, an open rebellion, has how now backed down. pete: belarus reportedly brokered the deal that will allow jeff again withny prigozhin to go into exile and end that internal conflict for now. rachel: alexandria hoff is live in washington, d.c. with the latest. good morning. reporter: well, good morning. prigozhin has been paired of the criminal mutiny charges that were against him, and russia avoided a rebellion that was on rack to spark a possible civil war. the wagner group had made it within 125 miles of moscow before prigozhin announced the group would pull back to avoid bloodshed. the kremlin later announced the warlord could leave for belarus without penalty for his mercenaries, and speaking out against russian military leadership. prigozhin formalized the withdrawal. translator: they regarded to dismantle pmc wagner. this a day we wa
life along the way, and then pull the plug all of a sudden. and it just doesn t add up to me, pete. i don t have answers for you on what this was about, could this have been a false flag operation, you know, many service of vladimir putin? it doesn t look like that that right now. the wall street journal is saying a that russia s in disarray, and it creates a moment of uncertainty for china. you can see the headline right here. and that this is not good for russia, and i think that everyone greece on the surface that appears to be greeces on the agrees on the surface that s case. rachel: we saw antony blinken say, you know, full speed ahead on the war in ukraine and on funding this and no, you know, no talk at all about, look, this thing is unstable, let s try and get a peace accord, let s try and bring this down. no talk at all about those kinds of negotiations. some people saying, of course, that this weekend weakens
intelligence officers who signed that letter ahead of the 2020 to election, you have to go, this was so, frankly, treasonous to do this. because it was important for the american people to know what was on that laptop, to understand what the financial ties were of somebody they were considering to vote for president of united states ahead of that election. it is election interference. but not just because one party wins and the other doesn t, because right now we see ourselves in so much danger, in so much instability. and as you said, pete, we absolutely don t know whether our president is compromised or not. and in the case as donald trump just said yesterday at the faith and freedom conference, you know? we just don t know. those countries know what he did, and they may be pulling the strings. will: we ll see what the news cycle does this week and whether or not attention will remain on the pete: that s a really good question. will: you know, there was somer if or very fervor on