minister. this has multiple implications and curious to see how this plays out as wagner appears to be moving slowly toward moscow. neil: welcome back, everybody. moving slowly toward moscow in a surreal situation where the country would be under siege right now and its capital could be the next target. this of course, courtesy of the wagner group, a group of mercenary soldiers, paid by russia to do russia s bidding in countries all over the world and sometimes russia itself to put down protests and that sort of thing. and i say paid by russia, no longer as this group turns on russia. this happened about 18 hours ago when a fed-op, and prigozhin, the leader this have group often fought and criticized with generals and leaders back home at the defense ministry said enough is enough and making his fight in eastern ukraine in particular around the area that the russians on and off have control of, that might be in doubt given this craziness, but in part of the real nature of thi
now, it s sickening to see the new attacks on the fbi. threatening life of law enforcement agents and their families. for simply carrying out the law and doing their job. look, i want to say this clear as i can, there s no place in this country no place for endangering the lives of law enforcement. no place. none. never, period. i m opposed to defunding the police and also opposed to defunding the fbi. president biden condemning the attacks on the fbi after the remarks which came just hours before we got stunning new details overnight about why the justice department felt it had no choice but to seize classified documents from the president s florida estate and club. including evidence that some of the documents were likely moved and hidden. we ll have the many new revelations from the late night court filing. also this hour, remembering mikhail gorbachev, the final leader of the soviet union. a reformer who lifted the iron curtain and helped to end the cold war. good mor
repulsed by the comparison of prigozhin to macarthur. it s just simply not appropriate. neil: and my apologies. my point was, general, if you have a popular figure, very hard to deal with the outcry taking that popular figure on. that s all i meant by that. but i am curious, we had a way of handling that and in this country still do, if there s someone, you re punished or not punished, you have to be replaced or have to retire. obviously in russia, it s a whole different system. i m wondering what you make now of whether this em boldens others who say that we agree with prigozhin. this is our moment, maybe to get rid of this guy putin or to replace the establishment that failed us or humiliated us. what do you think? yeah, and by the way your point that you just made is excellent with respect to
monthses, i thought when she wasn t in the news, this poor girl still sitting in a russian prison. think about what paul whelan is going through, there are mark fogel and david barnes, who are in russian cap captivity. yesterday this revelation that viktor bout was the number one guy russia wanted, have we lost leverage in getting those three people home if we gave one for one, the guy putin wants most for brittney griner and there is question of why vladamir putin would want this guy so much when he is as cia director bill burnes said he is total loser, guy that nobody really even understands why putin would want so much unless he knows where all the weapons are and russia is in the war with ukraine right now and could he be able to
release. he had been worrying where he would live, he was thinking about his future when he gets back to the united states and this morning waking up still in a russian prison cell. paul s brother david says the u.s. should take more russians into u.s. custody, there are plenty out there, be more proactive about grabbing a guy putin wants to use that to get paul back. how do you feel about that suggestion? well, that goes to strategy of what this administration is trying to do to bring mr. paul whelan back, hope those discussions and negotiations have been underway over the past several months and hopefully over the past several years. i m hopeful and understand the administration will not talk about the strategy to bring mr. paul whelan and others back to the u.s., all options should be