shockingly called the advance to a halt and ordered his troops to turn around, surprising the u.s. speaking to cnn, movement and build up of wagner troops was observed and a rebellion was believed to be coming soon. here s congressman mike turner, the republican congressman taking his military convoy up to moscow. there s a number of accomplices who clearly support the wagner group in contrast to their support for the russian government, and this is something that would have had to be planned to be executed in the
for the democratic opposition in russia. so we still have to see how this plays out. we don t know what an angry putin does. yeah, i want to i have to sneak in a quick break, but on the other side, i want to ask you what he does about, you know, the images tell the whole story, right? the russian military s convoy to kyiv was the stuff of late night comedies. i mean, broken down, out of gas, out of food, abandoned. it s an image that will last forever in the history of russia probably everywhere but inside russia. and yet, prigozhin s military convoy as it was zooming towards moscow, people in the streets weren t throwing eggs at them. they were cheering for them. they were cheering for the wagner group. and now that the world has seen that and that putin has been humiliated by his own little war criminal version of mini me, i want to ask you, i want to press on this door ali s opened, what does he do next? no one s going anywhere. we ll be right back with igor and ali on the short
heads of the house and senate intelligence committees essentially telling them that this was eminent. let s take a listen to mike rogers. the intelligence committee was very much aware that the conflict between prigozhin and putin was inevitable. this is not a weekend trip he s taking, taking his convoy and his military convoy up to moscow. there s a number of accomplices including russian people on the border of ukraine who clearly support the wagner group in contrast to their support for the russian government. this is something that would have had to have planned for a significant amount of time to be executed in the manner in which it was. indicating that this was very much known by the intelligence community. jim, what was not expected was the lack of resistance to these wagner forces. i m told the u.s. assessment thought there would be a lot more violence and bloodshed as wagner tried to get head
let s take a listen. the intelligence community was well aware of this. the conflict was inevitable. taking his convoy and his military convoy up to moscow. there s a number of accomplices included some of the russian people on the border with ukraine who clearly support the wagner group, and contrasted there s a word for the russian government. this is something that would have been had to have been planned for some significant amount of time. turner saying that there must have been planning for a significant amount of time. one thing the u.s. did not expect was the lack of resistance by the russian military. we didn t see any resistance from the fsb, security services, border guards as they made their march northwards. i m told there was an assessment, that the u.s.
Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared to suggest he had sent an armed convoy on a 1,200-km (750-mile) charge towards Moscow on Saturday in an unlikely attempt to topple the military leadership. Russian local officials said a military convoy was on the main motorway linking the southern part of European Russia, bordering Ukraine, with Moscow, and warned residents to avoid it. Hours earlier, the Russian authorities had accused Prigozhin of staging an armed mutiny after he alleged, without providing evidence, that the military leadership had killed a huge number of his fighters in an air strike, and vowed to punish them.