u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, former nato supreme allied commander, james to read us, and cia analyst from congresswoman, elissa slotkin. later, my sunday exclusive with house speaker nancy pelosi. get her reflections on the one year anniversary of roe v. wade being overturned in the future of abortion rights in america. over just the last 48 hours, the yevgeny prigozhin a brutal shadow commander of mercenary forces staged a short-lived attempt to seize more power in russia. briefly taking control over rostov-on-don a key military logistics have on his way to march towards moscow. in the 11th hour, a shady and mysterious deal was struck by valery gerasimov valery gerasimov a leader of belarus that led putin in power, and to prigozhin packing his bags to move to believers. we know the story is unlikely to end there. back in 1991, another russian leader, gorbachev, also survived a coup. he only relinquish power for months later. even a short-lived attempt to take
ben wedeman reporting from zaporizhzhia. i want to bring in emma ashford, a senior fellow at the stimson center and columnist for foreign policy magazine. thanks for joining us. let me get your reaction to what s going on right now. could this weekend s challenge to putin s power in moscow have any effect, do you believe, on the war that s unfolding still in ukraine? it is certainly possible that this could provide a distraction, an opening for the ukrainians to capitalize in their counteroffensive. that said, this has been such a short incident. the wagner mercernaries had already been rotated away from the front line before this started. very few troops were redeployed. so it doesn t seem like there is necessarily a significant military opportunity here. so maybe the ukrainians can capitalize on it, but it doesn t seem like it s a certainty. i understand you say that
base, particularly with the wagner fighter leading the battlefield. that is open. third and final, information cannot be flooding there waves. your machine is making sure every russian soldier gets to see the loop going over and over again of russian tanks charging at moscow. think how that s received. you do all those three things, jen, and then you continue to have this powerful counteroffensive. i think you ll see some real military opportunity as a result of all this in the week or so i had. there have been a number of rumors about the future of the leadership of the defense ministry of russia. given that they were the targets of prigozhin. do you expect that vice minister will remain in charge, and you expect changes? i don t think anybody knows
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