turning back. a heavily armed mercenary leader calls off his assault on moscow. what does this attempted rebellion mean for russian stablity? this is a blow to russia, to our people. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken and retired u.s. general david petraeus will be here. and russia s weakness, after a blow to vladimir putin s authority, ukraine sees potential opportunity. the man from the kremlin is obviously very afraid and probably hiding somewhere. as debate over aid to ukraine splits the gop, republican presidential candidate doug bergum is ahead. since the supreme court overturned roe versus wade, for women, a year of change and a brewing political fight. no president has ever fought for christians as hard as i have. how dare they attack our fundamental rights? what is the future of abortion rights? senator amy klobuchar will join me. hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is wondering what s next? the city of mosc
crisis was averted. a deal was done and there s a huge outpouring of relief, i think, within people inside moscow that this didn t go further. i think what s interesting, though, is what comes next and the images we re seeing on the screen now are from the southern russian city of rostov. we have a population of more than a million people and basically wagner took over that city virtually unopposed and these are images of them leaving, but a lot of people from rostov have come out and they re applauding wagner. they re chanting wagner, wagner, wagner. they re showing their support and these will be very disturbing scenes for the kremlin to see how actually popular this incursion, this rebellion, this attempted coup as has been described by some russian officials by wagner and its leader yevgeny prigozhin was amongst many parts of the
and i think, as you mentioned, the host of other western states have been arriving in kyiv. boris johnson was there, just as i was leaving the country. a couple of weeks ago. the eu has reopened its mission, and the big question i have, it will united states we opened its embassy in kyiv? because that will also be a very symbolic gesture. and what do you make of the bloomberg reporting about kremlin advisors saying the war as quote, catastrophic mistake that will set the country back four years? i mean, it s one thing for, quite honestly, everybody sees that it is catastrophic, so it s one thing for them to know it s catastrophic, it s another thing to talk amongst themselves about how it has become catastrophic for the country. that probably takes a little more courage? yeah, but i can tell you, i mean, at the very start of this thing, there are people inside moscow who thought this is gonna be a big s reference. i talk to people, including, and audiotape of russian oligarch who s
thought was not supposed to last this long. remember the claims that he was gonna be about 72 hours before the russians had a swift and easy route of ukraine, and did their regime change project. so i think it s long overdue, and i think, as you mentioned, a host of other western states have been arriving in kyiv. boris johnson was there, just as i was leaving the country. a couple of weeks ago. the eu has reopened its mission, and the big question i have, it will united states reopen its embassy in kyiv? because that will also be a very symbolic gesture. and what do you make of the bloomberg reporting about kremlin advisors seeing the war as quote, catastrophic mistake that will set the country back for years? i mean, it s one thing for, quite honestly, everybody sees that it is catastrophic, so it s one thing for them to know it s catastrophic, it s another thing to talk amongst themselves about how it has become catastrophic for the country. that probably takes a little more coura
we have developing news out of new hampshire with two massive pile ups along interstate 93 involving dozens of cars. police report multiple injuries but the severity is not clear at this time. we will keep following this and bring you more information throughout the day as we get it. overseas the head winds are fierce in russia where a mix of international sanctions and oil prices have the rubble reeling. vladimir putin is not feeling political pain. what life is like right now for people inside moscow.