it got a prigozhin, the leader of the wacker group, abruptly called off his armed rebellion. mid march to moscow. after agreeing to a mysterious deal reportedly brokered by the president of belarus, alexander lukashenko. prigozhin may have a problem back down for now, but he has exposed some very real cracks in putin s power. it s hard to imagine things going back to where they were. over the next, hour we re going to continue digging into a number of the big questions around the events in russia over the last 48 hours. what is going on in moscow, what does it all mean for putin, ukraine? we re going to start on the ground, joining us live from moscow s kier simmons. i know you ve only been there for a short period of time, here, but what is happening on the ground right now? what are you seeing on the ground around you? i just arrived in moscow, jen, you can see for yourself. behind me. one of the main thoroughfares in moscow, and it looks like ordinary life. you might eve
opponent. there are all kinds of clans, as the term goes in moscow. glands, subdivisions of power, rivalries within the fsb, within military intelligence, the mayor of moscow and the prime minister on one side, and all kinds of factions but the mechanisms for coming to power, for succession, are no more orderly than in the television show, succession. the violence could be a great deal worse. he has created a catastrophically disorganized, personalist method of rule, so that he is at the center, ideally, and everyone is playing off each other. he s the referee. but now, his weaknesses are exposed. and people smell it in moscow. prigozhin is somebody who ripped away the veil, and now we all see it. he still may gain power, he may