russia. another hour of christiansen reports starts right now. ight now good morning, it is sunday june 25th. i am chris jansing. velshi is in he s making his way to ukraine to report on the events of the last few days. that s where we begin this hour. an extraordinary, tell, and potentially game changing 24 hours. this morning, this leads the u.s. and the world with questions in the aftermath of the greatest threat in vladimir putin s 23 year rule. it s weakened his authority? but does it tell us about his country s defense. what might be the impact on the war in ukraine? we ve got some thoughts from today s meet the press. now what we ve seen is russia having to defend moscow, its capital, against mercenaries of its own making. this is a challenge coming from within to putin, and that s where his focus has been. our focus is resolutely and resolutely on ukraine. we saw a demonstrable crack and uproot and strength. the only real answer here is that putin is going to st
questions after valid claim to have captured the city of rostov on don. it ended quickly, less than one day after it began after a deal brokered by pollution president alexander lukashenko. an ally of putin who also has ties to prigozhin. according to the kremlin, but i go asian and his forces will be out to belarus, and charges against him for taking part in an armed rebellion, charges against them will be dropped. now they re putin nor prigozhin have seen or heard from him publicly since the deal was announced. joining me now in london, nbc news correspondent ali arouzi, and in kyiv ukraine, chief correspondent kelly cobiella, and wall street journalist and simmons. good to have all of you here. so ali, the russian foreign ministry said yesterday that the country remains in support of president vladimir putin, but bogosian lost the severn town of rostov with armored tanks in vehicles, to cheering crowds. if you are in the kremlin, does that of support for the moodiness or t
this is something that the dog had the proverbial car for the republican party, and about how you feel about abortion, the national consensus on, it no one was comfortable with roe v. wade. it also didn t feel like a revolutionary and transgressive moment. the other part of this is the state legislatures around the country that are controlled by the republican party have been going farther and farther off the cliff with us. they re doing things like this six-week abortion ban, and they re doing things like criminalizing doctors for providing even medical advice about it. they re preventing rape victims from getting abortions. all of these things are way outside the polling mainstream. the republican party knows that. there are republicans in florida begging ron desantis not to sign the abortion ban because they know how bad it is even among their own base. rick wilson, hayes braun, great having you on the program. thank you. straight ahead, the latest on the aftermath of the
had the proverbial car for the republican party, and about how you feel about abortion, the national consensus on, it no one was comfortable with roe v. wade. it also didn t feel like a revolutionary and transgressive moment. the other part of this is the state legislatures around the country that are controlled by the republican party have been going farther and farther off the cliff with us. they re doing things like this six-week abortion ban, and they re doing things like criminalizing doctors for providing even medical advice about it. they re preventing rape victims from getting abortions. all of these things are way outside the polling mainstream. the republican party knows that. there are republicans in florida begging ron desantis not to sign the abortion ban because they know how bad it is even among their own base. rick wilson, hayes braun, great having you on the program. thank you. straight ahead, the latest on the aftermath of the short-lived armed rebellion in