future of russia. among them what is prigozhin s next move, what concessions if any did he get to reverse course, and where is he today? this is treason. in the face of those who are fighting on the front. this is a stab in the back of our troops. plus, what does vladimir putin s unprecedented admission of vulnerability in a national speech mean for his hold on power and on the war in ukraine? this is just the latest chapter in a book of failure that putin has written for himself and for russia. economically, militarily. his standing in the world. all of those things have plummeted. we ll have insight and analysis this hour from former cia director john brennan, former u.s. european command deputy steph twitty, a former top adviser to president zelenskyy in ukraine, and senate intelligence committee chairman mark warner, who was briefed on prigozhin s plans in the days leading up to the weekend rebellion. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington, where pr
encompasses the removal of those who run afoul of putin. in other words, usually people trip and fall out of windows, and a plane crash seems like an assassination. yeah, it s pretty spectacular. putin has to send a message to hold on to power. he was weaken add couple months ago by this wagner rebellion. when you had the armed troops marching within 120 miles of moscow and the fact that putin was not able to stop wagner by force, that made him look all of a sudden vulnerable. the fact that prigozhin got away with this act of insurrection and managed to make it to belarus furthered the image that putin was somehow weak. and now i think this is his spectacular payback to show, no, this is a guy you can t mess around with. this is how he keeps power in this gangster state that he has constructed in russia. maybe the very fact that it took a long time as what farther of the signal that putin was sending, eventually it will come around. this is what the cia director
so this is a very bizarre circumstance. but the lead-up in terms of prigozhin s comments, this has been happening literally for weeks. in some cases months, calling out the leadership of the russian war effort. do we have any idea where prigozhin is? i understand literally as i was coming on air that he says he s in minsk, and he actually is get this. reports that he is in one of the only hotels in minsk that doesn t have any windows. i say that because, again, this has been in public reporting, that there have been a number of russian entity individuals who have run afoul of putin over the last year and a half who have mysterious fallen out of fifth, sixth, seventh floor windows. if he s in minsk in a hotel with no windows, that would show what his mindset is in terms of his