is he well? is he still alive? has he been taken under house there s all kinds of conspiracy theories going on right now. i would bet that mr. putin is in a very safe place, continuing to execute his duties. the problem is, this personality dynamic, as matthew said, and as oren said, between prigozhin, putin, the defense ministry s shoygu, the general in charge of all the army, all the subordinate generals, others that were on telegram channels this evening, you know those are the kind of personality dynamics that has only hurt russia since the very beginning of this war. one other thing, if i may. i was in moscow in 1994, a year after the last coup where a tank actually fired on that white building of the film that you were showing. the russian parliament. it was the last coup they had. general sheboygan, who is
russia has been lying to them about who s the aggressor in the d dunbass, and that s something to remember when american commentators are saying that vladimir putin is actually an honorable man that s telling the truth. yeah. really good context. congressman, thank you very much for talking to us tonight. up next, more breaking news on this busy friday night. the u.s. coast guard will now lead the investigation into the titan submersible disaster. we just haven t bebeen properly introduced. say hello to the place w where rolling hills meets low w bill. where our fields, inside and out, are always s growing. anand where the fun is just getting started. this is iowa. so, when are you coming to see us?
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it s possible. because he knows he s losing in ukraine but he can t declare that. so every day that goes by, he throws more and more bodies at this war simply because it buys him an extra day on the earth. so i think he s continued his hold on power is certainly tenuous. there s not a lot of people, including me, that would probably expect him to be in power in five years. he just has to keep fighting and fighting. this is one more distraction for him. in terms of ukraine, how does president zelenskyy capitalize on this? well, you have a distracted russian force. you have a confused russian force. that doesn t mean they re not going to fight. it doesn t mean they re going to become any easier, they won t. but now the wagner troops have been pulled. you have that bit of a vacuum. there s a lot of confusion, so it s a good time to hit. there s actually some reports that they re striking in bakhmut tonight. and so it s a hit to morale. it s a russia with a divided attention span now
thanks so much. you ve been monitoring this. what is happening in russia? some back and forth. matthew and over ren just elaborated on some very important factors. first of all, you can never believe what comes out of russia. there is always an element of what they call moskorovka, a deception effort to fool the enemy into thinking they re doing something they re not. there are also indicators. we re seeing military vehicles loggering, forming groups within red square. increasing the security around the moscow region itself. you re also seeing on channels some firefights going on in the province of rostov, which is, as oren said, to the southeast, just over the border from ukraine. this is where prigozhin said he was going to go with his forces, and he also said his forces were attacked by helicopters when they were in a column going into that oblass in russia.