i don t use that word lightly. that s exactly what the man is accused of doing. terrorizing. they say the republican candidate was so angry over his defeat and claims the election was rigged against him that he hired four men to shoot at the homes of officials, even pulling the trigger himself during one of the crimes. we have one of the officials who was targeted joining us in a moment. she s going to tell us what the bullets hit and how close they came to her and her grandchildren. it is scary. what makes this our top story today is that it s not just about an alleged one off crazy person. it s not isolated. this terror is part of a growing problem. just ask nancy pelosi or pramila jayapal or the one in five adults who said in a survey they would be willing to condone acts of political violence. what is motivating all of these people and what is law enforcement doing about the threats before they turn violent? joining me now is nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent, ga
Happening there on the ground in russia? well, it s a confused mess, amara, and i think one of the key things to think about here is the historical precedent as nick mentioned earlier is really not there in modern russia. you have to go back several centuries before you see something like this. it s kimd of like napoleon coming back from alba and retaking control of france, except the one big difference is putin has never held absolute power in russia. he s never been the head of state. it s clearly a power play. at the very least what prigozhin wants to do is give his force, the wagner group, a major piece of regular nation that he feels they re not having. but i think he s beyond that. he s beyond that bridge of no return. he s made it very clear what he
Military after this ghastly war in ukraine where there s been evidence of mismanagement since the very first day. it was supposed to take three days and we re 16 months in. it depends of what s left of the russian ministry to defend putin. do the special forces of the sfb, russian security forces, feel they want to turn their guns on prigozhin and the men around them, wagner fighters who have lost thousands who have put themselves up as the storied heroes of russia s front line activity. are the russian activity willing to turn their guns on them or are we going to see more as they amass more strength as it heads toward moscow? i can t believe i m saying this. unprecedented territory. i think it goes to show when you get behind the curtain of exactly what s happening, about which we know so little, finally when sunshine shines upon it, it ian utterly startling picture
Descending into some kind urban warfare and also a full-fledged civil war, especially when prigozhin says he s taken control at a post in southern russia, which is, you know, many a 10, 15-hour drive from rostov-on-don. and also which military has the advantage? especially when we talk about numbers, we know that putin has a much larger military than this private military group, wagner, but we know, you know, the wagner group has been much more effective in its war against ukraine. i think this is clearly a battle of effectiveness, right? we re looking at which force can bring the most power to bear the most quickly. i do think it s possible. you ll see some kind of conflict, local warfare in the localized sense.
Really this is a military hub for the russian war in military ukraine and the war in the southern region to see if these forces, indeed, are trying to move as they say they are in the direction of moscow. there are suggestions from some of the supporters they ma have gotten halfway up. that s not confirmed and indeed denied by kremlin backed officials in the area. but at the same time the governor says the come back measures have indeed begun. that will be a suggestion that the russian military are taking on wagner. it s unclear the size. this all began on friday with an extraordinary series of statements by their leader yevgeny prigozhin, essentially taking issue with the entire cause of russia s war in ukraine, saying essentially russia s been deceived. that was suddenly, it seemed, responded to by claims of an air