situational reporting and affirmed their support for ukraine. biden then left for camp david and was joined by national security adviser jake sullivan who canceled a pre-planned diplomatic trip to copenhagen in light of the situation in russia. senior white house reporter for msnbc peter nichols joins us now. peter, what are you hearing from the white house on all of these developments? the white house has kept deliberately low key strategy. they don t get vladimir putin any kind of opening to say the white house is orchestrating events here, manipulating the situation. there is a vladimir putin s problem. these problems of of his own making. and they don t want to necessarily feed any impression or a false narrative from putin that the white house is coordinating this. so as to embarrass him. i also understand that you spoke earlier with senator chris coons who said it s on the foreign relations committee and also a closed biden ally. what was his reaction? he made a point tha
this exact deal was with prigozhin. is he still going to have any role? are there going to be any steps, sanctions against him? i know that they say that there are not, but what does that mean? author going to be changes in the russian army, and at the top levels? i think there is a lot that is unclear. and then of course we need to know what it means for the fight in ukraine. my understanding is so far that russia has not withdrawn any of its troops. what is a posture of russia going to be with ukraine? but i think again, this is why the president has handled this exactly correctly. he hasn t gone out and opined, he hasn t provoked the situation. he s gotten the allies all on the same page, and i m sure he will be briefing the on services committee and for people in his administration. let me congress trump, former president trump called the situation on his
ukraine s sovereignty. it has nothing to do with interfering in russia. the president has been very clear about that. i do think this shows that there is a political just concert meant and political backlash against putin, and that the war hasn t gone as well as russians probably had hoped for. the fact is that it s good that the situation isn t going to devolve into a civil war, and the united states should be cheering for that. but it shows that putin really has to consider some of the backlash of its own people. you remember the house armed services committee, what kinds of conversations do you expect to have in the coming days with your colleagues about these events? what kinds of questions concerning what has happened in russia do you have right now that you would like the administration to answer? not in terms of answering in terms of accountability, but answering in terms of what types of intelligence they may be privy to that you might want to see and understand. we need to
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he was seemingly aiming to have ousted with the missionaries sent towards moscow. what do you think was prigozhin s goal right here? it seems like almost a lose lose situation for vladimir putin. if he does indulge precaution and removed the ministry of defense that he is conceding to wagner group basic security control of the country and the war of ukraine, which would demoralize the entire russian military establishment, or the scenario that you have now, where you have this almost armed rebellion make it on the outskirts of ukraine and also showing the lightning speed with which they can reach the capital almost unhindered. so, we have to make assumed that prigozhin had a strategic goal, which is a bit of an assumption. we don t know how much of a strategic thinker he is. it very much looked like a tantrum. it looked like you d think that he knows the system well enough to understand that speaking to