it got a prigozhin, the leader of the wacker group, abruptly called off his armed rebellion. mid march to moscow. after agreeing to a mysterious deal reportedly brokered by the president of belarus, alexander lukashenko. prigozhin may have a problem back down for now, but he has exposed some very real cracks in putin s power. it s hard to imagine things going back to where they were. over the next, hour we re going to continue digging into a number of the big questions around the events in russia over the last 48 hours. what is going on in moscow, what does it all mean for putin, ukraine? we re going to start on the ground, joining us live from moscow s kier simmons. i know you ve only been there for a short period of time, here, but what is happening on the ground right now? what are you seeing on the ground around you? i just arrived in moscow, jen, you can see for yourself. behind me. one of the main thoroughfares in moscow, and it looks like ordinary life. you might eve
over that city of rostov, that is a logistics hub for a city of ukraine. that is 1 million people. getting than 145 miles of moscow, that s not a small thing. i do think prigozhin may have wanted to test whether or not there was a collapse of the russian structure, whether or not other leaders, other fiefdoms within the russian kleptocracy that putin set out, people often came with him. that didn t happen. most people say behind putin. i don t necessarily think that the side of putin strength, i think it s a sign that people didn t necessarily want to put jump on the train with prigozhin. therefore, he de-escalated, and took a deal. he took a deal, by the way, that was very different from what putin said on television, we thought this was a mutiny, that production should be detained, he was going to be prosecuted. putting out a climb down as part of this deal, and started prigozhin. i don t think we have the last of him. and i certainly don t think we ve heard the last of potential i
ambassador to nato on what the weeks and months ahead might hold for vladimir putin. plus, more my conversation with nancy pelosi. you ll hear her reactions to trump s federal indictment, that s all coming up in the special hour of breaking news coverage. we re back after a quick break. fter a quick break the subway series? it s the perfect menu lineup. just give us a number, we got the rest. number three? the monster. six? the boss. fifteen? titan turkey. number one? the philly. oh, yeah, you probably don t want that one. look, i m not in charge of naming the subs.
under russian control in ukraine. does he do something there? we saw them explode a dam that caused massive humanitarian suffering in ukraine. are there different ways that putin tries to lash out? because in the past, you and i have a lot of experience with this, jen, and sometimes you yourself with the target of this lashing out. sometimes, when he feels cornered, his play is to lash out at the west and europe and the u.s.. we are entering a pretty unpredictable time here. a weaker and cornered vladimir putin might need to consolidate and folks at home, but he also might want to lash out. i think the white house is going to be watching very carefully for signs of which way he s going to go in the weeks and months to come. ben rhodes, thank you for still answering my text when i have questions about what s happening in the world, even though we don t work together anymore. thanks for joining me today. next, i ll ask the great granddaughter of the former leader of the soviet union, n
the fight in ukraine what is your expectation there, and what will you be watching? i will be watching a number of things. first of, all what happened to the wagner fighters, this is 25,000 people, heavily armed, some of them quite well trained, others just convex. russia clearly appears that they want to absorb that into their normal command structure. not clear to me that everybody has been a wagner fighter will take that deal, does that diminish russia s capacity? how does ukraine try to take advantage of this pretty massive political distraction for putin? they are in the midst of a counteroffensive. to the tragic press that advantage in the coming days and weeks? are they able to get somewhere? but i think the main thing we took away from this last couple days, jen, is russia s internal stability is now a part of the war. it s not just what s happening on the battlefield in ukraine, it s what s happening inside of russian politics. we are 16 months into a war in which vlad