revolt retreat, an astonishing 24 hours in global history. russian president vladimir putin staves off the biggest threat ever to his quarter century leadership as his one-time ally yevgeny prigozhin abruptly calls off a rebellion as his marches closer to moscow. prigozhin has agreed to leave russia for belarus. the wagner insurrection revealed major cracks and put his armor at home, now the world watches to see how it will impact a 16-month war on ukraine. good morning, and welcome to a special edition of the sunday, show i m jonathan katie phang who you normally see at this hour as the weekend off. we start with a sobering realization, we may truly never know how close the nuclear armed nation of russia came to a full blown civil war. the toughest test ever, putin s presidency is over, for now after brokering a truce with belarus, wagner leader if ghani prigozhin, called off a just hours after his mercenaries took control of the military headquarters in south of russia.
one bus was set on fire. other vehicles were also burned and public transport services were damaged. riot police were deployed. speaking at a news conference this morning, police chief drew harris highlighted the unexpected nature of the riots, which he blamed on a complete lunatic faction driven by far right ideology. what we saw last night was an extraordinary outbreak of violence and we extraordinary outbreak of violence and we have to respond accordingly in terms and we have to respond accordingly in terms of and we have to respond accordingly in terms of our response to the policing in terms of our response to the policing of in terms of our response to the policing of disorder. but these are scenes policing of disorder. but these are scenes we policing of disorder. but these are scenes we have not seen in decades. this is scenes we have not seen in decades. this is not scenes we have not seen in decades. this is not a scenes we have not seen in decade
do. and since she told him that he cannot affect the trial, he has told the witness not to try to step forward in the grand jury and testify, he has attacked the prosecutors and called them thugs, and he is criticized a judge in d.c.. so, we re going to get a preview on how tough the federal judge in d.c. is going to be on this social media presence of trump monday morning, about ten a.m.. and what do you think judge truck and is going to do? if you had to guess, one could argue that donald trump has crossed the line that she drew in the sand. well, it s only a matter of time until he completely crosses it, jumps over, and rules in the mud. he is incapable of controlling himself when he gets under pressure. at some point, you would say a normal person would be put in the back in cuffs, and eating cheese sandwiches. that s what would happen to a normal defendant. but it s hard to do that with a man who is running for president. so i would guess she is going to do what she threatened
believing that a mercenary group, who many guests have come on air and called them thugs, why should vladimir putin believe that these thugs will actually join the military and be cooperative, and follow orders? well a couple of points here, and you are correct in everything that you just said. first of all, hockey take a unit, who has blamed the russian military for attacking its forces, how can you integrate them and think they will get along between the russian and wagner group s? b second piece, is that these are thugs. they are convicts and prisoners. these are some bad guys here and you are going to take them, take your quote unquote professional military, and with these thugs? it will never work. so we will continue to see this distrust among the military,
the pandemic. and you re callingys, these guys who don t agree with youpr that are protesting peacefully thugs you re calling selfish, you re calling them self-absorbed. and with all due respect, d to g our friendship, you owe these guys an apology because they frankly deserve our praise for all that they did for not only their country but they showed bravery in the toughest moment the country is facing. well, i love you. you re my friend and my brother and i stand by every wordid i said i want benjamin to explain why the teamsters union has, quote, denounced the ongoing freedom convoy t that continues to hurt workers and negatively impact our economy. that srk and the teamsters unio, the truckers union, the american trucking association is what they call it. they all do end up the bridge over the bridge peacefully. they open up the bridge. , you get your bridgewh