escalating the crisis. joined by natasha bertrand and priscilla alvarez. priscilla, the white house is staying quiet. they are, though, in constant discussions with u.s. allies. what are you hearing? that s right, victor. and they are doing that as they are actively monitoring this situation. president biden just yesterday spoke with the leaders of france, germany and the uk in which all three of them, four of them discussed that they were watching the situation in russia as well as reaffirming their support for ukraine. now, it wasn t just president biden making calls yesterday, but also his top officials, including secretary of state antony blinken who spoke with g7 allies, eu counterparts as well as the ukrainian foreign ministry. so it was clear that this power struggle could have ramifications on the war in ukraine and the white house and administration officials were making calls to their allies and partners as this was all unfolding. now, president biden is at camp david wit
democratic congressman jason crow serves on the intelligence and foreign affairs committees. he says both putin and prigozhin are worse off. if anybody thinks that either putin or prigozhin is going to walk away unscathed, this ter fooling themselves. the idea that prigozhin s going to belarus and retire in peace and the wagner mercernaries are just going to return to battlefield and putin s going to go back to situation normal is not going to happen. putin has been extremely weakened by this. now, moscow has stepped back from a major crisis, but experts warn that the danger is not over. that s right. wolf blitzer is in london. good morning. russia, obviously, appears a bit calmer this morning, but there are so many things we don t know right now. there is a sense of unease about what comes next. there certainly is, amara. good morning to you. good morning to you, victor, as well. russia experts say the rare uprising will likely have lasting impacts indeed.
of course, affect putin and how he oversees the country. will he consolidate power, try to escalate things ukraine to make an example out of what happened with wagner and try to show the world he actually still is in control. u.s. officials don t know at this point whether prigozhin is actually going to remain in exile in belarus. where is he at this point. they simply don t know right now. so these are all things that they are going to be looking at moving forward because the challenge that prigozhin posed to putin is perhaps the most significant he facedth last two decades. they are seeing how it will impact russia s military and kremlin leadership here and seeing whether putin tries to consolidate power even further as a result. amara, victor. natasha bertrand, priscilla, thank you. wolf blitzer back with us from
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london. wolf, lots of questions about what this means for the future. we are seeing that this wasn t totally spontaneous. you are absolutely right, victor. amara, good morning to you as well. i want to talk about the intelligence leading up to the russian insurrection. our national security analyst the former assistant secretary over the department of homeland security julia kayan is joining us. ask you explain what goes into these intelligence assessments, why came as a surprise when u.s. and western officials had been watching prigozhin make preparations, clearly preparations for this kind of move? bs well, the surprise would have been about the exact timing. so a lot of intelligence gathering is either human intelligence rumors, t things t our people or people who are working for us are hearing on the ground. some of it will be signal intelligence, what we are picking up, thoughts, planning