welcome to inside politics sunday, i m abby phillip. and coming up this morning, rebellion in russia gives way to a retreat. a mercenary leader is heading for exile. vladimir putin is in power. but his grip on the russian government appears weaker tan ever. plus is russia s nuclear arsenal still secure. we re ask a member of the house intelligence committee next. and donald trump casted himself as a crusader who delivered a shift on abortion but what he won t say might be just as important. up first for us, vladimir putin stared down a mortal threat and strikes a deal to save his skin. they reacted to a world wind weekend in russia and i rebellion aimed directly at the heart of moscow. do you believe this is the beginning of end for vladimir putin? i don t want to speculate about that. we ve seen this aggression against ukraine become a strategic failure across the board. russia is now distracted that putin has to worry about what is going on inside of russia as much
Tweet and propo kbgate the idea that interference by russia was a hoax. And we all remember the debacle in helsinki, i wish i had heard just some of the righteous indignation that we had heard in the committee today when the president questioned that fundamental conclusion of our intelligence agencies. But of course they will silent when the president said that. They will show indignation today, but they will cower when they hear the president questioning the very conclusions that our Intelligence Community has reached. But we saw Something Interesting also today. My colleagues sought to use you, dr. Hill, to besmirch the character of Colonel Vindman. And i thought this was very interesting. It certainly wasnt unexpected i could not tell was very
interesting for this reason. They didnt really question anything Colonel Vindman said. After all what he said is what you said. He was in that July 10th Meeting. He heard the same quid pro quo, the same comments by sondland. If you want this m
wright. what a weekend. what a last couple of days here. i mean it is really extraordinary. that moment, there was a moment, really i think it was saturday morning, when it felt like we were watching something really historic unfold right before our eyes and we may very well yet be watching that happen. we know this is just the beginning. but i think we make a real mistake in saying that vladimir putin may be fatally week or the end of his 23 years in power. this as a man as ruthless as atilla the hun and used the tactics of ivan the terrible but has a small man napoleon complex. and he bullied his way from the slums of lennon grad and now into st. petersburg and this is going to be his league and he doesn t want to go out as a gracious leader. he was not like gorbachev was so
deal. two, he sent her straight up to the white house counsel s office, which if they haven t moved too many offices, is on the second floor of the west wing to report her concerns about what he described as a drug deal to mr. eisenberg in the white house counsel s office. yeah. there are many reasons why dr. hill s testimony was so powerful and impactful today. but one of them clearly was invoking the mindset of bolton. here is a man who by anyone s notion is about right of atilla the hun. he looks at this channel that smells corrupt to him and he says you ve got to go tell the lawyers and he refers to the entire transaction as a drug deal. when america turns on their evening news tonight and sees the summaries of dr. hill s