rachel: wow. greg palkot is live in kyiv with the latest. good morning. reporter: good morning, folks. yeah, it has been an amazing night with some amazing news just across the border from where we are right now with ramifications potentially for the war here and much more. it s being called the biggest challenge to russian president vladimir putin s 23 years in power, an attempt thed coup, an armed uprising, a mutiny. the man responsible, wagner mercenary group chief. he complain about russian military leadership even saying his forces had been fired on by russians. that s when he took his 25,000 fighters plus tanks, armor, guns to nearby kyiv, population 1 million. with almost no fight put up, they took over the main military headquarters there plus other administrative buildings with the demand that the top russian military brass come to them to discuss complaints. now, threatening to move on to moscow if if not happy if and some of his forces getting closer to the capit
registry caused by the conspiracy. . they re not good faith actors as you said. great show, always a pleasure. enjoy the rest of your evening off. coming up on ayman, tyre nichols s death puts the spotlight of institutional racism in america. many are hoping that it will revive efforts to reform policing. i ll take that up with my sunday night panel. plus, joe biden s invest in america cabinet collides with house republicans who want to use the debt ceiling to force deep spending cuts. congresswoman sydney kamlanger, is here discussed that on. more and chris mays is turning the table on a republican election deniers, the cyber ninjas are out, voting rights are in. she joins us tonight to talk i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. we begin tonight with the latest on the aftermath of the death of tyre nichols at the hands of memphis police. we ve learned that tyre nichols s parents will attend the state of the union address next week as guests of the - we begin ton
russian president. so putin s got to have that in his mind saying, gee is, i m not going to be replaced by a peacenik, i m going to be replaced by someone even tougher, so maybe i should get tougher. and as bad as he is, the devil you know is better than the devil you don t know. if there s a civil war, nuclear weapons flying around, when who knows where this could lead. rachel: you know, back in the iraq and afghanistan war i was one of those people that just sort of believed everything that came out of my government, and now i don t believe a lot of it. and i m always questioning things. and i asked our haas are guest on this topic, rebekah koffler, if she thought it was possible that we could be behind this attempted coup with the wagner group and she said it s definitely one of the possibilities. or nato. yeah, i think she s right that the united states government whether it s been actively or behind the scenes
morale inside his own ranks? e yeah, and it s a very high risk, it s a high risk game of pokerrer here because it s one thing to have an internal coup against putin either, you know, with the top leadership in the kremlin, one guy replaces another guy. this is another thing. this is actual tanks moving. and so the success or failure of it is going to be very apparent to everybody in a short period of time. you know, maybe vladimir putin uses this and somehow comes out on top. he could then go and say look at all the traitors and the scum, he s got words that he use, but bad guys and saboteurs in russia, and you need a really strong russian president to put down this internal rebellion. again, you just don t know, but it is going to play out in our face, not behind the doors of the kremlin. will: kt, i fully appreciate the number of times you said we just don t know [laughter] but unmore quick question before we go, what is your anticipation for what a short amount of time means? yo
been very involved in ukraine and russia for a long time. one of things i was struck with when i went to ukraine right after the revolution in 2014 was that russians would come up, pro-russian ukrainians would come up, they d point to a hoe hotel room and say that s the cia s office. they were directing this entire coup against the president of ukraine, pro-russian elected president of ukraine. and so were we involved, were we not involved? we always said we weren t involved, but maybe we were. i just don t know. and at in this point all the people are going to tell you, oh, it s going to happen this way it s not. we don t know yet. we have to wait and see how it unfolds. pete: kt, did you see something like this coming based on the estimation of your morale of the russian forces? we ve been following this now for over a year, i didn t anticipate a mercenary group would break off and attempt to take out or take on putin. is this a statement in the