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.
to the scene of the crisis. in mcallen, texas, the testimony from border chief as republicans search for answers and solutions. the white house accusing them of playing partisan games with the hearing. that is rich, considering democrats are playing their own. they were going. even spent our tax money on travel to get there and suddenly a political flip, they all cancelled on the border hearing. a republican spokesperson tells us the members booked travel and called a witness before backing out. here is what they missed. chief ortiz, does dhs have operational control of our entire border? no, sir. harris: what is it exactly the dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas has been saying? not that truth. here he is last year. will you testify underoath, do we have operational control, yes or no? yes, we do. we have operational control at the border? we do. harris: it was bad back then, it is historically raw and dangerous now, you know it is not under control. art delqua.
prigozhin sudden halt in his most near goofs advance towards moscow, took washington and the world by surprise. president biden is keeping a close eye on the situation, the situation that saw a massive nuclear stockpile pull back from the brink of a potential storm. senator coons, welcome back to the sunday, show were you surprised by what happened in russia over the last 48 hours? jonathan, frankly, i was shocked. it was no secret that there was long running tension between prigozhin, the leader of the wagner group, a brutal mercenary organization that putin has long supported, and the minister of defense, the chief of staff of the regular army of prigozhin and minister have traded barbs back and forth, and for months, prigozhin has threatened to take matters into his own hands,
something biden leaned into because he knows he has to and willing to take on the far left to do it and she s right about that. there are two words joe biden has to look at in 2024, he did not have to look at in 2020, and that is can t hide. he has hidden from the public and everything in the wall street journal talking about the gaffes and blunders, he will have to be out there and do rallies. more he is out there, the more goofs and mess-ups come. whether democrat or republican, it looks like he doesn t have command of what he s doing. he will try to run on legislative accomplishments, i m not sure independents are buying the left to center approach biden had on legislative issues and they are not seeing results of that, with inflation over 6.