around the world are these new images of vladimir putin making his first remarks from the kremlin, since a military standoff inside russia over the weekend. now, this is widely viewed as the strongest challenge to putin in his 23 years of rule. tonight, what you see here is putin speaking in russia, addressing the rebellion. it s a matter so public that even this master propagandist couldn t just deny that it s happening. he is vowing in the translation that we have here to bring members of the rebellion to justice, telling fighters in this mercenary force to sign up with the military or go home. what putin is doing here is trying to rebound after russians basically waited around for what imagine if you lived there, would be quite a harrowing experience, while your nation is also at war, a once allied mercenary army group that used to be seen as really completely allied with putin was literally marching towards moscow over the weekend because its leader suddenly made a publ
now, it s sickening to see the new attacks on the fbi. threatening life of law enforcement agents and their families. for simply carrying out the law and doing their job. look, i want to say this clear as i can, there s no place in this country no place for endangering the lives of law enforcement. no place. none. never, period. i m opposed to defunding the police and also opposed to defunding the fbi. president biden condemning the attacks on the fbi after the remarks which came just hours before we got stunning new details overnight about why the justice department felt it had no choice but to seize classified documents from the president s florida estate and club. including evidence that some of the documents were likely moved and hidden. we ll have the many new revelations from the late night court filing. also this hour, remembering mikhail gorbachev, the final leader of the soviet union. a reformer who lifted the iron curtain and helped to end the cold war. good mor
russian population who, as you very wisely said kind of sat and waited to happen because, you know, throwing your weight behind one or the other person before it s really clear what s going to happen is very dangerous, saw that putin is the more sure bet, and that even this guy who has an independent army couldn t take him out. so even if you don t like putin, even if you don t want to give your life for him, you re kind of stuck with him and that sense of russian fatalism, which is not to be discounted kind of rules the day where you re stuck with this guy. nobody can take him out. david? well, one of the things i ve learned in sort of 30 years of watching russia is never argue with julia, and i do think that it is somewhat more complicated than it appears. i would say acknowledging everything that she has said, you also have the reality that
know, a genavisi crime family story, both have validity in the fact that anybody could publicly attempt to take a shot at the dawn is always a sign. and there are some who rule and it doesn t even happen, so that alone is something, then to julia s point, it s sort of like, yes, but, if you rule and everyone who took anywhere near the shot is displaced, exiled or hurt, then, yes, the power has now been reasserted. i guess my final question to you, julia, would be on the ukraine part. how much of what we re seeing is the proximate cause of putin s choice of war? obviously this was a choice, and whether in the long run this is not perhaps displacing him but weakening him in ways he didn t seem to anticipate? absolutely. this is all a result of the choice he made to invade ukraine on february 24th, 2022. and if he hadn t done that, none of this would have happened.
russian adventure in ukraine. although, how that manifests itself is, as you say, uncertain. julia? i think it s a little bit more complicated than that. i think everything david said is true, but also true is the fact that in this moment, putin won. he won this popular battle even if he didn t win the war, even if in the medium and long term he ends up losing and ends up showing weakness, but at home, he showed, look, even this guy with an armored column of 25,000 battle hardened heavily armed loyal troops tried to come for me, and not only did they shoot and miss, they didn t take the shot at all because they realized that taking the shot would be absolutely ruinous for them, and instead they ran with