good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, i m katy tur here from new york. and i m chris jansing with special coverage on what is happening inside russia. for the first time, we are still waiting to hear from vladimir putin. now, we haven t heard anything since his former ally and the head of the ruthless mercenary wagner group attempt add revolt, and this new video released by russia, is it new or just something put out by the kremlin? who knows when it was taped. we can t say. and where is the man responsible for the dramatic weekend events, yevgeny prigozhin. right now we still don t know and he hasn t been seen since saturday when he decided to turn his forces back after marching toward the kremlin. and seemingly agreed to live in exile in belarus. so now russia, a country armed with more nuclear weapons than any other nation led by a man desperate to proclaim the old soviet union glory is at a crossroads. and while the world watches, ukraine is acting. ukrainian forces
friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper
welcome to one nation, i am brian kilmeade. among the best, dan, first, his perspective on we can update today and rake new series, which album, a deeper thinker and better writer in america, i m not sure who it is, he s right great message, a story ripped from the headlines yet is fiction, who will discuss that with him, will begin with growing volatility in the middle east, we ve been watching israel on the defense the most start this pain is for october 7 and somehow they ve lost the pr war we seen the idea who enter gaza making great progress militarily but struggling to justify nontraditional military targets like hospital. they assume the world knew the tactics of the ruthless terrorist group and understand what hamas was all about but that changed this week, they stopped waiting in israel. israelis realize they had to do something about it, they told us about the butchery october 7. now if you want, you can see it from a they are bringing reporters and to view it. i ha
welcome to one nation, i am brian kilmeade. among the best, dan, first, his perspective on we can update today and rake new series, which album, a deeper thinker and better writer in america, i m not sure who it is, he s right great message, a story ripped from the headlines yet is fiction, who will discuss that with him, will begin with growing volatility in the middle east, we ve been watching israel on the defense the most start this pain is for october 7 and somehow they ve lost the pr war we seen the idea who enter gaza making great progress militarily but struggling to justify nontraditional military targets like hospital. they assume the world knew the tactics of the ruthless terrorist group and understand what hamas was all about but that changed this week, they stopped waiting in israel. israelis realize they had to do something about it, they told us about the butchery october 7. now if you want, you can see it from a they are bringing reporters and to view it. i ha
a former general did use the word attempted coup. i think he wanted to demonstrate his anger and the anger of wagner troops at some of the ineptitude and uncertainty and half measures that we ve seen in ukraine. i mean, the last 16 months have not been a happy military story for russia. now, what he ultimately intended i don t think anybody knows. i think he at some point feared for his life, possibly his family s life, and decided to call it off. where and how he will resurface, we don t know. i see that lavrov said today that, you know, wagner operations will continue and will continue across africa, but we need to, i think wait a day