Let's
bring in our military and Russia Thank you all for joining us
on this incredible story. Jill Dougherty, I want to go to The world was watching this firs
by Putin just a couple of hours He had been M.I.A. Did Putin accomplish
anything from here in here in this speech, aside from showi
that he is essentially still ali You know,
I think that's very hard to judg the two groups that he was talki
essentially are the members of V who now have a choice, according
you know, join the military. Go back to your families or go t And we still don't know. I mean, Prigozhin is saying
his men are sticking with him and that very few
have decided to go into the mili And then the other side is Putin
to convince Russians everything Everything's under control. The people were united. You know, it
reminded me of the old Soviet da and they said, you know, the sta
and the people are united. That's what Putin is trying to p So did that did he accomplish th And I think it's kind of dubious because Russians are very confus And I don't think Putin really d
much of anything other than say,
hey, be patriots and it'll be ok It was a very, very short speech I want to play a little bit
more of it. Let's take a listen The organizers of the rebellion betraying their co Their people also betrayed
those who are drawn into the cri They lied to them. Pushed them to death
under fire to shoot at their own We know now that the vast majority of th
and commanders of the Wagner gro are also Russian patriots. Devoted to their people and stat They proved it with their courag
on the battlefield. Jill, back to you. That was somewhat forgiving. Do you think that this means
that the Wagner group is going t Because Prigozhin certainly thin
he thinks he's going to be able to operate in some way out of Be I don't think so. I mean, if you have 25,000,
that's what Prigozhin claims. 25,000. Really vicious and well-trained men, militia running around in R I can't imagine that Putin
would want that to happen. And if they're in Belarus, you know,
it's kind of it's under control That also would be a threat. So I think he's saying this is t You've got three choices. Take it. And, you know,
he didn't say what would happen, his previous speech a couple of
he did say, you know, we will cr So that's you know, that's the d
that they have to make. And Bianna Golodryga,
we did hear from Evgeny Prigozhi We didn't we didn't see him,
but he did double down on that l held criticism of his
of the Russian defense ministry. So how significant is it that we Putin meeting with the defense
minister, Sergei Shoigu, tonight Well, I don't think it was an ac You're right to pick up on that,
that all of a sudden we saw video of the meeting
and what's happened in the past with these meetings
and these videos of Putin is you never know what's life
or when something's taped. There have been instances in the
where something appeared to be l but then an eagle eyed observer caught the time on people's watc
and it was 8 hours prior to that Vladimir Putin even today said a And then he corrected himself an
good evening. So it was clear
that they were meeting today and it was to show the Russian p
and it was to show the world really that that he couldn't be
by Yevgeny Prigozhin to change leadership of the mili
to do to change the defense mini and as well as very good Asimov,
who was overseeing the war. No one can argue that
they've done a good job in doing But as you know,
this is a president who values dedication and loyalty
above all else else. And this is a president who we s
doubling down thus far, so far,
and his support for his military And General Mark Hertling. Putin reference tonight fallen p We have images of a crash site.
You can see it there. Reportedly a Russian military pl that was taken down by Wagner
forces over the weekend. So if any pro-Russian does appea
to have killed Russian troops. General, do you see a world
in which Putin simply lets Prigo go live in exile in Belarus? I don't, Alex. And what we're talking about,
we have the film of the one airc Open source
intelligence says there were som between six and eight with multi
being killed. That's an air attack by Mr. Bergwijn's
Wagner group against the Russian because they had air defense equ
in that march with them. But in addition to that,
there had been multiple occasion where the Wagner group has engag
forces of the Russian Air Force. So we have a combination
of this private military company engaging the Russians
in both Ukraine and in Russia. And it is really just as I've sa these these folks are the crimin and in some cases interspersed
with some military capabilities. But you know
this we're going to see more of I'm not sure everything is done. But it's fascinating to me
how in that six minute speech th Putin gave, that he went back an
between the heroes of the Wagner while at the same time
not condemning the leader of the who he condemned the other day
during the whole campaign. So there's just so much that is
Russian in the way this is appro And if I may add one more thing. You mentioned Shoigu before
shortening the martinet. He is not a military leader. He is not well-liked. By most of the generals
in the Russian military. So the combination of most of th
disliking him and precaution, absolutely. Jettisoning him is going to have
to force Putin into some tough d
