It's Michael Pelka in for Chris Plant and excuse the technical issues. The world of technology

is betraying us briefly today. I guarantee you, after we get things on the rails, we will

be fully loaded for this Monday. And why do we have a lot to discuss today? There are

so many things happening out there in the world since we left you on Friday that I'm almost

wondering if we're going to have room to get to everything today. I'm sure you monitored

what looked like a coup or an insurrection or Russia versus Russia over the weekend. And

then it turned into what we don't know. The revolt in Russia from lab to worse or all

the other crazy headlines we've seen, we apparently knew this was going to happen. We,

the United States government, apparently we had Intel telling us that Russia was about

to be attacked by its own helpers, its mercenaries in the Wagner group, which is just a weird

thing because I spent all day Friday and Saturday listening to various news people talking

about the Wagner group or the Wagner group and they couldn't get together on it. It's

just one of those oddities in the media. And then before sundown on Saturday, we learned

that the group had turned around. They were a hundred and twenty five hundred and fifty

miles away from Moscow. All flights in and out of Moscow had been canceled, put on hold

that looked like there was going to be a really bad situation happening for Vladimir Putin.

We heard tales that Putin had sent his plane that he had sent his own plane away from Moscow

and whether or not he was on it, we didn't know. And now here we are, almost a day and

a half later. And nobody's really seen Vladimir Putin live and in person. And no one's

seen the, the leader of the Wagner group, the former buddy, Pregozion. Nobody's seen

him either since he left the building they took over from the Russian military. So what

of revolt and development this is? Literally, what is the deal? What's the story here? How

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