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The Rich Zeoli Show

Complete Breakdown: What Just Happened in Russia?

The Rich Zeoli Show

Audacy

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4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Victoria Coates— Former Deputy National Security Advisor & the Vice President of the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss Yevgeniy Prigozhin, leader of the Russian paramilitary organization known as the Wagner Group, briefly marching towards Moscow in a reported attempt to overthrow Vladimir Putin’s regime. What exactly happened in Russia over the weekend?

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0:00.0

WPHC, WPHC, HD, WOGL, HD3, Philadelphia, from the Curial Volos studios, where relationships matter.

0:09.5

Always live, on the free Odyssey app, the Revolution.

0:14.0

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0:17.0

This is the next generation of talk.

0:20.0

Now, this is the drive at 5.30 minutes of non-stop talk with Rich, CEO Lee.

0:30.0

The situation in Russia, what is going to happen, where does Putin stand, what does the United States of America want to happen?

0:38.5

If anything, welcome back, glad you're here.

0:40.5

855-3912-10, on Twitter at Rich, CEO Lee, and streaming live right now on YouTube.

0:48.0

Just go to our talk radio, 1210 WPHC, YouTube page, and you can watch the show, at least for the next hour.

0:56.0

And there's a lot to talk about. There's a lot of breaking news around all of this.

0:59.5

And so I'm very, very happy that my friend, Dr. Victoria Coates, is joining us,

1:04.0

former Deputy National Security Advisor for President Trump, and Vice President of the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation.

1:13.5

Dr. Coates, thank you for making time on a busy day.

1:16.5

Oh, of course. What a different 48 hours makes, though, Rich. It's incredible.

1:21.5

Yeah, I know. We talked on Friday, and then got off the air, and then all of a sudden everything changed.

1:27.5

So right now, where do things stand? Give us a kind of 30,000-foot view of everything.

1:34.5

Yeah, things just keep getting fissure and fissure.

1:37.5

We had a promotion in the head of the paramilitary Wagner group, make this kind of dash towards Moscow overnight, Friday into Saturday.

1:48.5

That got kind of shut down, and apparently some sort of a truce was brokered between

1:55.5

Purgosian and Putin, and the Wagner folks stood down.

2:00.5

In the terms of that, where that Purgosian was supposed to go to Belarus, and with a lot of his men, none of this has happened.

2:09.5

We've had this kind of bizarre statement out of Purgosian today saying he never sought to topple the Russian government.

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