Russia expert points out whats crazy about new Putin video

it comes to these hard liners and, you know, Prigozhin is the uber he's been very soft and now who tries to attack the government? It's the hard liner. So it's really pretty ironic. Russia even recently, as you well know, Joe cracked down on a man whose young daughter drew an anti-war picture at scho Is that right? Yeah, that is. And he had to flee. It was

really terrible. She went into a children's home. You know, kind of like an orphan It was a terrible situation. And there are things like that h all over Russia among let's call it, you know, again, the opposition to the war. But I think the danger that Puti and for years kind of played with fire with these groups that are really extremist. And now everybody has to

watch their bac I mean, remember remember Winston Churchill said Russian and Soviet intrigues are kind of like bulldogs fighting under a carpet under a And that's exactly what's going We may not know what's going on until we see the bones coming out from under the under the rug is pretty brutal. It certainly is. How likely is it, Jill, that Prigozhin could face more punishment down the

line, perhaps for so-called financial Oh, definitely. In fact, Putin raised that yesterday when you said, hey, you know, the government, the Russian government gave him $1,000,000,000 and also almost billion dollars to his Concord Company. So you're talking about $2 billi And then Putin said almost as an aside, I hope they didn't steal too muc So but we will take care of that That was, I think,

the quote. So what I think that means is they could kill him, but that might backfire because he does have some suppor He was a personality still is in But I think they could go after and really neuter him by going after him for financial stick him in prison like they've a lot of people in prison. The Kremlin released video tonig as you know, Jill, of

Vladimir Putin surrounded by cheering supporter up close, shaking hands. How do you read that in the afte of this mutiny? Well, I mean, he's obviously is that is Putin. He's obviously out there trying that the people support him. He's a man of the people. But I will tell you, I was really shocked when I saw that video because, Wolf, we know I mean, the video for

mo has been Putin at the end of the very long tabl afraid of getting germs from other people. And all of a sudden, he's, you know, hugging and kissing and shaking hands with people in It's really kind of crazy. And it was in Dagestan down by Chechnya, talking about So it has a certain bizarre qual But he has to show he's a man of the people

at this Jill Dougherty, always good to get your expertiz Thank you very, very much.