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putins rule now says he was not trying to topple the russian leader. its the first time were hearing from yevgeny prigozhin since he ordered a sudden stop to an armed rebellion just 120 miles from moscow. plus, what did the u.s. know and when did it know it about the plan to topple putin? the chairman of the senate intelligence committee mark warner joins me live in minutes. and ron desantis lays down a big marker on immigration, the florida governor says he will finish what donald...

Why? cnn just obtained new audio of prigozhin and he says the march to moscow was not a coup but only a protest. >> translator: two factors played into my decision to turn around, first factor, we wanted to avoid a russian blood shed. second is we marched in demonstration of a protest, not to overturn the power in the country. at this time alexander lukashenko extended his hand and offered to find solutions for the further work of wagner pmc in legal jurisdiction. >> cnn is covering this story f...

What prigozhin is saying is that this was a struggle between him and the defense minister, sergei shoigu. okay. and what this wasnt was an attempt to rebel against and pull vladimir putin from power. i mean, when we saw all of this happening on saturday, we all thought, wow, this is a mercenary military group heading north to moscow to try to overthrow vladimir putin. what hes saying here is, well, thats not true. >> right. >> do you buy that? >> yeah, i dont think this was a coup. i think this ...