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putin's rule now says he was not trying to topple the russian leader. it's the first time we're 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 trump started and build that wall. i'm dana bash, let's go behind the headlines and "inside poli...

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 from all corners of the globe. we're going to start our coverage in london with cnn's nic robertson. ...

What prigozhin is saying is that this was a struggle between him and the defense minister, sergei shoigu. okay. and what this wasn't 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 he's saying here is, well, that's not true. >> right. >> do you buy that? >> yeah, i don't think this was a coup. i think this was a mutiny and i think it was very self-interested. it was not -- yes, there is this veneer of...