President obama visited fort hood today to honor those killed in last weeks shooting. He and the first lady attended a momentaMemorial Service for thot at motor to do. Today four american soldiers are gone, four Army Families are devastated. As command center chief im determined that we will continue to step up our efforts to, reach our troops and veterans who are hurting, to deliver to them the care that they need and to make sure that we never stigmatize those who seek help. Mike viqueira is live for us in washington, d. C. Mike, i have to tell you that i was watching the ceremony, i was as well. If you didnt feel something in that ceremony today you just dont have a pulse. That was really moving stuff. Reporter and its a bitter symmetry for president obama. The first time he attended one of these firmal services, and hes up to 15 now, unfortunately becoming a familiar ritual if not a routine after the mass shooting in it colorado, arizona, connecticut, the first one he attended in f
out. and now, we have this released. yevgeny prigozhin says that the march was a demonstration of protest and not intended to overthrow the power in moscow. he also said that the aim of the march was to avoid the destruction of the wagner group. so with me now is cnn military analyst, and retired lieutenant mark hertling, and also russian analyst steve hall. what are you making of this statement, and audio only, and not a picture of yevgeny prigozhin. and like we have not seen a reliable picture of putin, so it is a similar situation, and my first question is what you are saying, it is fascinating to know where this came from. and the comments that we looked at briefly, it seems to me like this is part of the deal. okay, whatever deal is being cut between prigozhin and the wagner
group, and the kremlin, and however it worked out, and the under the table, and backroom deal, this is part of it. hey, i was not going after putin and i was not trying to overthrow the government, and i had legitimate gripes, and this is part of the agreement to validate this with the russian domestic audience. and we have not seen him yet. and general, one of the fascinating questions if you are a russian soldier in the trench n the donbassbas region, what are you thinking? i always try to give you something new, but, john, the greatest distance of the battlefield is the six inches of the commander s head. and for prigozhin, we don t know what is in his head, but it is
dead airmen, and it was really fascinating to see the about face from vladimir putin what he gave clear amnesty to the wagner fighters. what is going forward with the force, it is interesting that we have heard from yevgeny prigozhin, and we don t know where he is, and we have heard from vladimir putin recently, but as is the russian norm, we don t know when the videos were taped, and it was pretty ambiguous as of the timing and little information from vladimir putin in the last 24 hours. we are not seeing him, and we don t know where he is. he was supposed to be in belarus, and he never showed up there. and he is sounding frightened just from reading some of the things that he said in the audio, it sounds like he is on the back foot, and making excuses for what happened. i want to go to nick paton walsh in kyiv, and the ukrainians have to be celebrating this because this is a group that is extremely brutal in the war