caught on tape, donald trump s right-hand man, walt nauta seen in surveillance video, according to the justice department. the boxes full of classified documents prosecutors say he moved and hid on trump s property before the fbi arrived. this hour, 2024 trump challenger chris christie is here with his reaction to the latest trouble trump might be in. a raid in russia. the kremlin sending in their officers to sniff out yevgeny prigozhin, guns, cash, gold, wigs found when the world thought he was hiding in belarus. and federal charges for the man who had weapons outside of barack obama s home. see the letter that gave him the obamas home address. we start today with the law and justice lead. the unprecedented criminal charges against the former president for allegedly mishandles classified documents and today s not guilty plea from the aid accused of helping trump hide those documents from the government. walt nauta appeared in a miami courtroom today after his first two
you know, it was safe to have them, but, you know, they were wrong. translator: this is not a situation where i was lending wagner a helping hand. this was reached in a process of negotiations. you know what was at stake. i made this decision at that time and i would stick to it. but i don t think wagner would rise up and turn its guns against the belarusian state. reporter: but for belarus, wagner s absence may yet be a blessing in disguise. i want to bring in matthew chance live in many belarus. great job at the press conference. lukashenko also down played his relationship with prigozhin and said putin and prigozhin were actually better friends. why do you think he s changed his tune? he sounds so different than he did a few days ago. reporter: i know. it s incredible. clearly friendship with yevgeny prigozhin has become less an asset and more of a liability. but remember, it was the
but lukashenko raised the disturbing possibility that prigozhin being assassinated before insisting the kremlin would never do it. translator: what will happen to prigozhin next? will in life anything can happen. but if you think that you putin is so malicious and vindictive he will do him in tomorrow, no, this won t happen. reporter: but clearly the fate of wagner and its leader is now in question. just last week, the satellite images appeared to show a military base in belarus being prepared for a possible influx of fighters, lukashenko may now himself have got cold feet. reporter: is part of this you rethinking the wisdom of inviting a battle-hardened rebellious mercenary group into your country? are you concerned that would have destabilized belarus? the russians thought it was
supposed friendship between prigozhin and lukashenko, the leader of belarus, that the kremlin had initially said was the reason the two men could so easily do a deal but today, alexander lukashenko is saying look, it s putin knows prigozhin much better than i do, they ve known each other for 30 years. so he s really trying to putt some distance between him and the wagner leader because it s a liability to be in good else ares with him. and lukashenko told you he doesn t have any regrets about the war in ukraine because he, quote, did not take part in this process. but he s been helping the russians all the time. how is he able to justify that? reporter: i know. he didn t like that question that i threw at him about the fact that so many people have been killed in ukraine, so many cities destroyed. and, of course, it was belarus that has allowed its territory to be used as a staging crowd
looks like charges could be coming in the near future but we know there are still some significant witnesses who have had been in contact with the special counsel but have not come in yet. so it appears they still have work to do. clock is ticking for jack smith. it is. turning to our world lead now. wigs, guns, fake passports and a war lord in hiding. the saga of yevgeny prigozhin and the wagner army after the short lived mutiny against putin in russia almost two weeks ago, most headlines coming from nds belarus where prigozhin was supposedly to be in exexile but n now lukashenko said prigozhin is still in russia. matt chance was able to question