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 politics. today we go behind that power grab that was that wasn t or what was it exactly? right now we re going to try to answer all of the questions that we have about the revolt inside russia, the mercenary who led what looked and sounded like a revolt is now trying to answer one of those questions. why? cnn just obtained new audio of prigozhin and he says the march to moscow was not a coup b
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