welcome back. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. and russia, it s the day after. the day after the head of the wagner mercenary group called off his armed rebellion and advance on moscow the day of the military leadership in the handles of the war in ukraine, the day of wagner forces were almost uncharged as the columns marched towards moscow. it s the day after. locals were heard cheering for the mercenaries, and not for putin. they said they had captured military facilities in two russian cities. the wagner chief yevgeny prigozhin said he wanted to spear sharing russian blood. translator: realizing all the responsibility that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides. we turn our columns around and leave in the of sirte direction to the field camps, according to the plan. did you ever think you would see this? here is prigozhin receiving a h hero s farewell as he leaves. the kremlin says he will not be prosecuted and he will be sent t
whelan and reed for you chen co-and merchant of death. we have to take in count counterpart might be playing us as well. hesitate tonight te o want to make a deal including booth convict wanted of conspiracy to kill u.s. citizens. no one should ever think that he can plot to kill americans with impunity. bret: as the president biden prepared to meet with russian president vladimir putin for the 2021 geneva summit. bergmann and richardson suggested the white house bring up the possible prisoner swap. families of the detained americans came up and we discussed it. bergmann says no official proposals were ever put forward. i am not going to walk away on this. bret: nearly a year later, only half the deal was executed. i did. how though? thank you. three months ago. reed returned to the u.s. you re chenko sent back to
u.s. intelligence perspective. this would have been a day that is absolutely maddening. what appears to be a trend of activity that is leading you in one direction. you are collecting information left and right, you re starting to see it firm up. and then the entire process turns on its head with one division by prigozhin, apparently negotiated by schenko and that will completely reverse anything you have ever collected against prigozhin and wagner. that itself is a little maddening. the question is not the who, what, when, where and how. it s always the why. why did this event occur? why did it participate the way did it? and in the end, why did it stop? yeah, why did i stop? we were talking to steve hall in