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this as one former wagner group commander flees to norway, and his lawyer is outfront tonight to tell his story for the first time. plus, just in to outfront, new details about the investigation into biden s classified documents. we now know more about who federal investigators have been speaking with about the case. and ron desantis launching a new charm offensive. he s trying to shed the notion that he s dry and reserved, those are the quotes. why now? let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, convicts on the front line. new audio into outfront of the chief of the brutal private russian army fighting on the front lines in ukraine, the wagner group. the chief yevgeny prigozhin s influence with putin has been surging. this is what prigozhin is now telling convicted criminals who have finished their tours of duty with him about staying out of prison. listen for yourself. translator: don t drink a lot, don t use drugs, and ....
To be over. have you any sense from your contacts about what happened, what was this deal that prigozhin reached with belarus? there are multiple interpretations including some conspiracies. the question is whether it all has been staged with the end goal to it displace sergei sh shoigu. i don t think the complicated explanations are true. they never needed to stage anything to cover up his most radical decisions including the war against ukraine let alone the personal decisions. the conditions are increasingly depressive on its own without any particular pretext. ....
Charges against prigozhin. then in the early hours of saturday, prigozhin followed through on his threats sending his fighters across the border from ukraine back into russia. footage surfaced at dawn showing wagner fighters surr surroundin military headquarters in a southern city. some locals stood near by watching. at around 17:30 a.m., prigozhin was shown dressing down senior military leaders and issuing demands. translator: again, we came here, we want to receive the chief of general staff and shoigu. until they show up, we are locating here blockading the city and will go to moscow. reporter: video showed columns of wagner troops heading north towards the capital. along the way claiming control of military installations. ....
They are responsible for the utter failure for the kleptocracy, for the corruption within the military that has caused a lack of training, a lack of soldier skills, and a defeat on the battlefield. so that competition between sh shoigu and gerasimov with the wagner group commander on the other side is just a fascinating thing from a professional military guy like me to watch because it s just a comedy of errors, and it shows how corrupt not just the military is but the entire russian governmental system. and that s why soldiers won t fight for this kind of action. it s just very difficult for a professional to explain what we re seeing, how bad the russian military, the russian government is as exhibited on the battlefield. general hertling, thank you very much, as always, for your perspective. , and next, just into outfront, cnn learning federal investigators have now interviewed biden s personal attorney who first discovered ....