. stunning revelations in the revolt on russia. a new report says the wagner group leaders intendeded to capture top kremlin officials and now there are questions about whether putin s generals knew there was a mutiny coming. president biden lays out his bidenomics plan. but with inflation and interest rates still elevated, will voters buy what the president is selling? well the delays and cancellations keep adding up as do frustrations among air travelers across the country. ahead, what you need to know before the july 4th holiday. we are following these major developing story and more all coming in here to cnn news central. we have new reporting on the short lived russian revolt and prigozhin s plan much more elaborate than previously known. western officials telling the wall street the wagner leader planning to capture two of putin s top ranking military leaders. the defense minister and chief of russia s general staff as these new details are coming to life, presi
Central. we have new reporting on the short lived russian revolt and prigozhin s plan much more elaborate than previously known. western officials telling the wall street the wagner leader planning to capture two of putin s top ranking military leaders. the defense minister and chief of russia s general staff as these new details are coming to life, president biden was asked if the recent events have weakened putin. listen. he has become a bit of a fly around the world. and it s not just nato. it s not just european union. japan. you know, it s do you think putin is weaker today than he was before all those events? i know he was. cnn chief international security correspondent is live for us in kyiv.
. stunning revelations in the revolt on russia. a new report says the wagner group leaders intendeded to capture top kremlin officials and now there are questions about whether putin s generals knew there was a mutiny coming. president biden lays out his bidenomics plan. but with inflation and interest rates still elevated, will voters buy what the president is selling? well the delays and cancellations keep adding up as do frustrations among air travelers across the country. ahead, what you need to know before the july 4th holiday. we are following these major developing story and more all coming in here to cnn news
Belarus piece is important before we go. this is fascinating because i think myself and certainly some other russia watchers as well had looked at lukashenko as nothing more than a governor. it s not really a sovereign state given the power that russia inserts over belarus but if you start asking who benefits from what, why did prigozhin go to belarus? what would lukashenko have gotten out of that? it s clear putin wants to get him out of the as soon as possible but why not just kill him because putin usually does that. everybody wins. putin gets him out of the country, prigozhin gets to live and lukashenko gets a guy who knows how to run wagner and if the wagner guys end up in belarus, then there s leverage against moscow for lukashenko in future because the russian army is really busy in ukraine these days. it s possible he could have said it gives me future leverage