If it's Wednesday, new details emerge on the unprecedented plot against Putin, suggesting top Russian military officials didn't just know about the armed rebellion.

Some even supported it.

Plus, it's Donald Trump's party amid more witness testimony, more legal peril, is more evidence of Donald

Trump's grip on the GOP and control over the conservative echo chamber.

And President Biden hits the road trying to sell skeptical voters on his economic agenda,

as his campaign faces an electorate that is deeply skeptical of the

country's future and the president's abilities to do the job.

Happy Wednesday and welcome to meet the press now. I'm Chuck Todd reporting from Florida.

We begin today with new reporting on the rebellion that has roiled Russia and raised new questions about Vladimir Putin's hold on power in Moscow. The latest details of what was going on

behind the scenes in the days ahead of the

revolt, read like something out of a Tom Clancy novel. The Wall Street Journal, citing Western

officials, is reporting that the leader of the rebellion, the Wagner Group's Yvgeny Pragozen,

was planning to capture Russia's military leadership. This was not about Putin, but the military

leadership, and that he was forced

to launch his operation sooner than he wanted because Moscow's intelligence agencies had become

aware of his plot. Also today, the New York Times was reporting that U.S. officials believe a

senior Russian general, the man who once commanded Russian forces in Ukraine for being sacked earlier this year,

but still kept in the leadership, had advanced knowledge of the mutiny,

raising questions of disloyalty inside Putin's inner circle.

The Times also reports that American officials said there are signs that other Russian generals may have supported Pergozen's aims as well.

This morning, a Kremlin spokesperson responded

to that report calling a, quote, speculation and gossip. We should note, NBC News has not confirmed

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