Wagner-linked social media: Prigozhin has been killed
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead, I'm Erica Hill in for Jake Tapper. We are following several breaking |
| 0:10.6 | stories this hour, including the possible death of Russian warlord. You've got a |
| 0:14.8 | foregoation who attempted, of course, a mutiny against Vladimir Putin exactly two months |
| 0:19.0 | ago. |
| 0:20.0 | Russian state media claims foregoation was on the passenger list of a plane that crashed |
| 0:23.7 | and burned this afternoon. Videos on social media do show a plane falling out of the |
| 0:28.1 | sky, state media claiming all 10 people on board were killed, but it is important |
| 0:32.8 | to note. |
| 0:33.8 | CNN does not currently have confirmation that pregoation was in fact on that plane. |
| 0:38.6 | We are also following this other breaking story out of Georgia where Donald Trump's |
| 0:42.5 | former attorney Rudy Giuliani was just released after being arrested in Fulton County. |
| 0:47.6 | He stopped to speak with reporters outside of the jail, will bring you those comments, |
| 0:52.0 | but also need to let you know that Sydney Powell, another former Trump attorney, surrendered |
| 0:55.6 | at that jail just moments before Giuliani. They, of course, are just two of the 19 people |
| 1:01.2 | charged in this 2020 election case in Georgia. |
| 1:04.8 | Cena Zick Valencia is outside the Fulton County jail and he was right there as Giuliani |
| 1:09.2 | got out of the car to make some remarks. Nick, you were able to get in a couple of questions. |
| 1:13.5 | What did Giuliani tell you? |
| 1:15.5 | Yeah, Giuliani seemed to be speaking to us directly here at CNN. He was playing the |
| 1:20.2 | victim, saying that he had been charged for essentially doing his job to help the former |
| 1:24.9 | president as an attorney. He said that he was being unjustly charged and challenged |
| 1:29.6 | anybody to find a prosecutor with his record in the last 100 years. We asked him several |
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