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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Wagner-linked social media: Prigozhin has been killed

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, who attempted a mutiny against Putin two months ago, has possibly died. Russian state media says he was on the passenger list of a plane that crashed earlier today and that all passengers were killed. CNN does not yet have confirmation that Prigozhin was on that plane. Also, out of Georgia, Rudy Giuliani was just released after being arrested in Fulton County for the Georgia election case.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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