couldn't imagine that vladimir putin could have been behind the downing of the aircraft. but he also said that he had warned yevgeny prigozhin to be very careful. also interesting what is going on inside of russia. where you do have sort of smaller memorials to yevgeny prigozhin and the others who were killed popping up in various russian cities. we were listening to some of the things that folks were saying around those memorials, people who were laying down flowers and commemorating yevgeny prigozhin saying that they believe that someone like him could not be replaced in an organization like wagner. that is the big discussion right now that is sort of going on. if the leadership of wagner was really decapitated in this plane crash, in other words yevgeny prigozhin and his important deputies that wagner could very much come a very different company than it has been in the past. >> very interesting. fred pleitgen, thank you very much. let's get some analysis and i'm joined for that by the historian ann applebalm and