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on the early assessments and early indications. this isn t conclusive. it s not 100%. and officials have cautioned us that it may never be because it s not like they can get investigators on the ground there outside of moscow to take a look at what s there. crucially, officials told both you and i, jim, that they do not believe it was a surface-to-air missile or air-to-air missile that downed yevgeny prigozhin private aircraft. the question of course then, what did down it? the pentagon said yesterday they do believe prigozhin himself was on that flight. i pressed the pentagon to find out why they believe that. it can t just be based on russian statements. those have been viewed with a healthy amount of skepticism. here is what the pentagon said. i m not going to go into the specifics of how we gather information other than, again, our initial assessment based on a variety of factors is that he was likely killed. but not just based on russian statements, i would imagine. based on
thank you so much. jim? russian investigators say they have now recovered flight recorders from the plane wreckage from the crash that is believed to have killed yevgeny prigozhin. the cause of the crash remains under investigation. u.s. officials say there are no signs that it was shot down by a missile, either a surface-to-air missile or air-to-air missile, as we reported yesterday. but the u.s. does believe the wagner chief was on that plane and is now dead. russia says genetic testing is underway to confirm if that is the case and that ten body versus been recovered from the wreckage. cnn pentagon correspondent oren liebermann joins us now. the u.s. is watching this somewhat from afar. tell us what they re learning so far and how far they re willing to go in terms of their confidence as to what happened here and whether even prigozhin is indeed gone. reporter: of course, jim. and this information, it s important to caution, is based