embraer, from moscow to st. petersburg. there are reports that jennifer griffin cited a short time ago that perhaps a russian surface to air missile took the plane down. trey yingst is monitoring the situation. jennifer remarked that nobody thought he was going to last very long and apparently he didn t. good afternoon. she s exactly right. the information we are getting in right now, according to russian state media, indicates that the leader of the wagner group has been killed in a plane crash just outside of moscow. a business jet was flying from the russian capital to russia s second largest city of st. petersburg when it was apparently, according to reports, shot down by russian air defense. the timing of this is significant. as you mentioned, less than two months ago, he led an attempted mutiny on the russian capital of moscow gathering thousands of his fighters in southern russia and attempting to march on the
since yevgeny prigozhin led that attempted coup in russia and threatened the russian capital itself. you can see that fireball, that fiere devastation on the ground 60 miles outside moss go where yvgeny prigozhin s private jet can be seen in other video, it s spiraling out of the sky with one of its wings very badly damaged if not missing before plunging into the ground in those scenes you can see there coming to us from television. there s the video of the plane hurtling downwards. it was filmed by an eyewitness on the ground. it was on a flight between moscow and the russian city of st. petersburg and crashed shortly after takeoff at about 6:00 local time. that s about 11:00 in the morning eastern time, just after, about 11 minutes past the hour. at the same time, vladimir putin, the russian president,
the russian city of st. petersburg, according to the belarusian leader alexander lukashenko. he led wagner s short lived meeting last month. mr lukashenko said he had in his words offered to let him down in belarus as part of the deal to end the rebellion. the leader had arrived in this country, and this is what the belarusian leader had to say earlier. what the belarusian leader had to say earlier- what the belarusian leader had to sa earlier. ., ., ., ., say earlier. you might have gone to moscow this say earlier. you might have gone to moscow this morning say earlier. you might have gone to moscow this morning or say earlier. you might have gone to| moscow this morning or somewhere else he. he is not on the dilatory of belarus. else he. he is not on the dilatory of belarus.- else he. he is not on the dilatory of belarus. the road with the bird was dilatory of belarus. the road with the bird was that dilatory of belarus. the road with the bird was that mr dilatory
so democrats in the state senate, they were able to temporarily block the bill, but are unlikely to be able to hold it off for a long. as you mentioned, the session ends on may 12th. how are you preparing for its effect? what do you most concerned about? well, i m most concerned about our police chief. we just hired the first external police chief in our city s history, and he just started on january 9th. he needs time to bring proof and strategies to bay here and st. louis, you can help us on our quest to transform public safety. right now, he has one boss, but a state control if, the state takeover goes back into a, fact ill have five. they will be accountable to the citizens of the city of st. louis, they ll be accountable to the state, to the governor, to the senators. mayor jones, do you or your
controlled a largely white state governments are looking to take power out of local, often black of luck did officials. on friday, georgia republican governor, signed a law that gives the state appointed commission the power to remove local prosecutors. and jackson, mississippi, state officials are pushing to give a state police agency jurisdiction over that majority black city. in st. louis, where nearly half the population is black, missouri republicans are pushing for a state takeover of that city s police departments over the objections of local leaders. joining me now is one of those local leaders, st. louis mayor to charges. mayor, jones. welcome to the sunday show. thank you for having me, jonathan. what exactly is the state legislature trying to do to st.