lived as long as he did. if these reports are proven to be true, state services are now reporting the head of the wagner group was killed in a plane crash outside moscow. sandra. sandra: jennifer griffin, we ll get back to you with more details from the news, thank you very much. john. john: for more on this, let s bring in michael waltz, a member of the house armed services and foreign affairs committee. as jennifer said, thought his days might have been numbered but this was not too subtle. yeah, john, right. surprise, surprise. if you cross putin, don t fire your food taster, don t stay in a high rise hotel and apparently don t fly private in russia. but listen, make no mistake, this was intended to send a signal across the russian military, number one, and number two, we still can t count out
everybody else who they re looking at and questioning right now. i mean, it is amazing, and general hurtling, you know, i mentioned a moment ago, putin talking to that reporter today saying that in that meeting that he says he had with prigozhin and 35 other members of the wagner group, they all nodded when he said, all right, you can keep fighting but not for him, under me essentially. he said they nodded and prigozhin said, quote, no, the guys do not agree with this decision. i mean, general, what do you make of that? putin s now saying he had a meeting with the guy and that the guy says i don t agree that these guys shouldn t fight under you. i m not okay with that. he s missing at this point. do you think that s all it is? no, not at all, erin, and truthfully, this is just more indicators of the brutalness of the russian military and the russian political leadership. you know, i had an opportunity to go to russia several times
sent to the front lines. as putin s paranoia is leading to a bigger military purge. breaking news, two of trump s most senior white house aides, jared kushner and hope hicks have now testified before the grand jury investigating trump s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. we re going to tell you a key question that both of them were asked. and we have new audio tonight of a passenger plane s frantic call for help after hitting extreme turbulence. that plane dropping thousands of feet in seconds. what was it like on board, two passengers on the florida-bound flight are my guests. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, putin s military meltdown. we re getting new video tonight of a deadly fight that broke out at a military camp near moscow. according to russian media, these men were about to be sent to the front lines, and then one of the soldiers here is said to have upset his superiors, he was reportedly beaten by members of
he s obviously been fired. where are his wrahereabouts we don t know. the kremlin is dismissing comments from a top general. the first to cross putin and pay a price. we know he has been fired. we don t know what else if anything beyond that, but we do know the wall street journal is reporting today that general se sergey who has not been seen since the attempted rebellion is held and interrogated. he is not alone. according to this report in the wall street journal, at least right now at least 13 senior officers have been detained for questioning after the up rising and there s prigozhin himself, he still has not been seen since the insurrection. for the first time, we re hearing from putin about his alleged meeting with prigozhin and 35 of wagner s commanders, the meeting that putin s spokesperson said happened a few
days after the insurrection. a meeting that was said to have happened in moscow. speaking to reporters, putin claims he told the commanders at the meeting that they could continue to fight but under a different leader. he then claims that the men were nodding in agreement, all of these wagner troops, they were totally in agreement, but prigozhin who was sitting in the front row. he spoke up and said, no, the guys do not agree with this decision. that s what we re seeing here in the exchange with the reporter. keep in mind, we do not have photo evidence or corroboration that the meeting took place, who was there. this is what the kremlin is telling us. keep in mind, vladimir putin is saying the generals nodded and fighting for him, but highlights prigozhin saying the guys do not agree with the decision. that s the context around which we have not seen prigozhin since. president biden says the u.s. has no idea what putin has done with prigozhin. he spoke today. determining what happene