or investigation with a heap of salt. evelyn fenway parkus joins us now. evelyn, there s one major thing we don t know right now and that is for certain that prigozhin was on that plane. we know he was on the passenger list for that plane according to russian state media. we also know that was a plane and this is something cnn s own reporting indicate that that is a plane based on edge administration, that it belongs him and that it fell out of the sky. does this look to be an intentional act? yeah, jim and brianna, it s interesting because my first reaction is he probably is dead
moment when putin was supposed to be in south africa today, supposed to be at the brick summit, the nonaligned countries, brazil, russia, india, china and south africa. he couldn t go because there was an arrest warrant for him from the international criminal court that the south africans would have had to abide by. that made him look weak. he s trapped in russia. so picking this day, yes, he does like dates that matter. i would imagine he would like this exact two-month date from when prigozhin marched on moscow but he also needed something now to shore up his image. and, evelyn, you know, how do you see the big picture here with the war in ukraine? certainly all of these russian casualties and, listen, we have to be clear, there is a lot of internal russian support for the war but there are also a lot of dead russians and a lot of families who have paid the toll