let newday turn your home s equity into cash. emily: the head of the mercenary group that tried to overthrow vladimir putin in june is now reportedly among the dead in a russian plane crash. the chief is reported to be one of the passengers on the business jet flying from moscow to st. petersburg. according to flight tracking, everything seemed fine on the radar until the last 30 seconds when it suddenly lost altitude. there was also a report a surface-to-air missile fired inside russia shot it down. president biden was asked about the crash yesterday. as he was leaping a pilates class during his vacation. i don t know for a fact what happened. but i m not surprised.
rose afterwards what would happen to prigozhin. on monday he was in subsaharan africa where many wagner fighters are operating, but how a man who tried to overthrow the russian president could be working for the russian government in other parts of the world. and reports appear to have been coordinated across russian state media, prigozhin is dead as a result of a plane crash following air defense shooting down this business jet. as we are talking here john, getting more information in reported from the associated press indicating that flight tracking data reviewed by the a.p. shows this is a plane that prigozhin took multiple times from moscow to st. petersburg, a short flight but he often took. ten people on board, three crew members and one of them the leader of the wagner group,
prigozhin was on that plane. talk us through any situation like this, how do you go about verifying this information? what are some of the pitfalls you have to look for? you have to think pitfalls you have to look for? ml, have to think about what is actually hard evidence and what is hearsay, for example, we know that a plane crashed. we can see the data, we can see the flight tracking, the gps data, the videos on the ground where you can see part of the tail number of the plane in the wreckage. it s clear this plane crashed in this location. that s obvious. as to who is on the plane, we ve got to trust the aviation authority about the passenger list they listed in the work of russian journalists on the ground where trying to reach prigozhin and the people in his inner circle. by all appearances, prigozhin and the people in his inner circle. by allappearances, no one can get a hold of prigozhin right now, some russianjournalists have reported that people close to him or trying to get
fire that had crashed. there is also a plane that he s known to use, it has a tail number, and that s apparently been seen. flight tracking web sites indicate the flight did, in fact, end where the state media says it ended. and that is in tver. near kuzhenkino. i don t know if you know that region. but they re saying eight of the bodies have been recovered, general, and do you know, general, or ambassador, exactly where that is? does it make sense to you knowing how things operate within russia that the bodies would have been found already, and how quickly might we hear more? i defer to the ambassador. that s not very far from moscow. it s not surprising that they