pleading with prigozhin tonight, was a young lieutenant colonel in the tank unit that fired the first shot at the russian parliament. he spent several months in jail in a gulag, because of that last coup attempt. now he s on telegram asking for support for mr. putin as this continues. that is interesting history and context, general. we re trying to get real information in. as you point out, it s very hard out of russia. russian tv interrupted their regularly scheduled programming to denounce prigozhin s claims as basically unreality. and so how will the pentagon figure out what s actually happening there tonight? first of all, they re not going to rely on russian tv for any truth-telling. the u.s. intelligence community probably has a much better feel for what s going on than we do, but i would also suggest certainly a better feel for what s going on than even mr. putin does. they have intelligence human