[ speaking in a non-english language ] reporter: no comment? no. reporter: these are dangerous times in russia to throw allegations around. amazing. and matthew chance joins us now from st. petersburg. matthew, putin did comment on prigozhin s death yesterday. what are russian authorities saying today about the investigation? reporter: yesterday putin asked the country to, you know, not hold back judgment, essentially, until the outcome of that investigation. today investigators say they ve recovered the black boxes from the aircraft, the embraer legacy 500 with yevgeny prigozhin and nine other people on board. they say they ve taken the human remain asway, ten bodies they ve recovered, and they re doing dna tests and forensic tests to try to confirm positively exactly the identities of those people
Talk for him. who do you think is responsible for his death? who killed him? no comment. these are dangerous times in russia, to throw allegations around. amazing. matthew chance joins us from st. petersburg. putin did comment on the death yesterday. what are they saying today about the investigation? yeah, yesterday putin asked the country to, you know, not hold back judgment essentially until the outcome of that investigation. but today investigators say they have recovered the black boxes from the aircraft and breya legacy 600 that plunged to the ground with believe prigozhin and nine other people. they have take p the human remains already, 10 bodies they
Susan collins, condemning trump and saying, any senate vote must be delayed so dr. ford may testify. i was acalled by the president s tweet. i thought it was completely inappropriate and wrong. collins would appear to be e holding back judgment. the high stakes negotiation, the deadline for dr. ford s lawyers to respond has been extended until tonight at 10:00 p.m. that s a friday night deadline, dr. ford s lawyer pushing for thursday as testimony day. and neither day, the wednesday or thursday plans do afford enough time for the fbi investigation many have called for. let s get into it with some experts. emma jordan was on the team advising anita hill in 1991.
Produce these chemical weapons, mary how do you assess what you heard? i hope it is correct and the initial reports are correct. we have no and as a member of congress and the foreign affairs committee, until we have a hearing or a classifiied briefing, we have no basis to draw that conclusion. i would be surprised if limited strikes such as these completely eliminated the ability of the assad regime to deliver these chemical attacks. i hope that s correct b. you used the word limited attack. do you believe these attacks should have gone further? until we get full information on what was taken out and how successful they were, i would hold back judgment. let me say this. we are going to focus on these strikes that happened last night and as i said, i have been
This has really struck a cord. matthew, as the nation comes together in this moment of grief, there are many unanswered questions and we ve heard from family members, our nic robertson spoke with some people who say that they feel that the government has an idea of what may have happened but is not yet indicate thag, waiting for egypt which is the lead to this investigation. my question to you is, what is the mood of public opinion about this investigation, about these unanswered questions? reporter: well, there are lots of questions being asked. people want to know definitively what it was that cost 224 lives. you re right, the russian government hasn t come out and said, look, we think it ster rim. they ve held back judgment on that. the fact that they ve suspended flights to the whole of egypt those that they pass civil are acknowledging that terrorism may have been a factor.