point, what else can you tell us from your sources. reporter: that s right. to confirm, that is the first we re hearing from the white house, the president is traveling where we are in northern california, he is out, but we just heard from officials that he has been briefed on this. and it s notable because the president has made some comments specific to the situation related to yevgeny prigozhin and vladimir putin. i was traveling with him in finland last month. when he was asked a question specifically about prigozhin, and he said among others things if he were prigozhin, i would be careful what i ate, keep my eye on my menu, he said, but all kidding aside, i don t think any of us know for sure where the futu o prigozhin is for russia, and i don t know beyond that how to answer. clearly right now the white house is keeping a very close eye on the situation. there has not been direct communication following this latest event, but they are watching and they do have skepticism about