Up front, initial assessment is it s likely prigozhin was killed. we are continuing to assess the situation. we don t have any information to indicate right now the press reporting stating that there was some type of surface to air missile that took down the plane that we assess that information to be inaccurate. again, nothing to indicate no information to suggest that there was a surface to air missile. but beyond that, i m really just not going to have any further information. something that came internal from inside the plane? again, i don t have any additional insight to provide on that. thank you. warren. check the first thing you want. initial assessment, likely prigozhin was killed. you mean killed intentionally, assassination killed in the airplane crash. what leads you to believe, what information do you have to suggest that he was on board or based on the fact you have no reason to doubt russian reports? i m not going to go into the
That s a lot of questions there. everybody settle in. all right. john: we are going to break away from the pentagon believing, heard from brigadier general pat ryder they are saying now the initial reports a surface to air missile may have taken down prigozhin s plane, they are saying those reports were not correct. they do not know what took down the plane but it s clear something catastrophic happened as prigozhin and his associates were flying from moscow to st. petersburg. at the moment, all we can rely on is what we get out of russia and as we have learned to take into account over the decades, whatever comes out of russia has to be taken with a grain of salt. so we ll keep watching the story. sandra: and the initial assessment from the pentagon likely prigozhin was killed and no information to suggest there was a surface to air missile. we ll keep monitoring that news