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The latest intelligence suggests a bomb planted by isis or an isis affiliate brought down that russian passenger jet in egypt killing all 224 people onboard. our cnn international correspondent phil black is over at number 10 downing street in london. phil, british officials i take it theyve reached a similar conclusion? >> reporter: thats right, wolf. earlier today the british government announced that they were concerned that an explosive device may have brought down this aircraft. what weve s...

Officer believed to have been killed in the line of duty. officials now say the man hailed as a hero had been embezzling money from his department for years. and his death was in fact a carefully staged suicide. did he use his police skills to cover up his crimes? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." were following the breaking news. very disturbing new intelligence on that russian plane crash in egypt that ki...

Kingdom. that was just supposed to happen for today but now looks like it will take place indefinitely for some days at least. theyve got a team on the ground of british aviation experts who they say are working with egyptian authorities to assess the security situation there. and only when they are satisfied will flights resume, will they look at putting on specially secure flights to ensure all the british tourists who are there able to return here to the uk as well. in response to all of this...

Course of the evening but not discussing the source or the nature of this information. the egyptian government isnt happy about the statements from the british government because its quite extraordinary for britain to go out oh head of the investigating country, egyptian in this case so quick to dismiss terrorism throughout the time since the accident, but the british government making the point it has seen information, intelligence that the egyptians have not. the question is to what degree tha...

Right, back to square one. >> tom, it appears to be an act of terror from the information were getting. if it is, wouldnt you expect the egyptian government to invite your former employee, employer, fbi to come in and join in this investigation? >> no, i wouldnt expect them to invite the fbi and i think the fbi will make the offer to provide assistance. i dont think it will be acre cemented. i think the egyptian government, you know, will be trying to look at a political angle in terms of this. ...

Airport. here in russia, russian officials have been noticeable for not commenting on this yet, for not knocking this down. what the top aviation body here in russia has said is that it is up to egyptian investigators to investigate this because it happened on their soil. but interestingly they -- the aviation organization here goes onto say that it is against the law for another state to break the information first or talk about whats going on in that investigation without the authority of the ...

Plane. britain has reached a similar conclusion. and along with ireland has suspended all flights to and from sharm el sheikh, egypt, where the doomed russian flight originated. were covering that much more this hour with our guests including senator angus king, member of the intelligence and armed services committees. also our correspondents and expert analysts they are standing by. were following the breaking news. lets begin with our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. barbara, you broke th...

Sharm el sheikh now where the flight originated. what are egyptian officials telling you, erin? >> reporter: hi, wolf. we have yet to hear from egyptian officials about this latest u.s. intelligence assessment. although earlier we did hear from the egyptian foreign minister who told cnn that it is too premature to draw any conclusions about what happened to the plane, pointing to the ongoing investigation. now, in terms of that investigation all eyes on the so-called black boxes. egypts civil av...

Board. isis repeatedly claimed responsible and they say the group has advance ability to commit mass murders. lindsey graham is a republican presidential candidate and is here. our correspondents and analysts are standing by to cover this breaking story. up first, lets go to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. he broke the story today. what are you learning now, barbara from your u.s. intelligence sources? >> well, in the latest development, our own elyce labbit says someone at the airpo...

Subpoenas for bank records and started matching bank records, withdraw ls, messages. >> sorry, were out of time. i take thit is resolved and we know the truth of what happened and for the past couple months, people have been looking for three suspects that clearly never existed. to both of you, thanks for joining us. glad we finally have resolved what happened on that awful day. thank you both, appreciate it very much. well have much more breaking news coming up. were getting more on that stun...