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[ applause ] >> we have been watching the medal of honor ceremony being awarded to sergeant ryan pitts there in the east room of the white house. our colonel jack jacobs is still with us. colonel, you did, as we mentioned earlier, interview sergeant ryan pitts there and his wife. tell us about what we just saw there in terms of the import of this ceremony and also more broadly, we talk a lot in our politics about the cost of these wars in iraq and afghanistan and whether we all bear them equally...

Amount of training and deployment. i agree with colonel jacobs. for the most part, ive actually never seen someone do the wrong thing in a deployment or combat situation. i think theres a tremendous amount of pressure. theres a lot of things going on that are crazy. youre trained and, you know, a lot of these people have been on multiple deployments. your training kicks over and you react. you have nothing else to do. youre in a situation here with sergeant pitts where it was do or die. they wer...

Missiles. of course, first of all, its got to be the one in question. it had to have been loaded with at least one more missile before the fact. we dont know what it was loaded with and so on. but with some good investigation, probably can turn out to be -- theyll be able to make a determination of whether or not this was the one that was in the area from which the deadly mistime was fired. dont forget, we have overhead assets, satellites in the optical range in infrared looking over this area c...

Shortest distance, the shortest route between amsterdam and kuala lumpur and distance is money. there was no expectation that they would be subject to the weapons that were on the ground. everybodys perception was that it might be dangerous, but they have no weapons to reach a slant range of about ten miles or so. they werent worried about it, but they were taking a calculated risk. this is what happens when you take a calculated risk over a difficult area. >> i want to show another piece of vid...

What does that mean? >> there will be monetary damages and the other thing, i think, it has canceled air flights to ukraine. i think youll find a lot of airlines not be willing to fly tos moscow anymore because theyd have to go this way, and that will hurt them in addition to the sanctions, and i think since there will be most likely europeans than americans theyll get much tougher with the sanctions and theyre not going to go as far as we did just consider the. >> 233 people have been identifie...

Might have to reassess, even if was a ukrainian separatist hes got to step down because this is an international incident. >> sanctions yesterday, a plane shot down today. how do you separate the two? >> again, i would be surprised if putin gave a direct order. i think if it were a russian who did it it was probably some commander out in the field who had orders if any planes come from ukraine toward russia, we need to do something about it. they just werent thinking most likely it was one of th...

To hear from vladimir putin? we dont hear condemnation of this so far. >> at some point youll have to. as jack pointed out it could have been one of his on-scene commanders following what he thought were the orders or obviously even if it its a ukrainian separatist, its his equipment that got there, so i think if we can get a good thing out of it, he may decide hell have to pull back from this area. he had about a thousand troops there a couple of weeks ago and then he upped it up to 12,000 when...

Explanation for the practices while simultaneously knowing more. >> we shouldnt be in there manipulating outcomes. people dont want to live in a u.s. order in the middle east. we need to pull back and rethink this policy. >> colonel jack jacobs, as always, for being here. the rest of the folks sticking around. up next, the ebola outbreak. they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ (dad) we lived... thanks to our subaru. ♪ (announcer) love. its what makes a subaru, a subaru.

Foolproof, nonetheless, our capacity in the united states is very impressive. >> with this conversation about whats happening unfolding there in iraq, weve been talking about it for a while now. what is it that we dont already know? what are the questions that you still have? first to you, colonel jack, then to you, steve. >> im actually less concerned about the things that we dont know. where is isis, what are they plans welcome can we find an assembly area so we can target them. im less concer...

Its -- but its a -- i asked him whether or not he was age stated or nervous about going to the white house. he said no, no, its afterwards. its everything afterwards that im nervous. >> lets take a look at this interview that you did, this extraordinary interview with this remarkable young man. only 21 years old when he committed this incredible act of valor and heroism. lets take a look at the interview that our own colonel jack jacobs did with corporal kyle carpenter. >> how did you discovery ...