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Capitals suggest that it was a terrorist bomb. on the ground operations still very much ongoing to try and get many of those tourists in sharm el sheikh back home. we know that russia now one of the countries -- >> all right. well, we have had a bit of difficulty as you can tell for yourself, but we got the gist of it there. lets continue the conversation with colonel jack jacobs. first of all, colonel, how difficult would it be for someone to put a bomb in the baggage area of the plane? >> incr...

Dispersed over a wide variety of areas over the middle east. the headquarters of isis doesnt exist in the same way that the headquarters of al qaeda existed. the chain of command is tenuous. extremely difficult to supervise all the people. we wont change what were do g doing. the president has decided that what well do is stay there for a while and leave and thats exactly what well do. >> all right. colonel jack, thanks so much. later on this hour, former cia director james woolsey. well get h...

Do it. its a perception in combat, something has to be done and you better do it or nobody else will. >> colonel and kelly, lets listen in. we have ambassador jane hartley speaking now. here we go, everyone. >> i want to start by thanking president alan and the people of france for their heart-felt outpouring of support and concern for these young men. i also extend my thanks to the french authorities, doctors, nurses, and everyone who took such good care of them after the attack. we often use t...

Med-evac and other operations. >> sometimes i think we forget how dangerous these missions are, the training missions themselves. >> being in uniform is not easy. theyre always at risk. and they train to a standard which means they have to train under the most difficult conditions theyre likely to meet in combat. we do it all of the time. we train with live fire exercises all the time. i mean real weapons, real bullets. we have to be good and sometimes it is dangerous. >> melissa, thank you for ...

>> i apologize. i guess from what weve heard, theyre presumed dead. >> what else can you tell us -- >> search and recovery. >> the area where you are now, can you describe the scene? what are you seeing, is there still smoke? >> it is a beautiful area known as a vacation area. theres a boat dock in front of a place thats well known, local bar, and theres all sorts of coast guard boats and search boats taking off from the boat ramps here. and theyve closed down the local roadways and it is just v...

Controller has the discretion to reroute all of the aircraft. now, in the case of post-9/11 in the united states, the u.s. controllers did a magnificent job of rerouting all u.s. aircraft and getting them on the ground in a reasonably short period of time and safely. so it can be done with good management coordination. >> so what does it tell you as a former pilot that russia actually closed four of those airways? does that tell you that in this case -- were not assigning anyone blame. this is a...

In part, karlijn was a bright, talented doctoral student, a diligent researcher, and a dear friend to all of us who worked with her in our research group. she was doing research to combat a.i.d.s. and alzheimers disease. a number of leading a.i.d.s. researchers also lost their lives with the airliner fell to earth. >> len thomas was traveling to the international a.i.d.s. conference inaustralia. >> but as international outrage builds over the senseless loss of 298 lives, theres still the difficu...

Start of civil war, al maliki is moving army divisions from basra in southern iraq to try to reinforce the capital. this is a very serious situation. it would be wrong to just say that this is a problem for iraq and syria and to dismiss it. these militants tens of thousands of them are very anti-american and dont see this fight as just being limited to this region. many of them also want to carry out attacks in europe and the united states. this is not just a problem more the middle east. this i...

But its not clear if theyre going to be able to launch an attack. >> thank you. and im joined by msnbc -- colonel jack, can you tell us what assets we actually have in place in iraq and what their mission in theory could be? >> well, we have assets in the persian gulf, and in the mediterranean. and we can fly in aircraft from nations nearby. so, we can have lots of different targets. but in terms of ground troops,

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