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Has not been preserved. >> in our hyper wired world maybe we should not be surprised by the quality of forensic evidence available, surveillance tapes and so forth all pointing the finger of blame directly in russias direction after the civilian airliner was shot down. craig now invests the forensics of the crash. >> reporter: the miner group has just shot down an airplane. >> item thursday, ukraine intelligence releases phone calls claiming to connect a commander and kblejs official to the crim...

Has not been preserved. >> in our hyper wired world maybe we should not be surprised by the quality of forensic evidence available, surveillance tapes and so forth all pointing the finger of blame directly in russias direction after the civilian airliner was shot down. craig now invests the forensics of the crash. >> reporter: the miner group has just shot down an airplane. >> item thursday, ukraine intelligence releases phone calls claiming to connect a commander and kblejs official to the crim...

Has not been preserved. >> in our hyper wired world maybe we should not be surprised by the quality of forensic evidence available, surveillance tapes and so forth all pointing the finger of blame directly in russias direction after the civilian airliner was shot down. craig now invests the forensics of the crash. >> reporter: the miner group has just shot down an airplane. >> item thursday, ukraine intelligence releases phone calls claiming to connect a commander and kblejs official to the crim...

Just said about this issue of culpability and going all the way to the top. when you hear that, and words like that, what do you hear from your sources about this issue of the use of the word blood on his hands, the use of the word terrorist act? >> sure, it ties into everything youve been reporting tonight because, of course, the less evidence and the less forensics that can be done on this crash, the less we can tie it to the russian intelligence, to the russian leadership, and the reason that...

What this is. these are criminals guarding their own crime scene. its really outrageous, but before they move anything what you do in a good investigation is both the law enforcement and criminal investigators, since its a crime scene, and the aviation investigators grid the whole crash site area. so they can put and piece together the evidence after the fact. and only then once they have gathered the forensics is anything moved, are bodies taken away, and theyre certainly taken away in a more d...

Aware of this situation? this has a lot to do with the financial claims that might be levied against the airlines and who knows who else. if these people suffered for some great period of time, that is a very important point as well. so those are all pieces of the puzzle which are, layers of forensics which might end up in a courtroom in the hague for all we know. how it went down is that who, those dont seal to be outstanding questions. and to to know the other details of this, they have likely...

You are saying "frog protection"? fraud. fro-g. frau-d. i think were on the same page. at discover, we treat you like youd treat you. fraud protection. get it at discover.com welcome back to "weekends with alex witt." forensics teams are fanning out to collect dna samples. the netherlands is the country hit hardest by the disaster. more than half of the 298 victims were dutch. families are sorting their way through the sock and anguish. >> its a young funny couple, always laughing, always toge...

Contaminates the scene, the criminal investigation, if you will, as well? >> reporter: the criminal investigation will be compromised. it just will. you have to hope the rationale for what happened to the plane is so obvious it doesnt need to be borne out in the forensics. people have definitely taken things from here. i dont know if they moved them and cataloged them. ive been at crash sites before and you see the personal effects of people, trappings of their lives, cell phones, wallets. none ...

♪ welcome back. appearing on the charlie rose show tonight former secretary of state hillary clinton didnt hesitate to offer her theory of who was behind the attack on malaysia airlines flight 17. >> the ukrainian government has been quick to blame it on terrorists which is their name for the russian insurgents. there does seem to be some growing awareness that it probably had to be russian insurgents. how we determine that will require some forensics. but then if there is evidence pointing ...

Attack on malaysia airlines flight 17. >> the ukrainian government has been quick to blame it on terrorists which is their name for the russian insurgents. there does seem to be some growing awareness that it probably had to be russian insurgents. how we determine that will require some forensics. but then if there is evidence pointing in that direction, the equipment had to have come from russia. >> pretty swift conclusion from senator clinton. john mccain blamed putin and called for a swift re...