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Truck the mres in. theyve refused to give them the weaponry theyve been begging for. the sanctions have been minuscule. these latest enacted by the obama administration, i think, are helpful, but if you ask ukrainian government thats struggling, they would say they need weapons for which to defend themselves. well, vladimir putin just moved 10,000 troops back to the border again and we have seen a step up in separatist activities. so i think we have been so unhelpful to the ukrainians that it ha...

Mistake made by someone who had the capability to shoot down an aircraft and we know at least from the last few -- couple weeks that that could be russian or separatist russian capability. if thats true, this is really, really something that commands our attention to bring this kind of thing to a halt in ukraine. >> were talking about 295 passengers. 15 crew members. a 777. boeing has acknowledged that the plane has been lost on radar. we see the video already. this is somewhere near donetsk. we...

Point. but again, i would think, andrea, as you know in this business, that it shouldnt take too long for them to figure it out, if in fact, that plane was shot down. >> and, in fact, theyve got plenty of debris there. were seeing pictures off of russian television now of the debris field. so tragically, we see clearly there were no survivors from this. this is 295 people. 280 passengers, 15 crew members. malaysian air flight, mik, which was at cruise altitude. and this is a workhorse plane, the...

Plane, i think theres going to be hell to pay, and there should be. >> senator john mccain, thank you for joining us in this emergency as we continue the breaking news. a malaysian airliner tlig from amster doom kuala lumpur, malaysia, went down near donetsk, we believe in ukraine. over, cra ukrainian territory. its still unknown whether it was pilot error, some kind of mechanical error or some sort of other action. and if so, from which side. michael mcfaul joining me, former ambassador to russ...

Position to speak to the timing of that phone call. so its not clear that the two leaders discussed the plane. and i heard you reporting earlier today that it would stand to reason that that phone call probably took place before president obama was briefed about the plane. but again, were working to get confirmation about that. in terms of the presidents schedule today, hes an a previously scheduled trip to delaware. hes about to speak at the port of wilmington. preplanned event which will focus...

Read out of their final communications with the cockpit. >> no, they are only saying they lost communication with their plane and they are also saying the malaysians are also saying that it so far does not have confirmation the plane was brought down by a missile. i do have this. just now into us, from the faa. the faa issued a notice to airmen prohibiting u.s. airlines from flying from any operations until further notice in the air space over the crimea region of the ukraine and portions adjace...

That a plane has gone down there. by one account, we had early on, the ukrainians were suggesting that this was a buk anti-aircraft missile defense system that brought the plane down. buk. and those were commonly used in the soviet union. keeping in mind that, of course, ukraine was part of the former soviet union with russia. we have no -- this is not a shoulder-fired missile. if it is a buk missile, this is one of those big type of missile systems that sits on a trailer that you see pulled thr...

Indication according to u.s. military and defense officials that the plane was shot down. doesnt mean it wasnt shot down. they just say at this point, they dont have that kind of evidence. and they also point out that while the -- both the ukrainian military and russian military do possess those buk missiles that would be capable of taking down an airliner, the ukrainian stockpile of those weapons is pretty much soviet era and its not clear that they would have the capability to actually launch ...

Lumpur. standing by in moscow is jim maceda. we know there have been a series of incidents, including a ukrainian fighter jet that it says was shot down last night. a series of incidents in the last couple of days. this plain was n this plane was not flying at high altitude. had taken off from amsterdam. tell us what if anything, youre hearing from russian officials. >> im not yet in russia. im still in london. but, obviously, were monitoring this very, very carefully. the -- it was the interfax...

Impressive leader. i met him the day before he was elected. i was part of the election observing committee. hes the right guy to get him on the foin first and see what happens. i dont know what -- putin is obviously, i would guess, impacted -- well, he is impacted heavily by this new round of economic sanctions against parts of the banking and energy sectors in his country that we have just levied with -- and europe will support in substantial part. so im not sure the first call should come from...