Pentagon Push News Today

A lot across the border at the u. S. Embassy in beirut, lebanon. Public in the mideast upset by the blast of the hospital in gaza. Hamas claims israel. Israel claims the palestinians. They go after the blood Thirsty Hamas militants. It is what they used to call a phony war. Intermittent strikes but not a full blown invasion. Hezbollah using antitank missiles who hit a kibbutz. They used rockets and mortars and small arms. Israel huge Military Presence here. They responded overnight with artiller...

First headline from politico. it says the following. pentagon push to send more trainers to ukraine was scrapped in december amid white house fears provoking russia. apparently u.s. national guard was there in the western part of the country. probably should have kept them there. it might have frozen putin. >> reporter: its a pattern. this administration being overly fearful about provoking putin. he made the decision he was going to invade ukraine. there could have been some things that this ad...

Pentagon push to sell the quote narrative, and yes, that it is the strategy is successful, and not flailing. >> and we are have seen it in polls as well. michael weiss, and elise labott, thank you. coming up next, i will speak to the iraqi ambassador to get his take on the advance in ramadi, and also, the prospect of 2016 and the fight gaiagainst isis. its hard to find time to keep up on my shows.

And just the things we were doing, a lot of tests, look at the engine parameters and performance. everything looked as we expect expected. >> reporter: you said it turned out a boring and routine flight. >> we dont like exciting for this kind of thing. thats what it was. it went as planned. so everything was good. in fact if i wasnt talking to you right now, its just normal what we fly every day. >> reporter: major, thank you very much. they were flying whats called the camolino plant. there are...

Jon: the air force test flying a jet in the florida panhandle. whats unusual about this is waitments flying on. a mix of veggie oil and jet fuel its parts of a pentagon push using biofuel. we understand this flight lasted just under an hour? is it a success? >> reporter: you know what? the air force says indicted is a success. they were flying on biofuel from something called the camolino plant. well speak with the pilot. we are talking about major chris seger. tell me what happened up there tod...