ukraine according to vladimir putin s government are responsible for downing this plane. they are throwing so much misinformation and so much propaganda out there that they are forcing the united states to respond to beg propaganda out there they re forcing the united states to react to it. marie harf had a press conference and was asked to rebut claims she probably hadn t heard yet, put forward by the russian government five days after the fact. i think the u.s. is actually being very wise to take its time and deliberate on the evidence and intelligence that it has. but, again, if they re saying they probably it was probably the separatists using russian-supplied material, look, as far as i m concerned, nobody has seriously alleged that the separatists or russia intended to shoot down a commercial airliner out of the skies of ukraine. i mean, that would be the most idiotic thing the kremlin or people s republic of donetsk could have attempted to do. we have on record, social media b
what we deemed to be an sa-11 because of the altitude, 33,000 feet, and because of the trajectory. we have the trajectory recorded. we know that it occurred at the very moment that this aircraft disappeared from the radar screen. we know that very shortly thereafter separatists were bragging in the social media about having shot down a transport plane. we know that the so-called defense minster of the people s republic of donetsk actually posted a bragging social media posting of having shot down a military transport and then when it became apparent it was civilian they pulled it down from social media. we have voices that we have overheard of separatists in russian bragging about the shoot down and then subsequently taking down social media. secretary kerry, i know you were a prosecutor in
conversations, talking about the transfer and movement and repositioning of the sa-11 system. the social media showed them with this system moving through the very area where we believe the shootdown took place hours before it took place. social media, which is an extraordinary tool, obviously, in all of this has posted recordings of separatists bragging about the shootdown of a plane at the time right after it took place. the defense minister so-called self-appointed of the people s republic of donetsk actually posted a bragging statement on the social media about having shot down a transport. then when it became apparent it was civilian, they quickly removed that particular posting. are you bottom lining here that russia provided the weapon? there s a story today confirming that, but we have not