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Before we do anything about it. >> will, i absolutely think hes hiding behind the investigation because it delays and it will take weeks to do something like that. the fact of the matter is, megyn, when you have crisis, you dont always do the first thing to de-escalate the crisis. it depends on the crisis. in this crisis you should confront the adversary who caused the crisis. and that is putin and russia. lay out the case to the world because theyre watching that he has been conducting a covert...

>> will, i absolutely think hes hiding behind the investigation because it delays and it will take weeks to do something like that. the fact of the matter is, megyn, when you have crisis, you dont always do the first thing to de-escalate the crisis. it depends on the crisis. in this crisis you should confront the adversary who caused the crisis. and that is putin and russia. lay out the case to the world because theyre watching that he has been conducting a covert proxy war in ukraine, that he h...

Putin on it or this is sort of a rogue group of folk who is are pro-russian in the ukraine and not really taking their orders from putin on something like this? >> audience really has to understand this is a very important point, putin is fighting a proxy war. he was able to intimidate and able to annex it. the ukrainians are pushing back. hes got his fsb, intelligence people, special ops leaders, these are officers in eastern ukraine leading a movement to undermine that part of that countrys go...

Approved. and that stuff continues to flow. >> havent gotten there yet and why -- its been a long time since they requested that. >> they are working through -- its working through the procurement process. i dont have a tick tock on exactly where it is or when it entered the process, but its working through there and theyll get there soon. >> is the concern here that this would have all been a proxy war between the u.s. and russians if, in fact, the u.s. were to provide lethal aid? >> look, im n...

Their way to moscow with them. unconfirmed but thats what were being told. were not going to get any legitimate investigation into this thing out of russia, so how do we do any of that? >> well, i think, you know, the technology will allow us to be able to confirm where that missile was launched from and who was in that vicinity. so i think were going to be able to get our fingerprints on where that came from and whos likely to do it. i think the circumstantial evidence is already there, megyn. ...

This is part of a package of 33 million that the president has approved. >> they havent gotten there yet and it was a long time since they requested that. >> it is working through the procurement process. i dont have the tick tok and it will get there soon. >> is there a concern it would be a proxy war between the u.s. and russians if the u.s. were to provide lethal aid. >> i will not get in the hypotheticals, but the territory of ukraine is violated by the neighbor russia and that needs to stop...

The russians are not playing games. russians have de facto been fighting a proxy war in eastern ukraine. they have their eyes set potentially on nato allies close to russia itself including the baltic states. its important the u.s. boost its presence there. also i believe that if indeed the russians are responsible for this, then the united states must press further for the international isolation of moscow on the world stage and that includes expulsion from the g-20. they are expelled from the ...

Little bit of distance from this crisis but just a little bit. this is in fact a proxy war. the separatists are acting with russian support. whether or not they use the missile system on their own almost seems to at the end of the day be incidental though almost seems to be incidental. putin can always say i disavow any involvement but he is so integrally involved. they had to be trained on the system. i just dont see how, if the plane were shot down by a missile, if it was a buk, how putin dist...

Missiles to qatar. how good can that be for anyone in the middle east? its just awful what were do g doing. we have no middle east policy. israel is going to pay for it. we might also. >> let me play one other sound byte and pull the two stories together. in some ways, were having a proxy war with iran. look at what he had to say over the weekend about the situation most recently. >> i just wanted your viewers to imagine the united states being bombarded not in one city or two cities, but in eve...

Missiles to qatar. how good can that be for anyone in the middle east? its just awful what were do g doing. we have no middle east policy. israel is going to pay for it. we might also. >> let me play one other sound byte and pull the two stories together. in some ways, were having a proxy war with iran. look at what he had to say over the weekend about the situation most recently. >> i just wanted your viewers to imagine the united states being bombarded not in one city or two cities, but in eve...