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Last seven days. the first thing is, transparency. i think the time is coming soon where either president biden or the leaders of the national government on the military side need to address the american people in and give them a full briefing on what exactly is happening. because we are not accustomed to seeing these types of shoot downs, certainly, three and seven days. the second thing that i think is desperately needed is probably taking place as we are having this conversation. diplomacy. t...

Then safely shoot them down. as the biden administration has done not once, not twice, but on many occasions. >> we do know president biden, the administration, has gotten some criticism from your republican colleagues as to the timing of the shutdown of the initial chinese spy balloon. the fact that they allowed it to float over the united states until it reached the carolina coast. do you believe these most recent shoot downs are more because of national security concerns? also by political co...

Logistical challenges associated with something like this and decision for poland to make but the possibility helping poland air force if they sent the jets into ukraine. at this time, nothing is done yet. however as lucas was talking about, ukraines air force is a strong date according to marco rubio who tweeted earlier today right now russias air force is having their worst day yet and ukraine, multiple shoot downs entered kat for private. ukraine in the no-fly zone set up over the skies from ...

Which leads the pentagon to believe a couple of things. one, that this could be part of a broader pattern where russian fire, they really just dont care if they hit non-military targets, right? and sometimes frankly theyre deliberately hitting non-military targets. but that the fire is indiscriminate. thats one factor here. it does actually have an effect on the battlefield because russian military jets, when they fly and drop so-called dumb bombs, they have to fly lower to the ground to have mo...

And calculated adjustments. when threats raise, we want to make sure that our air crews and our ground crews are operating safely, and that we take into account all possible threats. >> reporter: in the latest sudden combat encounter, they shot down an iranian-made drone threatening southern troops just days after the u.s. also shot down a syrian fighter jet and another drone, all in self-defense, according to the pentagon. a key question now, after three shoot-downs, can russia even control syr...

The man pads terrorists can carry, it is no hard than smuggling a set of golf clubs. it would be low altitude shoot-downs. im amazed it hasnt happened before already with al qaeda. given all the armories that had their doors kicked open with the fall of these governments from the arab spring onward, i think we need to start looking at that, from international aviation community and start to figure out how were going to deal with it. because searching passengers and taking something larger than a...

Have been a no-fly zone. the euro control put a restriction of 32,000 feet and below. this aircraft was at 33,000. and i would look at malaysian and governments and a number of shoot downs and you had missile activity from the ground and air-to-air activity from the air between fighters, there is your warning and euro control should have stepped in and closed down the entire area. we dont care if you have to circumnavigate and make a fuel stop. we are operating on the safety of passengers. the p...

Sophisticated in their hands like an sa 7 or 11 that pushes the limits and unbelievably irresponsible on the part of the russians. >> there are a number of shoot downs of aircrafts in the last couple of days. one report and to my knowledge not confirmed yet. one report is that a russian fighter aircraft shot down a ukranian fighter aircraft. both sides, the ukranian government has the buk missiles and the separatist have the buk missiles and how will we prove or how does the world know which sid...

The world so you will have a lot of imagery and radar, so we should be able to answer many of the questions going forward, such as what kind of system, from what lined of location and obviously who was operating in that location, from ground to air or air-to-air. we should be able to answer the questions in a relatively short period of time. it will be critically important that all countries with weaponry radar cooperate and bring that material together. >> pj, we have a lot of assets for reason...

Potential ground to air threat. >> this is so disturbing. its on the heels of reports last week they have our humvees we provided. theyre cutting and running buck. theyre cutting and running in part because of the brutal massacres we believe were seeing on the streets of iraq. this group is claiming all sorts of terrible things and posting terrible documentation of it. the state department is condemning it horrific but not confirming its happened. >> theyre using fear as a weapon as they have in...