i m victor blackwell. and i m bianna golodryga. in moments the nation s top defense officials are expected to take reporters questions, this after the pentagon says russia downed an american drone over the black sea. a high-level russian official said russia will try to retrieve the wreckage, while white house officials say finding the debris may be impossible. the u.s. military said on tuesday a russian jet dumped fuel on the unmanned u.s. aircraft which it says was doing routine operations in international air space. the russian jet then hit the propeller of the reaper, forcing its remote pilots to bring it down in international waters. the pentagon says the move was part of a russian pattern of aggression, but the kremlin gives a different version of events and declared today that u.s. and russia relations are at their lowest point and in a deplorable state. cnn s oren liebermann is standing by at the pentagon waiting for the press conference to begin. you have new de
ukraine. we believe that many of the points on the peace plan put forward by china are consistent with russian approaches and can be taken as the basis of a peaceful settlement when the west and kyiv are ready for it, this readiness is not observed on their side. since the war began, russia has become far more dependent on china. china has been propping up russia s economy amid western sanctions by purchasing its energy replacing western supp suppliers in electronics and aircraft and providing an alternative to the u.s. dollar. she is inviting putin to china this year and told putin they share similar goals. putin says russia has closely studied beijing s peace proposal for ukraine, a plan that washington says would solidify russia s grip on occupied land. china would not want to see putin fail. it would set a terrible example for the chinese system. reporter: china and russia have a complicated history, but their shared adversarial relationship with washington is drivi
the third or the sixth air defense artillery battalion. those are the folks that normally train u.s. soldiers. what s made the difference is they have adapted that training because they re training folks who already understand air defense. now, to get to your question, where is this going to be deployed? you re talking what you re seeing on the screen right now is a launch from one patriot launcher. there will be only two of those given by the united states as part of that battery, so it s a point defense system. it s got to be placed in a location that is defending a target like a capital city, kyivkyiv or a port city like odesa. had is not a weapons system that can be moved around on the battlefield based on changing threats. it has to be placed somewhere to defend it. where it would go, i don t know. i would suspect where the most important targets are probably some of the cities that have been struck or some of the infrastructure facilities that
common interest for years and the common interest is to ensure the enduring defeat of isis. isis the caliphate was destroyed, but the organization is still remnants of that organization over there. there are still refugee and prison camps that are there that we re helping out folks, training folks to secure those. it s in our interest and it s in turkey s interest and it s for sure something that i needed to do and it s perfectly appropriate for the chairman to go check on how the forces are doing, especially when they are in harm s way. secretary austin, general milley, thank you very much. gentlemen, this concludes the time we have available today. thank you very much. we ve been listening for about 30 minutes now to the defense secretary, lloyd austin and the chairman of joint chiefs mark milley there talking not only about this ukraine defense contact group meeting today, the tenth since the invasion, but also this clipping of a u.s.
this is a hypothetical. this is a philosophical subject for most. but not for you. khalid sheikh mohammed, the number one guy from al qaeda that we captured, you personally waterboarded him. did you get anything out of him of value? well, we did get stuff out of him of value. we got information out of him that allowed us to catch other people and ultimately through those other people disrupt that other second wave of attacks that was coming. ambali was already working on training folks to try planes into the tallest buildings in los angeles, and chicago. that plan was initially put off kilter by president bush, his attack, but ultimately they were getting that back on schedule. and without the i.t. program, they would have had a chance to pull that off. i read your book.