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Turn to that a little bit more. >> the flights that the united states has been doing in the north of syria, had reportedly been very helpful in operations there, antiisis operations. you sent us this bit from stratford that says those have been shut off. >> the russians apparently recently deployed the sa-17, surface to air missile system, which targets aircraft coming across the border there. so its in sierra, in northern syria, the russians are operating it and theyre looking for planes. they ...

Its the blame game. what seemed encouraging at first, was how quickly president putin called president obama about the crash, has already dissipated somewhat. right after that, what was clear is that the finger-pointing started. the ukrainian -- and not just with president putin. ukrainian president, poroshenko, called it a terrorist act. and blamed, if you recall, the pro-russian rebels for launching this ground-to-air missile, that apparently took out the plane. and he blamed president putins ...

Weve been talking about a sa-17 earlier today. im told by this source who is following the intelligence very closely, that they have ruled out the sa-17. it is either an sa 11 or or sa-20. they said they saw they had an 15-11 a few weeks ago, but it was not operational. then in the last 72 hours, when they saw three planes fall out of the sky in the same location in the donetsk region, they started to believe that the sa-11 was in fact operational. the senior u.s. official tells me that they can...

Has controls on it. that would be one observation. second thing is we should know immediately that there was a missile launch and the site from which it was fired. and i personally heard, you know, missiles off the ground in the gulf war, when our satellites immediately get the hot spot. so i think we already know that it was a missile launch, if it occurred, and from where it was fired. and my guess its not russian. its inside the separatist zone. the russians have been pushing sophisticated eq...

Assad is probably used at least twice already have in mortar, artillery delivered scud missiles. if you want to go after the delivery systems and stockpile, youd have to take down the sa-17 anti-aircraft defense. items not a realistic military option. so i think now were trying to find ways to back off that challenge. >> general, what do you make of the reports of the 110 missiles? >> the number im using unclassified is israel is facing as many as 100,000 missiles from lebanon, from hamas and ga...

Be able to find common ground to do that. jon: well, i guess we still have a little bit of time. not much. joe trippi, thanks for watching it with us. >> thanks, jon. jenna: fox news exclusive on some dramatic developments in the middle east today. intelligence sources confirming that iran is getting a sophisticated missile defense system in exchange for helping the syrian government fight against the rebl bells there. leland vittert live from our jerusalem bureau with more on this exclusive. le...