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we are also learn of a communication from the russian bomber pilots toward their american counterparts in that incident over california. a spokesperson for the norad tells cnn that one of the russian pilots said over an emergency aircraft channel, quote, good morning, american pilots. we are here to greet you on your fourth of july independence day. was that a threat? the norad official would not go that far, but he did say this incident was, quote, potentially destabilizing, because it was an unannounced approach and because the russian bombers are capable of striking the u.s. with nuclear bombs. brianna, this 'happened on the same day that vladimir putin called him and personally congratulated him on the fourth of july holiday. not so coincidental. >> i wonder though brian, does this highlight putin's mind
nuclear bombser flying within 340 miles of 9 california coast. what is the proper reaction to this? how would you classify this act? >> it's an act of aggress, but if you have any doubt whether the k08d war is back on these are the kind of maneuvers that show that it is. a reestablishment of an essen kind of cold war principles where is at that time it was all a show of force, but we're seeing this literally on a weekly basis. whether it's the mainland or parts of europe or anywhere else in 2006 i was deployed to kurd i stan and i fresh seeing a russian frog foot aircraft buzzing when we supposedly had good relations, the stepped-up nature goes to prove that have 4r5id mir putin, sometimes the smallest kid in classes the
games and aggression. you have him same a congratulatory call but at the same time you also have i think this approach by planes which seems counter to that. >> absolutely it does. putin has been extremely aggressive recently one of the reasons the incoming chairman of the joint chiefs of staff recently called russia the number one security threat to america ahead of isis and north korea. putin has aggressively deploys weapons into ukraine. there's been an escalation of fighting there, and he announced he's adding dozens of new ballistic missiles to the arsenal. there are reports that russia is threatening sweden if they join nato they might be retaliate. a big concern among u.s. officials tonight. >> brian thank you. i want to talk about all of this with adam kin zinger. you just heard that report from our brian todd these russian