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To their populations that they were doing more about isis. i don't think it's enough to significantly roll back isis. look, isis' great recruiting technique is that it controls territory, it has a caliphate, and it will continue to have that recruiting vehicle that has drown thousands, tens of thousands of people to iraq and syria, until we start taking away that territory. that's going to require from ground forces, better ground forces of other countries, but you can't do it from the air alone. at the same time, we need to pursue the kind of negotiations and diplomatic solution that secretar...

Firing it down. the russian plane went down in flames crashing in an area known as the turkmen mountains in syria. nato held a meeting, standing by u turkey. meanwhile, vladimir putin is accusing turkey of helping isis and he's canceled a visit to turkey by his foreign minister. here's what president obama had to say about the incident. >> turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace. i think it's very important right now for us to make sure that both the russians and the turks are talking to each other, find out exactly what happened. and take measures to d...

Them down. but the implications of the u.s. trying to enforce a no-fly zone and the u.s. potentially shooting down a russian plane, is that something that's wise for our country to be getting into? >> look, the first preference of everybody ought to be to get an agreement with russia to join a coalition to go after isis and only isis. that's the threat that threatens all of us. to deconflict their operations, so that you don't have these incidents in the future and to make sure that assad, president assad of syria, does not use this as an opportunity to unleash his air force, to kill innocent ...

Je -- refugees have to flee the region. the entire area is in chaos. so a no-fly zone will allow the syrian people a respite from this fight. we need a no-fly zone yesterday. and as to the russians -- >> that's the question. >> they need to stop what they're doing. >> you shoot them down? >> shoot them down, absolutely. >> and joining us for more from turkey is nbc's richard engel. >> steve, u.s. officials and nato officials and turkish officials all say that the russian jets did, in fact, violate turkish airspace, if only briefly. a u.s. official said that it was just a matter of seconds that...

>> there's a lot of interesting evidence around this. the most important of which after senator mccain who, to be clear, i don't think senator mccain overtly want to support isis. senator mccain has been frustrated with how the good and warm and fuzzy syrian opposition hasn't been more effective in wanting those folks armed and was praising bandar in a way for doing things the u.s. wouldn't or couldn't do. what bandar was doing, head of saudi intelligence at the time, was essentially running an operation of coddling and building what became the most effective fighting force against assad insid...