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Radar to hit a plane that high. it's tough to logistically bring a plane down at that altitude if it's a criminal act like a missile from a war. capability is the thing that you have to look at to start the investigation. if it's not accidental, then who has the capability to bring it down? that's the point that you've been discussing with the experts from foreign policy, who would have the capability because you would have to have something that could do it, shelter fire missiles can do it but their altitudes are limited to how far they can go. if the plane was at 33,000 feet,s that going to ...

But again, and i want to underscore this point, the administration saying president obama has been briefed on the reports of the downed plane but they say it's just too early for them to confirm any of those reports. and ronan, as i just said, i was speaking to officials with the national security team who say they just don't know who is behind this. so a lot of unanswered questions, but i think that to your point, this certainly adds a whole new dimension, a whole new level of pressure to -- >> thank you, kristen for that update. we're going to bring you live to the state department who is br...

This could have been a target that wasn't intended to be struck and the may be more likely perpetrators are separatists within the country. i want to go to nina, a professor at the new school and an expert on this region. what do you think separatists if indeed this was a deliberate effort, and if, indeed this came from them. these are both assumptions at this point, would hope to achieve from striking de ining commercial airliner like this. >> i agree that most likely, it was just a very inept act of attacking something because that's what they've been doing. on monday, the cargo plane was ...

I would imagine that would be one of the first questions they receive. >> tom costello, you are a great help in making sense of this. the latest we're receiving from malaysian airlines, they are not yet confirming the exact nature of the fate of this flight but they are saying they received notification from ukrainian atc that they lost contact with flight mh-1730 kilometers from the tamak way point. we'll be following this closely from every angle. i want to go back to john cox, our aviation expert here helping us keep track of this situation and also a former pilot. john, tell us about the r...

That apparently there were 23 u.s. passengers -- >> we've seen the public reports. i spoke to our team right before i came out here. we don't have any additional details at this point on american citizens. we're looking to, of course, obtan that information. as soon as we have it available, we'll make it available to all of you. >> as the secretary, we know that the president was -- spoke to president putin this morning about, not this, but the plane came up. has the secretary made any calls to anyone in russia, anyone in ukraine that you are aware of? >> not at this point. obviously, this jus...