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Officials who spoke yesterday at the pentagon said they do believe this drone broke up when it hit the water. butt u.s. is also tell ing us that they did take steps to wipe the drone of anything sensitive. in addition to the russian den denials, we are also told this order to harass the drone did come from senior russian officials within russia's defense ministry. this was not pilots going rogue here. this was a direct tasking from the russian ministry of defense. >> remarkable moment, appreciate you're kick us off. let's get perspective from general clark and deputy director of national intel...

Things you can't miss is the amount of security that you encounter when you try to go places like the seafood market that was deemed the epicenter of the outbreak or if you try to go to the wuhan institute of neurology, it is more heavily secured than most buildings in washington, d.c. it's heavily fortified. we also went to the wuhan cdc. i mention that because that has gotten an increasing amount of attention, john, in recent months and perhaps that is where a lot of the focus will be going forward because it's only two blocks from that market where the first cases were detected, john. >> da...

Conflict militarily for obvious reasons. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? >> yes. >> you are? >> that's a commitment we made. we agree with one china policy. >> that's the older sound. let me read you the other comment. he said it would dislocate the entire region. so it's a burden that's even stronger. >> yeah. >> in the sense that that would be a war. >> it would be a war. and what you just said, beth, is so fascinating. talk about the quiet part out loud. i mean, that every war game, every plan, if there is a war there, includes the united sta...

Civilians were killed in the bombardment, and they expect to find more. overwhelmed, more director is expecting to store the boards of those yet to be identified. the relatives likely fled the fighting or were killed in it. he tells us hundreds more died because they simply couldn't reach the hospital. there was a constant flow of dead people like this in our morgue. the main reason was heart attacks, pneumonia, diabetes, he says. and i believe all of this was because they didn't get medical treatment on time. cut off from the main cemetery by constant shelling, the city was forced to clear a ...

Existential threat to our nation. so we need to step up. we need to spend more money. we need to get the ukrainians what they need, which is heavy equipment, artillery, tanks, helicopters and the like to prepare for the oncoming battles in the donbas area which is going to be, as i said, the heavy maneuver war. >> and that is what they're asking for. general and beth, thank you so much to both of you and kate, back to you in new york. it seems that it's not necessarily that the russians bombed this train station, despite the civilians. it seems the civilians were the point. >> very clearly, a ...