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This was a big cargo plane. >> if you look at it, judge, you will see on the left-hand side there is what looks like a gun coming out. what happens is they are in a tight bag they are over the hospital like this. they would be responding to a forward air controller that would fire from this particular position which they can observe from this aircraft. they confirm the taliban had been operating in the perimeter. hospital. they were responding to live fire from the taliban. again this is much less of a precision weapon system when you used to have a big cargo plane with gunners going into the ...

Bringing them down from altitude. he makes an error in judgment. >> greta: did he know better? did he make a mistake or didn't he know he was supposed to keep the planes this far apart? >> it appears he didn't know in this circumstance they were supposed to be kept five miles apart. >> greta: that might be worse. >> he hands off to the guys in the tower at andrews and tells them the planes are four miles apart when they are three miles apart. they have mrs. obama's plane starts to swerve so it can separate from the other plane. they are unsuccessful. they say don't land this big cargo plane ma...

About five miles, at least, behind the plane in front of her, this big cargo plane. but the folks at andrews, when they picked her up on their radar say that simply was not the case. to the contrary, they said the distance was only about three miles. that was a concern because of possible turbulence coming off the back of this plane which could upset this one and because of runway space. the first lady's plane was told to do some s turns like this, to try to eat up some time and lengthen this gap. but it didn't lengthen it enough. the concern was quite simply that if this plane landed and hers...

We do want to take a closer look at what happened in this apparent foulup and what didn't. cnn's ftom forman walks us through the chain of events. >> as the first lady came into the base, coming in from the north to land, she was supposed to be about five miles at least behind the plane in front of her, this big cargo plane but the folks at andrews, when they picked her up on their radar, they said, that simply was not the case. to the contrary, they said the distance was only about three miles. that was a concern, because of possible turbulence coming off the back of this plane which could up...

Committee. what mrs. pelosi said i came here with a promise to drain the swamp, i start this specific office of ethical office outside of the ethics committee. they are saying look the process is working because these folks will be on trial. that being said the democrats want the process to work if it continues up into november. >> you're keeping tabs on that, luke, thank you. investigators are on their way to alaska to find out what brought down a big cargo plane. three people are dead. that plane was register stored an alaskan freight company. four days ago a military cargo plane crashed i...