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Passengers, the state department is combing through the manifest carefully. so far, there are no american names to confirm. that doesn't mean there aren't americans, wolf. some of those times there are common names. a lot of names on the manifest don't have passports that are easily identifiable as american iz cs. a lot of these citizens would be primary nationalities of another country but have a dual nationality of u.s. citizenship. the state department doesn't want to say there are no americans aboard but breathing a cautious sigh of relief right now saying there are no americans so far to ...

Suspect the fbi is already involved? >> they could be involved already in terms of doing backgrounds from the flight m manife manifest, the flight list, working with the netherlands where the flight originated with their authorities and also in kuala lumpur, if there's any intelligence gathered there as well as the office in kiev. so it's possible to do that type of investigation without physically being at the scene. but at some point if we don't end up with the ntsb and other credible investigators from around the world at that crash site and if they don't get there in time and the site has ...

I'm going to get back to you. bob bare is joining us, as well. if these pro ow-russian separatists did carry out this out, how do you think the ukrainian government and military will respond? >> i don't think they're necessarily going to respond but this is a great windfall for them. these are russian weapons coming across the border that putin has been fuelling this conflict for the last year. he has to be stopped. it's going to be an excuse for more sanctions. and i think that whatever happens you know, on this, it's looking more and more like there was some sort of russian complicit. i don'...

Clear. so, you know, i get that they wanted to keep a tight lock on everything. i can completely see that. but then it kind of asks another question, if we can't share military operations or government operations with our own congress and senate, i mean, what -- that's kind of disturbing to me. >> if you're dealing with complete lunatics. certainly hearing that kind of report, they don't sound like the brightest military in the bunch. just in terms of operations.pro. let me bring in cnn's national security analyst and former cia operative bob bare. i want to quote specifically. it is better to...

Of a central asian population that are muslim. there are groups there fighting for independence from china and have used violence in the past. there's no definitive evidence that any of those groups are involved in this attack, but we know know that investigators have been look ing ing to see i there's people of weeger nationality on the plane. it's a possible lead. it broadens the area of potential actors. now that we know the flight range after this plane disappeared includes this region today. it's an area of inquiry. as we get into that, i want to bring in some of our experts who know so m...