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Created jobs and economic growth here. that's an example where we can press back against russian aggression. but doing that is not inconsistent at the same time when you have a malevolent force like isis working with them where our interests coincides. >> let me ask you about isis because you are not alone among republican presidential candidates in suggesting that the solution is increased air strikes in syria and iraq against isis tarkt targets and to arm the kurds, the peshmerga. but there are increasingly officials saying that's not going to be enough. more at least western combat troops i...

Welcome back to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we're back with the one major question in our world lead, did a bomb from isis really bring down that russian airliner? today we learned u.s. and british intelligence sources did not and are not sharing information yet both came to the same conclusion that someone likely from isis likely planted an explosive on that plane killing 224 people, 25 of the victims children. we're also getting our own intel on a potent branch of isis in the sinai region where the plane went down. let's bring in cnn's evan perez. what are you learning about this group? >> ...

Something different than a coup, he began to re-establish security in the sinai. so it has been a tumultuous area. there is lots of connections between the muslim brotherhood, between isis, between other terrorist factions operating in the sinai. it is an arms bizarre that they're trying to get a handle on. and they have lots of relationships back into sharm el sheikh that could have come from different desperate groups. but isis could have encouraged it and again could have combined logistics to pull this off. and it is likely given what we have seen, and the british have great intelligence t...

Affiliate. and this was an isis affiliate that talked or posted information online. we don't know the exact nature of the messages, but there was messaging talking about the bomb, talking about the plane, talking about some specifics of the attack. by all accounts this message was sent to some other terrorist element so there was communication between some elements of a network here about the attack. it is this and how quickly it surfaced for the u.s. intelligence community that got their attention. this is not the public claims online that isis has been making for several days. this is someth...

Leaning that way. but egypt and russia they're saying not so fast. but the plane's black boxes possibly damaged and yet to reveal a single secret and no physical forensics yet confirming this theory from u.s. and british intelligence sources. our reporters along with our terrorism and aviation experts are all standing by. we're going to lead off with cnn's barbara starr who broke the news about the u.s. intel yesterday. she joins us live from the pentagon. barbara, what are your sources saying today about how they arrived at this theory that it was in all likelihood an isis bomb? >> jake, as u...