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[ applause ] >> we have been watching the medal of honor ceremony being awarded to sergeant ryan pitts there in the east room of the white house. our colonel jack jacobs is still with us. colonel, you did, as we mentioned earlier, interview sergeant ryan pitts there and his wife. tell us about what we just saw there in terms of the import of this ceremony and also more broadly, we talk a lot in our politics about the cost of these wars in iraq and afghanistan and whether we all bear them equally and whether we take the time to think about the people lost. we heard there from the president and ...

Amount of training and deployment. i agree with colonel jacobs. for the most part, i've actually never seen someone do the wrong thing in a deployment or combat situation. i think there's a tremendous amount of pressure. there's a lot of things going on that are crazy. you're trained and, you know, a lot of these people have been on multiple deployments. your training kicks over and you react. you have nothing else to do. you're in a situation here with sergeant pitts where it was do or die. they were using grenades and claymore mines and every type of ammunition they had. i think this is the ...

Missiles. of course, first of all, it's got to be the one in question. it had to have been loaded with at least one more missile before the fact. we don't know what it was loaded with and so on. but with some good investigation, probably can turn out to be -- they'll be able to make a determination of whether or not this was the one that was in the area from which the deadly mistime was fired. don't forget, we have overhead assets, satellites in the optical range in infrared looking over this area continuously since hostility began some time ago, which is why we had a high degree of confidence...

Shortest distance, the shortest route between amsterdam and kuala lumpur and distance is money. there was no expectation that they would be subject to the weapons that were on the ground. everybody's perception was that it might be dangerous, but they have no weapons to reach a slant range of about ten miles or so. they weren't worried about it, but they were taking a calculated risk. this is what happens when you take a calculated risk over a difficult area. >> i want to show another piece of video we have, which is ukrainian officials are claiming the video we're showing actually shows the m...

What does that mean? >> there will be monetary damages and the other thing, i think, it has canceled air flights to ukraine. i think you'll find a lot of airlines not be willing to fly tos moscow anymore because they'd have to go this way, and that will hurt them in addition to the sanctions, and i think since there will be most likely europeans than americans they'll get much tougher with the sanctions and they're not going to go as far as we did just consider the. >> 233 people have been identified so far and no americans according to malaysiana airlines. it's a horrible tragedy. it is an ac...