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By both u.s. and british intelligence that they detected some chatter among isis militants in the sinai peninsula before and after the attack celebrating it. today you had perhaps the closest thing to an actual forensic confirmation that this was a bomb. you had the head of russian intelligence saying that after they were able to analyze the soil sample and samples of the fuselage, they were able to determine that in fact, there was explosive residue in the wreckage of that plane. they went as far as saying it was about 2.2 pounds worth of tnt that brought the plane down. from the eyes of the ...

Without some solution to the syrian civil war. do you think that's true? >> there's no long-term solution unless you take care of the civil war. we're going to have to come to some sort of political solution that sets up a transition government or sets a date for an election and lets assad go out gracefully so that we can all concentrate on fighting isil. the russians went in there and pretended they were fighting si isil. they were there to protect assad. after the airliner went down, they have gone after isil big-time with the bombing in raqqa. you need to do that. as a result of what's happ...

Itself, chris. >> all right. claudio, thank you. joining me from cairo, egypt, foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin. the russians announced today they had had found it was some sort of explosive device that brought down the passenger plane. egyptian authorities still saying that's not the case. there seems to be dispute between the twoflations about what exactly happened. >> reporter: yeah, i mean, if you look at it over the course of the last several weeks, the egyptian government has been reluctant to buy into the theories from western governments that it was definitely a terrorist attack, ...

Soil sample and samples of the fuselage, they were able to determine that in fact, there was explosive residue in the wreckage of that plane. they went as far as saying it was about 2.2 pounds worth of tnt that brought the plane down. from the eyes of the russians and western intelligence services, this is now definitely a terrorist attack. not yet sure who is behind it although isis did claim responsibility for it. they still want to verify that claim of responsibility, but you're right. when you talk to egyptian government officials, today the statement that came out of the government was ve...

They say 70% of these refugees are fleeing assad. there is no solution to isis without some solution to the syrian civil war. do you think that's true? >> there's no long-term solution unless you take care of the civil war. we're going to have to come to some sort of political solution that sets up a transition government or sets a date for an election and lets assad go out gracefully so that we can all concentrate on fighting isil. the russians went in there and pretended they were fighting isil. they were there to protect assad. after the airliner went down, they have gone after isil big-tim...