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Sand storm when american planes couldn't fly after being in ramadi and anbar province for over a year and half of them had not been paid without bullets, having to buy them from the black market they fled. but buying the administration's line of this being the iraqi's fault and we bear no responsibility is wrong. the media should be questioning that line. >> let me play one more sound bite from josh earnest and i think you will hear a similar phrase here. >> what the iraqi government has acknowledged is that the setback they experienced in ramadi was at least in part attributed to a breakdown ...

Problems they were dealing with. but at what point do you feel qualified to say this is the point at which below this threshold you can't fly because you're going to hurt other people or you are qualified to fly. >> but if someone is diagnosed with severe depression the airline knew it. it used to be you couldn't fly if you had that diagnosis, then there was treatment, drugs, people are allowed to fly, is that law going to change? >> no it shouldn't. we're not going to throw out the baby with the bath water. we're going to find out what happened request this specific case it's not that the reg...

And the tank that was with it. now, all of those things are contained. in fact the bag itself all those things are contained in the baggage compartment. and that aft baggage compartment door would have come off. the escape slide would have come out as well. and this bag is actually a flyaway kit which is used in case the aircraft has to land somewhere where there's no maintenance. it includes things like lightbulbs, oil, things like that. it's not a bag from the passengers. it's a bag that's part of the equipment on the aircraft. so i'm kind of hesitant right now to make the assumption that th...

Attitude. this president, going to your point, i don't think he shares the concerns at least of this panel and a large majority of americans. >> but -- >> we have been to this movie before, and that was in the after vietnam and it was in the carter administration. we cut our military systems, we sort of retracted our position in the world. and what happened? the end result of that was when our american diplomats were taken hostage in tehran, we could not mount a successful rescue mission. we had five helicopters mired in the sand. we couldn't even rescue our own. so flash forward, when we went...

Attitude. this president, going to your point, i don't think he shares the concerns at least of this panel and a large majority of americans. >> but -- >> we have been to this movie before, and that was in the after vietnam and it was in the carter administration. we cut our military systems, we sort of retracted our position in the world. and what happened? the end result of that was when our american diplomats were taken hostage in tehran, we could not mount a successful rescue mission. we had five helicopters mired in the sand. we couldn't even rescue our own. so flash forward, when we went...