WUSA CBS Overnight News November 25, 2015
With unique insight into all of this, we turn to ambassador nick burns, a career american diplomat, former National Security Council Director for russian affairs, and former u. S. Representative for nato. He now teaches diplomacy at harvard. Mr. Ambassador, what are the stakes in what weve seen today . Well, its been a consequential day, scott. We havent had a nato member shoot down a soviet or russian aircraft since 1952, and so the stakes are very high, that the russians learn the lessons of what happened but also that this can be deescalated so that theres no further action, and russia and ...