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Soon as 2022. and intel possibly involving 100 battalion tactical groups, 175,000 the russian troops, armor, artillery equipment. there are the already almost 100,000 russian troops along that border with ukraine. so my question is this: how concerned are you that russia this time is not bluffing, that the, in fact, they will invade ukraine? >> el well, we remain focused on this, bret. they've invaded before, and so as we look at numbers of forces that are in the border region, as we look at some of the things that are occurring in the information space as we look at what's going on in the cyb...

>> elwell also said he had not seen anything that suggested the faa should have done something differently in certifying the max jets. he said the agency will be open to any recommendations coming from the crash investigations. federal authorities suspect thousands of machine gun conversion devices have been illegally smuggled into the united states from china, and in some cases, they're ending up in the hands of convicted felons. atf and customs officials in chicago alone have identified more than 2,900 packages containing conversion devices. the pay pal links to the chinese exporter reveal...

>> -- do you think that this decision was all about waiting for critical mass of data and getting it right, and that the satellite images that they found up in canada or whatever was the tipping point? or do you think that's an excuse? >> oh, it's certainly an excuse. i had that data, everyone had that data. data is transmitted freely to the open market. anyone can get it. i had it. some analysts that i work with had it. it showed clearly that the flight, this flight, was so parallel to the difficulties that lion air had, it was imminent to us now, elwell, the administrator, saying we didn't h...

David soucie is a former faa safety inspector and the author of "why planes crash" and justin green is back with us, as well. david, you first, your reaction now to the president's decision. >> i think it's a bold move, but it had to be done. i'm surprised that, frankly, that elaine chao, director of transportation or elwell, the faa administrator hadn't made this decision before. i'm not sure why it had to get to that level. i'm certain that the president spoke with elaine chao about it, i would presume. i guess i'm not certain, but i would presume that he spoke with her about it. so the fact...

She represents the vast majority of people in saying we need those universal background checks. we need safety features on guns, and she said yesterday, by the way, that clip was so exciting for me to re-live what happened yesterday with that wonderful rally that we did have for her. she basically is very, very clear and says, look, if you're a suspected terrorist on the no-fly list, you shouldn't be able to buy a weapon. these are very common sense measures and bernie has a hard time with them, because he does come from a state that has very few restrictions in vermont. >> el well, senator sa...