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maybe you want to keep those seat belts fastened. "the lead" starts right now. major questions raised today about your safety in the air as senators grill the faa why the agency cannot be so sure there will not be more runway near misses and grounded flights. plus, nikki haley officially kicks off her 2024 campaign, bringing a pledge to bring in a new generation of leadership. but how long can she maintain this delicate dance, throwing subtle shade at trump while not alienating his supporters? and hayashi, you know, that first flying object shot down, the one that was deemed a ch...

What stood out to you. >> it was exactly as we anticipated. it was limited. it was specifically targeted. limited to the production of chemical weapons. that went pretty much by the book as anticipated. i think the things that stood out to me, a couple of thing, the variety of locations and the weapons platforms and weapons that were used. i mean, the u.s. threw everything at these three sites. they launched from three different -- from water from three different angles, from the sea, from under the sea, from bombers, with fighter escorts. we saw everything. including the use of a missile that...

>> any thing from the pentagon what their response would be? >> in the past the pentagon has always tried to stress the three allies involved here, japan, south korea and the u.s. almost every response has been to make sure to include assets from all three, whether that's fighter escorts, bringing in bombers from guam, flying them right up to north korea's border or in some case having south korea fire rockets the exact -- they fired them in the ocean, but the distance matters and the distance they fire them into the ocean is the exact distance from those launchers to pyongyang, the capital of...

Incredibly isolated. i think that the president's rhetoric has backed them into a corner diplomatically with china, the main backer. i think genuinely, they believe that a u.s. strike on the and in previous legislations i don't think that they thought that was a possibility. that is good for us and the president. i thought it was interesting that they referenced bombers, me that they think somebody is coming after their nuclear facility, because they could easily say that we are going to target the u.s. and its allies in the past before, or it could say that they could -- just off the shore in...

Markets and perhaps ties with turkey, turkish oil market is highly dependent on russia. will suffer because of it. >> reporter: but it's his potential military aggression that's scaring leaders from the middle east to washington. putin is moving anti-aircraft missiles what could hit planes over turkey to a base inside syria. experts say putin could bomb the ethnic turks who live inside syria and are allies with the turkish government. a u.s. official tells cnn there's concern tonight for the safety of american pilots flying in the area who could be caught in a crossfire. >> the russians for ex...