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But we also have to step up our activities against isis. to me we have been much too half hard on this. the men and women in the armed forces do a phenomenal job, but they don't have the intelligence on the ground. the only way to get that is with observers on the ground. we have to do much more, sustain it and keep it going. our allies should be doing more. with all these countries involved, we're still doing the overwhelming number of air attacks, and they're not as effective as they could and should be. >> congressman peter king, thanks for joining us. coming up, will russia's president s...

His military mission in syria to targeting isis? and on defense. as more questions are raised about his autobiography, gop candidate ben carson is defending his life story and attacking the media. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." breaking news. european investigators who analyzed the black boxes recovered from the wreckage in the sinai desert are now saying flatly that the metrojet crash was no accident. they're telling cnn affiliate france 2 that the flight data recorder confirms the blast was not accidental, as stepped-up security measures are announced for flights origi...

Let's go live to moscow, our correspondent matthew chance is standing by. everything you're hearing over there, matthew, are the russians now convinced this was a bomb? >> reporter: well, if they are, they're not saying as much explicitly. but the fact is they've been listening to that intelligence that's been shared with them by the united states and by the united kingdom. it's forced them to do something that the kremlin very rarely does, which is a u-turn. remember, 24 hours ago the russians said they're not going to jump to any conclusions before the investigation is completed. they were v...

And britain, they decided to share intelligence, sensitive intelligence with russia and as a result of that, the russian president vladimir putin suspended all flights with russia and cairo, as well. obviously, russians were convinced by what they learned. >> i think we painted them into a corner because if the next plane that is russian takes off from there and blows up and they ignored what would appear to be great advice from the u.s. and britain, you know, shame on them. so i think that no matter what, once we gave them information leading to believe that it was probably a bomb, they were ...

As russian drones scouring the debris field, focus remains on egyptian's sham el sheikh airport where the aircraft departed. british intelligence believe an insider at the airport may have planted a bomb in the plane's cargo hold right next to the aircraft's fuel line. >> you have food service workers, baggage handlers, maintenance personnel, all sorts of folks that have legitimate access and if you look statistically, working on those folks, somebody will be bad someplace. somehow perhaps they can be exploit the. >> reporter: satellites captured a midair flash over the peninsula indicating a ...