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First headline from politico. it says the following. pentagon push to send more trainers to ukraine was scrapped in december amid white house fears provoking russia. apparently u.s. national guard was there in the western part of the country. probably should have kept them there. it might have frozen putin. >> reporter: it's a pattern. this administration being overly fearful about provoking putin. he made the decision he was going to invade ukraine. there could have been some things that this administration should have done, arm ukraine much more earlier on before the invasion, sanctions once...

Pentagon push to sell the quote narrative, and yes, that it is the strategy is successful, and not flailing. >> and we are have seen it in polls as well. michael weiss, and elise labott, thank you. coming up next, i will speak to the iraqi ambassador to get his take on the advance in ramadi, and also, the prospect of 2016 and the fight gaiagainst isis. it's hard to find time to keep up on my shows.

And just the things we were doing, a lot of tests, look at the engine parameters and performance. everything looked as we expect expected. >> reporter: you said it turned out a boring and routine flight. >> we don't like exciting for this kind of thing. that's what it was. it went as planned. so everything was good. in fact if i wasn't talking to you right now, it's just normal what we fly every day. >> reporter: major, thank you very much. they were flying what's called the camolino plant. there are 4,000 to 5,000 acres being grown in the midwest, mainly montana. and that will produce 400,000...

Jon: the air force test flying a jet in the florida panhandle. what's unusual about this is waitments flying on. a mix of veggie oil and jet fuel it's parts of a pentagon push using biofuel. we understand this flight lasted just under an hour? is it a success? >> reporter: you know what? the air force says indicted is a success. they were flying on biofuel from something called the camolino plant. we'll speak with the pilot. we are talking about major chris seger. tell me what happened up there today? >> overall we are look at first bioflight that we had a lot of confidence going into the day.