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We re not sure. this has been really hard for the obama administration. if this tragedy says anything it s look, war zones are dangerous places. this is happening right in our backyard. it s a three-hour flight from where we live. something has to happen. we have to resolve the conflict. it give it is obama administration more leverage to get the europeans on board. e.j., you have covered a lot of presidents. clearly this president has a confluence of foreign affairs issues on his plate. every president has a full plate. there is a real confluence of issues here. i think he has about four or five plates in front of him. you heard people talking today. you weren t clear whether they were talking about what was happening in gaza or what was happening in ukraine. meanwhile there were negotiations with the irans. this is a messy time. ....
Spoke from delaware earlier today, you heard him say the top priority is determining whether there were, in fact, americans on board that flight. right. i can tell you behind the scenes here at the white house, senior administration officials have been working urgently the to try to determine that very fact, to figurer out if there were americans on board. as you pointed out this comes a day after president obama announced the stiffest sanctions yet against russia for ramping up the crisis in ukraine are. senior officials say russia has escalated the crisis by providing more heavy arms to the spraetists. there is deep concern on both sides of pennsylvania avenue this hour that it could be the work of russia separatists. i emphasize that because they don t know who is responsible for bringing down this plane. lawmakers expressing concern including dianne feinstein who said if this is the work of separatists, if there is a link to russia it would be concerning ....
Flight was shot down it would be the first time a military strike brought down a civilian airliner. president obama speaks about the tragedy. what will this mean for his foreign policy in the region? stay with us. i dbefore i dosearch any projects on my home. ....
They would only have are seconds to react. in an aircraft the size of a 777 airliner is not that maneuverable. especially to move quickly like a fighter might and therefore you re lumbering along. they are going in a straight line. it s an easy shot for a missile. there is very little that a pilot could do at that point. all right. well, thank you very much, greg fife, colonel jacobs and jay rollins, please stay with us. coming up, why would someone want to shoot down a plane with a surface to air missile? we ll have more on the investigation and we ll go live to the pentagon. and how did we get there? we look at the rising tensions between russia and ukraine. president obama called this a terrible tragedy. what challenge does this president have to his foreign policy agenda? stay with us. ....
I think the president you know, i think the president has pursued reasonable policies in these places, as you and janine said, he s trying to get the europeans to be tougher on putin. he ought to use it as an opportunity to present to the world his foreign policy and the underlying toughness that he has here. there are things we can do and things we can t do. a lot of this conflict is not obama s fault. i hope we don t go political on day one and start blaming people for the strike. no american politician fired a missile at that plane. the president can use this to say, look, here is what i m doing. he gave a foreign policy speech this year. he could do another one for what to do to keep the chaos in the ....