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Intelligence and military background and your intelligence background as well on capitol hill before that, what do you make of this information that u.s. intelligence believes it was a missile that took out that commercial airliner? >> andrea, the very same intelligence systems that would detect iran's ballistic missile launches against u.s. forces in iraq may well have also picked up iranian anti-aircraft activity on that same night. and i think it's important to distinguish, i don't believe what the reporting suggests is that iranian ballistic missiles somehow by coincidence intercepted the ...

Local team and reached nearly 8,000 feet in what appeared to be a normal ascent. but within two minutes it suddenly disappeared from radar. the plane then crashed into fields about ten miles from tehran's airport. 176 people on board all killed. they included 82 iranians, 63 canadians, most of the passengers were scheduled to transfer in kiev to a flight that would go on to toronto and canada. the associated press reports that many of the passengers who were killed were believed to be international students attending universities in canada returning to school after visiting family in iran duri...

Let's also recognize this is a terrific pool of partners that stood with us in afghanistan. i'll close by saying i wrote 2100 letters of condolence to young men and women killed in afghanistan under my command. 900 went to european families. >> wow. that's important. admiral, we're going to leave it there. thank you for your kind words and always your great insights. i appreciate it. >> you bet. right now, let's turn, we have to follow-up on the deadly plane crash in iran that took place just a day ago that killed all 176 passengers on board shortly after take off. investigators say the crew...

Off automatically as you suggest. i think what this all points up to, andrea, is that during the fog of war, when there's an exchange of fire, terrible things can unfold. and what happened here is that we came to the brink of a military conflict and i don't believe we're out of the woods yet because iran will turn to its surrogates and proxies, it's terrorist cells, it's cyberattacks, and we remain at a very dangerous moment here. >> and, tom donilon, if iran's response as has been reported was a relatively modest response to the death of soleimani, does iran now after this horrific accident, ...

Whatever happened with this plane, and we now believe it was in fact a missile strike, immediately caused the plane to go dark, to go back at 7900 feet, two minutes into the flight. so it was instant. it was catastrophic and simply engine failures don't cause that kind of a catastrophic emergency. >> just to repeat, unlike the twa horrible crash and other crashes in the past, the redundancies in these modern planes prevent exactly that kind of catastrophic crash. >> you're absolutely right. these planes today have so many layers of redundancies and computers upon computers to ensure that if so...