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A way it might not matter in other walks of life. you can bet, yeah, extra steps to make sure that sort of thing can't happen again. >> tsa folks i deal with all the time are topnotch. seth, before i let you go are you a big "star wars" fan? >> yeah excited about that plane, right, they are going to paint it in "star wars" over in japan. yep. >> seth, thank you, buddy, good to see you. >> you got it jose. coming up on "the rundown," more on that exclusive interview with robert bates as he tells his story, his side of the story, exclusively to nbc news. also response from the tulsa world jour...

Now to another aviation hot topic trending right now. just when you thought airline seats couldn't get any smaller, passengers on some airbus planes may feel a bit more of a squeeze. manufacturers preparing to add an extra chair to each row. in economy class, 11 seats across and not ten. joining me now is managing partner with "airline weekly," seth caplan. tell us about this seats aren't small enough let's add another one. >> this is the most visible example yet, but not the only one of a trend a lot of people don't realize. almost everybody by now realizes some airlines have been taking away...

If we'd gone abroad. instead of nine seats across, let's go to ten. because that plane is more narrow, that's even less elbow room than the 8380 are going to have. >> is this the largest plane, period, among the largest planes? >> it is jose. if you've been to some of the largest airports in america, you might have seen this plane. it has two decks all the way across, not just like on the older 747s where you see a little bit of a second deck. it can hold in some cases in excess of 600 passengers. and now, yeah packing 11 across instead of ten in economy. >> seth also this week the department ...

had no intention of killing him. in the meantime now questions surround bates' training and reporting from the tul "tulsa world" that alleges those papers were falsified. first, here's robert bates with family and attorney earlier this morning on "today." >> mr. bates, i want to talk about your training about your training records in a second but i want you to take me back to april 2, the day this happened. you were not supposed to be actively involved in the arrest of mr. harris you were supposed to provide support from several blocks away but you did get involved in the struggle....

Hurry. the western world didn't find out what was on them until ten years later when the break-up of the soviet union occurred. >> there are shades of that in the stories we are getting now from the scene of the accident. thank you, bob hager and seth caplan. up next, the world is angry and fingers are pointed at one man -- vladimir putin.