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As effective in the case particularly of burr who was the chairman of the committee who's going to have to report ratcliffe to the floor. he waited about 24 hours to say anything about ratcliffe's nomination. that's unusual, and the combination of circumstances here certainly means that he's not a sure thing when it comes to getting confirmed. >> democrats have already come out and some of them have said, you know, outright he's too political. here's what senator blumenthal said about the nbc news reporting around the terrorism questions. watch. >> there needs to be a thorough investigation of...

Authorities are working to identify who those passengers were. evan coleman is an nbc news terrorist expert, and jim tilmon is a former pilot and aviation expert. first to you, evan, on the terrorism questions. what do you know now that indicates, yes or no, it was an act of terrorism? anything? >> there's basically no information that would suggestion there's a terrorism. there have been eyebrows raised about the passports, use of stolen passports because of the fact reportedly the two individuals using stolen passports were of iranian origin. that being said, if you count the number of insta...

Expert, and jim tillman is a former pilot and aviation expert. first to you, evan, on the terrorism questions. what do you know now that indicates, yes or no, it was an act of terrorism? anything? >> there's basically no information that would suggestion there's a terrorism. there have been eyebrows raised about the passports, use of stolen passports because of the fact reportedly the two individuals using stolen passports were of iranian origin. that being said, if you count the number of instances that people travel on stolen passports and tally them up, it's far, far more likely this has so...

Is that a huge mistake on our part? >> well, i think what we're doing is what with we saw in geneva was a negotiation very much dedicated to this issue of nuclear weapons. and by the way, if we allow iran to have a deliverable nuclear weapon, i can assure you other countries in the region will want to have the same. so we cannot allow that. and for that reason, i think force needs to be on the table. and i think the president has made clear it will remain on the table. so that is a big problem. jenna: but force was never used against north korea -- >> no, but there, you know, if you look at a ...