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Miguel marquez, cnn, gettysburg, pennsylvania. >> pretty disturbing there. let's dig into this further with anthony may, a former explosives expert for the atf. anthony, first question, what will investigators be look for to determine if this was a bomb? >> good morning, pam. what they'll be looking for is a telltale signs of an explosion. that's yet to be determined. this is all speculation but it's important to speculate because if this was a terrorist event, a bombing, then -- and it was successful, then there are others waiting. going through the wreckage, looking at all the components, th...

Nick, no matter what the cause was of this disaster, hundreds of lives were lost and families there, of course, devastated, but i'm wondering if people see isis as responsible or do they blame the rurgs government in any way for its intervention in syria? >> reporter: at the moment, errol, it seems to be a case of people are just beginning to stake stock that this could possibly be a terrorist event. this is something that the government here has pushed back on perhaps because of political sensitivity. it doesn't seem to want to link the jet with the military campaign that it's fighting inside...

Until now as a regional threat, as a group that was primarily interested in creating a caliphate across the middle east and north africa. if they're responsible for what would in effect be the worst act of air terrorist since 9/11, doesn't that change the nature of the threat from isis? >> well, you know, again he called it the jv team, but now we're seeing isis bring down airplanes with bombs, which is what al qaeda did. as you said, the greatest aviation, terrorist event since 9/11. what i want to see, what's interesting is what the russian response will be. their target packages have been p...

Until now as a regional threat, as a group that was primarily interested in creating a caliphate across the middle east and north africa. if they're responsible for what would in effect be the worst act of air terrorist since 9/11, doesn't that change the nature of the threat from isis? >> well, you know, again he called it the jv team, but now we're seeing isis bring down airplanes with bombs, which is as you said, the greatest aviation, terrorist event since 9/11. what i want to see, what's interesting is what the russian response will be. their target packages have been primarily to prop up...

Skepticism at this point that this is any kind of terrorist event whatsoever. the isis organization in syria and in iraq, they have not really got massively behind this claim of their affiliate. it seems more like they hope that their affiliates in egypt carry this out more than they know they carried it out. this would be the biggest terrorist win since 9/11. the fact these terrorist groups are not having a full court press right now i think is quite suggestive, wolf. >> charlie in your new book, "power wars," you say this, you say "the president is the most lawyerly of american presidents in...