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Across that border as one of the approximate causes of those sanctions. the continued support from the russia to the separatists is why we feel like we may need to continue to ratchet up the pressure. you saw the europeans meet today and indicate willingness to start to move into some of these sectors, financial, energy and arms, as well. they'll be making decisions on that in the coming days. we'll be coordinating with them, as well. >> let me ask you a blunt question, ben. how much responsibility does the russian president, vladimir putin bear for the deaths of those 298 passengers and crew ...

About it, we immediately contacted our flight operations guys and said, please take a closer look at these flight corridors. >> reporter: congressman duncan hunter wants the faa to be more aggressive in protecting u.s. airliners. >> the faa, if there was intelligence from our intel community or our military community that the sa-11 was in the hands of some bad guys, the faa should have been notified of this. >> reporter: but the u.s. transportation secretary defends the faa's decision to allow flights in eastern ukraine prior to the shootdown. rene marsh, cnn, washington. out front tonight m...

Not involved. >> thanks so much. by all accounts, the sa-11 missile system is a cruel weapon. it's designed to kill, whether it hits its argument or not. i'm sorry to say the people on flight 17 were aware something terrible had happened. with me now, bob bear, cnn security and intelligence analyst and a former cia operator. welcome, gentlemen. i want to show you a picture. this is part of the plane. you can see holes in this piece of the fuselage. it looks like shrapnel hit the fuselage. what does this tell you? >> well, to me what it looks like is indicative of this type of shrapnel and no...

That ukraine shot the plane down because it thought the jet was president putin's official aircraft. or that the downed jet was full of already dead bodies, blown up by the u.s. over ukraine, to provoke a war with russia. >> whenever they're caught with their hand in the cookie jar, they make up lots of lies to confuse people. >> reporter: yet the evidence tying russia to the shootdown continues to mount from four different sources. photographs, which ukraine says shows a russian sa-11 missile launcher parked in a rebel-held village just before the shootdown. and then, later, a trail of white ...

Aircraft shot down in the weeks before that separatists control over of. they claimed responsibility for those shootdowns. we have, again, harder intelligence and evidence that we can continue to put forward that, again, end kaits that we believe that this was an sa-11 and we believe indicates that the most likely origination from that was russian-backed separatist areas. same time we need to get on the ground, get the hard evidence of the crash site and supported an international investigation. that will tell us more, as well. of course, the hardest thing to determine is who exactly was at th...