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Jim, about the building of a case of the culpability of the russian state and of vladimir putin in particular. we want to take a moment and listen to our ambassador to the u.n., samantha power doing some of that. >> early thursday, an sa-11 system was reported by a western reporter and separatists were spotted hours before the incident with an sa-11 system at a location close to the site where the plane came down. >> is there actual confusion about what happened or is this just about building the case? >> i think that everybody is in agreement that it was russian separatists, except the separa...

Russian border. videotaped at dawn this morning by ukrainian police. the pentagon cannot confirm this is the actual sa-11 used in the strike. two of its four missiles appear to have been fired. >> whether it was russian military unit that did it or it was a separatist unit that did it, we don't know. whether it was a system that was driven across the border by russians and then handed off, we don't know. we just don't know. >> nato supreme ally commander general phillip breedlove warned on june 30th from the pentagon podium that the u.s. had evidenceian military was training the separatists on...

>> reporter: sean, we now know and it's confirmed there was only one american on board flight 17. it was a dual dutch u.s. citizen traveling on a dutch passport quinn lucas schansman. u.s. officials repeatedly hinted at russian involvement in the attack. the pentagon confirmed it was a russian-made sa-11 missile that brought down the malaysian flight fired from inside ukraine adding that separatists could not have done it by themselves. >> there's no hint that russian support for the separatists has ceased. in fact, we believe that russia continues to provide them with heavy weapons and other ...

Russian border. videotaped at dawn this morning by ukrainian police. the pentagon cannot confirm this is the actual sa-11 used in the strike. two of its four missiles appear to have been fired. >> whether it was russian military unit that did it or it was a separatist unit that did it, we don't know. whether it was a system that was driven across the border by russians and then handed off, we don't know. we just don't know. >> nato supreme ally commander general phillip breedlove warned on june 30th from the pentagon podium that the u.s. had evidence that the russian military was training the ...

Wouldn't we have been seeing them use them? >> i've never heard a compelling reason from the intelligence community why it is we haven't seen more of these strikes. people say about 50 attempts have been made. this is a post-world war ii phenomena. about 50 attempts have been made or strikes have been attempted. >> how protected are we in general by the fact that they take so much training to use? in this case we heard oliver north talking about how it could be two years to learn how to fire one of these things. >> that's for the sa-11, which is a complex system. >> but we are now worried abou...