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We'd been able to see out the window occasionally a fighter aircraft above or below us, as we came into the national capital area two f-16's took up station at wing tip of air force one. a stirring site. giant bird and f-16's and literally you could make out what the pilot's features are. i took a picture which is in the book of the plane, and then you realized it was pretty sobering, you realized they were not there for display. this was the last desperate defense of air force one, if something came towards the aircraft and couldn't bring it down further away, these guys were supposed to put ...

We came into the national capital area two f-16's took up station at wing tip of air force one. a stirring site. giant bird and f-16's and literally you could make out what the pilot's features are. i took a picture which is in the book of the plane, and then you realized it was pretty sobering, you realized they were not there for display. this was the last desperate defense of air force one, if something came towards the aircraft and couldn't bring it down further away, these guys were supposed to put their bird between whatever is coming at air force one and air force one. >> it was not a h...

During the day when been able to see out the window occasionally fighter aircraft above or below. as we came into the national capital two f-16s took up station at the wing tip of air force one, giant bird upcoming f-16's, you can make out what the pilot's features are. i took a picture, which is in the book, of the plane. then you realized i was sobering, they were not there for display. this was the last disparate defense of air force one. if something came towards the aircraft and they couldn't bring it down further away these guys were supposed to put their bird between whatever is coming ...

The russian fighter jet pulls up in that tiny space between the f-16 and wing tip of this larger russian plane. the russian jet squeezes in between the two of them. the reason the russian fighter jet, you can see it at one point in this tape tilting its wings, that's apparently to show the f-16 that it is armed with air-to-air missiles. see that tilt right there? that's him showing off his missiles underneath his left wing. that su-27 is apparently armed with the kind of missiles that fighter jets use to shoot down other fighter jets. that's what that showing off is. the nato f-16 hangs in the...

As you can see, that f-16 is very close to the russian defense minister's plane. but then look at this. another plane appears, even closer. similar size, but a different shape to the f-16 out there. that's a russian su-27 fighter. that's the same kind of russian fighter that got to within five feet of that big american surveillance plane just a couple of days ago, also over the baltic sea. so this is this remarkable scene. you can see shot from the window of the larger russian aircraft. the russian fighter jet pulls up in that tiny space between the f-16 and wing tip of this larger russian pla...