announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. after a dangerous confrontation in the skies, a warning tonight from russia to the u.s. not to fly aircraft near its airspace throwing the onus on the united states for that midair collision between a russian and american plane over the black sea yesterday. the u.s. making clear its pilotless surveillance plane was flying legally in international airspace when it was knocked from the sky by a russian fighter jet that had been flying close and aggressively the act raising alarms in the pentagon. secretary of defense lloyd austin confirming he spoke by telephone today with the russian defense minister, though not revealing the nature of their conversation. the u.s., however, accuses the russians of reckless and unprofessional behavior, and we have new reporting tonight on just how high up the orders came from in russia. peter alexander is at the white house with more reporter: tonight, for t
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le learned about you is how hard you are on yourself. sometimes there is nobody that holds the leader accountable. it was not always about winning and losing for me. it is about being worthy of winning. and good morning, everyone. we re covering a lot today. we begin with tensions on the rise after the pentagon says a russian fighter jet hit a u.s. spy drone and forced it to crash. two russian jets intercepted the drone over the black sea yesterday. u.s. says one of them dumped fuel on the drone and then collided with its propeller forcing the drone to go down. putin is about to make a public appearance in moscow. we re waiting to see if he weighs in on the incident. following the crash, russia s ambassador was summoned to the state department. he claims there is no collision and that drone crashed on its own. here s what the white house had to say about that to our very own jake tapper. well, it won t surprise you that we refute that the russian s denial. i think any
incident. as part of a pattern of aggressive, risky, and unsafe actions by russian pilots in international air space. i just got off the phone with my russian counterpart, minister shoigu. as i have said repeatedly, it is important that great powers be models of transparency and communication. the united states will continue to fly and operate wherever international law allows. in a news conference with the defense secretary joint chiefs chairman general mark milley said retrieving the wreckage will be very difficult and that it is now in 4,000 or 5,000 feet of water. the u.s. military said on tuesday a russian jet dumped fuel on an mq-9 reaper drone which officials say was doing routine operations in international air space. the russian jet then hit the propeller of the reaper forcing its remote pilots to bring it down in international waters. let s go to cnn s national security analyst and senior white house correspondent. the general said that it is not clear that th