already committed significant assistance. the u.s. military is helping the saudis plan bombing missions over yemen, providing targeting intelligence from satellites overhead, and making awacs surveillance planes and aerial refueling aircraft available, as well. the general says he doesn t know if it will all work. i don t currently know the specific goals and objectives of the saudi campaign, and i have to know that to be able to assess the likelihood of success. reporter: the u.s. military involvement, as sensitive as it gets. saudi arabia is backing beleaguered yemeni president hadi who has fled his country. the rebels are backed by iran. the u.s. worries terror groups will exploit the chaos. there s a lot at stake here, particularly with al qaeda and isis both active in yemen. but let s face the facts. the u.s. is involved now in a
throwing his lot in with the republicans to a degree? you know, there s the personality and then there s the policy. look, ronald regan provided $8.5 billion in sophisticated awacs weaponry to the saudis and people said, oh, my gosh, this is a major division between the president of the united states and the prime minister of israel back in the 1980s. who cares. what counts is on the substance. on the substance the relationship between the united states and israel has never been closer on military and strategic and intel issues. gloria, let me give you proof let me just say, john mccain just said that president obama is throwing what he called a temper tantrum against bibi netanyahu and that he ought to get over it. do you disagree with mccain about the president and his relationship with netanyahu? i do not believe it s helpful to that strategic asset, the
ukrainians, giving them some defensive weapons. the sanctions that would be imposed as a result of that, that would just be the beginning. so i just cannot believe that no one in their right mind would want to shoot down an airliner. senator john mccain, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. thank you. we ll continue to consult with you and others on capitol hill. our nick paton walsh is standing by in london. i understand you have new information you re hearing from nato. reporter: not from nato, but i was speaking to informed individuals who can basically explain to me what kind of capability there is for tracking incidents like this. three possible different ways that are in nato s assets. one, a ground radar that they have, but that doesn t reach far enough into ukrainian territory outside. informed individuals say to be able to track something like this happening in ukraine. other option, there are nato awacs monitoring planes flying over poland and romania to
prime minister mark rutta. britain s queen elizabeth is one of the key figures visiting france. she doesn t travel very far anymore, but she is here todd. she arrived in france yesterday and laid a wreath to pay respect for the dead. max foster takes a look back at her time serving during world war ii. reporter: it s rare for the queen to travel overseas these days and the speculation this will be her last foreign tour. with a d-day commemorations are as important to her as she is to them. british equivalent of the american wacs. the heir presumptive repairs a motor and it works. reporter: the queen is the only head of state visiting france who actually served in the war. doing her bit in the war, the 19-year-old girl who one day is
a ba awacs and people on the ground. there also had to be a commitment from the taliban not to bring any surface to air weapons. by the way, taliban s got em, surface to air weapons. if they brought them, if they were perceived as bringing them, and we can see from satellites and aircraft, all bets were off. so complete coverage and security in the area. thank you very much for weighing in with your expertise. i appreciate that. this breaking news. we re going to stay on top of it as we get more information from not only the defense department n or the white house. we ll talk about this guy, he s back, the controversial duck dynasty returns to rally the republicans. is he the voice of the party?