i agree. last week, we saw, in fact, exactly a week ago, we saw president putin there, angela merkel there, in the middle of the world cup final. can you imagine angela merkel now being prepared to watch a football match next to vladimir putin? absolutely not, but pictures and actions aren t always the same, but let s see. perhaps you will be right. maybe you really will be. could be a quantum leap this time. thanks to both of you. out front next, the buk missile system, now the united states says they confirmed was, indeed, used in taking down this airliner. what exactly can it do? and where did the pro-russian rebels get it from? and the passengers of flight 17. the people who died on that plane. and those who were going to get on and didn t at the last moment. the wonder of summer is that
look for the trainers. you re saying that these separatists couldn t just jump into this thing and press a trigger and make that rocket launch and hit that airliner? this is a very sophisticated system and unless the rebels had people with the training in this particular system then someone has to come in and help them use it. and that s where the investigation should focus. who came in? who helped them? where did they get their expertise from? and that deadly expertise is necessary, item, the training manual for the s.a. 11 system. two years of training to be a noncommissioned officer operating that system on the buk missile system with an sa 11 or 20 more training. this is years of training. item getting rid of the murder weapon. officials released a video of an sa 1 is leaving a missile leaving the scene of the crime.
russian military s main intelligence department inside russia. the plane fell apart in the air. in the area of petro mine. the first 200. we have found the first 200. a civilian, well, what do you have there? this war can be ended. russia can end this war. russia must end this war. ukrainian officials say this is the smoking gun. these telephone intercepts of the separatists reporting back to russian intelligence. andrea? all right. thanks, jennifer. lawmakers say there is no doubt putin has his hands all over this. it does appear the buk missile system is so complicated that it would need to back up from a nation state like russia. that would mean that russian armed forces are directly involved in this wrongful death of roughly 300 people. it s a missile that came from russia or it was from the separatists and it s a
only securing access to the site, but also finding a way to recover and store all those bodies. they said the leader of the group yesterday discussed how he might be trying to find an old ice cream factory somewhere with refrigeration, the temperatures here reaching up into the upper 20s, low 30s degrees centigrade and those are the conditions that continue to be around the site, john. no local morgue can deal with that number of bodies. nic, in terms of the investigation, compelling evidence implicates moscow. i guess the question is, how much of that is credible? reporter: well, there s certainly credibility in it as far as the white house is concerned. the obama administration believes that the missile system, the buk missile system, was transferred from russia to eastern ukraine.
only get their hands on this russian buk system. but to be able to deliver this missile on top of it as effectively. if it s separatists putin has a little bit of a buffer. if you find out that they are actually russian military personnel who fired that rocket, that s going to be right around putin s neck. and that, in fact, is an act of war. and as bob pointed out earlier, the international community will have to come forward and make them pay for that. kimberly, it was a known fact, ronald reagan had a very cogent policy when it came to the soviets. they knew if they were to pull any funny biz. there was going to be repercussions by the united states of america. president obama took military action off the table today and has imposed very weak sanctions. do you think the russians are fearful? no, i don t. i think that they are not fearful at all. in fact, they have been pretty bold and brazen with respect to their response here. my concern, you look at this from a perspective. yo