overrespond. i hope it doesn t happen again former u.s. ambassador to russia michael mcfaul with his assessment of the russian confrontation of the u.s. drone over the black sea we ll have much more on the diplomatic implications of the incident just ahead. plus, some republican lawmakers are pushing back on comments from ron desantis about russia s invasion of ukraine with comparisons to neville chamberlain. things got tense between ari m melber and donald trump s lawyer an interview that s incredible revealing in many ways a little later on morning joe. it s wednesday, march 15th we have the host of way too early, jonathan lemire, david i ignatius mark mckinnon. first, we start with the new information that we re learning about a collision that occurred yesterday between a russian fighter jet and an unmanned u.s. surveillance drone over the black sea. the united states european command reports around 7:00 local time yesterday two russian jets began to track the drone
without good control and that s the one that clips the propeller of the drone which is in the back of the drone, this person describing what you can see on the film says that the second pilot simply didn t appear to have adequate control of his aircraft so, the u.s. has made demar it s like the secretary of defense austin will call his counterpart in moscow today. it s likely general milley will try to call in the larger scheme of things i m told this is a big s cla toir move it s fascinating that the footage showed just a lack of adequate control of these planes by the russians who were flying them. david, we certainly know
there s been questions about training and equipment russian military has displayed they like to be reckless and provoke. you say at least for now, u.s. officials don t think this is s cla toir, any changes or shifts going forward. more communication with the russians to prevent something like this from happening again. the patrol routes had recently changed we were going a slightly different path over the black sea but nothing was unusually provocative, maybe the russians were adjusting to the new course no, i don t have the sense there will be any big changes. just one instance of so many different moving parts in this war, this surveillance, various electronic warfare that go on. in this case it s said because
something more advanced. and as i mention, it looked like the pentagon was moving that way, you know, i have my sources there, and i think it makes sense. and then all of a sudden, we get to this idea that the biden administration keeps raising it s going to be somehowes ka la toir. and we get into this point where we re self-deterring ourselves. it s not going to be escalatory to get them the weapons they need. and i think there s a good argument to get them f-16s or help our nato allies like poland get them f-16s and sign off on that, but again, this is a pattern that s literally happened with every single advanced weapon systems, they end up getting it, by the way, as you know, it s bipartisan pressure that we keep putting on the administration, but it just takes too long. we re losing months in this battle and the ukrainians don t have months. right. and russian president putin said that the west is threatening
result was that he wasn t able to persuade people that an international organization for peace was the right thing to do. the other thing that happened with wilson, you see so often, they have these physical breakdowns, because war is very tough. they have depressions as abraham lincoln did. in franklin roosevelt s case, he had advance cardiovascular disease. so you combine all this, you begin with a president who is going to war with flags flying, even in some cases for the best of reasons, but you d better be prepared for the fact you will not necessarily know what you will be getting. the descriptions that you have here of the death of lincoln, the death of roosevelt are graphic, compelling stories that i ve never heard before. again, when i talked to you on a regular basis and especially reading this now, one of the things that always amazes me about your work is even when we think we know something, you are able to find new stuff. well, thank you. the documents and tapes her