but there is potential for a whole lot worse. no question. that s been the consistent warning from u.s. officials. don t to the russians. don t do any actions that can be misinterpreted. right? and now on the ground there, you are having actions that can easily be misinterpreted. are those forces that you re seeing there supported by the russians, directed by the russians? we don t know for sure. are they russians? or are they russians, exactly. we don t know for sure, but that s exactly the kind of thing that can be misinterpreted and can further inflame the situation on the ground. the outgoing now the former u.s. ambassador in moscow, mike mcfaul, he spoke out on cnn s new day today, 48 hours since he left moscow, back at stanford university. but i want you to listen to what he said, because it s ominous. it s a very dangerous situation, extremely tense. you have soldiers with guns, very well-armed in crimea, a part of ukraine, saying they are now loyal to russia. ve
attacks in benghazi and the talking points or revelations about conduct at the irs, attempts to turn this into a scandal have failed. reporter: at least one survivor of benghazi has aired his story to congress, fox news has learned. a cia operator on the ground that night met privately with staff members of the house intelligence committee in december and again with lawmakers themselves in may, and we understand, chris, that transcripts were prepared. more on all of this with the panel, james, thank you. the lawyer for nsa leaker edward snowden says his client is in a safe place in russia, and considering job opportunities. snowden was granted temporary asylum and left moscow s airport after six weeks there. he has reportedly been offered a job at a popular russian social network site as it specialist, but says he wants to work as
here. this is important. it s called airbus 330-q. we don t know exactly what it means to the aeroflot fleet but we do know that in the past those that have the q on them have taken a different flight plan. the earlier flight would have left moscow and followed the curve of the earth like this to cuba, which would take it through a considerable portion of u.s. and canadian airspace. the one with the q designation, the flight plan for those planes tends to are much more like this so it doesn t go through any of that airspace. there s been a lot of talk about could a play with him on board be intercepted in any fashion in airspace. where it goes from there, wolf, it becomes even more speculative. there s been talk about him going to cuba and then to
harvard law school with president obama. the president was a guest at their wedding 20 years ago. as you might imagine, the spokesman for paul ryan says he has no concerns at all about her moderating tonight s debate. paperly neither do the people at the debate commission. a spokesman says, and i quote, we selected her because she s a terrific journalist and will be a terrific moderator and we re thrilled to have her. now to a potentially major escalation in the ongoing crisis in syria. the prime minister of turkey now says a syrian passenger plane that his air force intercepted was carrying russian-made military equipment and ammunition. the flight left moscow yesterday enroute to damascus. after an intelligence tip, they tell us, jet fighters confronted the plane over turkey, then forced it to land in the turkish capital. once there, turkish forces removed the military hardware and sent the flight on its way.
the first manned trip to mars. to do it, they never even left moscow. from the red planet to red square coming up. plus, an my government protests in egypt now spread to iran and beyond. but as we have seen in the past, the iranian regime usually plays hard ball and now the u.s. government is responding. what we see happening in iran today is a testament to the courage of the iranian people.