doesn t affect the power train. they might think they are affecting the sensor package because the sensor package is, in fact, on the nose of the aircraft but is underneath the nose of the aircraft. it s not on top of the aircraft. unless it can fly upside down and deposit fuel young tphaoet it, it won t work with. i think it was just a harassment. they hoped the operator would pull away and pull back. it didn t happen after about 29, 30 minutes, they decided to get closer to it and knock it down. we just have to send the message that this is not tolerated by the united states of america. thank you very much, everyone, for being here today. it is my pleasure to introduce lloyd austin iii and general mark mille. secretary and chairman will each deliver opening remarks and then have time to take a few questions. i will moderate those questions and call on journalists. i would ask that you limb your follow-ups due to our tieing schedule. secretary austin, to you, sir.
that is unprecedented. it shouldn t be the case. it shouldn t be happening. john: lot of things shouldn t happen. sandra: it is remarkable. there s going to be more on that coming up. we are moments from the pentagon news conference. lloyd austin and mark mille are expected to take questions on yesterday s drone attack. mike tobin reporting live from kyiv. what is the latest on this incident ahead of this briefing at the pentagon? well, sandra, we just got con tpeurpation that u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin had a phone conversation with his russian counter part. of course, it is about this midair incident with a u.s. drone and two russian fighter jets. whole thing happened in this part of the world yesterday about 7 a.m. the two russian su-27 fighter jets were scrambled because the
senator tom cotton first proposed the theory that it could be a lab leak and he was discredited both by scientists and by major news outlets who said it is a fringe theory, very unlikely. here we are three years later. it is now one of two competing theories, if you will, about what happened. and i know there is still some, you know, some guess work over which is which, but i think one thing everybody agrees on is that china has more to reveal. they have not been transparent enough and until they are it will be hard to find the lessons learned because over a million americans have died and nearly seven million people around the world. we still have to get to the bottom of what happened and how do we prevent this going forward? we have to learn all the lessons from this to prevent it from happening again. early on in the pandemic, mr. secretary, you had agreed with officials like general mark mille that the weight of the evidence at the time was that covid originated from a natural so
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ukraine talking with russia. all we can do to make sure for our purposes we are giving ukraine what it needs to do its part. truth told, this war becomes clear 40,000 civilians killed in 8 and a half months of fighting, according to recent comments by general mark mille, chairman of the joint chiefs of stack. more shocking says milley more than 100,000 russian soldiers reportedly killed or injured, the same on the ukrainian side. figures unconfirmed by all sides. what is confirmed the sadness here. in kyiv today a funeral for 63-year-old involved taken months for his remains to be handed back to russia. feelings fresh and raw. tatyana says her late father was strong. he wrote to me. i will do everything so that you and my grandson have the opportunity to freely walk around ukrainian cities. i understood he wants this land to be and remain ukrainian. tatyana soldier, father might