if you think back to the summer of 2014, you will remember this. this was the shoot-down of mh-17, malaysia flight 17. this was not the plane that disappeared, this was the commercial airliner full of civilians that was shot out of the sky. 298 souls aboard, most of them dutch citizens. the flight originated in amsterdam, was heading to kuala lumpur, the capital of malaysia. as the plane was flying over eastern ukraine, where russia was waging basically an undeclared war at the time, that passenger plane was hit with a sophisticated military anti-aircraft missile. everybody on board was killed. 298 people killed. their bodies and debris from that crash strewn over a large area of rural eastern ukraine. investigators from the netherlands and malaysia and ukraine, also from australia and belgium, who had citizens on board, they formed an
in the palm of your hand. fordpass. built to keep you moving. to the index of other news tonight. and international authorities charging four people with murder for shooting down a malaysian airlines flight over ukraine. 298 people were killed when mh-17 was downed back in 2014. investigators say three russians with military ties, and a ukrainian, obtained the surface to air missile. they are still looking for the ones who fired it. russia calls the allegations absolutely unfounded. one of america s most famous pilots weighing in on the deadly crashes that grounded boeing max jets. retired u.s. airways captain sully sullenberger telling lawmakers pilots need new simulator training before those planes return to service. saying boeing s recommended hourlong computer course is not enough. we should all want pilots to experience these challenging situations for the first time in a simulator and not in flight with passengers and crew onboard. and reading about it on an ipad is not
our president says not happy about it, but he sees it as a both sides issue. no other leader of a democracy said anything like that. his own secretary of state didn t say anything like that. russia has done bad things in ukraine. a plane was shot down there, mh-17. remember that? i was there. the guys who were there securing the site that s behind me said they were russians. they were working for a russian who proclaimed himself the prime minister of a region of ukraine. they left the dead to lie in fields, unrespected, no dignity for the dead. local farmers had to risk their lives and get in the faces of armed men, who said they were russian, demanding respect for the dead and for the inspectors. i watched it all happen in realtime. now, president trump spoke about
look at what s happening right now in ukraine. i know you guys aren t that interested, but you should be, and here are two reasons. one, russia just rammed and robbed several ukraine ships. they took their sailors after injuring them, and they don t give a damn what anybody says about it. you re watching what happened. our president says notice happy about it, but he sees it as a both sides issue. no other leader of a democracy said anything like that. his own secretary of state didn t say anything like that. russia has done bad things in ukraine. i pla a plane was shot down there, mh-17. remember that? i was there. the guy who s were there securing the site that s behind me said they were russians. they were working for a russian who proclaimed himself the prime minister of a region of ukraine. they left the dead to lie in
circles. we have seen for the first time in four years that the state department did not issue a condemnation against russia for the downing of mh-17. the anniversary was two days ago. we have seen that this white house is actually considering, has not absolutely ruled out the idea of turning over an american citizen, a former u.s. ambassador, mcfaul, to the russians for questioning because they want him there? i mean, how much more do you want to see? and this is just in the last seven days. and add to that, you know, what we have seen, the zig-zagging of donald trump on this, you know, failed cleanup attempt on aisle russia. it has been a disaster. and i m just talking about the last seven days. so cortes, let s do one of your favorite things to do. let s play the if obama did it game. if obama had that list of accomplishments over the last seven days, you wouldn t even use his last name. you wouldn t use his first name. you would only call him by his middle name. all you d be sayi