economic sanctions, step them up and make the russian economy feel it. russia is paper tiger. their economy is $2 trillion. our is about $18 trillion. they re not our equal. they re a 20th century gas station. we need to make that clear. bill: adam kinzinger, thank you for your time from washington. thank you. bill: heather. heather: israeli leaders they are now saying they will expand their invasion of gaza after ground troops march into the disputed territory. we re live on the israeli border. that is up next. bill: russia under fire. was putin and russia responsible for the attack that brought down this malaysian airlines jet? that is a debate that continues today. well the guy at fault is vladmir putin. he s the guy that s trying to fight a pseudo war, a war in the shadows, to try to do it on the cheap and i think many of us in the military analyst business knew that eventually something like this was going going to happen. i make a lot of purchases for my business.
blaming one another for this, the emerging theory seems to be rebels may have launched the missile perhaps thinking the aircraft was a ukrainian jet. they have taken out a number of ukrainian aircraft recently. given all of the volatility in the region this sort of thing was bound to happen. many of us in the military analyst business knew something like this was going to happen. you don t give sophisticated toys to thugs over time expect it to turn out well. at the end of the day putin is the guy responsible for what happened today in my opinion. there have been questions about the routing of this aircraft, why in the world were they flying over such a volatile region? why would they route themselves directly over the ukraine. a number of carriers have been doing that. the faa warned u.s. carriers about trying to avoid that area. now all carriers are avoiding ukrainian airspace at all costs. heather? doug luzader thank you so
border. he certainly recognized the missiles that we are talking about are flowing in the hands of people who didn t know how to use. it still, general scales, in the u.s. government, we haven t heard from the state department or official statement from the white house about this. is it accurate to think that our government knows who shot it and where it came from? they will eventually. they have the two black boxes from the aircraft and there will be plenty of data available from satellite images or ukranians themselves. the separatest will deny they did it. but who is at fault here? the guy at fault is vladimar putin. he s trying to fight a war in the shadows to do it on the cheap and i think many of us in the military analyst business knew eventually something like this would happen. you don t give sophisticated toys to thugs to turn out well.