mattis and members of the armed forces, thank you for joining us as we award our highest military honor to specialist 5 james c. mccluen. today we pay tribute to a veteran who went above and beyond the call of duty to protect our comrades, our country and our freedom. joining jim today is his wife, sherri, his brothers mike and tom and his sons, jamie and matt and many other members of his very large and beautiful family. we re also gratified to be joined by eight previous medal of honor recipients. now, jim s name will stand
secretary mnuchin, secretary mattis, secretary she will kin, senator stab now, congressman up ton and members of the armed forces, thank you for joining us as we award our nation s highest military honor to specialist 5 james c. mcclun. today we pay tribute to a veteran who went above and beyond the call of duty to protect our come rads, our country and our freedom. joining jim today is his wife sheer e, his brothers mike and tom, his sons, jamie and matt and many other members of his very large and beautiful family. we re also grat fied to be joined by eight previous medal of honor recipients.
the russians and that s a big escalation. a major escalation, especially with the united states as well and not just turkey. what about that pilot when he did speak. you would think he was a hero but only back to the cameras. i don t know why that was, actually, obviously some kind of security reason. they don t want the face of the pilot on television but they gave us his name and he s a captain, the navigator. he s been giving the hero of russia award. the highest military honor that russia has. he s a hero here, you re right. but security reasons, apparently, they didn t want to show his face. an interesting angle on that, too. matthew chance, thank you, live from moscow. now let s go to the pentagon. barbara starr is there. nobody would be able to operate aircraft in syria without russian approval. the united states is operating aircraft there. the coalition is. what s the reaction from the
which may be standard in the recordings, but under two minutes of audio, you do keep hearing a voice saying, this is turkish air space and change, dot, dot, dot, because we can t make out what was said next. and ankara says they were shot down in self-defense, and now, this is not the first time and they have cited four instances since the air campaign has begun, that russia has entered turkish air space. matthew, what are you hearing about the surviving russian pilot? well, he s been speaking on t the state television. he s been awarded a russian medal of, you know, of bravery, the hero of russia award, and the highest military honor, and he has been talking on the state television, and giving the account of what happened to the
an officer assigned to the white house has been suspended following a bust for sexting minors. 37-year-old lee robert moore has been charged with sending explicit photos of himself to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl. according to delaware state police, moore chatted with an undercover officer, posing as an underage girl on the social media app kick. prosecutors say moore admitted to sending some of the messages, while on the job at the white house. now president obama bestowed the nation s highest military honor on an army captain who risked his life to stop a suicide bomber in afghanistan three years ago. 32-year-old retired army captain florent groberg said his instincts kicked in when he saw a bunch of motorcycles whipping around a corner. he and another sergeant tackled one of the men when captain groberg noticed that the man was wearing a vest. however his quick actions are thought to have saved more than a dozen lives. most of his patrol. now groberg is just the tenth