on russian television. are people there widely aware that there was a maternity hospital that was hit. there is artillery hit all over ukraine. the last few weeks, 16 independent r each and r, i was deprived of news from you guys. so. these people teld femzly
an in-depth conversation about anything nefarious or illegal or anything about collusion. but in fact, again, the self-inflicted wounds. he in fact did have a selected amnesia regarding his meetings. only later on did he come back to talk about the fact that he recalled even a suggestion that trump should meet putin when the media reported it. and so it s not really time to gloat or try to be dismissive or try to be satirical about the fact that he remains, frankly, a lame duck attorney general because of his contact with that particular person, and it s not time yet to laugh. yeah. jack, listen, speaking of kislyak, on russian television this week he joked about the investigation, saying his contact with americans would be too long to list. you know people who have worked with kislyak. was he mocking this whole russia investigation? no. he s just stirring up more trouble. you know, whatever comes out of
it was of a nature that was not supposed to be intended to have an in-depth conversation about anything nefarious or illegal or anything about collusion. but in fact, again, the self-inflicted wounds. he in fact did have a selected amnesia regarding his meetings. only later on did he come back to talk about the fact that he recalled even a suggestion that trump should meet putin when the media reported it. and so it s not really time to gloat or try to be dismissive or try to be satirical about the fact that he remains, frankly, a lame duck attorney general because of his contact with that particular person, and it s not time yet to laugh. yeah. jack, listen, speaking of kislyak, on russian television this week he joked about the investigation, saying his contact with americans would be too long to list. you know people who have worked with kislyak. was he mocking this whole russia investigation? no. he s just stirring up more trouble. you know, whatever comes out of
certainly civilians. we don t know how many. but look, the fall of aleppo is imminent. this can t go on for too long. president assad has been on television, on russian television today, talking about what happens next. even if aleppo falls, this war, chris, isn t over. isis controls a large part of eastern syria, including palmyra which it retook recently. rebels controlled the province in the north and in the south near dara and the kurds control the border south of turkey. this war isn t over because it s several wars. it s not just a war between the government and rebels. and, you know, assad will control the four major cities of syria, aleppo, damascus and hahns. he says he wants it back in the days ahead.
the reports that are being reported here in russian media, on russian television, people here are told to expect a press briefing in the next hour from the airport at st. petersburg. we ll wait to see if that happens. also the emergency ministry are sending three planes to egypt to help with the investigation. the government has established a hotline for families to call into. the foreign ministry is saying when they get more details they will make those details available to the press. the details that we have so far are this, that there were 224 people on board the aircraft when it took off from sharm el-sheikh. seven were crew, 217 were passengers. it was flight 9268, commonly known this air carrier commonly known here as metro jet. this is the logo that it has printed on the side, written on the side of the aircraft. 17 of the passengers we re told were children.