the other thing that s important to point out, however, there is huge news today about paul manafort. and yet go ahead. that got dismissed. we re going to bring it up in about five minutes. what do you make of the fact of a guy making $5 million a year? that s a lot of rubles. to say it never happened under direct questioning i saw one clip today, i ve seen it before, george stephanopoulos of abc, have you had connections of russia? no, no, no, no. they were covering up by dealing with the pro-russian ukrainians who are really the pro-russians. then they re denying president that trump s denial on the record, no connection, my people in the campaign. why does paul manafort how did he get the job? i m curious about all the russian activity. aren t you amazed that the frequency of the traffic back and forth to russia, carter page, roger stone s got buddies over there. all these people, back and forth. jeff sessions. all these people. frequent traffic. i ve never been to rus
appearing nice, appearing lawful. this is, the strategy s going to continue, and i think we re papering things over when we suggest there s rebels, or that pro-russian separatists, they re russian pros, mixed in with the pro-russians. miles, i wanted to ask you. we heard from the transport minister in malaysia earlier today saying there were 75 different airplanes that flew over this route in the two days prior to us taking this route, but a lot of people look at this and say, this is a conflict zone. why was ukraine, i m wondering, allowed to keep this airspace open? well, we should also point out that there s were quite a few airlines, scrupulously avoided this area. british airways, and air france among them. who for months have not flown anywhere near there. this is an interesting question of who s responsible for the airspace? the airspace was closed from
people s republic. minutes after. that has been depleted deleted and posted. intelligence sources tell the united states pretty much without question the pro-russians have these types of pictures. there is pictures of them on social media with them. the u.s. has ruled out the possibility that the ukrainians. we often warn on here about the fog war. it appears the first words from the separatists may have been crafted at least in some part or another, they or at least someone close to them tried to shoot down a plane. they didn t realize it was a commercial liner at the time. now comes the question who actually was in control of that surface-to-air battery. who pressed the button to fire. in the case who is he. a ukrainian who loves mother russia or is he a russian special forces or intelligence officer leading the rebels? greta? leland, okay, let s assume that this separatist who shot down and these are russian-made weapons, but
cal, we are launching immediate investigation. here is what we believe in the early going has happened. with every indication seems to be is that separatist working in the east of ukraine that were pro-russians fired off some sort of missile surface-to-air missile. there are indications that group they were trying to hit another plane. we have recently learned this. and now it appears instead they hit a passenger jet, a boeing 777 with 295 people on board. and we ve just gotten word from journalists on the ground there, and i quote bodies are scattered for miles around the smoking debris seen. so what happened, who is responsible, and what degree this is escalate an already very difficult situation? let s turn to jennifer griffin
and there have already been various unconfirmed reports at this stage that the pro-russian camp, a few hundred of them, might be moving in this direction as well. the situation is rapidly escalating out of control. on that side, you have the pro-russian camp with batons, possibly even some weapons in their hands. the police are trying to maintain a certain level of control over the situation, but they don t seem to be able to. a few of the wounded were treated on site. the pro-russians victorious as they marched back to the main administration building they control. with the riot police staying well away. we re just waiting until people s patience wears out, watching the sceptical by a