we do not know why twa flight 800 crashed. if it proves to be a criminal act, other security steps may be required. whatever needs to be done, we will do it. i will use the full power of the presidency and we ll have full bipartisan support. at that point in time, the investigation was looking at almost every possibility including state actors. we definitely thought about gaddafi and libya since they were at that point suspected of having brought down the other airliner. we were looking at iraq and saddam hussein. we were looking at the possibility of even iran might have played a role in this, as well. clearly, if we had determined this was a foreign actor or a terrorist group similar to what
aviation experts have sat down over a number of days considered the implications of what we re learning about this flight in malaysia, and have come to these can conclusions, what we understand as well is that there is a longer list of security steps and measures but for security reasons those are not being made public. sop it s being given a huge amount of consideration, a lot of weight here. again, recognizing that whatever happens with mh-370, whatever s discovered, there is now the potential for a threat that perhaps hadn t been adequately considered before, wolf. nic robertson reporting on the latest news coming out of israel, stepping up its own security, fearful potentially that this airliner or others could be headed towards israel. we ll stay on top of this. nic, thanks very much. let s go to jim sciutto. let s take a look at the investigation, where it stands right now. no question, speaking to intelligence officials and other u.s. officials involved in this investigation
washington. they don t see any indication of russia right now wholesale moving into ukraine. nobody thinks that is on the table. as this instability continues, as you see these armed forces at individual airports, bases, sites across ukraine, are you going to start seeing the kind of instability, potential provocation and uncertainty that then might down the road lead to russia taking some sort of security steps in ukraine. right now, the u.s. is relying totally on diplomacy along with its european neighbors and nato. we are told that is the strategy to try and calm things down and ensure that the interim you crain government can work and function and that russia calms things down. it is a hard time right now to see the exact way ahead in the coming days and weeks, carol. people across the midwest
least on the ground in pakistan that the taliban, which of course is an al qaeda affiliate and ally organization, has the capability still to carry out the attacks that they have to take those kind of steps. all those security steps, by the way, are still in place and are expected to stay in place through the end of the week. very good to see you and have your reporting. thank you very much. for more on the overall threat level, i m joined by our former u.n. ambassador, ambassador to moscow under secretary of state and the co-chair of the official review board after the benghazi tragedy investigation. a lot of people are saying that if not for benghazi and failure after rapid response force and all the other failures you and admiral mullen co-authored in discovering the investigation that you did, that perhaps this response would not have been quite as dramatic. i think the government will have to answer that. we made 29 recommendations. they were all very serious. some of them h
look forward to working as my colleagues suggests with people of good will across the political spectrum whether they agree with me or not, to find a solution because the american people believe in the second amendment but they as strongly believe in rational and reasonable steps to control gun use and make sure that appropriate security steps are taken. that is not what he emphasized, saids or made clear. gregg: 86 percent of americans want more to be done on mental illness because what we have seen in some of the most really mass killings is a mental health issue. that is something that americans can reach a consensus on. now, switching to benghazi, critical report came out, independent report evaluating the security laps at the state department, people in benghazi at the mission were begging for more execute and did not get it. what do you take away from this? well, the first thing is we have a report that took care of