Member of the fbi, what are you thinking? a great question. because she is now outside the parameters, we believe, of an fbi and doj investigation in terms of protective umbrella. she s attached herself to the committee. we don t know if the committee is talking to law enforcement, capitol police. that would make sense for a congressional witness. who really is protecting her? i have seen reports this morning that she went and acquired security. is it being paid for by the committee? who is doing that? who is the security? lots of questions around this. if it switches over to a doj investigation, she becomes a witness for them, the fbi, doj, the marshalls will have to start thinking about how to secure her. like joyce, like chuck, very concerned about why it s happening today. i m concerned about why it had
Department, thank you very much. let s get some more now. as syria is moving to protect its warplanes in the wake of the u.s. missile strike. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr is working this story for us. barbara, what are you finding out about the syrian warplanes moving closer to a russian base? reporter: wolf, you ll remember in the tomahawk missile strike that the u.s. conducted in early april about 20% of syria s operational aircraft were destroyed, according to u.s. estimates, so now they are taking some protective measures and have moved most of the remaining aircraft to an air base along the coast very close to the main russian military footprint in the region there, on that coastal region. the russians have sophisticated air defense systems and sophisticated missiles there, so by moving all of their aircraft to this area along the coast it puts them under the protective umbrella of the russian military and would make it very difficult for the u.s. to make a decision
To strike syrian aircraft again because they would be flying into that russian protective umbrella. if the syrians decide to conduct another chemical attack using aircraft from this area, it s going to really narrow some of the options for the u.s. it s going to make it much more dangerous for the u.s. to retaliate. again, of course, the syrians maintain other methods of delivering chemical weapons, helicopters, artillery and rockets and by all accounts those remain spread out across the country, at least the parts the regime controls. wolf? and all of this comes as russian bombers were once again spotted off the alaskan coast. what are you finding out about that? reporter: second time in two days, russian bombers came within 36 miles of the coast of