Reporter no other gun man is found. At this point it looked like he acted alone. Reporter officials wont say if the suspect was targeting someone on an arriving flight or if hes cooperating. Randi kaye, cnn, new york. Lets get much more on this. I want to bring in jeffrey thomas, an aviation perspective, joining us from skype. Great to have you on the program. We want to talk about Airport Security to start off with. Should we be alarmed that this individual was able to check in a firearm when hed already flagged himself up to authorities . Absolutely. It is a troubling background to this gentleman from what has been reported to us. The fact that he had some problems apparently, allegedly, and then indeed checked this
firearm with his checked baggage which of course is allowed in certain states of the United States. And that was nothing illegal this doing that. However of course what transpired of course was a terrible tragedy. But the problem weve got here is that although some cases
He was able to fire thousands of shots, dozens of volleys, thats what they are saying, he had highpowered weapons to do that. The s. W. A. T. Team didnt actually enter the room for 72 minutes but they are saying after nine or 11 minutes, the gunfire stopped. It was deemed nothing more than a barricade, thats why the eight s. W. A. T. Team waited so long. The understanding is after that nine to 11 minutes, the gunman turned the weapon on himself. He had three cameras in the room, weve been talking about this all day long. What we didnt know his two of the cameras were outside in the hall including one that that was actually hooked up to way service car from the hotel. The third camera was inside the hotel room but it was on the peephole looking down the hallway. There are a port saying this guy tried to film himself not true. All he was concerned about where the Police Officers and the teams coming down that hallway. He wanted to be notified of
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And other countries are taking advantage of that. What do you think about the scope of our presence at some of these Rule Setting Meetings . What are your plans for the future . Senator, we need to be there. We need to be active. We need to be capable. We need to be value added. We need to come prepared to engage and work for americas interests in these multilateral discussions. I think you described wto in this article. Sounds like we share that sentiment. I couldnt tell you why we werent there. I dont know if it was an absence of people or the absence of focus. I view those as important to get the International Rule of law thats in accord with our view and not the chinese view in that particular instance. You have concerns and i will do my best to make sure were there and were capable. Appreciate it, that answer. I want to get a little bit of clarification with respect to an answer that you gave Senator Menendez at the outset coming back to that meeting with the president on march 22
ukrainian state. rather than bringing this con flick to a close. ned, how do the ukrainians even begin to negotiate with people who do things like we saw today, who attack a train station of hundreds of civilians trying to evacuate or who attack bucha and claim it wasn t them, it was staged. where do you begin to negotiate with people like that. you don t negotiate with your best friends or allies and partners. you often negotiate with adversaries and in some cases opponents. and the goal of any negotiation here is not to create a full mall between ukraine and russia or between russia and the rest of the world. the goal is to save lives. that is what is motivating the ukrainian partners and motivating us and we re doing a couple of things to advance our ukrainian partners at the negotiating table. number one, we are continuing to provide them with an unprecedented level of security
mariupol, the carnage continues there. the mayor claiming around 160,000 people are still trapped by russian forces without food, water, electricity. nothing, neil, to sustain life. neil: thanks, jeff. let s go to lieutenant general newton here from the u.s. air force. general, there s some confusion of what the russian strategy is here. they have been saying through their foreign minister that it wasn t them. even though we have proof it was indeed the russians and furthermore saying a lot of this was staged. the focus is on the donbas region where there s a strong hold by russian soldiers and keeping the attack going and keeping the ukrainians guessing. that keeps this dragging on awhile. what do you think? yes, the fact that russia is now refocussed from the kyiv region, the capitol, over to the