you heard jen psaki saying they are still trying to determine the presence of americans.re are also some questions a 17 would be in the area. it turns out the european safety aviation administration headband airliners in april. planes are not supposed to be flying over the area. of course, three ukrainian government jets were shot down earlier this week by the rebels, at least that is what the rebels say. >> michael mckee, thank you. we have learned details about 17 from social media, to the malaysian airlines twitter account. joining me now from san francisco, "bloomberg west" anchor emily chang. what are we learning right now? >> as with any breaking news, it is playing out on social media, and while the information you be in the early minutes can confusing and often wrong, it can be revealing. in the earliest minutes after the crash we saw a facebook post on the page of an advisor to the ukrainian interior minister, and this was translated automatically by facebook saying ,hat he was fine at an altitude and his terrorists, there is no limit. open your eyes, help us all

jen psaki, thank you so much. i know you have many things to do today. >> great chatting with you. >>> joining me now is "new york times" white house correspondent. peter baker. let's start with russia here. in terms of what this does to ongoing negotiations with russia on a host of different things, you heard jen psaki talk about, the p5, and they're playing a role in syria. how much of an issue do you think this will be moving forward? >> it's a huge issue, obviously, and you heard the president last night when he came out and announced sanctions. he talked about gaza and he talked about iran and this underscores what a complicated world it is and right now for president obama it is a very complicated situation, interlocking crises and situations that involve russia, iran, syria, iraq and so forth. this plane crash in ukraine today just further inflames an already volatile situation and what the american administration hopes if there is indication that the russians or the separatists that they support were someh

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i want to bring in jen psaki. e's the spokeswoman for the state department, would with secretary of state john kerry. jen, thanks very much for joining us. i know you're back in washington. you were with the secretary. he was trying to achieve a cease-fire. it didn't work out. what was the problem. what went wrong? >> first, wolf, let meet say that there is a long history of mistrust between the parties on the ground. and when the secretary went to the region just a week ago, there was no discussion of a cease-fire. there weren't actual negotiations going on and the international community had not gathered support for the idea of a cease-fire. so there are some changes and some progress that has been made in that regard. but this is difficult. we always knew it would be. what we're working on now is short term cease fires, building on them so we can give time for the parties to negotiate about the larger issues. >> you know there's a lot of criticism of the secretary of state and for that matter the president of th

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spokeswoman jen psaki says "we are profoundly troubled by reports he was severely beaten while in police custody and strongly condemn any excessive use of force. we are calling for a speedy, transparent and credible investigation and full accountability for excessive use of force." in tampa where this teen lives anger and sads, neighbors and friends held a streetside vigil some signs reading "bring our brother home." relatives of course reacting negatively. here's what they say about someone they describe is just a typical teenager. >> israeli police who beat him like this, not knowing he was a u.s. citizen, so if he wasn't a u.s. citizen he would have just been murdered like the other palestinians every single day. an american. he plays soccer, takes selfies on facebook. he loves fishing. i mean, he's just bright, wonderful kid, like any other american kid. he's into pop culture. he listens to the rap music. i mean, what else can you say about a 15-year-old american born and raised here? you know, he just went to visit his grandparents. that's all. >> and the state department of course

at least washington has so far kept quiet about the diplomatic rug state department spokesperson jen psaki avoiding giving any comment when asked about it directly. when you show you. the german reporter the media reports saying what would you mean by that or you deny you the german allegations about that there was a ration going on all the time all i meant by it was that we've seen the reports we've read the reports i'm not going to say i don't have any specific comment on it given it's purported to ensure you see those reports are true i'm not going to have anything more to add on that front freedom of information act of. expelling the top intelligence official is a drastic step but sends a strong message is kinds of measures are actually only done for a pariah states like north korea and so forth this is a political earthquake you could call it there's going to be serious ramifications i mean. maybe the t i p trade agreement might be at risk i think that the political climate here is at a very critical. point in time and people want solutions they want answers they want their elected of

why they really flee from you see ukraine i asked about this today jen psaki tried it more cautiously on this than her colleague last week but the general impression is that the u.s. department is trying to downplay the humanitarian crisis in the east of ukraine. but our web site is running our live updates section on ukraine with all the latest as it comes in but there's also plenty of all day for you including a look at who is to blame for the crisis in the east and why. the u.n. secretary general has confirmed that in syria two cylinders seized by government troops reportedly in a rebel held area contains a deadly sarin gas that's close live to artie's policy now joins us with more paula we know the gas has been blamed for causing hundreds of deaths in the conflict now doesn't make it any clearer who was behind it. well the united nations secretary-general ban ki moon has confirmed that two cylinders that reportedly contained the deadly seven guests and that which were found by the government troops of syria in an area that was controlled by opposition fighters has indeed been hand

horrors that people said about why they really flee from eastern ukraine i asked about this today jen psaki tried it more cautiously on this than her colleague last week but the general impression is that the u.s. department is trying to downplay the humanitarian crisis in the east of ukraine. however it is running a live update section on new train with all the latest as it comes in but there's also plenty of all day for you including a look at who's to blame for the crisis in the east and why. the u.n. secretary general has confirmed that in syria two cylinders seized by government troops reportedly in a rebel held area contains of the deadly sarin gas. has more. the united nations secretary-general ban ki moon has indicated that two cylinders that were reportedly found by syrian government troops in an area that was controlled by opposition fighters had inside the deadly sarin gas now the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons as well as the united nations have jointly been overseeing syria's destruction of its chemical weapons program they analyzed the contents of the cyli

comment on germany's anger the issue was raised at a state department briefing but spokesperson jen psaki refused to give any information when you say we have seen the gentleman reports over the media reports saying what would you mean by that are you denying the gentleman on the geisha is a boat that there was a spy operations going on all the time all i meant by it was that we've seen the reports we've read the reports i'm not going to say i don't have a specific comment on it given its purported at and so you see those reports are true i'm not going to have anything more to add on that front if former cia officer who worked in germany finks the. official sends a dramatic signal to the us spelling to see the station is unprecedented i don't know of a single example of any nato country expelling the cia chief of station and so this is quite a significant move by the germans they're saying no more of this there's no question about it i think this one is different because i think it is maybe one or two too far it basically is the germans are saying that we have a high tolerance for the uni

least so far washington has kept quiet about the diplomatic row and state department spokesperson jen psaki avoided giving any comment when asked about it when you sure you have seen the german reporter the media report saying what would you mean by that or you deny even german allegations about that there was a spy operations going on oh i'm all i meant by it was that we've seen the reports we've read the reports i'm not going to say i don't have any specific comment on it given it's purported to to ensure you see those reports are true i'm not going to have anything more to add on that front we spoke to philip giraldi he's a former cia officer who used to work in germany and he told us that he would be expanding that small plans halogens official as a drastic step that sends a very strong message. expelling the cia chief of station is unprecedented i don't know of a single example of any nato country expelling the cia chief of station and so this is quite a significant move by the germans they're saying no more of this there's no question about it i think this one is different because i t

horrors that people said about why they really flee from you see ukraine i asked about this today jen psaki read it more cautiously on this than her colleague last week but the general impression is that the u.s. department of is trying to downplay the humanitarian crisis in the east of ukraine . how absurd it is running a live update section on ukraine with all the latest as it comes in but there's also plenty more they have for you including a look at who is to blame for the prices in the east and why. israel has launched a large scale offensive against the hamas controlled gaza strip as part of a new operation protective edge it's already targeted at least fifty sites in dozen injured seventeen people are policy it is in television with details. well israel has launched what could be a long term offensive against hamas in gaza in the early hours of this morning fifty sites were hit by the israeli air force firing from both the sky and the sea at the same time there has been a call up in a mobilization of the israeli army for a possible ground offensive we are hearing from the israeli arm

consequences had to be taken the people are just absolutely fed up state department spokesperson jen psaki has been asked about u.s. spying in germany let's take a brief listen to what she had to say. when you say you have seen the gentleman reports or the media reports saying what you would you mean by that are you denying the german allegations about that there was a spy operations going on oh i'm all i meant by it was that we've seen the reports we've read the reports i'm not going to say i don't have any specific comment on it given it's purported attack and so you see those reports are true i'm not going to have anything more to add on that front so there you go no comment from her do you believe we'll hear anything from the u.s. regarding this incident in the coming days at all. well considering the fact that the reason of for this formal recommendation for expulsion from the german territory but not as persona non grata. because they had they were basically not cooperating collaborating with the german government to clear up. the n.s.a. scandal and i think after a year i think that

we did also hear from jen psaki spokeswoman at the state department she was asked again about the american casualties on board this flight and here's what she had to say. leave soon the public reports i spoke to our team right before we came out here we don't have any additional details at this point on american citizens we're looking to of course obtain that information as soon as we have it available will make it available to all of you. reports are coming out from a number of outlets saying that hundreds of bodies are being recovered from the site of this crash are likely to be a mix of people representing a whole host of countries and we don't know at this point whether the majority are european our agent or our people on board from the united states at this point we just don't have enough information we don't have the passenger manifest which is what we need to see to determine how many american citizens are of course on board this plane. whether stand earlier today president obama spoke with russian president vladimir putin over the phone what did they discuss. of course they did spe

that people made sense about why they really flee from eastern ukraine i asked about this today jen psaki tried it more cautiously on this than her colleague last week but the general impression is that the u.s. department it is trying to downplay the humanitarian crisis in the east of ukraine . over the elven in science class between ukraine's national guard and answer government fighters has been posted on the internet reports of live filmed at a contrasted border tac points. because the money she. did not do not new. but soon saw its now falls over this checkpoint for more than a long while so it's no surprise that this is what it looked like after the battle and you can see the place is desertion and also bought into the conversation heard in the video agree outlying area is heavy with snipers. if you were a kid has an entire defense in the school feeding its army the rebels it seems are making do with relics from the past now this post soviet decades as part of an outdoor museum exhibit but it seems someone just couldn't bear a walk the way it stands being told away for repair work t

to provide information that they were not providing openly now the state department spokesperson jen psaki has been asked to comment on the expulsion just take a listen to what she had to say for a moment. when you say you have seen the judgment of the media reports seeing. what you mean by that or do you deny either judgment or league ations a boat that there was a spy ration going on oh i'm all i meant by it was that we've seen the reports we've read the reports i'm not going to say i don't have any specific comment on it given its purported until you see those reports are true i'm not going to have anything more to add on that front so clearly the u.s. has no comment should we expect any other type of reaction in the coming days i don't think so i think this is merkel having to respond to her own public in terms of doing something about this now she's had her phone tapped and now we discover that there are two probably high level spies within her government that are working for the u.s. government. she knew about this or she knew that this was there was a high likelihood of this sort of

stories of you of the government in kiev asking for nato involvement no state department spokesperson jen psaki was very curfuffle when commenting on the situation seeing quote we have seen reports everyone else has seen. is it is it surprising that she avoided any mention of the military operation in ukraine. actually the restraint is very telling because in the past the state department has made all sorts of claims that could not be corroborated or were outright false in their efforts to blame the russians and if they're being restrained now this leads me to believe that they know something that we don't and that they're being very careful not to blame the russians because they might be afraid that the truth when it comes out would would fail to hold up those accusations saw the fact that the state department being very restrained about this suggests to me now obviously i don't have any proof i'm sitting here in washington is hearing the same uses you are but it suggests to me that this may not have been an act by the rebels order or you know even the russians as some wild accusations have be

this situation would occur outside of that context now state department spokesperson jen psaki she was really careful when commenting on the situation perhaps understandably so but she said quote we have seen the reports everybody else has seen it and that is it perhaps surprising she avoided any mention of the military operation in ukraine normally she's not backwards in being forward when it comes to mentioning the hostilities there. but i think that even the white house realizes the gravity of the situation and the implications with all of the evidence of the facts with only a bare minimum of the evidence of the facts and no one wants to know particularly no government wants to have made a statement that will later prove to be untrue so everyone i think is doing it or at least the responsible players are doing the correct thing and ovoid ing any type of politically polarizing speculation with this tragic event. marketing just to punish thing point which is very sadly the different nationalities of the of the people on board this plane which just made me think that if it turns out th

artie's megan lopez attended the state department press briefing this afternoon and ask folks woman jen psaki about the revelations take a look. it's just recently said that it has acquired a chemical weapons facility in twenty five hundred degraded weapons does the state department have a comment on that and what is the potential fallout over acquiring the weapons and this chemical facility well first let me note that there was a copy of a letter and i know you're aware of this but just so everybody is aware of a letter that the iraqi permanent representative to the united nations sent to u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon which was circulated yesterday to members of the security council which outlined this the purpose of the letter was to notify the international community of the seizure of university of mosul facilities containing nuclear materials in june and to request international assistance in typical fashion these requests are sent just directly to the i.a.e.a. and they look into them and that is of course the natural process this point i would point you to the comments in the statem

series of shelling which reportedly struck a local village say at the state department spokeswoman jen psaki said this about these satellite images and we felt it was important to put this information out public. it shows. by the separatists and with support from with russian artillery in this effort as you know we've been concerned about that engagement and that escalation and this provides further example of that part of the timing of this documents released comes into question all along us where the images originally came from here's what spokesman seche had to say about those questions well we wouldn't have put them out publicly if we didn't feel confident about the accuracy. classify information as we can to make it available to all of you and to the american public in the international community and that was the case here now these most recent revelations could have brought on implications for moscow the u.s. that might be able to use this evidence as leverage to convince members of the european union to broaden their own sanctions or to add new sanctions against russia a notion that i

that people are you said about why they really flee from you see ukraine i ask about this today jen psaki treaded more cautiously on this than her colleague last week with the general impression is that the u.s. department is trying to downplay the humanitarian crisis in the east of ukraine. that was artie's guy nature can. and if you thought the long lines at t.s.a. screening gates weren't slow enough be prepared a new rule will allow t.s.a. officers to force travelers at airports with direct routes to the u.s. to power on their mobile and other electronic devices when going through the screening process travelers who cannot power on their devices will not be allowed to bring them on board the aircraft this is all in response to intelligence reports that al qaeda operatives in syria and yemen may have developed more sophisticated methods of hiding explosives in mobile devices the t.s.a. has particularly highlighted the apple i phone and samsung galaxy now the t.s.a. has not said however what it plans to do if a passenger cannot power on their electronic devices or what a traveler must do

their spokesperson she was very careful when describing the situation around around this crash jen psaki said that they've seen the reports like everybody else has and that's it but she made no mention of the military operation in ukraine to define a strange to say the least but remarkable isn't it because it is also and if it it is true that this plane was shot down than of course it's all to do with the war ukraine at the moment isn't it and it is a war zone we've seen almost five hundred people civilians killed by the ukrainian authorities so i think that there were sponsibility must live with those who have created this or ukraine but i think as i said now is not really the time to be a. people shooting down this plane we go to stay car we're going to stay very forensic we're going to wait till the evidence is produced it's i said it. has been shot down then clearly flying at that kind of altitude it would have to be from surface to air missile be shot down by another plane and of course of the separatists want to be able to do that so i think that there are is a strong likelihood it

briefing, we heard in the form of a journalist's question, could the state department spokeswoman, jen psakiconfirm or deny the presence of 23 americans on the flight manifest? she declined to provide any more information. and it could be some time before we get more information on that. we were talking to tom costello who covers aviation for us. so tom, people asking the very simple question, what were they doing flying over that airspace, you're reporting there were no current restrictions on it for this carrier. >> yeah, that's correct. well, in fact, according to -- let me bring it back up on my computer here -- the international air transportation association is saying based on the current information available, it believes the airspace that the aircraft was traversing was not subject to restrictions. that's the international air transport association. but as we mentioned, the faa issued its own notice to airmen back in april, suggesting that u.s. airlines avoid flying over that route. we discussed earlier that it's likely we will see international carriers announcing that they are goin

. >> jen psaki the spokesperson live. >> auditing ballots from the afghan presidential runoff.being conducted. >> this is just highly inappropriate i would say. today a malaysian airline's jet has fallen from the sky over a war zone and the state department is beginning with routine matters. you figure it out. i can't figure that out. jennifer griffith i can't believe what just happened. >> that's the state department. i'm not surprised. >> we don't have time to read the tweet but she tweeted something ridiculous out of her state department twitter account about a fashion article. bob, dropped the ball? >> dropped the ball she was dropped on her head. it's unbelievable to me -- who in their right mind can walk out with these things going on and talk about a ballot count which is going to be a screwy ballot count in kabul when this is going on. then talks about fashion. i mean, somebody has got to take this woman -- she ought to be press secretary at the department of mimes. >> she the chief spokesperson for the state department. on a day like that she is talking about ballots.

the state department spokesman jen psaki saying the 15-year-old was visited by an official from the consulate about that alleged attack. >>> claiming a major victory over pro russian separatists. in the eastern part of the country, the key stronghold for the rebels since early april, the government has now retain more than a dozen towns from the rebels. ukraine's president calling today's victory a start of a turning point. poroshenko also says he's ready to hold another round of peace talks with pro-russian separatists. >>> nuri al maliki is removing the army chief of the ground forces and the head of the federal police from their posts. the dismissals are part offal maliki's shake-up as the battle against isis continues. they have seized control of large parts of syria and iraq and declared the establishment of an islamic state. last month three were fired in the northern part of the country. >>> the leader of the emergency rescue workers trying to save eight trapped miners in honduras now claims only a miracle can let us get them alive. in a landslide on wednesday, the mine was reportedly

swore in and the government, joining hamas after years of conflict, state department spokesperson jen psakid the obama administration would recognize this new government. >> it appears president abbas has formed an interim technocratic government that does not include ministers affiliated with hamas. moving forward, we will be judging the government by its actions, based on what we know now, we intend to work with us government that we will be watching closely to ensure it upholds the principles the president abbas reiterated today. >> nathan thrall, can you talk about how israel reacted to this decision and then what the was subsequently did in terms of its commitment to recognizing the unity government? >> sure. the step the u.s. took was supposed by israel and it has to be said that the reason -- one of the main reasons the u.s. actually took this extraordinary step of recognizing this unity government was, first of all, their frustration with israel during the kerry-led peace possible so if that had not happened and it had received an extension, the u.s. almost certainly would have impo

. >> the state department spokesperson jen psaki was asked directly by reporters at her daily briefing today about reports that americans may have been on this flight. obviously that's speculation at this point. she said she had, could not confirm any details but had seen the same reports. separately the white house confirming that earlier today before the president went to wilmington, melissa, he and russian president putin talked by phone about the new sanctions that the united states levied on russia yesterday as a result of the situation in the ukraine. and both, statement from the kremlin and white house mentioned that during the call, president putin noted early reports of a downed passenger jet near the russia-ukraine border. melissa. melissa: thank you so much for that report. tom sullivan is back with us. we have jack hough from "barron's" and simon constable here from the "wall street journal" we're a business show. let's talk for a second about malaysian airlines. it is amazing to me that we are talking about them again. >> state-owned. melissa: we're saying here they are fl

state department spokeswoman jen psaki was more critical saying, that's not the way partners and alliesreat each other. kerry said he made no apology for his and the president's push for an immediate and unconditional cease-fire though house speaker john boehner suggests support for israel and not peace mediation should be this country's main role. u.s. officials have said in every statement that they support israel's right to defend itself from hamas rockets and its effort to destroy the tunnels from gaza. but with more than 1,000 palestinians dead, the majority civilians and many women and children and some israeli civilian casualties as well, u.s. officials say the violence simply must end. israeli officials blame the palestinian casualties on hamas. they say firing from civilian areas. sean. >> wendell golor, thank you. with an american brokered cease-fire in gaza looking less likely, the battle spread to the sunday morning political shows. both sides stating their case. let's take a look. >> we are not fundamentalists. we not actually fight the jews because they are jews. >> you wa

now state department coming out with a statement from spokesperson jen psaki saying u.s.s very concerned about the lack of access, the safe and unfettered access for the osce investigators that you've been talking to. and even today they got in, but it was a few hours, a very small area. and these reports of bodies being moved, evidence being tampered with, parts of the plane and other potential evidence being tampered with. parts of the plane being hauled away. in all, talking about the idea of a credible investigation. and, erin, this just goes to what we have been talking about earlier about the u.s. being concerned that some of these separatists with russian orders, acquiescence, are moving some f those parts of the debris, of the plane back into russia to try to hide evidence of any culpability. >> richard? you're trying to -- >> i just want to on this geopolitical point, if i may, erin. >> yes, yes. >> prime minister cameron tonight writing in the british newspapers along this -- you heard what he said. he says, if president putin does not change his approach to ukr