Panetta: It’s ‘Pretty Clear’ That the Russians Were Responsible for the Azerbaijani Plane Crash

RUSH EXCERPT:

PANETTA: "The people on the plane heard the explosion outside the plane before shrapnel started going through the body of that plane, which is very typical of air defense missiles and how they how they they‘re used. And lastly, the evidence on that fuselage is pretty damning because those holes were caused by shrapnel or by munitions of some kind. They certainly weren‘t caused by a bird strike. So we‘ll wait for a formal investigation. But I think it‘s pretty clear that the Russians here were responsible for what happened to that airline."