And welcome to Boxing Day on the Chris Plant show. It is the 26th of December. The Brits really celebrate Boxing Day. We don't. We don't. I know it's their deal. But a lot of people are talking about it, and I'm making fun of it.

It's Mike O'Pelke in from my friend, Chris Plant.

Thank you for being here.

I hope your Christmas and your first day of Hanukkah were excellent, as you anticipated.

We're following all the breaking news of the day.

Reuters is claiming they have sources confirming that Russian air defenses shot down.

The Azerbaijani airliner yesterday, an Embraer.

I think it was an Embraer 190 that was knocked out of the out of control, because the pilot did make an effort a valiant

effort to bring that plane in circled and asked for an emergency landing the Russians initially said

no it was birds it was birds trust us it was a bird strike no we kept seeing images online

showing damage to the fuselage of the plane that looks a lot like what would happen if someone was trying to shoot you out of the sky.

And now that's what Reuters is claiming happened.

And we will see if there's any response. Joe Biden is busy flying to St. Croix for a vacation because he needs yet another vacation.

And, you know, I don't think we can count on any kind of cogent foreign policy statement out of Kamala Harris about this either.

Both the president and the vice president probably not really focused on dealing with this kind of thing.

NATO is going to call for a full investigation. Of course, this is a horrific act against people that were flying on an airliner.

At least 38 dead.

29 survived, which is just amazing.

And two of those were children.

Just an astounding.

And they say there was one report that I heard early in the coverage of this

yesterday morning when this first started breaking, that the plane, when it landed, the main part

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