The overnight crash of an Egyptian airliner is sparking questions of terrorism and immediately becoming part of the debate in the campaign for president. Josh Robin filed the following report.
The Egyptian military looks for Egypt Air Flight 804. It disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea en route from Paris to Cairo.
"It does appear that it was an act of terrorism," said Democratic candidate for president Hillary Clinton.
Clinton says fighting extremism requires her style of steady leadership, and most definitively not Donald Trump. She flatly calls him unqualified.
"We have seen how Donald Trump is being used to essentially be a recruiter for more people to join the cause of terrorism," Clinton said. "So I think if you go through many of his irresponsible, reckless, dangerous comments, it's not just somebody saying something off the cuff."
Trump was in New Jersey on Thursday evening, fundraising for former rival and current ally Chris Christie, taking note of that interview and the term radical Islamic terrorism.
"She refuses to use that term, and I'm saying to myself, 'What just happened about 12 hours ago? A plane got blown out of the sky,'" Trump said.
Trump has called for Muslims to be banned from the U.S., athough he has also said it's a suggestion. Regardless, Clinton again calls it dangerous.
"It sends a message of disrespect," she said.
Before Clinton faces Trump, she has to defeat Bernie Sanders. Although in her mind, she has already.
"That is already done in effect. There is no way that I won't be," she said.
That's news to Team Sanders. Increasingly assertive, Sanders is pushing to not only win the California primary next month, but to oust Clinton at the convention.
A statement notes primary voters in West Virginia and Oregon picked Clinton second.
"We expect voters in the remaining eight contests also will disagree. And with almost every national and state poll showing Sen. Sanders doing much, much better than Secretary Clinton against Donald Trump, it is clear that millions of Americans have growing doubts about the Clinton campaign," the statement reads.
Meanwhile, Trump is quoting Sanders' complaint that Clinton isn't qualified.
"He said because she suffers from bad judgment," Trump said.