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Best way. ignored by the white house. they are using new justification about the fact that if they feel that if the secret had gotten out, if word had gotten leaked of this swap to release sergeant bergdahl, that the taliban might have killed him. what did she say about all of that? >> thats right. we heard yesterday that at this background briefing to senators on wednesday that those senators were told that had the bowe bergdahl trade deal been leaked by congress, by anybody to the general publ...

Fact that here you have a community, the private sector, which is working with the community college here to do a better job of training the work force, having them get the skills that are needed for the jobs that are out there and having that link be stronger. we asked administration officials yesterday during that background briefing what makes this program different than past programs that have been rolled out by previous administrations? and the answer was that the goal here is to have a str...

Of pieces of legislation. so this is his way of going around congress. its not clear how large the impact is going to be, and i can tell you i was part of a background briefing yesterday and tried to get some projections about how many apprenticeships might be created by this initiative, how many jobs ultimately might be created. the white house says its just too soon to have those figures, but they say this is the right time for these types of competitive grant programs because while you do hav...

Publicly, malaysian officials did say all the radar data is central to their investigation. >> the manner of the air traffic control at the time of the aircraft make an air turn back is one of the very important criteria for the investigators to look at. >> reporter: in a background briefing, malaysian investigators told cnn that they believed flight mh-370, whoever was flying it had a thorough knowledge of the aircraft. and was a criminal act by one of the two pilots or someone else on board. >...

Did say all the radar data is central to their investigation. >> the manner of the air traffic control at the time of the aircraft make an air turn back is one of the very important criteria for the investigators to look at. >> reporter: in a background briefing, malaysian investigators told cnn that they believed flight mh-370, whoever was flying it had a thorough knowledge of the aircraft. and was a criminal act by one of the two pilots or someone else on board. >> nick, why do investigators t...

Internet, i cannot confirm or discount. i can only explain what i informed you in my piece. >> reporter: investigation officials insist privately this new map is not theirs and does not match malaysian radar readings. despite refusing to comment publicly, officials did say that all of the radar data is central to their investigation. >> the manner of the air traffic control at a time of the aircraft made the turn back is one of the very important information for the investigators to look at. >> ...

Informed you. >> reporter: investigation officials insist privately this new map is not theirs, that it doesnt match malaysian radar readings. despite refusing to comment publicly malaysian officials did say all the radar data is central to their investigation. >> the manner of the control at the time of the aircraft turn is one of the very important for investigators. >> reporter: in a background briefing given to cnn malaysian investigators say they believed mh-370 was flown by someone with go...

Detail in the background briefing. it is unusual. i have a feeling it has to do with his previously scheduled travel. he needs to make the statement and go down to florida. >> i see the papers on the stand. hope they dont blow away. hes got an aid trying to make sure papers dont blow away. windy in the nations capitol. the president will walk out and make the speech about russia. heres comes the president now walking from the south lawn of the white house. reporters have gathered to hear what th...

We dont have confirmation of the announcement. at the same time the announcement was indicated here, we heard from david cameron announcing he was going to expand the sanctions very similar to the sanctions that the president of the united states announced this week. he was going to expand the number of people affected by the asset freezes and visa bans. because the u.s. activity has been really in close concert with what the eu has done in terms of reaction to russia, even though the u.s. was f...

Saying, listen, weve been trying to work with russians. theyve not being cooperative. were not sure what we lose now in terms of cooperation. in terms of getting the international community on one page on syria that wasnt looking good and now looking more dim. >> looks like the relationship between united states and russia has taken a very nasty turn. youre our white house correspondent. usually the president goes in the briefing room. its interesting he wants to do it in front of marine one bef...