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Bair. great to have you here. want to ask you a question right off the bat, bob, well start with you. malaysian air said they are aware media reports the captain made a cell phone call eight minutes before the flight departed. give me your gut instinct on that. what does it say? whats the significance? >> i think thats going to be a key phone call. the pilot is suspected now of being involved, as he should be. what was his mood? who did he call? did he have any contact? so far no terror connecti...

Been attached to any radical groups so far. however, given the climate were living in, the climate of terrori terrorism, and the part of the world where this took place, it seems to be taking a long time for them to begin to look into the backgrounds or whenever they have political radicalization in their backgrounds. maybe this is because people say i jump on the muslims, but it would have been the first thing i would have asked. eric, what do you think? >> before we make the leap, we have to d...

Motivation, why would someone want to take over this aircraft, what might there intent be with it, i think thats noble, if you continue to investigate, look into backgrounds, find out where that aircraft was, look at the cargo hold, who tendered the cargo hold. >> the federal register that dawks about the possibility of a cyber hijack, that somebody from within the plan could have disabled the communications ability of that plane, including shutting off the transponder, apparently it was a known...

In fact, they were, it seems to me that would take you in a whole different direction of your investigation, right? >> remember, were in day 11, and last friday, which would have been day 7 on the show we talked about where are the dossiers about the pilots? i dont think its prejudiced. its just common sense in the world we live in that you would have checked into the backgrounds. maybe theres nothing there, but it begs the question whether or not we soft pedaled it up until now. >> why not chec...

Flam flames. this all happened in the street. two people were killed in that crash and a third individual was transported to the local hospital in critical condition suffering from extensive burns. president obama has recognized the sacrifice of 24 veterans, the largest group of medal of honor recipients since 2002. three are still alive. many recipients were initially passed up for this. a pentagon review said 19 men did not receive awards because of their racial or ethnic backgrounds. >> thi...

It, i think thats noble, if you continue to investigate, look into backgrounds, find out where that aircraft was, look at the cargo hold, who tendered the cargo hold. >> the federal register that dawks about the possibility of a cyber hijack, that somebody from within the plan could have disabled the communications ability of that plane, including shutting off the transponder, apparently it was a known defect within the boeing 777. possibility? >> im going to put that one at the bottom of my lis...

And the criminal type. >> so what does that look like? if you found yourself in this position, you have the plane manifest, what do you do? >> im basically looking at the background of everybody on those planes. presumably theres a lot of countries involved. because of the, you know a lot of chinese citizens citizens from other countries. i want backgrounds and investigation on all those people. im going to be asking all of, you know, basically my allied intelligence services to go out and shake...

Now saying that it has ruled out the possibility that any of its citizens on the plane were responsible for its disappearance. how can they make such a sweeping statement? >> reporter: yeah, thats right, they did say that today, and that came from the chinese ambassador to malaysia. he said that the central government has already checked out the backgrounds of the 154 chinese citizens on board, and there was no evidence of any sort of link to terrorism or any sort of link to sabotage. now, you a...

In fact, they were, it seems to me that would take you in a whole different direction of your investigation, right? >> remember, were in day 11, and last friday, which would have been day 7 on the show we talked about where are the dossiers about the pilots? i dont think its prejudiced. its just common sense in the world we live in that you would have checked into the backgrounds. maybe theres nothing there, but it begs the question whether or not we soft pedaled it up until now. >> why not chec...

It just depends. in this case, there might not be a snemoking gun. we dont know. you cant wait for everything else to unfold then say, well, now lets investigate. you have to parallel those investigations both technical and the criminal type. >> what does that look like? if you found yourself in this position, you have the plane manifest, what do you do? >> im basically looking at the background of everybody on those planes. presumably theres a lot of countries involved. a lot of chinese citizen...