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Given time. they will look at that to see if the plane was performing as it was instructed. and if it was, then theyre going to zero in on the flight crew. >> you talk about the plane performs as it was skruinstruct. theres a report the glide path has been off. that glides the planes down. these things can almost automatically land by themselves. do we know if it was the visual approach or if the computers were landing the plane? and how does that play a part in what happened? >> i think we do k...

With any accident like this there is a tremendous sort of feeding frenzy. >> gregg: let me back up. debris field literally begins where the plane is not supposed to touch down. these are very sophisticated aircraft. this is boeing triple 7 model 200. arent there on board computer alert systems that warn a pilot, you are coming in too low? >> there are, but this very last, it could be flying airplane visually. if you are electronic glide path and you go below it a voice, glide slope -- there are ...

That is measured electronically and normally you have lights out there a combination of red and white lights to tell you are on the glide path. you have an whether established air speeds and sync right say 300 to 400 feet per minute. clearly this got too low on the glide path and too high a sync rate which it was unable to arrest before it struck that wall. again, the investigators who are on their way, faa will be involved and n.t.s.b. will lead the investigation. boeing will participate. the a...

The debris field and it extends all the way down the runway. what does that tell you? >> and previous caller that was quite knowledgeable, avoiding speculating but i will point out this airplane has absolute state of the art, voice and data recorders and investigators will have access to precise data. you can see here there is debris as the prior witnessed said. those yellow chevrons those are displaced they are hold. you dont land -- thresholds and its clear that he struck the seawall before ge...

Amnesty, amnesty is when you get something free. this is a path to citizenship. jeff sessions, particularly a point that is not sort of way outside the matrix in the senate, can marco rubio convince his republican colleagues that a path to citizenship does not equal amnesty? >> i think he can for a bunch of reasons. the border is way more secure than it used to be. technology has made it easier to make the border secure. the pressures of the illegal immigration are way down. we have net zero mig...

Would be brutal. thats the conventional wisdom. that the north korean army would march across the dmz and into the south and seoul right here where we are, 35 miles away from the dmz, and the economic heartland of this country is vulnerable. hes got tactical weapons, hes threatened to use them. most people believe, as does kerry, i think, that this is bluster. but hes basically saying today, that your rhetoric has gotten too hot. take a way out, find a glide path out of this. a face-saving way o...

Does it really say that? can it really do that? senator ron johnson sits on the budget committee. the republican sits live on capitol hill. the pleasure to talk to you. the republican side of your committee, the budget committee, reportedly did a preliminary analysis and determined following from the budget. not 600 but 800 billion in tax increases. 7.3 trillion in new debt. an actual deficit reduction of only 280 billion. two questions, is that roughly accurate, and, second of all, if it is, is...

Nobodys getting their way. to get to a ten-year glide path towards the balanced budget, they have to sit around a table and hammer it out. lindsey sgram saying, maybe i dont agree immigration is the key, but if we can build up trust, that both sides understand both have to have a role in coming to a solution on an authority question like immigration. the same dynamics happening on the budget, and we ought to take the term grand bargain, throw it away. it scares everybody. get a budget deal. figu...

The next ten years, they happen as much this year as next year, as much next year as the year after and thats the opposite of what you would want to do. they want to replace it with a larger total amount of deficit reduction. it would be back loaded. a lot less in year one, and then in year two and less in year three than year four. overall they think that would be a better glide path for the recovery. in that, they are right. i have argued before, i dont mind the way the sequester cuts are orga...

Wall street. you say that obamas policies are hopelessly glib and even paul ryan doesnt say how bad things are. so obviously, youre an optimist. why should i even get up in the morning? are any of these fixable? even if i agree with you about the genesis, are any of these fixable? >> i think not. the budget is a doomsday machine. the deficit is now so big, far bigger over the next ten years than washington is telling you. it is not in a glide path to improvement. he is on a banana peel. the next...