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something. i dont know about that. thats kind of where. >> if isis did bring down the plane, what does it mean about the terror groups growing capabilities? with us today, the chairman of the house homeland security committee mike mccall. house intelligence ranking democrat, congressman adam schiff. senate armed services chairman john mccain and senator lindsey graham. good day. im andrea mitchell in washington as we continue to follow this rapidly developing story. we have our team in...

>> intelligence officials based on information theyve been sharing with the brits and the brits sharing with the u.s. that it may have been a bomb, that it may have been planted by isis but nothing conclusive so far. one of the big questions raised is is isis there in the sinai sophisticated enough to be able to plant an airplane on a bomb? and one expert that i talked to this morning said the issue here in sophistication of bombs on airplanes is not necessarily the bomb itself but the...

but once a decision on those steps has been made, it will be announced by the department of homeland security. >> reporter: when you say you cant rule anything out, is that kind of just a statement of we just done know yet? or does the u.s. have specific intelligence that suggests that it might, in fact, have been an act of terrorism? >> i cant get into the intelligence, but -- and it is accurate to say that the united states has not made our own determination about the cause of the in...

Process, a long, pain staking process. what are we looking at there? >> well, i dont think -- i dont know how long it takes to identify the species of barnacle but looking at the currents in the indian ocean and wind the tape backwards to see where the piece most likely drifted from and the scan of the seabed going very poorly. they scanned a huge area and not found the plane where they predicted it went. >> greg, still on the phone with us, we want to go back to you. you obviously just heard th...

of france thats analyzing this piece of wing. bill, this is a huge development. take us through it. what did we learn specifically today? >> reporter: it is, luke, a huge development. as you say, this is the greatest airline mystery of our time and while its not solved we have now got the first definite clue. mh-370, that plane part that was oonlized here at the defense scientific lab near toulouse in france, it has been shown that that part from mh-370. there were slight nuances in th...

That island before someone saw it. that will help reverse engineer where they may be searching, if they have to redefine the current search area or come up with a new search area. >> greg feith, as always your insight much appreciated. thank you. >> youre welcome. lets go to politics and a last-ditch effort by some republicans to get on that debate stage. senator lindsey graham is in new hampshire for a series of events and joining him is his friend and former presidential nominee senator john...

witt." the airplane fragment discovered on reunion island arrived in france where investigators will analyze it. their question -- has a piece of mh-370 finally been found? official have confirmed the fragment is indeed from a boeing 777, the same type of plane as mh-370. now in reunion the search for more debris and answers continues. joining me now is nbc newss alistair jamieson. alistair? >> thanks, alex. yes that possible fragment of mh-370 arrived in france this afternoon where sp...

Fact true which i really have a hard time believing, but if they are, then thats going to be very devastating because that adds to the trauma for the families. >> and bill just final to you, ten seconds, what are you hearing there on the ground about those reports that are now disputed by french authorities that there is cell phone footage? >> well, we spoke to the reporter who saw the video. he sticks by it. the police here last night said it was a fake. the prosecutor says they havent analyzed...

Little different, the modeus operandi is too. lufthansa had to backtrack them. they said this pilot was fit to fly, 100% ready to go. now theyre saying we knew about this issue. i know that theyve probably gotten some legal advice not to discuss it. one because its still an active investigation and, two, anything theyre going to say is going to be used of course in court. and so right now lufthansa, because they run the flight school and this young man was enrolled in the program, they do bear s...

deal any minute. both sides could also walk away from a week of talks with nothing. andrea mitchell is live in lausanne in what could be the final hours of the talks with iranians. andrea the obama administration had been adamant they werent going to extend this deadline. now they have. based on your conversations there on the ground are they getting any closer to a deal? >> well they certainly were. they were talking about progress overnight. the president was briefed by the team here...