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Washington this morning. whats the latest? >> what an unusual case this is. we see this simply widen out. new i have had combined with old evidence is making for a pretty disturbing scenario here. one of the things you mentioned is the fact that someone switched off a couple communication devices shortly after the aircraft took off. combine that with a piece of old evidence that the malaysian military radar indicates the plane may have taken a sharp turn to the left. combine that with informatio...

Sea off the west coast of thailand and berma -- >> you dont continue to fly four or five hours off course where the transponder just happens to be turned off. it is not making any sense, is it if you put those pieces of the puzzle together. >> youre right, there has to be human involvement, even with the transponder, the failure, there are battery backups. secondly if the plane was in distress there are multiple systems for -- you could radio for help and electronically signal for help. there ar...

Joining me now is james cavanaugh, an msnbc law enforcement analyst. james, what do you make of this new information? >> well, it goes back to things we talked about last night, lawrence. a human hand involved, i still feel and the evidence suggests there must be some human involvement in that plane turning and the transponder being turned off. because there seems to be many redundant systems in those planes according to the airline pilots and ntsb experts. >> why would the -- it seems like ther...

Control. the military also said the 777 was last detected near 29,000 feet, almost 10,000 feet below cruising altitude. joining me now is james calimer, an msnbc law enforcement analyst. james, what do you make of this new information? >> well, it goes back to things we talked about last night, lawrence. a human hand involved, i still feel and the evidence suggests there must be some human involvement in that plane turning and the transponder being turned off. because there seems to be many redu...

High sea levels, likely confidence in both areas, human involvement and the fact that its occurring. who is involved with this? were talking about it being extremely likely. 66%, that was the confidence in 2001. look at that jump in confidence that weve seen from that period of time. this is a report that comes from a thousand experts around the world. were talking 39 countries. the purpose of it, we want politicians around the world, theyre going line by line to make sure they understand it so ...

City in pakistan, about a two-hour drive outside of the islamabad, the capital of pakistan. we are watching all of this unfold. anderson cooper is with us, and a lot of reaction coming in from washington and all over the world, but i suspect that cia operatives those directly involved and we may never know their specific names, but they were instrumental along with the navy s.e.a.l.s in getting this job done. >> well no, doubt about it. clearly from the description of the operation, there was a ...

The measure tries to outlaw any termination of a so-called prenatal citizen. heres the text of the bill, quote, prenatal murder means the intentional removal of a fetus from a woman with an intention other than to produce a live birth. such term does not include whats known popularly as a miscarriage, as long as theres no human involvement whatsoever in the causation of such an event. now, what does he mean by human involvement? who knows. he didnt specify. so a woman has to prove that her misca...

>> reporter: it is four days old and because of strong winds currents it could have drifted. the satellite image was located left of where it was by the australian government. and the civil aircraft reporting a number of small objects with a wooden palate. and the new developments all follow the publication of a newspaper with a transcript. it shoes no abnormality. and ends with all right, good night. and just before it was handed over. >> right after that hand off was supposed to occur. the pla...

Development, the malaysian authorities have refocused their investigation into the crew and passengers on board. >> bob hager, now we go to the possibility of human involvement here, whether whatever reason it was done, there was some kind of human decision making going on on that plane, it wasnt mechanical failure. and the question is if you look at -- theyre talking about the first officer having a habit of letting people into the cockpit. unofficially. maybe he was flirting with the passenger...

The hijack code. they put nothing in there accept it was turned off so it has to lead one to the inference that it was a human involvement in this and it has to be a hijacking or a stolen aircraft. >> mike? >> no, i have to agree entirely. and for safetys sake we have to assume that going forward if someone has this airplane and thats a real stretch, and wants to do something with it, sometime in the next 12 months, they might do something with it. we need to look into those options. but i have ...