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Model. megyn: she came out with a new ad in her senate campaign and she talks about how great china is doing and says we should do better like china. >> she says we should increase our gdp experiencing for infrastructure and roads. we start with the eisenhower system. we have a maintenance issue. the need has to be there to build. also you dont create these jobs by spending a trillion dollars. megyn: do you think its a wise political move to put her in this featured role? >> actually, yes. this ...

They had problems in the past but a lot of airlines have. so what do we learn from this? a carrier as trusted and admired at southwest who else has issue? >>guest: they all do. they all have a maintenance issue. the f.a.a. has a duty to provide oversight and that oversight is to ensure the airline carries out their maintenance not so much in accordance with the book but in accordance with the usage of plane. you blow it up each time you take off, you pressurize the cabin and you land you release...

With his account. we can confirm that the flight did return to the terminal, passengers were offered water and provided the option to deplane when the flight could not depart due to the maintenance issue. delta strives to provide customers with a comfortable inflight experience and it appears that in this instance we did not meet that commitment. >> well, ive got a couple things on that. first of all, we were allowed to deplane after about two and a half to three hours. so, that is correct. once...

Was in fact taking place very close to that and he wanted to get the president as close as he could but ultimately, as someone was saying this is a very popular aircraft. its not the most modern airplane in the world, but that probably doesnt make any difference. the question of maintenance, and weve heard from a director of the factory in russia, where they said in december -- so just a few months ago, they completed a major refurbishing, repair of the plain. do you think then this could be a m...

Happen? lets bring in bob francis, the former chairman of the national transportation safety board. bob, tell me a bit about what youre hearing that maybe the plane actually disregarded instructions to land at a different airport? >> i heard that, and i think that, you know, this is one of the -- one of the cases where you wonder whats motivating pilots to do things certainly theres a possibility theres a maintenance issue or something else but this was a polish military aircraft, they have good...

Information -- from everything youve seen? >> well, based on everything ive seen, i obviously have given it some thought and i have an idea of what may have happened. but nothing will be determined, directly, until we have had a chance to look at the debris and -- and study the design, the original design, as well as the maintenance issue which is -- i think, is critical here. >> but when we talk about the maintenance issue being critical, thats what i mean about new information. because people ...

The old cautions and caveats still remain in place. a group like isis and its affiliate in the sinai, they have every incentive to claim its their work even if it is not. they would love to get credit for killing this many innocent civilians, particularly now that russia claims to be fighting against isis in syria to bolster the syrian dictator bashar al assad. to that point, russia has every incentive to blame it on a become or terrorist attack even if its not because they would love to divert ...

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