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Including kazakhstan and vietnam, says they have no evidence that the plane entered their air space, so the search is now being focused primarily on the southern corridor. but this is still an incredibly daunting task. an investigator involved in the search effort told reporters, quote, this is not just a needle in a haystack. its a haystack that gets bigger and shifts under us due to the oceans drift. so gentleman, i want to start with you, peter, and talk about this issue of time running out. ...

For fear of acknowledging that, perhaps, it was a terrorist incident, that perhaps it involved islamic terrorists, drew back, and at the top levels just did not want to give the impression this was as serious as it may turn out to be. >> were back now with howard fineman and david corn. okay, david, this im going to start with you. i just sometimes -- im just a little flabbergasted and wonder what it is that the right that people like john bolton, what is it they would want the united states to ...

Captain shah had needs to be examined very, very carefully and forensically, to see whether it shows anything that might shed some light on his either state of mind or his plans. >> all right. >> joy, can i jump in for just a second? >> please do. >> why, if you intended to commit suicide or murder this plane full of people for unknown reasons, why wouldnt you take the plane in right away? why fly it around for seven or eight hours? there are just a lot of questions in this case. >> yeah, the fa...

So, i think that the important thing is, you know, could this man have been responsible for this act? its possible. but, his politics arent dispositive, one way or the other. his politics dont tell you one way or the other that hes the person behind this. and its a little bit of a red herring. >> and it does strike me, steve, as, it is an opportune time to bring up ibrahim, when you have the focus on the investigation that seems to be going nowhere, no idea if the plane went north or south, it d...

Might have been available has now faced the tides, the winds, and the currents. were going to have to work hard if we found a wreckage field to trace it back to where the aircraft was located. >> give us your best sort of guess as to what happened here. >> well, i can tell you, it is still a mystery, but i think its correct that we are focusing inside the cockpit. there simply is no other explanation, if the facts that we have been able to verify so far are true. somebody had control of the plan...

To possible terroristic motives. so its really about using any club you can find in the golf club bag to whack the president at a time when people still dont know what the facts are about the tragedy of this missing airplane. its, you know, its low, but unfortunately, not unexpected. >> its quite a long route, howard, to get from the malaysian airplane to a benghazi-like situation with president obama. i mean, theres almost no concept, is there, of sovereignty? this took place and this is a mala...

This. otherwise, you look for those subtle psychological issues, like unhappy marriage or failed relationship. those are the kind of things, you can imagine, i mean, ordinary psychological kind of scenarios that come with everyday life. looking for something that would make a person very unhappy. unhappy experience at work, you know, that kind of thing. but thats touchy work, i mean, its hard to uncover that sort of thing >> and youre also, peter, looking at every single passenger and every memb...

Commit suicide or hijack the plane or go on a joyride, inexplicably, you almost have to hope theres some break on that side of it. because this other angle. the wreckage, the flight data recorder, the cockpit voice recorder, thats looking slimmer and slimmer, in terms of locating any of it. >> well, new information is also emerging about the pilot of flight 370, zahaire ahmad shah. investigators have raided his home, where theyve confiscated a homemade flight simulator and a laptop. shah, 53 yea...

Reminiscent of what happened in egypt air? >> well, there really isnt. because in egypt air, we had indications early on that there was a potential problem with the copilot, that he had run into trouble the night before, that he had not had a successful career at egypt air and we had very solid radar from five different radar sites that showed us a very erratic flight during the final moments of flight 990. so we had much more evidence to go on than the investigators have in this case. >> bob, i...

Hard evidence, you know, something they wrote, something they left, some idea that theyd been planning something like this. otherwise, you look for those subtle psychological issues, like unhappy marriage or failed relationship. those are the kind of things, you can imagine, i mean, ordinary psychological kind of scenarios that come with everyday life. looking for something that would make a person very unhappy. unhappy experience at work, you know, that kind of thing. but thats touchy work, i m...