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The flight 370 search effort. joining us is australias ambassador to the united states. thanks for coming in. >> good to be with you. >> tell us about the coordination, the prime minister of malaysia in australia, ready to meet your prime minister. whats the objective here? >> first of all, ma leighs are in charge of the overall investigation. and we are responsible for this part of the investigation or the search because its in the australian area, so were doing that coordination. but any mater...

So in a way i feel for the family, that they are not being fed enough information. as to the investigation itself. for the search and rescue and now i mean search and whatever else, if they find, information is coming out but most of them are still -- the search process is still being going on. so i would really ask that we all exercise patience and for our friends all over the world, lets continue praying. we still keep that little bit of hope going, that candle of hope is still lighting. and l...

Exactly what the numbers will mean. i think that the raw data will likely be given to beijing so they can have a hand in that as well. what does this mean to the investigation, that is not at all clear. having multiple people look at the data cant be bad. it can only be good. more eyes look at it, analyze it, but at the same time, well have to wait and see, back to you. >> and the key as is that coordination with so many eyes looking at it. >> so analyzing data but trying to find debris to analy...

Suspicious, they could pretty much in-house, start that search process and do its own surveillance from there. oversight has always been a question. once this came out with edward snowdens revelation. what the white house has been doing is working with done gress. soon, they want to propose a law so that all the collection would be done by the phone companies themselves. then, they would store it or it would possibly be stored by a third party and the white house wants to make sure that in autho...

As small as a wooden pallet and not having much luck. we should be encouraged by the news were getting. this is a very, very difficult search and a very long haul. were only at the beginning of the beginning of the search process, if you think about what we need to do to actually find the plane. >> indeed. thanks to "the washington posts" simon denyer. the joining me are msnbc aviation analyst john cox, a former capital for u.s. airways, and shawn henry, a former executive assistant director wit...

Difficult. right behind this one theres another storm on its shores. in 12 hours or so when they start this next search process they will be dealing with some bad weather. united states will have that p8 out there which supposedly can find something the size of a basketball which is quite incredible. the united states has spent $2.5 million on this. this certainly is adding up. >> well have a little bit of a debate about that later in the show. some aviation experts say its time to call off th...

Of the search process. theres been close cooperation with the malaysian government. and so not just ntsb but fbi. anybody who typically deals with anything related to our aviation system is available. and so our thoughts and prayers are with the families. but i want them to be assured that we consider this a top priority and were going to keep on working. >> one more thing we didnt mention, you reference it a bit, bill, satellites as well. the u.s. is using some of its satellites. its not moving...

Nations national satellites. >> weve put every resource we have available at the disposal of the search process. >> look, the president said it was a priority. we in the pentagon have made it a priority to try to help the malaysian government. >> reporter: but the u.s. military assets involved in the search represent only a small fraction of the force, a single p-3 orion surveillance craft flying over the bay of bengal and a single state of the art p-8 poseidon aircraft searching west of austral...

>> we have put every resource we have available at the disposal of the search process. there has been close cooperation with the malaysian government. and so not just ntsb but fbi. anybody who typically deals with anything related to our aviation system is available. and so our thoughts and prayers are with the families, but i want them to be assured that we consider this a top priority and were going to keep on working. >> and chief among the hardest working people on the planet tonight members...

Disposal of the search process. theres been close cooperation with the malaysian government. and so, not just ntsb, but fbi, you know, all, anybody who typically deals with anything related to our aviation system is available. and so, you know, our thoughts and prayers are with the families, but i want them to be assured that we consider this a top priority and were going to keep on working. >> lets get some analysis. peter is here. so, the president of the united states, he says this is a top p...