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Witness to many, many things that the president never thought his lawyer would possible discuss with anybody. >> cant be happy theyre saying 100 recordings. maybe 100 recordings. can i talk a bit more about strategy with you, laura? could cohens decision to release the tape hurt his chances of make a deal. >> yes. hes not been charged with crime yet. difficult to see if he is trying to have a preemptive conversation before any grand jury indictment. which is a point in time where the prosecutor ...

Lets discuss with chris cillizza and editor at large and john avlon. john, we have a lot of excerpts. do you know what he means by saying the fbi would be worse off. it doesnt seem like the fbi is in good she t inoday terms of the president going after it, in terms of their reputation, appearing to possibly be tarnished, all that stuff. >> yeah. it appears hes projecting into the alternate reality where hillary clinton is president and people find out that the fbi hadnt divulged that there were ...

Are they showing them any of the satellite imagery? >> the thing is that from day one malaysia has come out with contradictory statements. saying something and recanting it hours later. malaysia has a history of suppressing information. it is not a government which has been open about giving out information. and that has led to lot of suspicion distrust of the government of information being fed out. that is one of the main reasons why the families of the chinese nationals accused the malaysian ...

Original flight plan. >> reporter: all right, the prime minister there making it very clear. i can tell you, that police were at the compound where the pilots live. you know, like a housing subdivision. they will were in substantial numbers. they have blocked off the street leading to one of the homes. one of the pilots has had about 25,000 hours of experience. hes in -- i believe hes in his 50s. theres a 29-year-old pilot that was the first mate. he is in his late 20s. both mens records will be...

Kuala lumpur, following this investigation from the very start. jim, thank you. were going to bring in cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes. tom, thank you for being with us early in the morning. in light of the information that the plane deviated from its flight plan by what is new today a deliberate act by someone on that plane, according to the prime minister, when you hear that, does that suggest to you sabotage? does it suggest terrorism? and whats the difference between the two? >> ye...

Now, they are saying they changed their line a little bit. it was deliberately, some would say, trying to evade the radar. trying to confuse people. now, one of the main communications systems, it sends back all the electronic data about the plane, was disabled right after takeoff. it was still flying over the malay peninsula makes its way towards beijing. less than an hour later when the plane moved from malaysian airspace to vietnam airspace, that is when the transponder was turned off and it ...

Minister says that they want more comprehensive and accurate information. heres what im having a difficult time reconciling. the prime minister will not go as far as to say this is a hijacking. however, he has confirmed that its consistent with someone taking deliberate action on the plane. so whether that is a hijacker who is a passenger, a crew member or the pilot, when you take a plane off its ended course and veer it off to some other country or some other place, isnt that by definition a hi...

Earthquakes and shifts that happen on any given day on the water? >> you know, this is such an incredib incredible thirst for information. a critical need to find out what happened, all sorts of theories are being explored, as each new one comes to hand, people want to follow it to take it to its conclusion. if you look at the overall trend of the information, little by little, the pattern is shifting out towards the west. and if the aircraft is out on that deep water, then certainly, there are ...

It could have been over southern china. all of those areas are going to have to be studied. mind you, is this just one snapshot that they have. they have one from every hour that that plane stayed aloft, or powered up. so theyre hoping to reach that data and reach out and get radar data. information that this plane would take morning a mile-long run runway. its not something thats easy to hide if it were to go in the northern area. in the southern area, youre talking about wide open ocean. we kn...

Do you see the red lines there? the plane could be anywhere in that huge expansive area. as far north as kazakhstan and as far south as the southern indian ocean. that new area is angering chinese officials as well. the search in that area. they are demanding that malaysia give more information. chinas prime minister says the country is sending technical experts to assist. >> their big question this morning is who might have been at the controls of the jetliner when it crashed. im sorry. let me ...