Ideological debates this morning. Comedian bill maher working the red states and speaking his mind about whats ailing america. From nbc news in washington, the worlds longest running 8gzr television program, this is meet the press with david gregory. Lost a Malaysian Airlines triple 27 vanished is now fine line days ago. All of our 21st Century Technology has turned up no evidence of what happened to flight 370. These are the latest pictures from the u. S. Naf tracking any potential wreckage. The fate of the 239 people on board is still unknown. Latest signs are pointing to a criminal act. The Prime Minister now saying the plane was deliberately diverted. In a moment, ill speaking to dan pfeiffer here about what the white house knows at this juncture. First greg fife, pilot, and nbc news analyst. Hes been tracking this now. Greg, its good to see you here. I just mentioned the evidence, the concrete evidence that points to this being a criminal act. It i can me through that that leads you to believe thats the case. Well, early on, david, one of the things that we had was the initial radar track. That was just the outbound portion that tended to make us believe that this was just at event that took place and we didnt know if it was an accident. It was that second turn. It was that initial left hand turn with the track for about an hour, and then the subsequent return or right turn that caused me and i think others to believe, especially the malaysians that that was not on the flight plan route, that it had to have been human intervention that actually initiated that turn. When youre going away from your intended destination of beijing and course, that to me having done silk air, working with the in indonesians led me to believe there was Something Else going on not intended as far as conducting this flight. Greg, the point is that there is evidence that somebody in the crew is turning off its its the communications, turning off the radar and all of a sudden you see it reemerge on a different flight path after a turn. That says to you somebody has made a deliberate decision to commandeer this aircraft and go in a different direction . Absolutely. There would never be a reason for a pilot to turn off the transponders. That is the key for air Traffic Controllers to be able to track that airplane at all times in the air. There would have been no reason to turn off the transponders. The fact that the a car systems, the data portion was shut down indicates somebody didnt want to be tracked through the transponder or the acar system. The military only had a skin paint, not des script blip on the radar that said the airplane was at a distance and heading in a direction. But that was it. So lets look at potential flight paths here on the map because it could have gone a couple of different directions. The southern route route versus the northern route, if youre going north, all you of a sudden you get over a big land mass in south asia, the middle east. A lot of u. S. Military assets there, other mirt assets that other countries have. It seems implausible you could fly a plane and not be detected. Doesnt this still point to the idea it crashed if . It does to an extent. I would think if this person turned off all the transponders and system they didnt want to be detected. If you take the northerly track you go back into a radar read environment and potential environment where we have space assets looking do unon that part of the world. Why would you want to go back and get into a detected area . If you go south, theres very little radar coverage, if any. I dont believe we would be looking there from space because thats the middle of the ocean and theres not really any activity going on out there. That would be a great place to disappear. Theories run wild. Youre an experienced investigator. What do you have to be running through here to think about likely outcomes . I think right now, while we all hold out hope that there may be a Successful End to this situation, if you will, the airplane is sitting somewhere even though there may have been a philadelphia fairious intent. I believe based on my experience in all the years that this not have the outcome especially for the families that they want but were not going to be fully confident as to what the motive was the for their type of event, whether it was some sort of intentional act by a pilot for selfish reasons or some sort of terroristic type or at least implied terrorististic event. Greg, be thanks so much. I appreciate it. Youre welcome. Senior visor dan, welcome back. Besides the personal toll, which is potentially devastating for families already, what else troubles the president at this point . About the crash . Yeah. We dont know the the answer yes. The malaysia government is in the lead. The president dedicated his administrationings to direct did the resources is necessary to help them. We have the fbi, we have naval assets look for the plane and the National Transportation safety board is on the ground trying to figure out what happened. We need the answers. Do you have specific evidence that points to a plot of any kind . Its too, too early to rule anything in are 0 out. We dont know the any information. Any elevated chatter the government is concerned about in terror circles . Not necessarily around this. We have to get to the bottom of whats happening here. Thequette about security, a lot of people look at the situation and say, wow, could a plane originating in the United States experience this kind of trouble, this kind of criminal act . Does the president want to see any additional reviews around our own security . I think we have to figure out what happened here and go back into an after action report and see what could be done better. We dont know the enough to know exactly how the this would impact the United States in the future. Let me move onto the big developing story in ukraine. Is crimea lost at this point . Look, we are putting as much pressure on the russians as we can to do the right thing. We have given them the opportunity in the past tocx deescalate and get this in the right place. Theft know there are costs to their action here. The costs are economic, the russian economy, the russian stock market and the ruble are at fiveyear lows. Russias isolated in the world. You saw that in the u. N. Security council yesterday. The more they escalate, the longer the cost will be. Theres still a concern there might be an attempt to move into Eastern Ukraine, maybe even militarily move into crimea further. Do you think thats going to happen, starting with crimea . First as relates to the resin dup, this is is in violation of International Law. The United States is not going to recognize the results of that referendum. And we are working with our partners around the world, the europeans in particular, to marshall forces against the russians to put pressure on them in the form of sanctions. The president has signed an executive order last week that gives him authority to do this. You can expect sanctions in the coming days. If there is a move militarily into the rest of the ukraine, how important is it from the president s point of view to send military aid to ukraine to be able to protect itself. Supporting the new Ukrainian Government is the top of our priority proo list. Were looking at all ways of assistance. Would the president call on congress to pass more military aid for ukraine . We are calling on them right now. Theres a bill that came out of the Senate ForeignRelations Committee last week. And were going to keep working this as much as we can. Is Eastern Ukraine the new red line here . What we have do, everything the russians have done thus far is in violation of International Law and bad for peace and stability in the region and bad for the russians. President putin has a choice what hes going to do here, further hurt his economy, further diminish russian influence in the world or is he going to do the right thing. The president s Approval Rating. We had a big poll out, wall street journal, nbc news this week. Overall job approval for the president 41 . Handling the economy 41 . Same number when it came to foreign policy. And heres whats striking. An provlt is approval is 74 among democrats. He cant very well blame republicans for this. The press has really slipped. En ot public polls theyre all over the map. Another poll came out that showed the president gained six points in the last couple months. Ive looked at a lot of data. Theres no question that everyone in washington, the president included took a big hit from the double whammy of a shutdown and healthcare. Gov. Were working our way back. Hree points in the last couple months. Theres no question we have more work to do. Theres so much disappointment in the washington. But this is an Election Year and democrats are worried. And the New York Times this morning, ive been reading, Jonathan Martin writes this, democrats are becoming increasingly alarmeded about their Midterm Election fortunes among obamas shrinking Approval Ratings. A loss in florida this past week, millions of dollars spent by republicans attacking the new Health Care Law has let to uncharacteristic criticism of president obama and bitter complaints that his Political Organization has done little to help the partys congressional candidates. Thats what happens when you win a lot of elections like we did in 2008. The good news is we have good candidates and were on the right side of the issue that matters to most of the public. Jobs and the economy. Heres what the president s going to do. He is going to lay out the terms of the debate in this election as a choice between democrats who support an agenda of opportunity for all, for republicans for an agenda of opportunity for a few few. This president wrote the book on running and winning modern campaigns. Were going to help democrats up and down the ballots. Do they want your help . Is the president more a liability than he is an asset at this stage . Were going to set the terms of the debate and provide our organizational ability to help them. We want to help them every way we can. Liability or asset. The president will be an asset in every way possible. Youre talking about this as framing this as a chase that is an argument the democrats have been making for 20 years in terms of jobs and the economy. Republicans are unified around one thing, obamacare is bad. A lot of voters seem to agree with that. How much how much does it hurt democrats . The republican position of repeal at au costs is opposed by a majority of americans. It was not a factor in the florida 13 election. Peter geron who is the partner of nbcs own peter hart said it was a negligible effect. Geoff garin also told us, because weve looked at his comments, theres no question that obamacare is a huge motivator for republicans and turning out the vote, which they did effectively in florida 138 much more so than democrats could become a national trend. We absolutely have to do a better job of turning out in Midterm Elections. If more democrats dont turn out, we will not [d÷ do well. We have to get as many people to the polls in november of possible. The issue about obamacare is what impact is it going to have, and did the president sell this thing accurately . You go back to june of 2009 and even last friday. Listen to this. If you like the plan you have, you can keep it. If you like the doctor you have, you can keep your doctor, too. The only change youll see are falling costs as our reforms take hold. For the average person, many folks who dont have Health Insurance initially, you know,u theyre going to have to make some choices and might end up having to switch doctors in part because theyre saving money. The president already apologized for saying if you like your plan you can keep it. Now it seems like hes backtracking whether you can keep your doctor if you like your doctor. This is a very different issue. Insurance Companies Make decisions what doctor is in your network. That was true before obamacare and after obamacare. Theres nothing in obamacare that mandates an Insurance Company make any change in doctors. Thats a decision for Insurance Companies because obamacare is built on the private insurance system. Can you rule out the idea that the president doesnt delay the individual mandate . Yes, i can. You can . That will not happen happen. That will not happen. Theres so many changes the administration made. I wonder if you worry another democrat or 0 republican president can make the same type of rollbacks to the law. This is how its done with medicare, how it was done with Prescription Drug benefits passed under president bush is to find ways to implement it in a way best for everyone. If that includes giving people some additional transition time thats what we do. Its consistent with how laws are implemented. Let me ask you about the debate between the senate and the cia over past interrogation techniques. Is this a fight over documents, or did the cia spy on the senate . Well, ts back to what this entire issue is about. A Senate Report and the conduct conducted under the Previous Administration that the president outlawed on his first day in office. We provided millions of pages to the senate and the president is urging the committee to finish the report as soon as possible. There are allegations on both sides referred to the appropriate authorities to the Inspector General and the department of justice. Well let them get to the bottom of it. Youre not prepared to say whether the head of the cia john brennan should an poize . Lets let them get to the bottom of what happened. About immigration, the president s supporters in some quarters have taken to calling him the deporter in chief. Some 2 million deportations under his tenure and counting. Will he take executive action to do anything to sole those deportations . The president has asked his secretary of Homeland Security to look at our current enforcement practices and see how we can enforce them more humanly within the constraints of the law. That would bheen slowing down it would be enforcing them more humanely. Give me an example what that could be. What that means is im not going to prejudge the results of secretary johnsons review. Focusing our resources towards folks crossing the border, towards criminals, and the president is he feels the pain of the community. The separation in the community from our broken 8]nsystem. Heres what ill say. There is nothing that will come at the end of this review that is a substitute for comprehensive Immigration Reform. My own understanding within the white house the debate is look, if Immigration Reform is dead, the president s got to do something unilaterally or else democrats will have a hard time with so many deportations and a president who nails to get reform. Is reform dead . I know its not your hope. There is a window to pass reform. There is a bipartisan majority for it in the house right now. The speaker included who sincerely want to solve the problem. The power in the Republican Party right now is in the selfdeportation wing of the party. If the speaker will allow a bill to come to the floor, we can get something done. When does the window close . Well try to get this done as soon as possible. Hard it see it this year though, right . It could happen this week if the republicans would put a bill on the floor. Final quell about politics. Is the senate in danger of falling to republicans . I believe we will keep the senate. We have great candidates with experience winning in tough states and were on the right side of the issues. One of the president s political gurus, dan pfeiffer. Thank you so much. Were back here in 90 seconds. Will youria invade ukraine after this key secession vote in the region today. Im going to be joined by two members of the Senate ForeignRelations Committee. Ill ask them if crimea is lost Relations Committee. Revolutionizing an industrylost can be a tough act to follow, but at xerox weve embraced a new role. 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