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1996. it was still light out. the weather forecast for the flight to paris called for smooth sailing and for 12 minutes it was. >> we just saw an explosion out here. >> two other pilots were in the air and saw the explosion. >> just blew up in the air and then we saw two fire balls go down to the water. >> reporter: other eyewitnesses were on long island. >> it looked like a mile in the sky of flame coming down, you know, straight down. i thought it was coming from the ground up because the flame looked like it was shooting from the ground up if you know what i mean. >> reporter: 230 men, wome...

>> it looked like a flame coming straight down. i thought it was coming from the ground up. the flame looked like it was shooting from the ground up. >> 230 men, women and children were aboard flight 800, everyone died. people thought terrorism immediately. an alert went out to the fbi. the navy sent state-of-the-art salvage ships, investigators recovered 97.5% of the plane in a giant hangar, they actually put twa 8 00 back together and reconstructed the plane's last seconds. early on, they determined the center fuel tank blew up. causing the nose and first-class section of the jet to break of...

And governments in europe, asia, latin america and now africa have followed the same course. the top marginal tax rate in india in 1974 was 97.5%. really. today the top rate is 40%. in the u.s. in 1977, taxes on capital gains and dividends were 39.9%. in 2012, the rate was 15%. in 1977, corporate taxes in america were close to 50%. they're now 35% and most companies pay a lower rate. these changes have taken place under conservative, liberal and even socialist governments. peter manville from the architect of the labour party s in the 1990s, declared we are all thatcherites now. thatcher's ide...

we'll hit all of the hotspots, syria, iran, china, egypt, and more. later in the show, the u.s. rolled out the red carpet for china's next president but what is going on behind the scenes between the two rival nations? we have a great panel of china watchers. also, believe it or not, the eurozone crisis is solved. how, what? stay tuned, we'll explain. first, here is my take. we're hearing a new concept these days in discussions about iran. the zone of immunity. the idea often explained by ehud barak, israel's defense minister, is soon iran will have enough nuclear capacity that israe...

joke and somehow i'm responsible for that, that's gotcha. >> is the press trying to paint santorum as intolerant? tucker carlson's pwebsite launches an attack on media matters saying they gave marching orders to msnbc. >> the line we had from someone at media matters was we basically write their prime time. >> based on what? there's a troubling memo about investigating the personal lives of folks at fox. we'll have a report. plus, buzz businessen injbi jeremy lynn. why do journalists keep tweeting their way into trouble. and meet washington television reporter andrea mccarran whose...