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Doing that. if the acars had been turned off, it wouldn't have been capable of doing that. we know the transponder was turned off and the acars system did not transmit. so in my mind it's just clarifying -- the malaysian government is just clarifying that it could be that it was just sent here and it was sent here. they can't verify that it was truly turned off with a switch. it doesn't mean it wasn't off. >> you can jump in on this, jim tilmon or anybody, if these instruments, the transponder, the acars are so vital, why do they have an off switch? >> you want an off switch on anything you ca...

Handled like a crime scene up front, so you can immediately assume that all 239 souls on board were suspects until you took them out of the picture and everybody that touched that aircraft 24 hours before it originated on the flight should have been investigated and that should have been aggressive and wide open immediately. and my understanding, at least the way it's been covered, is that did not happen. so moving forward, can you get over the hubris, can you get over the initial false start and can you now do that? certainly that needs to be done. >> since david set me straight on that acars...

Investigation, ten days on, as you've indicated, bill, we would have a great understanding of what the motivations are of all those folks and we don't. we simply don't. so we have these flights of fancy. we've got this conjecture just running out there and a thousand different theories. we need to bound this thing a little bit and get back to what we know and what we don't know and walk ourselves through what the possible outcomes might be. >> you know how cable news works, don't you, spider? we've got time to fill here. so yeah. before we bind our conjecture, let me ask greg about another one...