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>> jacob, thanks so much. joining us now former assistant special agent in charge of the joint fbi nypd terrorism task force, don barelli. there was heavy security around this event, including the one shot. it was that police presence that probably saved a lot of lives last night. >> absolutely. it seemed that the event organizers knew this was going to be on the list for these groups watching the potential terrorists. so you had plenty of police officers on board. and they acted properly. do you approach an event like this? a speech that a lot of people find proceed vok have a difference obvi...

Basis. we may not share everything at the same level with certain countries that we would with the brits, for example, but unless there's a reason not to share, we would likely want to share that information, particularly if it could lend some helpful information that would lead to what happened to this airplane. >> daniel, as a pilot, how important do you think this kind of radar data is? >> well, it's very important for ultimately trying to verify fundamentally one of two distinct paths this investigation can go to. either deliberate or mechanically induced failure. so depending on where the...

Smoke without flames, which would have done that. which would have faded away. in fact, a fire in the cargo hold could have taken out those two systems. the problem with my hypothesis here is when you work your way back from the end to the beginning, you hit this thing about the transponder being turned off. and about acars being disabled. which those two things make this theory very problematic, but the same time, can we accept that those two things were turned off actively or fail for some mechanical reason? >> that i think is the key question. seems to me there was a bit more authoritative ...

It would be impossible for malaysia to cover that massive search area that you see there on its own. if stretches from india all the way to australia. malaysia has reached out to 25 other countries for help but there are a lot of questions about how much information is being shared between malaysia and other countries. joining me here to unpack this in the studio is don barelli and from tampa, ambassador chris hill, former veteran ambassador to poland, for instance and former assistant secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs. i'll get to you in a moment ambassador. malaysian auth...

The boston bombing, information that is wrong, and we'll have more on that in a minute, given that history, what's going on right now with this intense interest and the media being rather irresponsible about some of these matters, the fbi could've played it safer than they did today. they could have labeled these individuals as persons of interest. they went the whole hog and are calling them suspects. they are calling them wanted. is that surprising? do we know enough about how the fbi works to know if that is an important decision that they made? does it indicate more about the investigation...