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Job. they are doing all the flight planning and providing the crew with the best available information so that the crew can make the final determination as to what they're going to do how they're going to do it and when they're going to do it. >> is it different when you're on the ground for an american carrier on the ground in that region of the world or any region in the world an american carrier on the ground opposed to a local low-cost air travel? >> for one of our legacy carriers, our flag carriers going over there, yes. we still -- they are still communicating back here through their dis...

Interest here, that the airlines are owned by the malaysian government? >> well, and not untypically for many third world countries. they're flag carriers, state-owned or controlled by the state. so when a tragedy like this happens, this is a massive failure by the state itself. that leads to embarrassment. that leads to cover-up. and an unwillingness to ask for help because that's another sign of lack of capacity. so when you add all this together, i think it's marred the search from the beginning. but it's also a reason why the chinese keep coming up with helpful leads, quote, unquote, that ...

Is monitoring our communications, then you can i mean if you get gun enthusiasts on board with that, other spectrum of civil libertarians i mean does that then create a groundswell of support for curbing the power and the influence of the nsa? >> i mean there's no doubt that the gun owners are on board with this. can you look at the farthest to the right like the alex jones people and they've been talking about this stuff forever. they happened to get it right in the nsa case. but whether there's enough people there to really change things i don't know. when you have people like ron paul being...

Attacked him in their magazine, calling him one of the premiere flag carriers for the enemies of the second amendment. the nra, of course, frightened john mccain back into the party line, so that he could run for president and re-election to the senate. so now it's scalia's turn to be portrayed as an enemy of the second amendment. but the blood-drenched leaders of the nra will not dare do that. because they know they can't throw a re-election scare into a supreme court justice. >> we have life tenure. and we have it precisely so that we will not be influenced by politics, by threats from anybo...

Said on fox news by the most conservative supreme court justice? with the four justices on the court appointed by presidents clinton and obama now joined by scalia on allowing restrictions on the second amendment, there is a majority on the court in favor of doing the right thing. and if scalia is willing to do the right thing, then others from the conservative side of the court will surely join him to form an overwhelming majority. when john mccain briefly strayed from the national rifle association party line after the columbine massacre, the nra attacked him in their magazine, calling him o...