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something. i don't know about that. that's kind of where. >> if isis did bring down the plane, what does it mean about the terror group's growing capabilities? with us today, the chairman of the house homeland security committee mike mccall. house intelligence ranking democrat, congressman adam schiff. senate armed services chairman john mccain and senator lindsey graham. good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington as we continue to follow this rapidly developing story. we have our team in place. kyra simmons is in london outside number ten downing street where al sisi and prime mini...

>> intelligence officials based on information they've been sharing with the brits and the brits sharing with the u.s. that it may have been a bomb, that it may have been planted by isis but nothing conclusive so far. one of the big questions raised is is isis there in the sinai sophisticated enough to be able to plant an airplane on a bomb? and one expert that i talked to this morning said the issue here in sophistication of bombs on airplanes is not necessarily the bomb itself but the concealment of the bomb. you know, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is considered one of the most...

but once a decision on those steps has been made, it will be announced by the department of homeland security. >> reporter: when you say you can't rule anything out, is that kind of just a statement of we just done know yet? or does the u.s. have specific intelligence that suggests that it might, in fact, have been an act of terrorism? >> i can't get into the intelligence, but -- and it is accurate to say that the united states has not made our own determination about the cause of the incident. but based on what we know and based on, in part at least on what's been publicly reported,...

Process, a long, pain staking process. what are we looking at there? >> well, i don't think -- i don't know how long it takes to identify the species of barnacle but looking at the currents in the indian ocean and wind the tape backwards to see where the piece most likely drifted from and the scan of the seabed going very poorly. they scanned a huge area and not found the plane where they predicted it went. >> greg, still on the phone with us, we want to go back to you. you obviously just heard there from jeff that the search is in somewhat of a crisis and two boats off of australia that have ...

of france that's analyzing this piece of wing. bill, this is a huge development. take us through it. what did we learn specifically today? >> reporter: it is, luke, a huge development. as you say, this is the greatest airline mystery of our time and while it's not solved we have now got the first definite clue. mh-370, that plane part that was oonlized here at the defense scientific lab near toulouse in france, it has been shown that that part from mh-370. there were slight nuances in the three announcements we have had so far. it was the malaysian prime minister who first said and i...