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you have to get the facts right if you're going to ask me a question. i made the joke on december 2, not on -- not after -- excuse me, excuse me. not after pat foy's testimony. [ inaudible ] >> again, christine, i'm not going to answer a question whose premise is absolutely -- well, i understand, it's nice that you eventually got to the question. but the premise of the question is so infirm that i'm not going to answer it. >> what do you think of the depiction of the -- not only did it describe youryour -- his act, but very -- do you think the report was fair to her and what did you ...

Greg feith, which is, basically, does the size or the reported size of the debris that was spotted by the satellite make sense in terms of this type of aircraft? >> gene, there is one piece, that piece 78, 79 feet long, that could be part of this airplane. when you consider that the wing span on the airplane is almost 200 feet that would be a little over, you know, about a hundred foot per wing and the tail section is about 60, 65 feet. that piece that is 79 feet long could be either a wing panel or part of a fuselage panel. so there is a little bit of hope there that, yeah, this piece does ma...

Everybody wants to know what happened here because we are left with a sense of unease around the world. >> we have to damp down expectations that we will learn something in a feud or half a week or something like that. >> with us from denver is former senior air safety of the national transportation safety board greg feith is back with us. greg, we are focused like a laser on these two pieces of debris. are our hearts going to be broken when we get to them? >> i'm not very optimistic. normally -- we saw this with the china photos where there was a large piece of debris, the dimensions of their...

They have an ultrasonic pulse or pinging and the pulse is picked up by sonar or other listening devices on ships passing over and even as far away as 5 to 10 miles but the batteries stand out to run out in 18 days or a little longer so time is critical. aviation expert bill waldon. >> it's absolutely essential that we find the flight recorders. the information they are going to have on them is probably the only way that we're ultimately going to be able to really solve this mystery. >> so it's really the flight data recorders and the other avenues as greg mentioned, the investigation into the ...

Discounted. this one just giving us that one dimension and it's that 79-foot dimension. >> greg, really quick, halpern. >> australian government setting a great example for the malaysian government. >> i agree. >> clear leadership in a time of international crisis, so important. >> what a complete failure on so many levels on the part of the malaysian government. it's probably impacted our ability to find this plane. >> still giving out information about the satellite. >> i know. four day old pictures. coming up on "morning joe," we will have ongoing coverage of the search in the indian ocea...