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Tonight. as we told you in the talking points memo the fbi now taking the lead in the investigation of the missing jetliner case. at least behind the scenes. but we understand that anything the bureau finds out will be firsthanded over to the malaysian government which i think is a mistake. joining us now from san francisco former faa senior official scott brenner. you agree with me the real hope of finding out what happened here lies with the fbi? >> there is a a hope there, bill. i think this is a half measure by the malaysian government. since this plane first disappeared on march 8th, we c...

Tonight. as we told you in the talking points memo the fbi now taking the lead in the investigation of the missing jetliner case. at least behind the scenes. but we understand that anything the bureau finds out will be firsthanded over to the malaysian government which i think is a mistake. joining us now from san francisco former faa senior official scott brenner. you agree with me the real hope of finding out what happened here lies with the fbi? >> there is a a hope there, bill. i think this is a half measure by the malaysian government. since this plane first disappeared on march 8th, we c...

John. >> but there is still a lot of skepticism. >> there is, because there were very few specifics. what critics are saying is, look. what does the iranian president want to do besides changing his red ri rhetoric? is there any iranian plan to end its thirst for nuclear weapons? on that score, benjamin netanyahu, who is not expected to address the u.n. general assembly until next tuesday, put out a blistering statement today from israel to make sure and weigh in and express a lot of skepticism about this. take a listen. >> israel would welcome a genuine diplomatic solution that truly dismantl...

So, what you get in the region, then, strategically, is a sense of a lack of certainty of the united states. are we going to be there for them? here, given the horrific nature of this attack, given the moral imperative that lead are u.s. officials made about this and now we have this pattern of he was addition and delay again, we have seen its in the past, chris. even after we had certain knowledge of osama bin laden's location, it took six months to act. the same thing in libya with half measures. we started and then pulled back our forces, and in afghanistan. escalated the war but announced ...

Half measures. we started and then pulled back our forces, and in afghanistan. escalated the war but announced a withdrawal date. this hesitation, delay, and half measures, is a significant pattern and has led to diminishment of u.s. stature in the region. >> senator lieberman, you were a senator for 24 years. have you ever seen anything like this where a president seemed about to take us, if not to war to a serious military action, and then says, wait a minute, i'm going to wait ten days for congress to come back from vacation. >> i was looking back myself over the 24 years and never saw anyt...