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World view. >> what about the united states? i mean, we didn't jump in right away. it's an american-made aircraft. we've got three americans onboard. clearly, ambassador, we have the best capabilities of anyone in the world to get information and to solve something like this. why did we hang back? >> i think the united states really had enormous interests and i think the administration, for fear of acknowledging that, perhaps, it was a terrorist incident, that perhaps it involved islamic terrorists, drew back, and at the top levels just did not want to give the impression this was as serious a...

I don't understand the criticism. >> obviously because the united states made the airplane. don't you get that, joy? >> it's an american plane. >> it's an american plane. i'm surprised that ambassador bolton didn't imagine that the plane had somehow landed in benghazi. where it's now being kept under a tarp by the radicals who attack. that's what -- you grade people on different curves. john mccain is always going to be looking for the military option. that's who john mccain is. he's sort of the bad cop in the american routine. he always has been. john bolton, at least in theory, is a diplomat...

The bottom of the seabed in the south indian ocean. i just can't see a circumstance under which you could land a 777, keep it on the ground for, what is it, 11 days now, without it being discovered somewhere. >> and same question to you, peter. any chance at all that this plane can be found somewhere in tact and it is not, as bob just said, in pieces somewhere? >> i agree with bob completely. it's infinitesimal. i mean, unfortunately, i think we're looking for a wreckage field and if we're unlucky, it's going to be in the bottom of the south indian ocean. if we're in some ways lucky and that's...

Diagnostics system sends an update, then stops working, though we don't know why. at 1:19 a.m., the copilot is the last person to talk with ground patrol. he says, all right, good night. no hint that anything is wrong. just two minutes later, the plane's transponder stops communicating with ground-based radar, but the plane seems fine. because at 2:15 a.m., the flight shows up on malaysian military radar screens as it veers off-course, back across the country and out to sea. from there, it's a mystery. except we do know that at around 8:00 a.m., a communications satellite registers a working s...

>> well, there really isn't. because in egypt air, we had indications early on that there was a potential problem with the copilot, that he had run into trouble the night before, that he had not had a successful career at egypt air and we had very solid radar from five different radar sites that showed us a very erratic flight during the final moments of flight 990. so we had much more evidence to go on than the investigators have in this case. >> bob, i have to ask this, because so many people are asking it, it is part of the conversation out there about flight 370. is there any chance that t...