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Universally accepting these are not it. what if it is it? >> because they're doing it in extremis. they're doing it urgently. they're doing it with a deadline of 30 days that is about to expire there is a tight schedule. >> does that mean you're also skeptical about the conclusion about the inmarsat that it's in the south? because that was also made in extremis. >> no because once they have done that work, they then sent it out to other people to check it. that work has been checked by other organizations using the raw data. >> but why would it take them 50 days after the death of what would b...

But that's okay. now we're at this juncture, this transition period, where we need to move to this long-term search where, and i do echo the prime minister's remarks, we'll expand the search area and from here determine what are the best assets to use, whether that's military, government, or commercial, and where we go from here. >> and i want to ask you about that, but first, two weeks ago on this show you said, look, you were confident that the pings that you had heard in the indian ocean, the pings around which they were just doing, as you said, that precision search, that those pings came ...

Continue to search the area north of the pinger. u.s. navy telling cnn the next likely area that would be searched is where the first ping was picked up which say few miles north of that. the water gets deeper there. they might other devices to search that area. if they don't find it in any of those area, the prime minister is talking about going to an area of 26,600 square miles big. to date, they have searched about 150 square miles of that. so it is a massive, massive, undertaking. they are saying right now if they don't find it in the most promised areas that they will be forced to go to a...

Over the next few days. >> david, you think it's premature to abandon any further underwater searches? >> oh, yes. it's definitely too premature to do that. one of the things that mary schiavo had brought up early on within the last week or so, perhaps we should dprop another pinger and test that and see if it's reflective of what they determined before. even before they do that, going up to the northern area, even bringing in some other tools, some deeper tools perhaps the rema 6,000, a few other tools might be the logical step before expanding the search to the entire arc but i think those t...

The air force. michael, what is the best news for this expensive search and resources, air or sea? >> i think it's a combination of both, don. i think you have to have a combination of both in terms of maximizing the possibilities of linking something to the resting place in the south indian ocean of mh 370. there is a natural pause here in terms of the search tempo in terms of the air side and the bluefin as well. the big decision that angus houston had to make 12 days ago was going from the pinger, which was looking for the gpss on the black boxes, making the decision going to bed at night a...