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Certainly been the case for every president i've been involved with in the intelligence community. and that expands or contracts in some cases the ability of the agency. and all members of this committee should realize that. i want to apologize for not giving you the hour and apologize for the power interruption. but i want to thank you for your service to kansas. i want to thank you for your service to the congress. i want to thank you for your service to the country. as a board member of west point, as you have served, like i have in the past, i want to thank you for how you have used your m...

Control. captain always has the ability to declare an emergency and do whatever he needs to do to maintain safety of flight. >> okay. so spencer tweeted, i could figure it stalling. but why could this plane not just steer down? do you think the engine could have been hit by something? >> well you know in a thunderstorm if they entered a thunderstorm the ingestion of precipitation and particularly hail may have damaged the engines, and caused the power interruption which would then you know necessitate a great deal of activity in the cockpit trying to restore their power. but, you know, until w...

What happened there. >> john cox, what about the transponders? does that -- what we know about it, does that indicate any indication of that being a willful choice on that airplane? >> well, it's certainly capable of being switched off, but what it truly says is there is an elect call power interruption to the transponder. that would have been by a switch or it could have been in the interruption in the power source. we don't have enough to draw a conclusion either way. there's a device on there also that would automatically transmit from time to time and that didn't occur either. so with the ...