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More destruction and devastation and suffering in syria without a strategy or a policy to intervene. and if indeed we are going to intervene, exactly how are we going to do that? i mean, there is a reason the united states has not intervened in syria, because it is -- it is not easy to see how that can be done successfully and constructively. so, you know, a lot of uncertainty here. >> steve schmidt, because life imitates art, there's a scene in the american president where michael douglas, playing the fictional president, is being told that an air strike against a radar installation is propor...

Don't have knowledge. >> it did. >> it did, okay. so that is available. in other words, it's a matter of equipping it to make the transmissions. >> should it be mandated jeff? >> well you have to ask yourself, well, in what situation would it be -- provide information that we wouldn't otherwise have. in this case we have all the information that air traffic kroers normally have the plane. the transresponder as les has been talking about. and the question that's been very interesting for me is why did we lose contact with the plane. was it some kind of electron cal failure at altitude or what? ...

Square nautical miles. it means it's highly unlikely they'll pinpoint the location of this plane in any short order. you have this continuing effort now to shift the focus down towards the southern indian ocean. why? because so far all of the countries to the north with one exception, have said they don't believe that this plane crossed over its territorial borders and it was not picked up on radar. however, in the last few hours, the thais believe it may have been picked up on one of their radars, probably early saturday morning. as to why they didn't report it until now. nobody asked us for ...

Would hold back for national security reasons because that would reveal too much to potential adversaries in the region? >> i think it's a possibility, but these countries aren't exactly cold warriors as far as that goes. i don't i this they'd go so for in a case of this magnitude, you know, because they could -- they can divulge information we saw the plane or we didn't see it, without giving up all the details of every radar installation. you'd expect countries to have defensive radar on their islands protecting their country. this aircraft went through malaysia's air defense radars and it d...

>> reporter: well, they took us to a farm on the eastern outskirts of the city where there was a missile or some sort of small missile had impacted in a farming compound area near some houses. the houses showed some damage from shrapnel. but we got conflicting stories about casualties there. one person said it was an old woman, one person said it was a young child, one person said the strike happened at 8:00 p.m., one person said the strike happened at 5:00 a.m. so it didn't add up with what the government was telling us. what we did see is two military bases, smoke rising from them after coal...