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Some country will try to take unilateral sort of engineering to slow it down? is that on the radar scope? >> it's hard to imagine what any individual country could do. when that question gets turned on us, gene, and people say you've got china out there, india, nothing we do really matters. i disagree with that for two reasons. one is we are such an example for the world. china and india can sit down and say if america's not taking it seriously why should we? when we take it seriously, when america changes, the power of emlation is greater than any other country in the world. whether you belie...

>> mary schiavo, you're nodding your head in the affirmative position. why? >> i do agree with it. also, a drop in altitude to 4 now to 5,000 feet is not low enough to avoid radar. decrease in altitude is not a stealthy thing but life saving thing. >> they said it did go off radar, though, mary. it dropped to 5,000 feet. that's how they know it was that low because et cetera the bottom of the radar scope. if i'm hearing that right. it was off radar for 120 miles, then it came back on radar. >> you don't think it was an intentional to evade? >> i don't think so. if it was it would have stayed t...

Cross, which goes from being traced on a radar scope to suddenly disappearing off a radar scope. so it's incredibly difficult for anyone on that airplane trying to avoid radar to know whether they've avoided radar or not. and if you were going to do that, you would go the full extent and go 500, 700 miles off the coast to make absolutely sure and descend to make absolutely sure. we look at the track at the moment, and it looks fairly close to indonesia. so to me, if you're trying to avoid radar, you would have gone the other way and gone well out to about 500 to 700 miles. i'm a little bit dub...

Transponder? >> this is an old-fashioned transponder. they have electronic readouts today. you put the numbers in, four numbers. air traffic control sees on the radar scope an identification of those numbers with the altitude of the airplane. to turn a transponder off you turn it off. air traffic control loses that information. >> if you believe the transponder was turned off how is it that we know the altitude of this particular plane? >> well, i understand that they have cross refrned fr -- refere from other radar. i don't know what the military radar was picking up. what they have is not al...

Congress acted, passed a bill they thought re dressed it. now chuck hagel, the boss of the defense department is saying we determined that wasn't going to do it. >> remember the pentagon has people on the hill all the time. why didn't they tell congress they were doing it? the chairman of the house armed services committee, buck mccan said our understanding was this solved the problem. why didn't the defense department say it doesn't solve the problem? why didn't the director of the office of management and budget put it on her radar screen. to say the d.o.d. money guy says it's a b problem. i...