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Robert mark, he is a corporate commercial pilot who hopefully can shed some insight into this. robert, good to have you here with us. airplanes don't just disappear from the sky. >> no, absolutely they don't, megyn. and that is probably the most frightening part of this event, is that very much like when the air france aircraft disappeared over the south atlantic five years ago. for the crew not to even have had enough time to get off an emergency call, what we call in the industry a may day call is extremely frightening. because there is enough backup systems on this airplane that if it was a...

Calculations. >> there are only two options when you say that. either the airplane is down because it is out of fuel or it landed somewhere with fuel and they have been unable to make any kind of contact with anybody on the ground anywhere. so those are really the only two possibilities at this point. >> it is a grave situation, obviously. >> oh, it is. >> and the airline seems to recognize it in its tone, offering thoughts and prayers to those who have been affected, the crew and passengers and family members. robert, thank you. we are now close to a news conference. it was somebody sort of...

Bus was transmitting mechanical maintenance data back to its maintenance base at the time of the accident. we may find at some point that this aircraft was also transmitting some sort of data back down to the ground, that air traffic may not have seen because they wouldn't normally be privy to that kind of information anyway. right now it is probably a little too early to tell. >> and so in the absence of knowing exactly -- because they're not coming out and saying we believe the jet is down. it appeared they waited until they knew the jet would have run out of fuel before they went public wit...

The u.s. and five other world powers. next monday iran says it will begin scaling back its nuclear program for at least six months including eliminating some of its stockpile of highly-enriched uranium. the news comes as the white house battles congress over increased sanctions against tehran. joining us the executive director for the foundation of defense for democracies. mark, you have been a critic of this deal in the past. >> what: do you think you have seen over the past few hours? >> general that, the deal has positive aspects to it but has major loopholes the iranians are going to explo...

Economy is recovering, it is back on its feet. we see gdp growth rates go from negative 6% to positive territory, inflation cut in half. in other words the iranian economy is generating tens of billions of dollars in renewed economic activity a as a result of sanctions released and climate of deescalating sanctions. that is climate of economy and more powerful country exploiting power across the region, helping assad stay in power and helping to kill hundred of thousands of syrians and others and there is a region game on the march. that is the problem. this is the world's leading state sponso...