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Link to this attack. they haven't ruled it out but they haven't established that connection. they are not triggering the reactions we would see if there is a terror link there. but lawmakers are looking at possibilities to close some holes here. when we have a whiff of a plot out there. you remember the tooth paste tube explosives or refined shoe bombs, things we have been reported in the last few weeks. you know, they start to make adjustments in security screenings, et cetera. if this turns out to be a plane commandeered by terrorists that is not just a whiff of a plot. and i would echo your...

Terror link or intentional taking over of the plane. >> jim, all of this though when you add it together, and there are and we're going to talk about it later in the program, there are people who still believe there are mechanical ways that could explain what happened here. obviously a lot of people believe it was deliberate. so, where is the line between deliberaten an act of tearer? >> it's a good question. talk about the act of terror. i talked to intelligence officials and i bother them every day with this question. as more information has come in about this being a deliberate act. they st...

>> you have to look at the radar range itself. when the plane was first lost it was at the extreme end of the radar system from malaysia. so we are talking about 250 nautical miles and the aircraft was at 35,000 feet to. fly under the radar it will have to fly -- know the range of the radar and then fly to the height for that range. so as it's approaching, say, pakistan, it's going to have to go lower and lower and lower. and i doubt a plane of 200 tons could get under the radar. >> jim tilmon, i promise we will get you in. does the united states believe we are in a threat right now because of...

Pilots from hong kong spotted large, solid debris in the waters off vietnam. >> we have not received any confirmation or verification of the debris. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence sources telling cnn they are less inclined to think the disappearance of the malaysian air 770 jetliner had a terror link. the sources say the two men that boarded the flight with stolen pass ports were more likely trying to gain illegal entry into europe. families of missing passengers demanding answers from malaysia airlines being flown to malaysia. the multinational search effort has squashed numerous leads, citin...

Tracking signal went dark. jim sciutto, they're not ruling on the terror. >> no, the clues on the flight have been changing so rapidly and as those clues change and new information comes in, intelligence agencies are reacting, chasing down the leads to see if there are any evidence of a terror link. so far they haven't found that evidence, but as you say, they are not ruling it out. and as cia director john brennan was giving a talk in washington, i learned for the first time about this transponder being turned off. so i asked him about that to see if it increased his fears. here's what he had...