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Just an hour i will tell you what he has to say about these heightened concerns. >> okay. real quick, this follows the france concern -- follows the british concern, correct? they stepped up efforts. >> reporter: that's correct. british stepped up efforts and we saw that happened earlier in week. so this is coming on the heels of that. and these concerns, again, that is with these extremists are developing bombs that will make their way past airport security and that is the concern that folks are focusing on right now. one of the things that congressman sessions stressed when i spoke with him ...

That occurred? >> well, i call it a cockpit breach. either there were people that -- either one of those would pilots had nefarious intent, turned off certain communications equipment, the transponder in particular, and either programmed a turn to the west one hour into the flight or actually physically turned it. now, if that didn't happen, there was still a cockpit breach which would mean that someone with nefarious intent, maybe a stow away, maybe a member of the flight crew, maybe a passenger, somehow gained access and had some intent to either crash the airplane or use it in a terrorist e...

Miles, and then begin rolling the bottom of the ocean floor. and until they get that done, they cannot drop, they cannot drop those mini subs and towing the sonar listening device is really going to be fruitless when the ship's traveling too quickly. guys, back to you. >> tom costello, thank you so much once again. let's bring in retired navy captain, vann girly, who had 26 years in service and led the naval oceanography operations command. he's now senior manager at met ron scientific lusolutions, and tom blank, executive vp of gephardt government affairs. captain, i want to start with you an...

Scenario under which any of this makes sense, unless you're landing it. if you're going to commit suicide, who needs all the dramatics. >> that's exactly right. so, it's hard to think you could actually land this without someone detecting it, whether that's a physical detext or whether it's a satellite that cover our globe these days. but it would certainly seem that was an intent unless things went very wrong and there was an intent to land and it it did wind up in the drink. >> tom blank, former tsa deputy direct you. >> think of what tom is suggesting. once you. >> to 45,000 feet, if you st...

The other side of this break. we have to take a break for a moment. we'll continue our conversation. after the break, the very latest on the story that, of course, everyone's talking about. the fate of that missing jetliner. investigators now think had its communications deliberately turned off and flew in the air for another seven hours. you'll hear from the former top tsa official, tom blank, with his insight about what he thinks happened. and six years into office, is president obama still failing major test of leadership? syria, ukraine, foreign policy missteps? and now word that his a...