the founder says that they will sue the air force to challenge a multi-billion dollar contract with the competing company. no comment from the air force. they are behind the company that makes tesla electric cars. anderson? >> thank you, that does it for us. cnn starts now. i'm bill weir, welcome to "cnn tonight" as we wrap up our week here in the u.s. that torpedo-shaped microphone known as the bluefin-21 wrapped up its search in the end ocean, finishing the six-mile circle around what may have been the last ping to come back from the black box of flight 370. and still nothing. so now what? where should they search next? our experts weigh in. also tonight, a couple different flavors of anti-government rage. everybody still talking about the rise and fall of conservative rancher cliven bundy. you heard him here last night

defending the racist rant that turned him radioactive even among his most ardent supporters. so why does this guy stand by him? saying he is willing to take a bullet for him. and conservative flame-thrower, ann coulter, on the saga of the fallout. and meanwhile, a rant, he is a liberal, in addition to raising cows he makes movies like "diehard." how the director went to prison and came back. >> you came out of prison a changed man? >> uh-huh. way different than i was when i was 18 or 19. >> later, the mission to clear his name and fix what he calls an evil system of justice. but let us now begin with the mystery, 50 days old now. where in the world is flight 370?

cnn's reporters are live in the region. miguel marquez in perth, miguel, let me start with you. what is the latest on the bluefin? >> well, it is probably done with its search now which means it is either very close or clou completely done with 100%, where they thought they would find the missing airliner. that was the area where the second ping, the strongest ping, remember they got four of those pings. there were two of great quality or good quality. two that were not as good. this was the best of the bunch. they hoped to find it there. what they say now is they're going to search adjacent areas to it before they probably move this entire road show north. the question is, where that first ping was picked up over a long period of time that is about six miles from where they're searching now, six miles north. the u.s. navy is going to move everything up there. it is a different underwater

topography, so it may take a different tool to do that. it is not clear how long they will search with the bluefin in this initial search area. the other thing to consider is that the ocean shield launching the bluefin has to eventually come in for refuelling. the caesar chavez, the u.s. navy ship is not able to refuel it at sea. >> okay, miguel, appreciate that. let's go to richard quest. i wonder if people are still talking about your interview with the malaysian prime minister. how are the families responding to what he had to say? >> well, as you might imagine the families are not exactly pleased by what they have heard. they really form into several groups. on the one hand you have those members of the families who still believe that the plane could be somewhere. that the plane landed, say, for example, in diego, garcia, or that it is in kandahar, or that it is being held hostage by some country or another. and then you have those who are

just annoyed that the government or the airline has not provided more information so that they could understand what has happened. and finally, there are those members of the family who basically have recognized what has happened. taken a sort of dignified silence and now want the plane to be declared lost so that they could move on to the next process of the compensation. all of them in some shape or form, not terribly happy with the malaysian government. >> well, president obama actually arrives in malaysia on saturday evening. he addresses of course the ferry tragedy on the south korean visit. did the prime minister have anything to say about the malaysian/american relationship. >> reporter: yes, the prime minister most certainly did have something to say about the relationship. he sees the way malaysia is

positioned between say for example the united states and china. the u.s., of course, has been a traditional ally. but the friendship has not been that great. now, of course, when the president arrives the first sitting president in some 48 years, he is very keen, the prime minister, to establish a relationship that puts malaysia if you like at the heart of china and the united states. he doesn't want to play them off against each other. but at the same time, he also doesn't want to annoy one to the exclusion of the other. >> okay, richard quest. miguel marquez, appreciate your reporting, gentlemen. let's turn to our experts, david souci. and former faa inspector of "why planes crash." and been down to the titanic more than any other person, and also led to spehe expedition to

for air france flight 447. all right, gentlemen, it may be time to reset. we just heard from richard quest on the theories, everything from the plane is in kandahar, to maybe it was shot down, to fire in the cockpit. where do you stand, ph? what is your prevailing theory on this flight? >> first, i want to say richard does a very good job yesterday. he was very interesting -- >> with the prime minister. >> great interview, and plus, i noticed some information especially about the military, which for me there was some information when the prime minister said oh, the radar shows the plane turning but we were not sure it was this one. that is very strange for me. because it was an unidentified plane coming back to malaysia. and they don't send anything? >> they didn't scramble any jets he said because they didn't

think it was hostile but how would they know? does that mean you think maybe a missile went up there and it is a cover-up? >> you never know, maybe they didn't send an aircraft or something different? >> from a ship? >> from the ship, from the land. and he was not clear yesterday. you see sometimes he was saying something opposite of what he said some months ago. and for me there is something. i don't want to talk about a conspiracy or something like that. but just, there is some strange information. >> how about you, david souci? i know you have been thinking they were not looking in the right spot. how do you think the plane got there? >> well, we have to look at the combinations of what i do know. what i have been focused on, talking about the lithium batteries, the fact they changed

the system. that is going to affect a fire from lithium batteries in a different way in such that gases would escape from them. so that is my theory at this point because i'm thinking that at some point, the crew and the passengers were incapacitated. there was never cell phone discussions. there was nobody trying to reach somebody through a cell phone. there were no communications from the aircraft. something took out either the crew and passengers. and/or the radios, as well. i'm looking more along the lines of an on-flight fire, or decompression. something along those lines. >> and how would that explain the describe turns in and around indonesia? >> well, it does in that if the crew were incapacitated, because the crew has a lot longer period of oxygen than the cabin, the

passengers, the oxygen only lasts 15 minutes, whereas the crew has 45 minutes up to an hour and a half depending on where they were having an emergency. so they could have been cognizant. >> and let's move to the area of the next closer ping. and it will just expand exponential going forward? or do they need different assets? >> i hope that hms echo finishes the map and they have a good map. because that is something very important. with a good map you can decide which equipment you are going to use. because this is pretty flat or pretty good area, i would say the towing sonar could be better than bluefin, even if the bluefin has a sonar, too. but it will be probably more efficient, it can do it faster, a bigger area. >> there are pluses and minuses

between the towed -- >> when you are going to make a turn? in good weather it would be 60 to 70 hours. with the bluefin it takes five minutes, turning around, coming back. >> it stays down 24 hours at a time. >> exactly, and if you have a long track i will say the towing sonar is good. >> yeah. >> if you have a short track that is not good. because you spend a lot of time turning. and that would happen on the titanic, you know, first time we were using for the discovery, we were using a side scan sonar. and the turn, it was unbelievable. a lot of time, a lot of time you know because at this time the auv, like the bluefin, didn't exist. you have no choice. >> back in the olden days. hey, david, it is interesting, the families now have been so frustrated with the malaysian

authorities now these seven weeks, that one family member told cnn they're going to start asking questions at a boeing shareholder meeting next week. will they get any sort of satisfaction there? what could they possibly glean? >> absolutely not. i have been to the boeing shareholder meetings before. they're all about business. they have been in business a long, long time. they're not going to tolerate that at all. there are not going to be any questions that were not professional planned to be discussed at the shareholder meetings. the only chance they have is that if they can get on the ballot of that meeting to say this is the subject we're going to discuss and here are the specific points we'll talk about. they will not vary from their plan at all. >> what happens if a piece of wreckage is found? maybe floating up on the surface, or washes up on the beach but the black boxes are never found? is it an amelia earhardt mystery of a 21st century? >> actually, there is a lot of

information, bill, that can be received from pieces of any kind. first of all if we find something and identify it as part of that aircraft which will be pretty simple to do. these parts are easy to identify. they have paint on the outside, the colors of which we already know. we also know that most of the aircraft parts, even the sheet metal parts are numbered with a 2 or 300 series part number. >> but that wouldn't tell us why it crashed, right? >> exactly, exactly right. we might be able to get some clues as to what happened. because you can tell us whether it is a convex or concave. it will give you a lot of information as to whether it was sudden, pushed out or in. you can also see debris, whether it was a carbon or explosion from the metal itself. the metallurgy scientists can just do unbelievable things with

the part of the aircraft. >> thank you, gentlemen, have a great weekend. and coming up next, the most famous or perhaps the most infamous rancher, cliven bundy, who went to conservative superstar to a leper with his musings on quote, the negro. when we come back, i'll talk to the veteran who said he would still take a bullet for bundy. yeah. i've made a few. i've had my share of sand kicked in my face. ♪ but i've come through. ♪ and i just go on and on, and on, and on. ♪ you know how it goes. ♪ constipated? .yea dulcolax tablets can cause cramps but not phillips. it has magnesium and works more naturally than stimulant laxatives.

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i want to tell you one more thing i know about the negro. they abort their young children, they put their young men in jail because they never learned how to pick cotton. and i've often wondered, were they better off at slaves picking cotton, having a family life, doing things or are they better off with government subsidies? >> that was cliven bundy, enraged a lot of supporters. but not this man, he is bundy's bodyguard, says that man is no racist. jason, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. i'm doing all right. >> okay, let's start at the beginning, where are you from? i know you're a veteran. was it army? >> yes, sir. >> you were in the army? and you came to this area outside of las vegas when you heard about this story. why? >> well, i live in las vegas, and i heard everything that was going on.

you know, this is a fight against an oppressive government. and i had the chance to come help out and take a stand and i did. >> you -- when you served -- are these beliefs that you had when you were serve not guilty the army? why is it that you believe we have an oppressive government? >> i took an oath to defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic. and there are domestic enemies in the current administration. >> in the obama administration? >> correct. >> okay. now, when you got down there and you started meeting mr. bundy and his kids, grand kids, all of those folks there, had you heard of his theories on race and the african-american community? >> he never spoke to me about any race type issues or anything

like that when i first met him. the point he was trying to make is would the african-american community be better off having families being productive, that is what he meant by picking cotton, being productive, doing something, having jobs, being with their families as opposed to how they are now? you see the majority of them grow up with no fathers in the homes. you know, broken families, you know, living in broken communities. living on government handouts. is it better to be a slave under someone else, or a slave under an oppressive government? trading one form of slavery for another? >> sure. but you know -- i guess, maybe it was his choice of words. they put their young men in jail, they abort their children because they never learned how to pick cotton. he came on the show last night and said that you know, back in the days of the south when they

had chickens and something to do is much better than the era now where they can vote and marry whoever they want and even become president. those ideas don't as an african-american don't offend you in any way? >> doesn't offend me at all. because the point he was trying to make as i stated earlier, the cotton-picking statement was more of -- he meant to say, or what he meant by that was being productive, having a job, having something to do. instead of going out, being a criminal and did degenerate. >> so you told one of my colleagues you would take a bullet for him? >> i'm a volunteer. >> you're a --

>> i am a volunteer. >> and would you really be willing to spill blood over where the cows eat? >> this is not about the cows. this is about a government, a federal government over-stepping the bounds. this is a state's right issue. we are the sovereign state of nevada. the sovereign people of the united states. >> okay, jason bulloc we appreciate you helping us understand your mentality. thank you. and joining me now, a conservative, ann coulter's book, "never trust a liberal over the age of three, especially a republican." thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> you told me you were dying to talk about this story because you were on vacation. what do you make of cliven bundy, the rise and fall? >> this is what i think was going on. i mean, i never thought this was a great cause. it is federal property. he needed to pay his grazing fees. there was a court hearing. i wrote a whole book against

mobs. i don't see much difference, some difference between what is going on at that ranch and "occupy wall street." but in a larger sense of what i think is going on, and actually i think jason was very well spoken, and made the point, i am glad we saw that first. there is a lot to be angry about. people want to punch back, and they see having on a one-party vote having health insurance taken away. 33 votes against gay marriage, the courts say we're forcing gay marriage on you. we have legalizing pot all over. what i think is happening is people you look to to be leaders to direct that justified anger or instead being followers of the people. i mean, you need to say to people who are angry, what is going on with the government? yes, that is why we need to from my perspective elect republicans and repeal obamacare, that is why we need to get the president

to appoint judges. we need immigration and fighting amnesty, these are issues you should be focusing on. this is not the first time i've seen this. i think i saw the same, i think, stupid punchback with that hysteria over the drones. it was a sense of we're finally punching back. my argument is you who are elected officials who have radio shows and tv shows, stop following the mob. you are supposed to direct a mob who have a legitimate grievance. >> but obviously, you're never going to win over the obama base. you're going for the moderates -- >> and also people like jason. >> but a lot of folks for better or worse, or unfairly or not there is a perception that some people in the tea party have a strain of racism through them. and a guy like cliven bundy or

"joe the plumber" or ted nugent, and it creates that bias. this guy was a creation of fox. i don't know if mike huckabee would have been out there to support him if he was not on air for two weeks, or not? >> well, i was on vacation, i'm not exactly sure who was pushing it but i know it became this big issue. i wondered what is going on. he didn't pay his grazing fees. and by the way, why aren't you talking about immigration? and for those of you worried about drones if what you are concerned about is personal security, i know, let's talk about airport security. there are things that i think are serious issues but we need more leaders directing what is justified anger. >> listen, in fairness we should play this. this was mr. bundy's press conference from today.

and a quasi apology. listen. >> i hope i didn't offend anybody. if i did, i ask for their forgiveness. but i'm not withdrawing what i said. i think i said i meant that whether you consider it right i don't know. but it comes from my heart. and the reason it comes from my heart is that i'm concerned about all of these individuals. i believe that they should have equal rights. >> is this -- is cliven going to be in campaign ads? will this be an albatross? >> i mean, harry reid complimented barack obama for being light skinned and not having a negro dialect, i mean, these are elected democrats that come close to what some random ranchers said.

i think some ought to be careful before you choose a mascot. also in defense of what some of the anger is about. i heard people say this, look, they were just trying to move the cattle off the federal land for grazing. but they moved in this massive military force. hey, could we get that down to the border? no, no, no, the border is wide open, come across it and we'll give you free college tuition and a driver's license. there is legitimate anger. i think we see these random explosions here and there where it ought to be directed to something useful and productive and something we can do something about. >> rand paul had some interesting words today about the republican party, will either adapt or they're not big enough. tell people they need to look like the rest of america. that means without tattoos, with earrings, black, white, brown, you go to a republican event it is all white people. >> this is what i mean about being more of a follower than a leader. he is also going around you

know, telling blacks that the drug laws discriminate against them. do you know why we have such drug laws? that was the black caucus that pushed that because their constituents said get the drugs out of our neighborhood? and now rand paul says let's legalize drugs? >> it is interesting you should mention that. our next guest is angry about that sort of thing. we're going to go to another ranch who is upset about that. he was sent to prison over a single phone call. but what has him really staples, when he got inside. ann coulter, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, good to be here. >> we'll be right back everybody.

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. if you were a movie studio executive in the '90s and wanted to make a blockbuster action flick, chances are your short list of directors would be john mctiernan, who made "diehard" and the thomas crown affair. but then his life went into a legal drama that put him in prison for something that people would consider a federal crime. i met him on his wyoming ranch, where he said he is a changed man, but not the way you imagine. >> it takes a certain command of camera and ego to blow up somebody like bruce willis. but the diehard franchise made him a superstar. it takes a certain senseability

to take arnold to fight a predator in the jungle. and it takes guts to remake the classic like "the thomas crown affair" and fade our memory of the steve mcqueen original. and john mctiernan was all of the above, for a time, one of the most powerful directors in hollywood. but after a single phone call he had all of his power taken away by the legal justice system. he lost his career, reputation and eventually his freedom. he is back on his wyoming ranch these days after almost a year in prison after the ankle bracelet is gone after almost weeks of house arrest. >> do you see this place differently after a year? >> of course. >> how? >> well, we got to back up a whole lot if you want an answer to that. >> it all started with a guy named anthony pellicano, for

years, he was hollywood's go-to private eye, a guy who seemed to know everybody's secrets from michael jackson to tom cruise. it seemed like his skill was tapping phones and making violent threats, skills that have him serving sentences. mctiernan hired him once, but the director suspected him of sabotaging their project. >> filmmaking is filled with a lot of politics. >> one night his phone rang, identifying himself as a fbi representative. he asked how many times he hired the man. weeks later he was charged with lying to a federal agent and asked to testify against his former divorce lawyer. mctiernan refused. and after several years exhausting every legal action, a judge sent him to the minimum security prison in south dakota.

>> all right, the camp was fine. there was no terrible hardships. the guys were actually very nice. most of the stuff that is depicted in movies is utter nonsense. >> what was the hardest part? >> seeing what the prison system was about. i met many guys who clearly were not criminals, and they were 80% black and brown. they were not criminals at all. >> most of the people in -- in for drugs are in for what is ghost dope. >> ghost dope? >> that is dope that nobody can see. because it never existed. they find somebody with one joint, they get him scared to death. and they have him start naming everybody he knows. fighting a federal charge. successfully? it costs three or four million dollars. none of these people have anything like that. they have no way to do it. so it is just -- they make the

deal, whatever the deal is. now, they wind up eight, nine years in prison or they can insist on a trial and will get 25 or 30. and the thing is, it is not accident. it is deliberate political intention. >> because prosecutors need statistics? >> no. >> why? >> they're just part of the machine. it is a giant deregistration machine. jim crow spread to all 50 states. you know, they passed the civil rights act in 1964. and in 1974 they announced the war on drugs. and if they had not had drugs they would have had a war on chitlins and soul food. they wanted a way to bring the power of the government against black and brown people. >> and had these ideas occurred to you before politically in any way? >> no, no. no, i -- i thought before all of

this happened, i thought i was a republican. and now i am sort of like a former smoker. i am a former moderate. >> so you came out of prison a changed man? >> uh-huh, uh-huh. way more angry than i ever was when i was 18 or 19. i'm much more upset. >> and john mctiernan joins me here in studio along with his attorney, oliver diaz, good to see you again. you didn't want to talk about your case out on the ranch, i wonder why? >> well, i shouldn't, for one thing. legal reasons. it will give them ammunition to go after me again if they want to. >> do you fear there is more prosecution coming? >> well, we actually have appeals still pending at this point and we want to make sure we don't do anything to prejudice those appeals. >> understand. >> there is a second reason.

>> okay. >> i may be able to convince somebody of some of the things i have seen if -- and that would be of use. that might be of help to somebody. i am not going to be able to help my own case by pleading it here. >> but it is an incredible story. and i do want to dig into it. when we come back, we'll get into the details of how he is trying to clear his name. who in hollywood spoke up on his behalf. and who didn't. and whether this journey might make a good movie. stay with us. (mom) when our little girl was born, we got a subaru. it's where she said her first word. (little girl) no! saw her first day of school. (little girl) bye bye! made a best friend forever. the back seat of my subaru is where she grew up. what? (announcer) the 2015 subaru forester

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and we are back with john mctiernan and his attorney, oliver diaz, and director of "the thomas crown affair" and diehard. he was convicted and spent a year in prison. because of his association with

anthony pellicano, and some of the biggest names in show biz. you knew him, you hired him in a divorce? >> wait, wait, you just said wiretapping? there were enormous amounts of information left out in the sentence. >> but this is pellicano. >> do you know who he is? >> yes, he is a private eye. he is locked up. >> yes, but do you know why? >> yes. >> all right, remember mrs. clinton, remember her husband used to be president? okay, they were going to remove him because he had monkeyed around with a young lady in the white house, right? someone came up with the former boyfriend of that young lady. and the quote that she was going to washington to get her presidential -- >> monica lewinsky.

>> who do you think came up with that guy? >> anthony pellicano. >> you can say it was about wiretapping, but i don't know. >> some of the stories at the time were some of the biggest names in hollywood could be in trouble because of him going after ex-wives and that sort of thing. so you knew him, one evening you're having dinner at your ranch. and somebody who says they're from the fbi is at the other end. >> exactly. and i think that is where you come in and can't believe this incredible story. >> mct was prosecuted because he answered the phone and he spoke to an fbi agent on the phone, not under oath, not in person, this guy didn't present credentials or anything if that nature. a telephone contact at your home on the phone can be the basis of prosecution. >> and the question is, did you hire pellicano and he said no?

one of the problems there was never a transcript. this was never put into writing. you know, went recorded. there was not another person there to testify about the conversation. the conversation was not recorded by the fbi. they simply say that they -- mct had made a false statement. >> and the reason i talked to them was when arnold schwarzenegger went into politics i started getting all of these phone calls from people who said they were law enforcement wanted to know in essence if arnold had hot and cold running young ladies on the set. and i learned the hard way i can't say no comment, because it is immediately put in the article, and the director had no comment, meaning the director agreed. so i learned i had to talk to the guy. and they said they were from this investigating agency or that investigating agency. i pursued a couple of them to find out that no, they were not. they were reporters. and after that, i realized it doesn't make any difference whether they are real or if they are reporters.

you still have to say no. arnold didn't have young ladies running in and out of the set. i never saw anything like that. so i got called about an attorney named dennis wasser, and i said truthfully i never saw him do anything illegal. and hung up. >> and you hung up, thought that was it? >> in essence. >> couple of weeks later they call back and say get a lawyer, you're in trouble. >> a couple of weeks later, this time it is the department of justice saying you need to contact the attorney. you're now a target of our investigation. mct hired an attorney at the time who took him down and met with the d.o.j. lawyers and actually gave a statement at that point and that served as the basis of his original guilty plea. >> right, that lawyer encouraged you to plead guilty, you decided that was a mistake at some point. trying to withdraw that plea. and the feds --

>> or did withdraw. >> the ninth circuit court of appeals, and the western united states actually heard it and said that he should be allowed to withdraw that appeal -- that plea. based upon the irregularities in the case. >> but then the federal prosecutors doubled down. brought a perjury charge basically saying by withdraws the plea that you had perjuried yourself. >> much more with john mctiernan when we come back. marge: you know, there's a more enjoyable

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and we're back with famed director, john mctiernan. his next project a sequel to "the thomas crown affair." he has another project in the works. he joins us now with his lawyer. how did people react in hollywood as you were going through this if did you try to call schwarzenegger, who was governor? >> no, no, no. i absolutely wouldn't. >> well, this was a federal prosecution, it was not at the state level. it was in the federal system. >> but did people, actors you'd worked, how did the industry react to all of this as you were going through it? >> some people were very supportive. other people, and it was sort of shocking to realize how frightened of the government people are. so it was very much like people

don't want your name on their phone list, because they're afraid someone will get implicated in something. it was a great deal of that. >> i know alec baldwin at least voiced support online. jeremy irons, samuel l. jackson. >> yes, there were many people who were wonderful. as a general thing, what i saw was the terror to have the federal government. just people really didn't want to know you. because they were afraid of the government. not because they hated you, they were scared. >> and you couldn't -- >> americans shouldn't be scared of their government. i'm sorry, that's a significant thing. >> you couldn't make films at this time. you were uninsurable. >> right. >> and you were spending money on legal defense and this was an eight-year saga. when you finally had understand, i'm getting in the car to go to prison, what was going through your mind? >> um, i don't know, i've been through a lot of scare or strange experiences in my life,

so, i, okay, there's no way around this, so let's go find out what it's like. so i drove to south dakota and we did it. >> and you did it. we talked on the ranch what you discovered there, how angry it made you to see these other people. it just came out this week that the justice department is going to change those sentencing rules and try to exonerate a lot of the long-term sentences on these drug offenders. do you think that's a step in the right direction? >> do you see anybody say anything about giving them their votes back? that's what it's about. it's a deregistration machine. the whole giant edifice is about making sure that a certain percentage of poor people can't vote. and that's what it's about. so the more noise you're going to hear about this being the prison country, the more they will, okay, well, we won't send them first. we'll reduce the sentences, we'll reduce the sentences. you'll never hear anybody say, you're going to give them their vote back, because that's the reason this -- this is jim crow

for all 50 states. the war on drugs is a war on poor people. >> your wife said, the feds probably don't know what they were doing when they locked up a master storyteller. can you get your name back, get some vengeance back by making a movie of this? >> i don't want vengeance. >> but would this -- i mean -- >> no, no. >> turn this into art. >> no, i'm sorry, it's not a movie. i don't want vengeance. i would like people to know more about what's going on. because if they knew, it's not the america they think they live in and they would demand change. >> john mctiernan, oliver diaz, i appreciate you coming in. >> thank you. >> we'll follow your story as you appeal. >> thank you. >> and we'll be right back.

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