of control? good morning. i'll alisyn kosik in for christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you. 8:00 here on the east coast. dramatic new developments in the crash of flight 9525 including reports that andreas lubitz, the pilot who steered that plane into the french alps suffered from a severe psychosomatic illness. >> let's get to pamela brown. good morning, pamela. >> reporter: well, good morning to you, alisyn and victor. we are learning more about andreas lubitz condition according to the reports here and "the new york times" that he had vision problems and that these vision problems may have been the result of some psychosomatic illness. we had previously reported that he from "the new york times", wall street journal, german media, that he had suffered from depression and investigators

have apparently found medicine bottles, prescription pills, a lot of them inside his apartment. the investigation into his background continues. i will tell you, i spoke to a lufthansa spokesperson who recently said she finds it hard to believe that he was suffering from any type of vision problems because every year pilots have to be recertified and they get their vision checked. she says it's a thorough medical examination. it's a physical examination. but she also said it's only physical, not psychological. and a german aviation source i also spoke to said that he passed that exam this past summer but, of course, anything can happen since then. we know that he visited a medical clinic in february and march of this year for a diagnosis of some sort. we don't know specifically what that is. also we're learning more about his ex-girlfriend. cnn spoke to a billed reporter. that reporter apparently interviewed this girlfriend. she said that he was aggressive

and had two sides of his personality. here's what this reporter had to say. >> there was one talk she mentioned which she can remember where he actually admitted that he had medical treatment because of psychological traumas. and he didn't give more details on it, but it was obvious that it seems to be kind of depression of some kind. she told me that she was also kind of therapist because, you know, she observed two sides of him. when he was among people he was like nice, really smart, open minded to other people, but when they were on their own and especially when they were discussing about the job situation and about the dreams, you know, he turned into another person, into a different person being more quiet, being more sensitive, you know, and i'm sure -- and she was the one who gave him, let's say, power and

report to be on the way, you know? >> and she apparently told bild that lubitz was fearful of losing his job. there's another woman coming into the picture here. according to german media, lubitz had a live-in girlfriend that's separate from this one. this live-in girlfriend worked as a school teacher right near the apartment. we know there is a placard right outside the door and the mailbox with another name there. it's believed that the other name is the live-in girlfriend. we're still trying to figure out exactly who this person is and what more we can learn from that side of this story. alison and victor? >> pamela, thanks. i want to bring in clinical and forensic psychologist jeff gardear. good morning. >> good morning, alison. >> if he wanted to commit suicide, why does he have to take the whole plane with him?

>> because we're looking at something which is more than a depression. as you talked about earlier, yeah, people with depression can have very productive lives, they are on their medication, they find ways, therapy in order to be able to live. we know some pilots probably deal with depression and they are not going to take down a plane, so it speaks to something more insidious. perhaps a severe mental illness outside of the depression, perhaps some sort of a personality disorder. we know that he had some sort of a post traumatic stress disorder going on which is perhaps why he had a lot of these nightmares about planes crashing and so on, but this was someone who was very, very disturbed, had anger issues, rage issues, and i think all of those things together with perhaps possibly some sort of a psychosis led him to do something that was so murderous. this was a mass killing as we've seen with the school shooters who said that they're going to change the world.

they leave behind a message. he left a message behind allegedly that he was going to change the whole system and that's what i believe he is doing. we are looking at more psychological testing and people in cockpits not being left alone and so on. so what he said was prophetic. what he did was murderous. >> so he doesn't seem like a loan loner. he's had girlfriends. not hearing that he didn't have friends necessarily. doesn't mean that's not the case, but how could his loved ones, how could his family and friends apparently not have an iota of what was going on here? >> i believe his -- his family, those closest to him as we heard from one of his female friends, partners, girlfriend, that he did have a personality where he was unstable, where he could be aggressive, where sometimes he would perhaps completely break

down. we know that as part of this subjective burnout syndrome that he had. and allegedly there was some dissociative states that we know of where a person begins to distance themselves from their conscious thinking. they throw buffers in there. he had a psychosomatic illness. again, alleged which tells me that this was someone who had some real emotional issues that perhaps were manifested not just in his mind but went throughout his body, which is why they couldn't find evidence of this illness because he manufactured it from his own level of stress. so this was someone, alison, who was really suffering in private but then had that shield, had that persona where he could interact with others in order to keep them from knowing the demons that he was dealing with psychologically. >> we heard a record from "the bild" that the co-pilot, andreas lubitz, his girlfriend said he

seemed happy and troubled. what does this say about his mental health overall? >> it tells me this is someone who was probably struggling to maintain his sanity. he knew that there was something that was wrong. he didn't want people to know it, especially his employer. as one of your reporters stated, perhaps this problem with his vision was part of this psychosomatic illness that he had where perhaps he may have been losing his sight but this is something that he mufrd in his own mind that he was real to him but that was a clear indicator that he couldn't hold on to his emotional sanity. >> clinical and forensic psychologist jeff gardere, thank you. >> thank you, alison. terrifying moments for passengers on an air canada flight. the plane skidded off the runway as it landed in halifax this morning. the airport reported that it made a hard right. 23 people had to be sent to hospitals with minor injuries.

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a among the sticking points tehran wants the sanctions lifted. prime minister netanyahu says they're working to take over the whole middle east. this as arab leaders are gathering in egypt and proposing a regional unified military force. they also called for iranian backed houthi rebel fighters to turn in their weapons and leave the capital of sanaa. also happening, officials announce that we could see coalition fighters on the ground

in yemen. >> let's bring in major general james marks. and cnn counter terrorism phil mudd. good morning to both of you. i want to start with the general. >> good morning. >> arab countries have created this unified military force. you have the saudis and this convoy headed towards the border. the egyptians all on this list. it's surprising. i had this conversation with general hertling there's a coalescing so quickly now after this has been going on for so many years. why now especially, general? >> well, the insurgency has been taking place for many, many years, going back at least three to four decades. the issue is you now have this -- two things are going on, viktor. you have this collapse of governance that you've seen throughout the middle east, the inability of capitals to exercise their number one responsibility, which is try to establish some degree of

authority and security within their borders. ill-defined as terrorist organized may want those borders to be. the second thing is this has now reached -- insurgency in yemen has now reached a larger level and it's in the neighborhood. riyad cannot afford to have this next to the babel mendez, close to one of the shipping lanes. that's why they're getting involved and that's why there's a quick scaling of interest and a bringing together of all of these ally moderate powers in the region. >> phil, as we heard, this iranian connection to the houthis, do you expect you'll see more than the iranian money, the iranian resources there? will there possibly be iranian troops there fighting as this ramps up? >> i think that's highly unlikely but possible. the reason is pretty simple.

we've got an arab coalition talking not only about airstrikes but if you see iranians expand their presence moving from money to actual troops, you'll talk about the middle eastern version of the cold war breaking out into a hot war. that is the saudis and the egyptians represent the sunni side. this is not just arabs, this is the entire sunni universe. the iranians represent the shia side. if the iranians show up the middle east will view this as sunni versus shia. the iranians will start playing their card. i think the iranians are extremely aggressive. i used to watch them pretty carefully at the cia. i think even they would be cautious about going that step. >> staying with iran, i want to stay with you, phil, for the moment, running out of time on this deal to come up with this framework for this nuclear deal. how worrisome is that for the u.s. specifically? >> i think we've got to be

worried. we've got a couple days to go. the administration have said they don't want to extend the deadline. both sides want a deal. the iranians want out of sanctions. they want to start playing more in the global economy. president obama has made this a center piece for what they want to do in the middle east. both sides are bounded by if this is a bad deal, that's better than no deal. both sides have to come out and say we've got what we wanted. if i had to bank in vegas, i'd say there's going to be a deal. it has to be a deal where both sides go home and say we got what we wanted. that will be tough because both want different things. >> spider marks, phil mudd, thank you both. >> thanks, victor. >> thank you. john boehner has harsh words on iran. our dana bash has exclusive interview with the house speaker. we're going to talk to her right after the break. e heart health. heart: i maximize good stuff, like my potassium and phytosterols which may help lower cholesterol. new ensure active heart health

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time for our political check with cnn political chief dana bash. she's hosting "state of the union" at the top of the hour. house speaker john boehner is

weighing in on the negotiations with iran over the nuclear program. you have an exclusive interview with the speaker. what did he say? >> i talked to him at the end of the week before congress went off for residential recess. he's very pessimistic about the negotiators getting a deal. obviously that's his hope, not just his view, because he's obviously been very much against these negotiations in the first place. he also told me that he is going to move very quickly in the house if there is no deal to apply more sanctions in iraq. he's very interested in that. >> also, the speaker will be meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. today we heard netanyahu slamming these nuclear talks. >> that's right. they are sort of comrades in arms when it comes to that. interesting that the house speaker is going to be in the region, likely actually in israel on the day of these negotiation deadlines, but also

interesting that he's going to be there after, as you see in the picture there, the prime minister had the very controversial visit and speech to joint meeting of congress, one that the house speaker arranged which helped cause a big rift with the white house. i asked the speaker if he is going to speak to the kinesset, which is the israeli parliament. i'm not going to give you the answer. >> a tease. >> you have to watch the show. how's that for a tease? >> "state of the union" starts at the top of the hour, 9:00 a.m. right here on cnn. we'll be right back. ifyou may be muddlingble withrough allergies.nger... try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin. because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. zyrtec®. muddle no more™. won't keep you up at night.n know you have insights

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