fox urgent. a major new development in the mystery captivating the world's attention. we now know the final words from the pilots onboard missing malaysian airline flight 370 came after one of the plane's signaling systems had already been turned off. the last wurbdz from the plane's cockpit were all right, good night. calmly. no emotion has been reported. and they came as the plane was being handed over from malaysian to vietnamese air traffic control. the new revelation about the system's deactivation seems now to only add to the belief expressed by malaysia's prime minister that whatever happened to that plane was a deliberate act.

and now investigators are narrowing their focus to the pilots, the crew, and anyone on the ground at the airport in kuala lumpur who may have had contact with the plane before it took off. today, in malaysia, police seized a sophisticated flight simulator from the home of one of the pilots. he had proudly posted photographs of his set-up online. dominic di natale begins our coverage live from los angeles. there are new reports that the pilot may have a political agenda. what is it? what do we know? >> harris, the captain was apparently an obsessive follower of the jailed malaysian opposition leader who was sentenced to jail just hours before flight 370 took off. apparently, deep was his devotion, according to people who knew him, and experts are saying, well, this is of course a concern. do we have something that is either a political or

idealogical act of protest? take a listen. >> malaysian government releasing to us the information they have about those two pilots. then we can build a case for if it's jihadists, international network links or another situation, a suicide or personal derangement. >> that, harris, seems to be the main inquiry right now. >> what are experts saying about what might have been happening on the flight deck? we have been able to put more facts and actual pieces of this together. >> yeah, it's about the banking of the plane to the left, that narrow pivotal moment, it seems, according to investigators. that turned to the left, according to the investigators in malaysia, was pre-programmed into the flight computer. that's the concern that this was what they now call it, a criminal act. and of course, experts are saying we have to be very alarmed about this, including one former ntsb director.

listen. >> the sign-off came after the physical actions of turning off the transponder is absolutely critical. it shows that someone in the flight deck, someone with training, was able to do both functions, and that in between the two, he signaled all the crew signaled all right, good night. >> so why did the captain do that? did he do it voluntarily because of as we say an idealogical act of protest, or was he forced to do it? that's what investigators are looking deeply into. >> in all our reporting yesterday, there were fast things coming together. as we learned the malaysian prime minister said this was deaf ntdly deliberate, so we didn't focus in as much on a detail, now, that today seemed a little more important. it has to do with what they took out of the pilot's home. >> yeah, it wasn't just the flight simulator, harris. tie took two laptops in the searches of both the captain and

the first officer. we don't know what those computers contained, no doubt, forensics are very much looking at that. we do know that there will be a briefing, one of the daily briefings from the malaysians first thing monday morning, that is probably going to be one of the top questions that journalists are going to be asking, harris. hopefully more clarity from the malaysians then. >> something else i heard you talk so much about, the human element in all this. answers for the families. i know those questions will be coming, too, what the airline plans to do for the families, so on and so forth. thank you so much. well, it is day ten of the search for the missing malaysia airlines plane. and that's now tied for the longest time in recent history that it's taken to find signs of a lost commercial passenger jet. in 2007, it took crews ten days to identify the wreckage of a flight that went down ini inin

indones indonesia. nooiv d five days were searching for a air france plane in 2009. when a passenger jet crashed into the indonesian volcano in 20 2012, it took crews 20 hours just to reach the site of the wreckage and 45 people died aboard that. well, the search has now grown to include 25 different nations, and it's focusing on two possible flight paths. let's pop that up for you. one northwest into central asia, and countries including pakistan and india, which would have seen some sign of the plane, potentially, are reportedly saying they never picked up any indication the plane had entered their space. the other would go southwest, far over the wateroffs theind ocean. there's military and high-tech hardware on display, and some criticism brewing about the true motives of the countries helping in the search. joining me now is christian whiten, a former state department senior adviser for the george w. bush

administration and the author of the book "smart power between diplomacy and war." christian, good to have you along tonight. this is really unprecedented, 25 countries involved. you dont want to think it, but some of them might not have the purest motives. >> no, not necessarily, although the cooperation has been pretty good from most of those countries involved, malaysia, thoi, the most important country for the time being, may be the weak link. there were a lot of mixed signals from that government, and an effort, it seems, to divert attention away from what is more a likely possibility, that someone on the plane, that was a hijacking or crew involvement, and malaysia is a bit of a pseudo democracy, so we're seeing some of the effects of a government that's notitariably trance parents and not terribly good with dealing with the public. >> it's interesting, a pseudo democracy. the other thing i have heard is the track of the 9/11 hijackers went through that country. >> right. ov, and this is a part of the

world that does have an issue with islamism or jihadism, whatever you want to call it. next door in indonesia, you had the bally bombingser other terrorist groups active. however, what is looked at as the possible political motivation of the captain, if the captain was a culprit unlikely, the seems unlikely the jailed opposition leader in malaysia, his followers tend generally not to be islamists. >> i'm curious about our role in the world right now. you know, the kind of pressure that america can realistically diplomatically press on some of these countries including malaysia. your thoughts on that? >> well, we have substantial tools still at our disposable, and this is 1 thing if you look at the assets used most. it is the u.s. navy and to an extent, our fair force, that is used to do the searching and aerial reconnaissance.

that will change in the years ahead unless we change path. if you look at procurement in the military, that's something china and everyone pays attention to, our presence will decline. >> what role might the u.s. state department play right now to raise the airline travel security standards for other countries? apparently, malaysia was not involved in the manner it should are been in interpol, bringing up the stolen passports, wasn't flagged in our system, and just keeping the people safe as they travel abroad. >> we have considerable tools in our disposable. they're a little blunt, but we can deny permission for a nation's carrier to fly to the u.s. we can say all airplanes can not fly directly to the u.s. likely, malaysia would want to cooperate and plug the holes in the system without having to use the blunt force. hopefully just gentle diplomacy, but we have considerable tools to cause compliance if we need to. >> i like the way you put that.

hopefully they want to do it because it's the right thing to do. would you sit by for just a second? we have another story breaking tonight. i want to bring you in for that coverage when we come back to christian. president obama has been speaking to russian president vladimir putin today, and by phone just a short time ago, we're learning from the white house. all eyes are turning to russia and the west, looking to see how exactly they will respond to the crisis in ukraine. that's because of some movement now in just the past few hours. the people of crimea, the region there in ukraine, have now voted on the issue of whether the region breaks away from the country and possibly joins russia. now, the polls are closed. they did so in the last hour or so. we're awaiting the official results of that vote, but local officials on the ground say more than half of the ballots have been counted. it appears the people in crimea have voted to secede. something many ukraine watchers predicted was practically a foregone conclusion. ukraine in the west rejecting

the vote, calling it ilegitimate. putin telling obama it is legitimate and he's concerned about violence against russian speakers in ukraine. greg is streaming live in kiev tonight. greg, bring us up to speed. >> harris, a result from that referendum in crimea is pretty lopsided, but pretty much as we expected. now, the votes are still being counted, but election officials say that 95% of those voted those for crimea to secede from ukraine and unite with russia. that with a turnout of over 80%. russian officials are already saying that could be a done deal and that could happen in a few days. again, this has been predicted for one thing, the majority of the population in crimea is ethnic russian, but more key to this, a massive moscow-backed propaganda campaign, and elections which many observers here have branded as rigged. the u.s. and others are calling them illegal. and they say they will not

recognize them. but perhaps the most important factor in all of this, harris, has been a huge mobilization of russian troops. we have been watching, in crimea. this weekend, the number topped 22,000, including an incursion of russian troops just outside of crimea, inside ukraine. said to be digging in tonight and more russian troop movement just on the other side of the border with eastern ukraine. now, eastern ukraine was the scene over the weekend of more violence, pro-russia attacks on government facilities. ukraine is moving more troops over there. they are calling up some 20,000 recruits to a newly formed national guard. the transitional government here saying they will not let the loss of crimea stand. the u.s. and european union are saying the same thing and saying they could coordinate sanctions as early as monday, but the u.s., including senators i have been speaking to, on a fact finding mission here in ukraine over the weekend, stopped short

of saying there could possibly be u.s. military troops on the ground here with russian troops here, the reality might be tough to budge. back to you. >> greg, thank you very much. let's bring back christian now, former state department senior adviser with the bush administration. and christian, presidents obama and putin talked by phone. i mentioned that earlier. it's been confirmed putin told him the vote in crimea is legitimate. he doesn't care what the rest of the world thinks. what is important about that phone call? >> the third or fourth call the two leaders have had. you wonder what they have to talk about because putin does seem to be completely set in his ways. the president can say russia is going to pay severe consequence for what they have done, and he has said that, and his secretary of state has said that, but it's not really convincing. and putin has been through this before. basically eating the president's lunch, if you will, over syria and chemical weapons, that red line. wnls again, they're getting the best of us in diplomacy. >> the russian military moving

in heavily tonight, as you heard from our report with greg. why? >> well, that's a valuable tool of intimidation, and you know, it certainly seems to have influenced the vote. who knows what the vote would have been had it been in a truly fair and free conditions. but this is putin's way of acting through either energy coercion, as a softer tool they use, when they doesn't work, they used the military and paid little price for it. first in georgia in 2008, and now with crimea, basically taken these with very little expenditure and blood and getting away with it. >> what do you think he wants, putin? do you think it's just crimea? >> you know, ultimately, they would like to dominate everything they consider their near abroad. putin has said the collapse of the soviet union and the independence of every nation in the soviet union except russian, or from russia, was a catastrophe. he would like to reconstitute

part of that. also, he's presiding over an economy that's not doing well. the rubal is off 10% over the last year. a lot recently. this is what strong men do, they whip up nationalism and provoke fights with their neighbors to justify their rule. >> you have to wonder who would he listen to, and what that phone call, whether it were icy or otherwise, between the two presidents. your final know, ult metly, th not a short-term solution. we need to help central europe get off russian energy, ideally by selling them american gas and oil. we can shift europe more toward us. >> christian, thank you. two topics tonight breaking. we appreciate your expertise. >> thank you. right now, tensions rising on the nuclear armed korean peninsula following reports of rocket launches from the north. this is happening now. why? what's behind this latest saber rattling? and investigators trying to learn more about the men at the controls of that malaysian

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dixon jr. he spent years at a controls of a plane just like this. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> you educated me on key points when we spoke earlier by phone. you said that you'd really, really have to know this region well and have flown that route to do what has happened with turning off transponders. why do you say that? explain it. >> well, not so much turning off the transponders. it was when the transponders and the acar systems were turned off. if you're not familiar with the route, you would not be aware, so much, of the flight plan and where that flight plan takes -- would take you. the transponder andacars seems to be turned off between the malaysian coastline and vietnam, in an area i understand to be lacking in rad arcoverage. that's why i made that statement. >> you called it a dead spot. >> a dead spot in the sense that

there was no direct radar coverage from either country. in that small area. >> what are the chances if you have never flown that route, you didn didn't know the plane that well, you could hit it pinpoint like that? >> i would say pretty, pretty tough. you would have to be familiar with the route. you would have to be familiar with flying an airplane and stuff like that, to figure that out. >> you know, jesse, one of the details that came out today is that when you look at the schedule, these two pilots had not asked to work with one another. so critics may say, well, that punches holes in anybody thinking this was deliberate and they coordinated this. just out of curaiositcuriosity, do the pileants generally know each other? >> generally, pretty well. although, i must say depending on the size of the airline, you may not fly with the same person for months. maybe almost a year, generally. depending on the size of the airline and the number of pilots

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from two general areas. militarily trained or civilian trained. myself, i was militarily trained in the air force, spending quite a few years flying military aircraft before i was hired by a small regional airline, air cal. american purchased air cal in 1986, bringing me onboard. i truly understand the concern. and i find this situation to be highly unusual. not impossible, but very unusual. for most pilots. >> how satisfied are you with the security in the skies? >> very satisfied. i think, i guess nothing is foolproof, but here in the united states, we have made major changes in the security, the procedures. the hardened doors. to make it as safe as possible. >> the hardened doors if you don't let anybody in. that's how it's supposed to work, right? >> that's true.

there can be flaw s, but i thin in the united states, we have gone the extra effort, the extra mile to make it safe. >> i think what people are worried about tonight is what happens when we leave our own air space? >> well, i listened to the news media, and experts have talked about that. i'm not that familiar with the procedures in other countries. i can only speak about what we do here in the united states, pretty much. >> all right. jesse dixon, thank you very much. we appreciate your expertise. thanks for joining us tonight. >> thank you. fox weather alert. it is the last week of winter, but the season is not going away quietly. where is that groundhog? another big storm is on the move that will affect millions of us here. meteorologist janice dean joins us from the fox weather center. i think it's been longer than six weeks, since the groundhog said we were going to have six weeks. >> i'm glad you're blaming the grou groundhog and not me. we had this big storm and it brought severe weather across the gulf coast.

tornado warnings today and yesterday. heavy rainfall across the southeast, up to the mid-atlantic, and then the snow. the snow is falling across the ohio river valley, d.c. already reporting some snow. we could have 5 to 8 inches on the ground tomorrow morning. and there's your forecast temperature radar. 32 degrees. a lot of snow around the d.c. area for several hours. we could see an inch an hour in some of these heavier bands. 25 degrees by 7:00 a.m. monday. just south of the new york city area, although we could get a little burst of snow, and then around 1:00 p.m., another burst of snow for d.c. i don't know. they might have to shut that city down tomorrow, because we're going to be dealing with senchl hours of heavy snow in the overnight and into tomorrow. and that's your rush hour, of course. we have winter weather advisories, winter storm warnings for all the areas you see shaded in pink. philadelphia could get several inches as well. >> janice, thank you very much. who exactly spoke from the

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intensifying their focus on the plane's pilots, searching both of their homes, even seizing a sophisticated flight simulate and cume computers from the home of the senior pilot. they're resimulating the simulator hoping to gather information about him or what his that's may be. lawmakers reacting to the latest in the search. steve sun somy with the latest in the search. what was happening bethe plane's data communication system that cast suspicion on the flight crew? >> you're right. they were disabled before the cockpit crew radios their final good night to air traffic controllers. in that message, they did not indicate anything was wrong with the plane. this could indicate an effort by the pile or copilot to mislead authorities on the ground for whatever reason. it comes as authorities examine a flight simulator confiscated from the home of the plane' pilot. one lawmaker is wondering why

the probe into the pilot began so late. >> they ddant even begin the investigation themselves until the other day. they could have been working with the fbi, with interpol, other agencies, but instead, they kept things to themselves, even on the search. >> the pilot is a veteran flier with 18,000 hours in the air, harris. >> well, i want to bring inow the american portion of all this, because you heard representative king and others now saying we should get possibly in the lead on this thing. what are we doing to help in the search and investigation? >> well, the u.s. does have assets in the area. navy ships and planes, including the uss kid, a guided missile destroyer replacing the uss pinckney, which has gone on to singapore for maintenance, and malaysian investigators are also getting american help. listen. >> what we're doing is we have the fbi supporting the criminal investigation. we have naval asset helping look for the plane. and the national transportation

safety board is on the ground trying to figure out what hap n happened. we need to get the answers and get them soon. >> the search area has spread to 11 countries. >> thank you very much. the missing plane dominating the conversation in washington tonight, too. >> critics disappearance prompted hearings on air safety control at home? fox political insiders are here hopefully to give us answers. you can join in the conversation. i said, tune in, chime in, and it's pat caddelcaddell. our conversation on twitter twittertwitter, twitter, @fninsiders.leboutilli. doug shown, and skwlojoining us satellite, pat caddell, fox news contributor. he's in charleston where it's much warmer than it is in new york. let's start with the plane situation. you heard representative king there, congressman king there

sayi saying, and many others saying the united states is going to have to get to the helm of this thing, otherwise, it might not be solved. why do you think that's the criticism? >> the criticism is fair because it's been ten, 11 days. nobody is taking the lead. the malaysian government has been slow to reach what appears to be the obvious and sad conclusion that there was malfeasance involved at a very serious and senior way. this may be terrorism, what you said in the lead-in, absolutely right. this is a question of international air safety, and it's a more fundamental question of american leadership around the world. this is another example where we are not providing real leadership. >> on just that point, first of all, with 9/11, we should have learned our lesson, that you never discount anything. including the possibility that this pilot hijacked this plane for a bad purpose. or someone else hijacked it. >> nobody really wants to say it

because we don't know what the real deal is. >> have we become so ploliticaly correct since 9/11 -- sknr just asking a question. >> we have a muslim pilot who the day of this flight went to a criminal trial in kuala lumpur, where the opposition leader who is a radical muslim, anwar ibrahim, was convicted and sentenced to five years in jail. the pilot was in the courtroom that day. and then went right to the airport and did this flight. now, maybe it means nothing, but one must assume after 9/11 everything could mean something bad. >> pat, you're talking about political correctness, john, and pat, that is one of your topics you love to tee off on. >> well, you know what we have? that's why i'm not sure our involvement would help. we have defanged the fbi and our government agencies into

believing they must be political correct. anything having to do with islamic terrorism doesn't exist. but as john pointed out, at least you ought to say, this is something you ought to explore. we can put devices, the insurance companies do in our automobiles, right? they want to track us. you don't have at this point, they don't have tracking these $150 million airplanes where they tell you where they are all the time. i will make one last point. if that plane went south and southwest, we have the single largest secret base outside area 21, diego garcia. it's a vast station, and believe me, if they can't pick this up and they don't know, and the nsa are really good, the cia, they spy on the congress, spy on us. they should have some information, don't you think? >> that's a first time i have heard the nsa used in a positive way in a while.

>> we're paying them enough. >> they're spying on americans. on the u.s. senate, but they can't find this plane. now, the president should, if he hasn't already, order the national geospatial intelligence agency, the one that does all the satellite photography, we should be looking at everywhere on that arc that this plane could be, every air strip there. going back two months ago to see if any extensions were built on any of these air strips to accommodate a plane. >> interesting. a longer runway because you would need that. >> then we should be looking the day this thing was gone, that morning, at every picture we can to see if a plane landed there. this is what we've got the technology for. >> maybe that's happening and we don't know. >> let's hope it is. harris, the administration has not taken a leadership role. we haven't heard from really anybody in our government to say, we're going to take the lead on terrorism, on air

safety, air piracy. >> that is so interesting. >> they're leading from behind, doug. >> but we haven't heard from anybody. we heard the president have pop-up speeches on everything. >> all he's doing, harris, is having endless conversations with vladimir putin. pena pena meanwhile, putin has an exed crimea, and an invasion into ukraine is ever present. >> i have to get to what's on fire, my twitter page. that's because i asked before the commercial break earlier what people think about this gi giveaway, if you will, of web control. we had brad blakeman, formerly with george w. bush's administration on fox last night. here's what he had to say about it. let's watch that. >> countries like china and russia and cuba and other countries are now seeking to have a say in who gets access to the internet. i think it's dangerous for america. i don't think it should happen.

we should control it. we made it, we paid for it. it's ours. >> the domain system on twitter. james says, no, we shouldn't give up our domain. obama will give up anything as long as our enemies might like him. mack writes, with cyberwarfare like it is, giving up control of any part of the internet is a foolish national security mistake. >> mack is right, harris. we are facing cyberwar fair around the world from the russians and the chine ez, particularly, just now, we're seeing them in ukraine, the russians have disabled sites of the former ukrainian government prior to their invasion. so bottom line, this is a huge, huge national security risk. and again, our government is silent. >> it fits -- >> no, no, they're worse than silent. let's understand something. they do what they do all the time, which is vusurrender whatever advantages this country

has, whatever advantages, whatever we dominate, their idea is, we should get out. we should lead from behind. we should give it up. and just like they're letting eastern europe go, they let the internet go. this government in washington and i hate to say our party, has decided to surrender the country. and the internet is just part of it. >> it fits a pattern that both doug and pat are mentioning. the biggest one to me is the space race. our privacy in space, who could believe that we cannot today put an astronaut in orbit? or in office, either. >> yeah, we have to rent space on the soyuz from the russians, right? the president upon taking office in '09, yanked all the missile defense systems out of hungary and poland. it is a pattern of retreat and sort of a psychological surrender. >> wow. >> i'm glad john mentioned the space race because that is exactly the example.

and we're now having our enemies, our adversaries, having to depend on them, and the republican party will not fight for this, either. no one in washington will. >> it's interesting, i hear all of you talking, and russia keeps coming up. we can't stop talking about president putin. but when you look at it -- >> he's the 800-pound gorille on the world stage. there was a poll last week. he's a more effective president? right? obama or putin? and this was asked, i think maybe worldwide, i forget. and putin was an effective president. he's getting what he wants. our president gets enough. >> we'll talk more. the polls are closed in crimea, the region we're talking about, and crew craukraine. they have decided, preliminary, they have decided they're going to secede from the country and join the russians. president putin getting bigger territory as we speak, potentially. more with the political insiders and everybody weighing in on online. we're seeing it as you talk

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well, you her us talking about it, what is happening right now between ukraine and russia. referendum day in crimea. early results leaning towards seceding away from ukraine and joining russia. the people in that region. but official numbers not announced yet. thal. be coming. attention now shifting to russian president vladimir putin. we said before the break, attention seems to shift to him a lot. our own secretary of state saying this with trying to keep the peace, as more troops are landing in ukraine tonight.

>> we hope president putin will recognize that none of what we're saying is meant as a threat. it's not meant as, you know, in a personal way. it's meant as a matter of respect for the international multilateral structure that we have lived by since world war ii. >> you know, i don't know what president putin watches, but if he happened to see that, what do you think his reaction was? >> i think it would be disdain and delusion. he would laugh. bottom line, only one thing vladimir putin responds to. that's pressure, power, and strength. we should be not having endless conversations with him. we should be telling him the sanctions that are going to be imposed, taking steps with our allies. but even if we don't get the europeans to come with us, making it very clear that we will not allow him to overrun ukraine, and to alter that

structure willy-nilly. >> let me say the same thing doug and pat are going to say a little differently. mau say tongue used to say this all the time, proceed with bay onet. if you encounter steel, retreat. if you encounter mush, continue. that was mush. and obama is mush. and putin just says i can roll right in there and do whatever i want. and obama takes action unilaterally against american businesses, a lot more aggressively overtime rules, minimum wage, all that stuff, than he does against this. he dillied for two weeks on this thing. >> pat, the leader of your party, the democrats, is that fair criticism? >> absolutely. any american should be saying, look, we have -- i have described a week or so ago, putin and obama, and we saw lord halifax there, foreign minister.

let me tell you something, a great scene of judgment at nuremberg where they're explaining the docket, while hicountry, germany, let hitler sece secede. he said take it. take austria, take the sudetenla sudetenland. that's what we're doing. why should he stop inhe's going to invade ukraine. no one is going to stop him. unfortunately, this is the 100th an varsry of 1914. boy, the similarities to the 20th century, mr. kerry, are great. >> that's poignant. we're going to move on. twitter is alive, and i'll be sharing some of those. stay put. the political insiders will respond to this. republican david jolly, i don't know if you were keeping track, victorious in a house election in the battleground state of florida. what could this outcome tell us election. some people are calling it the small race with big implications. we're back with the political insiders. [ laughter ]

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could a special election in florida be a sign of things to come in the midterms and even the race for the white house? republican david jolly came out on top and will fill the vacant house seat in florida pfsz 13th district. he defeated a democrat in a spot won by obama in both elections. >> the woman on twitter loves the place, says it is great. your thoughts about david jolly? >> look, harris, i believe in a district that obama won twice, sunk one for running for comptroller. to use my favori favoriteectionpression, bottom

line, this is a huge setback for the democrats. jolly was a weak candidate. the democrats benefitted from a libertarian who got 5%. this means the democratic party and obamacare are deeply at risk. >> former house speaker nancy pelosi said, oh, you really shouldn't worry about obamacare. you can't really run on that, republicans. you're making too much of that. >> a great historian once delivered at west point, elections called the march of folly about public policy and politics why people in the endeavor are so stupid. it's because they can't admit they're wrong. what we have is democrats running. this race would have been seven points without the libertarian, but somehow, democrats always have to have in the race. but in any event, what you have there is a terrible candidate, a lobbyist, for god's sake, running, instead of an energy, instead of a candidate who

almost won for governor and was quite good and was expected to win. democrats say we have this slogan, we're going to fix obamacare. yet the republicans let them get away with the fact they never proposed any solution other than skip the election. on the other side, the republicans refused to have something to replace obamacare. >> i want to give you the last word, john. >> as the three of us knew when we talked about this before. this race would be used by the winner and the loser to set the tone for how they're going to run all their campaigns for this coming november. and the republicans now think all we have to do is run against obamacare, not propose our own alternative plan for obamacare. and we can still win the senate and keep the house. and democrats, i think, privately are panic stricken. nancy pelosi can say republicans are wasting their time, but the democrats running for re-election are worried to death. >> all right, thank you for

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fox urgent. a twist in the mystery of the missing jetliner at this hour. i'm harris faulkner. we have learned one of the plane's communications systems was turned off before the pilot's final transmission to air traffic control. investigators say it makes it even clearer this was not an accident. new details in the search for the missing malaysian airlines flight 370 seem to support the announcement from the country's prime minister whatever happened to boeing 777 was deliberate. the pilot's last words indicating nothing was wrong, and only minutes later, the plane's transponder deactivated. satellite data show that plane continued