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descent. the jet as you know disintegrated upon impact instantly killing all 150 people on board. prosecutors identify the copilot as 28-year-old andreas lubitz a german national they say inessentially crashed this plane. what we don't know is why. we have live fox team coverage of these developments. doug mckelway could havecovering the story from washington. we begin with amy kellogg live in the french alps where loved ones are beginning to gather. amy? >> reporter: jon imagine how family members victims and other crewmembers and passengers feel. they have a double dose of trauma. learning their that loved ones were killed in a violent accident. finding out it wasn't mechanical error or pilot error but apparently pilot intention. many are here today. some are giving dna to help with identification of bodies. some want to be close to the place where their loved ones died. they were briefed before the rest of us about what really

occurred. and for understandable reasons the bulk of them are being separated now from the families of the two pilots. now, we don't know why andreas lubitz did what he did apparently. 28-year-old man with 600 flying hours under his belt on the job since 2013 from rhine land, west germany. he was on faa database for those who excelled in education and medical tests. according to people that knew him he was quiet. he loved flying. happy with the job, with landing a job with lufthansa is landing a real plum job. according those that knew him enthuse as sick as a young boy. according to members about his fly gliding club he was trained in phoenix arizona. they picked up crucial final minutes, everything apparently all the conversation leading up to the last ten minutes was

jovial and cordial until cruising altitude when copilot andreas lubitz, became, quote curt on the controls. the pilot referred to only as patrick s, at this point, the captain with much more experience who was locked out to leave the cockpit and lubitz wouldn't let him back in. in the ensuing ten minutes lubitz was completely silent and ignoring frantic pounding on the door and calls from various control towers. family members are gathered. psychologists are on hand. apparently a group of german psychologists helping people at ground zero after 9/11. recovery crews remain quite busy. this is arduous and heartbreaking work jon. the french prosecutor indignant on top of everything now hundreds of these police, gendarmes met dicks have to go on helicopters up into a very treacherous crevasse.

there are lowered down, pick up each body or body part. put it on the helicopter. come back here. a very complex process of identification follows that so, this work remains important, this work remains crucial. it didn't have to be this way, jon. and that is just adding insult to the injury people are feeling frankly around the world today. finally important to point out though, both german and french prosecutors are saying lubitz had no known association with any sort of terrorist organization. jon, back to you. >> what a strange, just unbelievable turn of events. amy kellogg there in the french alps. thank you. >> a lot more to be learned to be sure. this disaster raises alarming new questions how procedures put in place after 9/11, intending to keep passengers safe may have enabled the pilot to murder his passengers as investigators described. doug mckelway continues live team fox coverage from washington, with a closer look,

doug, pilot murder-suicide and these procalls now in place. >> reporter: that's right jenna. the inability of the pilot to get into the cockpit door once the copilot locked it, is classic case of law of unintended consequences. these doors were designed in the aftermath of 9/11 to keep bad guys out. it also as the effect of keeping a bad guy n the doors were designed to withstand even bullets. they have double locking mechanism. in event a single pilot became incapacitated second pilot outside could type a code on the door to regain access to the cockpit. but pilot inside can override that code with a second locking mechanism. that is what apparently happened here as evidenced by the captain es increasingly desperate knocking to get inside, a knock became so intense a source described it to the "new york times" as trying to break the door down. that was among the last sounds heard on the cockpit voice recorder. that, screaming from the passenger compartment just before impact. the man responsible for this

carnage, 28-year-old copilot andreas lubitz, a german nationals had no known terrorist ties although investigators will certainly rye visit his relationships communications and behave i don't have. he breathed normally according to voice recorder right up until the end. there were no signs of distress. former airline pilots tell me recent years airlines relaxed their psychological testing. some don't do it at all. lufthansa required once a year medical testing. there was no psychological component to that testing. >> the training is such that if there is an incapacity of the captain, the copilot can actually lead and manage the flight. comp competent to do this. and the psychological test is not provided for. >> reporter: state side we are told the faa aero medical office

can request an exam psychological or otherwise, as a condition to keep a license. it might be in response to a dui. but it isn't a pre-req for flying planes. >> there is also references to the egypt air crash in 1999 off the coast of the eastern sea board of the united states. talk about if there could be similarities. >> reporter: people ask if it is suicide when you are taking 150 along with you. that was the case with the egypt pilot. flying a bowing 667 pushed down the stick. people think it might have been

jihidist behavior but it wasn't. it turns out he was a sex offender and just committed a sex crime. he had exposed himself in a days previous to a woman his employer found out and said he would be fired and he was flying the last flight and that when he dropped into atlantic ocean. >> this is rare we must remind ourselves but so many questions including why remain. thank you, doug. now this fox news alert on major developments in the middle east. first in iraq, where the united states is stepping in the battle for and launching ground and air forces raising serious new questions about partticipating in an iraqi campaign spear

headed by troops trained and equipped by the islamic iran state. also the united states is walking a delicate line with iran. this as saudi arabia leaves a coalition of gulf arab states launching new airstrikes just their its pored border. the united states is providing military and intelligence support but not taking part in the bombing raids. they are targeted the capital city and places in the south after the embattled president was forced to escape from his strong hold in aiden. iran is calling a a dangerous move. we have kevin cork live at the white house but starting with conner powell who is live in

jerusalem. conner? >> reporter: that sunni/shiite divide is going and the united states is caught in the sectarian division. in yemen they are targeting the iran backed revels who over through the saudi arabia government there. the united states is not part of the airstrikes in pentagonyemen. the united states is providing intelligence. several other gulf countries are threatening to take action in yemen including turkey. there is no talk of ground troops. we are seeing the sunni countries relying on airstrikes.

in iraq they are trying to push sunni isis militants out. we were on the sidelines because of the iranian involvement but it has stalled so they are helping out with just reporting intelligence from the drones. the united states is essentially on the side of iran-backed shiite militia in iraq and in yemen they had helping back the iranian rebels. it is very confusing. >> what a chess board that is. >> the administration's reaction to all of this is covered by kevin cork who is live at the white house. >> reporter: good morning to you.

you are right about the complications in the region. there is no question it is a very difficult time there. the white house for their part continues to hail yemen as a model of counter terrorism strategy but is quick to point out the nuclear talks with iran take on more importance going forward. the united states is providing intel systems to the saudi arabia but the white house secretary says despite the setbacks you have seen and will see the plan overall continues to produce results. >> the white house does continue to believe that a successful counter terrorism strategy is one that builds up the capacity of the local government to have local fighters on the ground and take the fight to extremist in their own countries. that is a template that succeeded in mitigating the threat we face in places like

yemen and somalia. >> reporter: the real concern is how much it might shift the plans of power in the region. we listen for general jack keane for more. >> what isis happening here is strategically the balance of power and political orders we know in the middle east is shifting and it is shifting in favor of iran. this is an iranian backed movement. >> reporter: incredible times in the region especially when you kr the united states is trying to help some forces that help iran and also hold back at the same time. i want to share a statement or couple comments by leaders on capital hill. lindsay graham and john mccain are saying a country that praised as a model for counter

terrorism is now a sectarian conflict and war that threatens to engulf the middle east. this is as bizarre as it is misguided. another tragic case of leading from behind. john carry is returning to talk about the nuclear deal. no deal in sight but the deadline is days ahead. you can expect we will keep a close eye on that. bowe bergdahl is now charged with desertion. the role ahead for bowe bergdahl and the swapet free five guantanamo bay. and should a pilot with only 600 hours be allowed to fly solo in the cockpit?

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>> the obama administration is still defending the controversy prison prisoner swapped that freed bowe bergdahl even though he is now charged with deserting this camp. he was exchained for this taliban commanders and former gitmo detainees. jay town is our guest. he served as a marine judge advocate and is now an alabama prosecutor. what is next in the case? what happens next? >> guest: well good to see you. what happens next is we go to article 32 hearing which is a civilian equivalent of a grand

jury. it will be conducted by a judge advocate and they will issue an article to the convening authority which is general nelly nelly nelly. he has been charged with deserting and misbehavior before the enemy. that charge list could grow. we could add articles, aiding the enemy for instance, or awol could be added, and then it will proceed to a court marshal where there is a trial before members or as i expect a plea at some point. >> why do you expect a plea? >> guest: i think there is a lot of evidence for the desertion charge. i don't think many of us are

privy to the classified information bowe bergdahl might have provided to the enemy which accounts for the misbehavior before the enemy charge that endangered his command. jenna we have to give hats off to the army here. you know yesterday when they preferred these charges they sent a loud message to our troops if you are going to lay down your weapon leave your uniform behind, abandon your post and comrads and weaken the posture of the force in afghanistan you ask not be welcomed home with a hand shake. >> jay, the administration came out saying many things about bowe bergdahl including saying he served with honor. as his attorney can they use how the president described the client to get a better deal?

he has been publically comp complimented for the service. >> guest: that is a good question but the answer is no. this administration is no stranger to injecting its "expert" opinion into the justice system. it did so with the cambridge police depermanent trayvon martin everything to do with ferguson benghazi and now sergeant bowe bergdahl. that is why we let this play out in court. the army didn't even contact the dod with any warning the charges were coming. general millie went ahead with the court marshal, and does for every court marshal, and deemed the charges appropriates. so the white house comments or susan rice's comments will not

play a role. >> great to see you. an outbreak sparking a public emergency in a state and what is being done about it. we will bring that to you ahead. jj >> jenna:

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since jan tied to drug abuse. >> white house press secretary jocks josh ernest was asked about yemen. >> the goal has never been to build a democracy there. the goal is to make sure yemen is not a safe haven extremist can use to attack the west and the the united states. >> let's bring in karl rove. how would you answer that question? is the yemen policy of the united states a success, karl? >> guest: josh ernest went on to say the united states has the

supacity supassu capacity to reach special operations in the state. i had lunch with a special operation to came back and he destroyed all of the weapons and i don't think he thinks we have much and our reach is released. the white house is getting close to the edge of lala land saying everything is okay in yemen. the saudi arabia don't want this on their southern border. that is why they mobilized 150,000 troops and started airstrikes. and four vessels from egypt as we speak are arriving on station. the saudi arabia egyptians and sunni arabs whipill not allow this.

>> you have the american embassy closed and the leader of the country fleeing by boat and american special operation forces also getting out and destroying their weapons in the process. how does the administration continue to call this a success? >> guest: i have no idea. and look this is why -- the president doesn't seem to understand his creditability has been eroded by a series of statements over the last several years and enormiously damaged. here is our red line and etc. by allowing josh ernest to go out and make the case we have capacity and resources in reach and yemen is a success the president is undermining his own creditability. if he came out saying we have suffered reverse in yemen and we are working with the saudi arabians and the egyptians to reverse this and put yemen in the right direction he would have more creditability and

demonstrating leadership which is looking from this administration. >> i suppose the argument could be made that maybe you want the saudi arabians and the egyptians to do the heavy lifting. can you support that argument? >> guest: absolutely. but they are more willing to do that with the united states leadership than without. if the united states said we needia to step up to the line the saudi arabia want to do more, but want to make sure the united states is not leaving the region and not cutting and running like this president does. we didn't help taking the special operators, facilities and air fields and abandoning those physical facilities and withdrawing specialized personal. it will be hard to get them back in and our ability to keep yemen from becoming an isis and al-qaeda playground is diminished. god bless the saudi arabians and

egyptians stepping up but it could be more effective with united states troops there. >> when i heard the special operators were getting out -- >> guest: they are gone. i met with one of their major players. they are gone, out and not happy about it. >> karl rove thank you. a jetliner carrying 150 people deliberately thrown into a mountain side by a young copilot who locked the pilot out of the cockpit. how does this happen? and how much do your hard earned dollars go for defense spending? what the house approved and the senate is considering. live with that important story next.

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> fox news alert. the stunning news coming this morning that a young copilot of the germanwings airlines locked out the pilot and flew the plane into a mountain side deliberately as the passengers screamed. an intentioned act ended the life of him and 149 other people. the cockpit voice recorder capturing the terrifying moments in air. arthur rosenberg is here is knows a lot about what happened

here. everyone is shaking their head first of all. there is a bit of assurance you can give to the people in the united states saying this is not supposed to happen according to faa regulations. >> guest: this was a horrific accident and our hearts go out to the families. but everyone should know in the united states and canada this wouldn't happen. there are two pilots required in the cockpit all of the time. so a flight crew member and a non-flight member, a flight attendant, in the cockpit. and in europe the other european carriers elected to not follow that rule. so today's day and age where the aviation industry is on notice of this for 15 years.

we have egypt air silk air, i was here with jet blue with a fears ago. you should always have two people in the cockpit. >> there is still the possibility that 370 was a deliberate act. >> guest: absolutely. i am involved in that still. we represent some of the families. that is a mystery. >> we can leave that one aside but it is as a possibility. let's get back to this one. in the united states if a carrier is flying from or two the united states and one pilot has to use the bathroom someone from the air crew is supposed to go in the cockpit so there is never just one person in there. >> guest: right. and the only exception is when one pilot comes out and they

leave the cockpit doorope open but there is a food cart in front. so there is only one pilot in the cockpit but the door is open. for the public to know when the doors were designed they were designed with a logic tree so there is a mechanism for the pilot to lock out whoever is trying to get in. you don't want the bad guys protected from the people on the outside trying to get in. by having a second person in the cockpit, if the pilot was sick they could open the door. >> the pilot who was locked out should have had available a code he could punch in that would allow him to get back in but -- >> guest: the co-pilot inside

all he has to do when he hears the buzzer someone is getting in he has 30 seconds to lock them out. the bolt comes in place and no one is getting in. >> what about the training programs this young co-pilot parently experienced where you start with zero time? you maybe have

rosenberg, thanks for your expertise. we are waiting on the budget plan coming on the house passing their version seen as a victory for gop leaders. this could set the stage for a plan to reform the tax code

raise the debt ceiling, and reform obamacare. mike emanual is live on capital hill with more. >> reporter: we just heard from house speaker john boehner who is celebrateing saying the house's plan is better than the white house's plan. >> the president's plan doesn't balance but the house's plan would balance the budget in ten years. the president's plan raises taxes by $2 trillion the house plan calls for reforming the entire tax code for families and small businesses to make it simple and fair. >> reporter: they added $96 billion in defense spending so defense hawks were pleased. up next is a vote in the senate. >> the new senate is prepared to pass a balanced budget with

ideas of create jobs raising wages by $5,000 a family and also drive economic groat. >> reporter: 228-199 and 17 republicans voting no and 0 democrats supporting the measure. the white house said house republicans voted in favor of looking in sequestration cuts to the middle class like education, job training and manufacturing and they failed to fund the national security says the white house opting for budget gimmicks. the house democratic leader nancy pelosi is not impressed. >> it is a terrible budget with many reasons to oppose it. but what bothers me the most is what it does to your young people. it is so damaging because it undermines the potential of young people in our country. >> reporter: this of course will

thought be the end of fiscal funding. a flurry of activity before lawmakers go on their easter recess. the middle east becoming an even more chaotic landscape. while in yemen saudi arabia launches airstrikes against iran-backed rebels. why the next guest says this could be president obama's mission accomplished moment.

>> "outnumbered" is coming up. what do you have? >> we are following the details on the germanwings plight. why would the co-pilot lock out the pilot and talk down the plane? >> and the white house is still

defending bowe bergdahl release even though he is faceing charges now. >> and the administration is standing by the claim yemen is a success with a happy face. >> all of that and more on "outnumbered" at the top of the hour. >> jenna: the united states is launching new strikes in iraq after the request came came in from the iraqi government. they have conducted 17 airstrikes against the targets. this is all in support of government forces which also benefits iran's backed shiite mission in the area. we have a retired navy colonel and a visiting fellow at the national cyber security instustute.

we saw video of yemen, greg, and we will wrap it into the conversation because we are getting wires about the chaos taking over the region. as we sort through who is our friend and who is our enemy how would you describe what is at stake in the middle east? >> guest: good morning. good to be with you. because of a lack of foreign policy or decision making is causing turmoil. to the question of friends and foes it is almost the case of dancing with the devil. the issue we are going to face in tucrete is going into the operation we are supporting iranian military/iranian government and giving credence to their operations in any respect. they have kurd forces on the ground there and air operations and the objective is noble and that is taking them out of the

area. we are getting in a procurious position by aligning with iran. >> jenna: what role do you think negotiation negotiations play with this as far as doing something that benefits iran and us? what do you think is the backdrop of the nugauche ace-- negotiations? >> guest: there is a no functioning government in yemen, we have the iranians backing the shiite terrorist and we have the whole nuclear discussion in the background which isn't going particularly well obviously. to the rest of the arab world, it really seems like we're backing the iranian government here. >> jenna: what is the end result of that? >> guest: i think it is out of

our control. the minute we pulled out human intelligence capability out of yemen, over the last couple days we have no boots or eyes and ears on the ground and you cannot run a foreign policy or intelligence operation blind which is what we are doing. the upshot of all of this is going to be what we are seeing now which is a proxy war in yemen between you know the iranian backed shiite and the sunni backed by the sunni willing and i am certain conflict will spread throughout the region. and without us having any say of what goes on because there is no human intelligence. >> jenna: we are seeing the fighting on the ground. that is the image coming from the region. why does that matter? >> guest: it matters because

yemen as many cia directors said in the past and higher pay grade than me said in the past yemen is the hot bed or the ground zero if you like for potential terrorist attacks against the united states. you look at -- they have the most capable bomb maker in the entire terrorist world probably in yemen. we have lost control of everything on the ground in yemen the minute we pulled our guys out. on the field of battle if you are not prepared to make a decision the enemy makes it for you and that is not the position the united states needs to be in. >> jenna: important thought to end on greg. chaos in the region and questions on what happens next. talking about a peaceful topic. pope francis is coming to washington. and he will pay a visit to 1600

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the airlines said the man spent time in phoenix, arizona for several months in 2010. as investigators search for answers as to why he would commit such an act investigators call it intentional saying the captain was locked out of the cockpit and struggled to get the door open. it was captured on the recorder including the screams of passenger as the plane closed in on the ground. all 150 people on board were killed. loved ones arrived near the scene in france. the parent company says family

members will be taken to the closest point possible because of the terrain. part of the crash area is closed to everyone but investigators where they are trying to find and remeefb -- remove those on board. >> of the investigation reports are not conclusive of what transpired but the best information. >> the french authorities say the guy's breathing was normal and they know he was alive in the cockpit he just snapped for whatever reason and this was something he wanted to do. we want to hear from you on the big story as disturbing as it. should training standards for commercial pilots be raised? go to america's asking on our website and join the

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you. jon: we will see you back here in an hour although i will be making a cameo appearance on "outnumbered" in the hour ahead. jenna: what? jon: very quickly. >> we look forward to that. here is "outnumbered." >> begin with a fox news alert. stunning turn of events in the fatal crash of that german airliner in the french alps, killing all 150 people on board. french prosecutors say the 28-year-old copilot this man, deliberately crashed that plane. he pressed a button to send it into a 400 mile-an-hour descent. he did so after locking the cabin, captain out of cockpit. authorities say they know all of this from the chilling flight recordings on which the pilot can be heard frantically banging on the door trying to smash it down to get back in. also prosecutors say that copilot you see there, was conscious. they could hear him breathing on the recording. as those people aboard appeared to realize the