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they're conducting a joint search to try to find the plane. associated press is reporting minutes ago that the vietnamese air force planes have spotted two oil slicks suspected to be from the missing plane. this is a file photo of a boeing 777200 er that was carrying 239 people. the coe of ma layian airlines said that the contact with the plane was lost about two hours into the flight. >> our focus now is to work with emergency responders and the authorities and mobilize its full support. and our thoughts and prayers are with all affected passengers and crew and their family members. >> the airlines say that 80% of the families have been contacted. so far passengers on board were of 14 different national nalties, the vast majority of them were chinese, among them

were three americans including an infant. joining me is phil. thanks for taking a few minutes. i guess there's a certain expectation when we have airplane crashes like this. i guess it's a good sign that they're so rare these days that we don't have a standard protocol. but there's a standard expect nation that when we have news breaking last night that by this time, i think we're 12 to 14 hours of the plane lost contact that it would be found and that we'd have some basic answers about what had happened. still, we have these reports right now coming in maybe from the ap of oil slicks, maybe from this plane being found off the coast of vietnam. that's the only hit we have right now of where this plane might have ended up. how surprised are you that we don't have firmer answers at this point right now? it's still a mystery? >> part of me is a little surprised. it did happen out over the water

kind of nowhere. radar coverage doesn't always cover over the water. that radar, it's very limited and finite. so once you go out anywhere from 75 to 200 miles, they may not be seeing them on the screen and relying on reporting ports for a plane to call in. and then, you know, they miss that point, they become overdue. so the questions start to be raised immediately. they start looking. again, the water is expansive. when you're up at a cruising altitude. even if there's some kind of a problem, a slower desebt. they could be well over 100 miles away from that point if they're descending slow. there is no contact so it seems we have no information. we have this point that the aircraft last reported. we know the weather was severe clear. so there's no real threat. everything is on the table right now. >> everything is on the table and i think it's safe to say

most people looking at this at this point are assuming the worst just based on the time that's gone by without any contact, without any sign of where this plane might be. but you see room for other potential outcomes? >> i think it's a little too early to speculate. we know that the aircraft did not have enough fuel to still be aloft. if the airline landed safely on a runway we would know this by now. this is the reality. it looks awfully grim. but you never know if the aircraft made it across land and could be awaiting rescue. i think it's too early for people to compare it to early accidents that were all fatal. i would rather hear people still cling to hope any we know for sure, instead of comparing it to air france 447 tore atlantic. >> we're talking about a vast

stretch of ocean, i guess. the search and rescue operation, it's the cle shay about the needle in the hay stack. really, i mean to thoroughly comb those waters would take a lock time, wouldn't it? >> it definitely does. if something cat trosk cli happened, you're not talking about massive pieces. there are certain large parts of the plane that may not break up. but you're talking about hundreds of square miles. and these folks have to go and comb the waters. it's not always that easy. reports are come in of an oil slick being found but you never know. you've got to find some hard evidence there. it could be very time-consuming. you don't want to speculate until you have certain proof. >> thank you for coming in this morning. friends and relatives expecting to meet passengers from the flight have been sent to a beijing hotel and that is where

cnbc's u nus yuan is standing by. we're just hearing the reports from the ap about maybe oil slicks being found off the coast of vietnam maybe from this plane, maybe not. what are you hearing over there right now? >> reporter: well, we're hearing those same reports and they are very conflicting reports. nobody has been able to confirm them. it's those conflicting reports that are really weighing on the minds of the family and friends here in beijing. people don't know what to make of them and it's adding to the anxiety. hundreds of people have been gathered at the hotel behind me. they're hoping for more information and that is clear information. many of them had actually gone to the airport earliest this morning in order to pick up their relatives. but they were very surprised when they found out that the

plane hadn't arrived. already we had seen that emotion and distress spilling out. there was one woman who broke down. she became very emotional because she was worried about her sister. there was one driver who said that he was there to pick up his boss's wife but that wife never arrived, even though he had been there for five hours. the passengers then were directed to come to this hotel. they were brought behind closed doors away from the reporters. we did hear crying, sobbing, one woman calling out for her son. this is a very distressing time. one of the key points here has been that a lot of the passengers or the relatives of the passengers have been angry with the airline saying that they're not doing enough and we have just been hearing that malaysian airlines is sending 160-person team now, led by a senior executive to china to try to support the ground staff in

order to try to make things easier and get that information flowing out to the friends and families of those passengers on mh 370. steve? >> all right. interesting report. thank you for that cnbc's you nis yoon. we want to turn to tom costello. tom, good morning to you. an aircraft with a strong safety record apparently, these boeing 777s, clear weather, no distress signal. the plane really seems to have gone off the radar without any explanation. what do you make of this in. >> well that is exactly what everything is talking about. the plane lost radar contact, radio contact with controllers and with the home base. this is really a mystery. a very experienced pilot. the triple 7 it's a very good

plane, solid record. this one was built about 110 are 12 years ago with rolls royce enjoins. the time line once again, leaving on a red eye flight to beijing, losing contact two hours into the flight. supposed to arrive in bay jings at 6:30 a.m., never did. this morning aviation experts are talking about what could have happened. they point out that the plane operates in a highly corrosive salt air ocean type of environment in malaysia. could we see some sort of corrosive effect here? if that happened, if there was a cat trosk midair corrosive breakup of the plane, it would have lost air pressure very quickly and in eight to ten seconds everybody on board, including the crew would be unconscious and unable to of course operate. so that is one possibility, according to the experts. you know, always terrorism is a concern, but there's no

suggestion that that was a factor today. and i was also reminded this morning of a british airways 777 that crashed in london several years ago. no win injured. but they determined that ice had formed in the fuel lines at a very high altitude. thankfully the crew was able to descend and put it down. but this would be only the second fatal crash involving the 777. you recall that last july we had the asiana flight that crash landed in san francisco. investigators believe that pilot error was believed to be involved in that case. you know, steve, i think that's going to be the strongest parallel here, plane complete kpli disappears in the middle of the air space in the middle of the ocean and it took the french two years using submarines and

highly sophisticated equipment to find the wreckage of the air france plane that crashed and then they spent a lot of to money to pull it from the bottom of the ocean because they wanted to find out what happened. in this case you're dealing with governments that are second and third world countries. they're not nearly as sophisticated as you had with the air france plane, when france was going to put all of their resources to bear on this. and then the forensic investigation. so this is really a very big, as you might expect, a very big mystery this morning and it's in a part of the world that doesn't necessarily have the resources to be able to conduct a very quick and easy investigation. >> all right, tom. some very sobering information from you there. we should point out like phil said and as you said still, it is a mystery. until we get some more firm answers i guess there always is room for hope. msnbc will continue to follow and report this story as it

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less than one hour from now cpac the and conservative political action conference will be gavelled to order for its third and final day. speeches from michele bachmann, newt again rich and sara palin are on for this afternoon. now, it's easy to overstate the significance of cpac but still, this is the largest and gathering of the conservative movement, the one that attracts the biggest names on the right. it is the most public display of

the conservative bases attitude. which leaders bring them to their feet? it's a barometer of where the conservative movement and where the republican party is right now, what policies conservative activists want their leaders pursuing. it is a glimpse at a moment of a party struggling to figure its out, who its leaders are. what it would actually do if it wins a national election and grabs more power in washington. so the political world has watched closely this week as chris christie stepped up to the cpac stage. he wasn't invited last year. supposedly it was pay back from the right because of his public embrace of president obama at the height of superstorm sandy. but that supposed snub suited christie just find in 2013 when we was running for reelection in new jersey. trying to run up the score in a

deeply blue state that gave obama a 17 point win. he got his landslide win in november and immediately began on challenging republican to win and not on him and the mar june he wraracked up 37 then came th bridge discussions, dawn zimmer. that was the backdrop for christie's speech. how would the base treat him now. >> i'll remind you of one simple truth in this democracy. we don't get the govern if we don't win. please let us come out and resolved not only to stand for our principles but let's come out of this conference resolved to win elections again. that's what i intend to do for the next year and i hope you'll join me. thank you very much. >> there was a well received speech but it left the big

questions unanswered. was the crowd expressing its solidarity with christie or do they see more in mb, not just a sympathetic under attack but someone they might still turn to them to lead hem. ted cruz also spoke on thursday making what is his customary appeal to the face, painting himself as the protector and chief of pure conservatism. >> if you stand for principle you lose elections. the smart way, the washington way is don't stand against obama care, don't stand against the debt creel. don't stand against nothing. that is a falls dichotomy. you want to lose elections, stand for nothing and then of course all of us remember president dole and president mccain and president romney. look, those are good men, they're decent men.

but when you don't stand and draw a clear distinction, when you don't stand for principle, democrats celebrate. >> but the most interesting speaker all week may have been another 2016 prospect, rand paul. the paul name has a tangle history with cpac. rand's father ron paul would speak before deeply divided cpac audiences, his die hard supporter, they would show up and cheer his message of nonintervention overseas but from the rest of the room that same message would be met with bitterness and open hostility. and created one of the most memorable moments in cpac's straw poll history as the announcement of ron paul's win. >> the win ore f this year's

cpac straw poll -- now -- okay. well, the winner of this year's cpac straw poll is texas congressman ron paul. >> but now ron paul has hand nd over the family business to his son who won last year's cpac straw poll and is favored to win it geb today. but it's a different kind of success for rand paul, wasn't that doesn't generate the instan polarization. when he spoke at cpac yesterday he did it as someone with some real standing within the republican party. his speech played on the same basic them of liberty that his father stressed but not in a way that antagonized the crowd. >> don't forget it. there is a great battle going on for the heart and soul of america. the fourth amendment equally is important as if second amendment and conservatives cannot forget

this. >> that was rand paul attacking the nsa surveillance programs. he's showing himself to be a far savvier politician than his father. he's formed a strategic alliance with mitch mcconnell, standing through it, though a tea party candidate is challenging mcconnell. and paul is actually working with the obama administration and some liberals in congress to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders. when it comes to a presidential campaign his ceiling may be much higher than his father's ever was. they wrote that rand paul is winning the gop's visible primary pep and our own chris matthews took out his crystal ball on our network here in august. >> the hard right is going to talk over the republican party in 2016 and the nomination is going to rand paul.

you watch. this is what i do for a living. >> rand paul has risen to prominence for his libertarian stances on foreign policy and government surveillance. at the same time he's been aggressively trying to expand the republican coalition by courting any norty voters as the most wide open republican nomination gets underway. there are 26 names on today's cpac straw poll. that's how wide open it is. a case could be made that rand paul is closer to where the gop base is than any other contender? is he the future they want? does he represent where the party is going? talk about where we have learned, i want to bring in normal bernstein, kate is a capitol hill reporter, jeff smith, a professor of politics, and robert george, editorial writer with with the "new york

post." let's start on rand paul, rob. i've been struck not just watching this week at cpac but watching him in general talking to conservative audiences. the reception he gets is so much different than the reception his father got even though they are cut from the same libertarian cloth. what is rand paul doing? is it is a question of him doing something different or has the party changed? >> i'm glad to see chris matthews tingle up the leg is now on the right. rand paul is certainly i think more savvy than his father strategically in terms of how we wants to frame the liberty argument. he doesn't always get into the aus treeian economics. he to tuss on things like nsa, drones, things like that that have a cross etiological support

in terms of uniting the left and the right libertarians. he also wants to make some real overturs. we talked about mandatory drug laws. at the same time even certain elements of the republican base have gotten tired of the iraq war. he's a noninterventionalist issue that ron paul hammered about, there's more room to talk about that within the base of the party. >> you know, the skeptical take on rand paul's future as a 2016 candidate comes from dave weigel at slate this week. he brace basically was making the case that when you look at his father, ron paul, all of these newsletters came out right before the 2012 primaries with

just blatantly racist things in them and ron paul gave some muddled answers, wouldn't completely distance himself from them. ron paul had an adviser on the staff that cowrote his book that called himself the southern avenger. rand paul wouldn't exactly, you know, throw him under the bus. he would talk about him sort of as a victim. i guess the point that dave weigh l was making is rand paul looking well and good right now but when he faces the kind of scrutiny his father did over the kind of associations with the southern avenger, he's not going to hold up very well. >> we talk about these candidates now before they've assembled organizations, had to go through a whole strategic male strom. we don't know how he will hold up. he's so much more savvy than his father and has an ability to calibrate and stay within the bounds where conservatives are

happy with him wu not necessarily get outside the bounds of what might work in an election. so we watch him now calibrate on foreign policy. he's not his dad who was george mcgovern basically. the party is different but he's changed a little bit. then i watch him go from one week calling bill clinton a sexual predator to taking down and chastising ted nugent saying we can disagree without calling each other names, you got to give this guy a little credit. we didn't pay much attention to ron paul's ranting because he was never going to win a nomination. >> there will definitely be more scrutiny. we played that ted cruz line, doing sort of i remember president dole, i remember president mccain. somebody who has been in the

hall for that told me it was one of the best received lines of the first two days. it did prompt in sfrons john mccain yesterday. i want to play that. >> i spoke to ted cruz. he and i have a cordial relationship about this. he can say what he wants to me about me and he can say anything he wants to i think about mitt. mitt is capable of taking it. but when he throws bob dole in there, i wonder if he thinks that bob dole stood for principle on that hill top in italy when he was so gravely wounded and left part of his body there fighting for our country. bob dole is such a man of honor and integrity and principle. i hope that ted cruz will apologize to bob dole. >> and i know i think bob dole put out a statement yesterday. the bob dole war story from wwii

is truly heroic, not just what he suffered on the battlefield but this incredible recovery, three and a half year recovery from that. that being said, i wonder if rand paul -- excuse me, if ted cruz saying that to that crowd and then provoking john mccain like that, if ted cruz isn't sitting there, there this is exactly what he wanted in response to that. >> i think part of what we saw at cpac was clear differences between cruz and paul and clearly they're trying to define each other separately. the difference between cruz and paul on the hill is that while republicans might think that paul's ideas are kind of out there, he doesn't antagonize them in the way that ted cruz does. he's worked hard too build friendships and relationships and we can't really underestimate his alliance with mitch mick connell. his campaign manager told the huffington post this week, we

expect rand to help us right now an take back the senate so mitch can be the majority leader and then we expect mitch will help rand in the coming years. however, you know, he may need it. so rand has been very smart about who he needs in his corner and not really, you know -- off the john mccain's. he may not like all of his ideas but he's not going out of his way to sort of -- >> i want to pick up more on that dynamic between the difference between rand paul and ted cruz. because we tend to think of them boat as pure hard right candidates. but there are differences between them and we'll talk about christie when we come back. when you only have one hand,

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ted cruz yesterday where it's just basically it's a contin continuation of what has been hid game which is i am the definition of purity and if you disagree with me, you are not brave, you don't stand on principle, you can't win elections. how far can that take him? >> i don't think the two should be categorized in the same sense at all. cruz has created a national image running to the base. paul has taken a totally different strategy. he's picked off two tore three issues and tried to forge the far left with far right coalitions that have turned out to be much large than people anticipated on drones and survey lebs and hopefully on mandatory minimums as well. >> is there anything, rob that -- what does ted cruz really believe in? you can look at rand paul and point to some issues where he's devoted tim and energy.

and you look at ted cruz and get the sense that it's all just a game. you take any given issue and he looks for the way to set himself up as the voice of purity who is just protecting the conservative base from everyone who is going to sell them out. he needs to exist in the world where everybody else is a sellout. what does he really believe? does he believe in anything? >> i think he was still in a sense seeing that. but i think tactically we can disagree with it here or there but tactically he was somewhat, rather smart in taking that maximus position on obamacare even though it led to the shoutdown. at that time it looked completely disaster rouse for the party and looked like it was going to be repercussions come november. but now with the problems of obamacare, the rollout and number of waivers and so forth, that what looked like a complete

grand stand now looks like it was rather pressing. and it has helped him create a rather strong resonance with the base that is going to work with him going forward. >> assuming whether he runs for president or not, he may end up wanting to become for want of a better phrase, the jesse helms in terms of being the mr. conservative strong conservative on all things. and the real fight i think between paul and cruz is going to come down to foreign policy. because both of them have a lot of support within the tea party. but even within the tea party you've got the isolation nis versus intervention list. and that's where the fight is going to be. >> i think ted cruz made it fir himself. if it's just the straight appeal

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it's no secret that congress doesn't have great legislative ambitions frs turn. you can blame polar ie zags, the fact that it's an election year. take your pick. but this week was an exception. a week this where there was wise brp agreement where something needed to be done about ukraine. they approved a billion dollars for loan guarantees for ukraine. correct me if i'm wrong doesn't have to come up with new money. there was no need to demand off sets. the loan guarantee authorize the state department to use money that it already has to back loans for ukraine. but still when the house votes 385 to 23 on anything these days, especially when president obama has asked them to do it, and especially after republicans have been hammering obama's leadership in the ukraine

crisis, it's notable. >> they may call president putin a thug, it's because he is and he's counting on the united states to sit back and watch him do and take whatever he wants. we remain committed to working with the administration to give president obama as many tools as needed to put president putin in check and prevent russia from infringing on the sovereignty of any of its neighbors. >> so what are some of those tools? what can the obama administration do besides loan money to the new government of ukraine. on thursday, president obama announced the first sanctions against russia since the start of the crisis. >> this morning i signed an executive order that authorizes sanctions on individuals and entities responsible for violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine or for stealing the assets of

the people. vladimir putin seems to be threaten with a threat of his own. he's why it's important. russia is the world's number one exporter of natural gas, most of it going to ukraine and the rest of europe. most of it going through ukraine to the rest of europe. more than half of the pipe line cuts through ukraine. ukraine is a shoek hold. so when russia most recently decided to cut off supplies in 2009 during the heart of winter when the supplies were most in need, several counties saw their entire supply of natural gas stop at once. other countries who lost a lot of it were crippled as well. russia held all of the cards in that scenario. it was a show of force and it worked. what might happen if russia follows through with that threat again? >> a lot have changed. is u.s. has its own spry of national gas due to fracking.

russia may be the world's biggest exporter of natural gas but the u.s. the biggest producer of natural gas. at the moment the u.s. does not export its natural gas but it soon will. when that happens, it could change everything. john boehner also said this week that the u.s. should look at speeding up the timeline for those expert permits. and hillary clinton called the 2009 blockade a wakeup call for the west. the process of what fracking does to the environment is fiercely debated but there's also the question of how tral national gas is in what's playing out in ukraine right now. joining me now to talk about this, we have nina, the great granddaughter of the leader of russia, she's also an associate

prof fes of 0 internal affairs. we have kate of "was feed" who has been writing about it, car roll davenport. coral, i want to start with you. the idea here, i guess, is that right now a putin has leverage over not just ukraine but europe because they're so dependent on russia for this natural gas through this pipe line. but the u.s. will eventually -- it's not something that's going to happen overnight wu the u.s. has a plan to counter that that will take away leverage from putin. >> already actually putin has a little bit less leverage than he's had in the past. the state department two years ago under hillary clinton created this bureau of energy resources which was aimed specifically at figuring out how

to leverage this hum boom in u.s. natural gas as a diplomatic weapon. and already this boom in natural gas has loose nd up a lot of supply around the rest of the world. over the last couple of years u.s. diplomats working on the ground in ukraine and europe have lessened ub crane's depend dense on russia for natural gas from 90% to 60%. that's in part because europe and ukraine can get natural gas from africa, from other parts of the world because the u.s. supply has loosened up that other supply. so now at the state department there's a concerted push to look to start exporting u.s. natural gas in the coming years and further lessen that chokehold. there's definitely a strong diplomatic push to say, you know, if we can get some of that u.s. natural gas over to europe or out in the global market then

in the coming years we really could see ukraine and europe loosening that decades chokehold that russia has had on its supply. >> what could happen? how much would that change the dynamic between russia and ukraine and really russia and europe? >> i think it depends on first how this crisis is being resolved. because in the next few years, we hope that the crisis will resolve less in the next few years because that's a very long time to have an occupation of crimea and the uncertain political environment in kiev. but it's certainly good progress because from 90% to 60% and then it's going to be 40%. i think it's a bit of a threat to vladimir putin and his power. but i'm not sure he sees the threats anymore because he's so gung-ho of taking over crimea

that he thinks that he's going to find other ways to circumvent it. by the time the united states may or may not export the gas, he already will have all of the pieces that he needs to continue to control ukraine. and europe for that matter. >> right. because again we are talking about a longer term thing. i guess the question in the shorter term is -- i was sitting in for rachel maddow last night. we had a reporter in that said when it comes to crimea, it is lost right now. it is lost to putin. there are russian troops there, there's the referendum coming up, there's a government in place that ants wants to be part of the russian federation and there's no willingness on the u.s. part or anyone in the west to put troops on the ground to stop this. do you agree with that? >> i agree. when you say a referendum is going to be held, that makes it sound like a democrat process but these are things that have been decided in moscow and we're

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so we talked about the loan guarantee that was passed by congress this week, the sanctions that president obama announce pd. we also seem to have agreement here that crimea really is probably lost to the russian federation at this point. i guess the question, nina, is where does putin's appetite stop? i mean, because there are the justification in crimea is russian speaking population, a majority speaks russian or identifies with russia. and you think back to sort of one of the legacies of the

soviet era is these russians moved around to all of these satellites. it seems to me there are a lot of other place where vladimir putin could make that same argument. is there anything going to stop him from saying i want territory over here, and territory over there? >> absolutely. he can make the argument about eastern ukraine. he can make this argument about any place because his argument on huh man tearism, he mows there's no humanitarian crisis but a possibility that is always cited by the west. the united states can do something, he can do the same thing and he feels that ukraine is much closer to russian territory. so he could not -- he cannot stop. i don't think he wants to invade more than just crimea because

crimea has a long history with the russians. he feels that it just got to ukraine as a fluke in 1954 during the soviet era. so now he's righting the historical wrongs. at this point that's where he wants to stop pu but if he's pushed further and he already indicated that many times there would be sanctions, would be any misunderstanding, he's going to take advantage of it. and that's where our job is to make sure that ukrainian integrity and independence continues to exist as ukraine even without crimea. >> kate, just quickly, i wonder when it comes to capitol hill, you know there's the vote this week on the loan guarantees. what is the mood on capitol hill? everybody wants to sound tough and condemn vladimir putin. is there an appetite to do anything else an capitol hill? >> i've never seen capitol hill

move as quickly as they did this week on the loan guarantee. but what we're going to hear from republicans in particular is what john boehner said, we're starting to see the bills pop up which is to expedite the national gas exports to ukraine and i imagine there will be movement in the house, an appetite for that to move quickly. again, in the democrat senate it may, you know, be a little slower because they still aren't sold on entire think entire caucus isn't sold on the natural gas and the fracking stuff. still very concerned about it. but aye actually never seen congress move as fast as they did this week. >> record speed with this. well i want to thing was feed's miriam and nina from the new school, thank you all for coming in. sorry this is so short this morning. it's one of those breaking news sats. more ahead, including an update

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we have breaking news to bring you up to speed on this morning about that missing malaysian airlines passenger yet which lost contact overnight local asia time during its flight from kuala lumpur to beijing. the recuse crews a conducting a joint search to find the plane. and u.s. navy is on the way to join the search as well. they've spotted two large oil slicks, each miles long that are consistent with a major jet liner crash. plane's last known location was 120 miles off the southern coast of vietnam. >> we are working with the authorities, we activated the search and rescue team to locate the aircraft. our team is currently calling

the family of the passengers and crews. >> the suchlt. state department confirmed that three american wrs among the 239d on board. for now more we want to turn to tom costello in our washington bureau. tom, good morning. lots of news out of washington since we an hour ago. what can you tell us right now? >> well this is really a multinational effort. you've got malaysian authorities, vietnamese authorities, the philippines, u.s. and china all sending resources into that area to look for this plane. this is really a mystery because this plane would have been at altitude when it happened. what we believe was a catastrophic break up that brought the plane down so quickly. it would have been on auto pilot about 35,000 feet. the crew would have been monitoring their systems, checking their charts. so what happened here is very much a mystery. a very experienced pilot, a voor

good plane with a solid history there. 200 series is the earlier model of the 777 and this one built 11 or 12 years ago. if you're just waking up this was flight 370 leaving kuala lumpur at 12:30 a.m. just an hour our two into the flight air traffic controllers lost contact. we believe it was near vietnamese air space and never arrived at beijing. so this morning aviation experts are talking about what could have happened. one of them is that the plane does operate in a highly corrosive salt air environment. did that plea any role at all? was there some sort of a breakup? air? is terrorism is factor here? that's always a concern. so far we've talked to experts who say we don't have see any confirmation of that yet. and i was also reminded this morning that another british

airways 777 crash landed in london several years ago. nobody was injured. they determined that ice formed in the fuel lines at high altitude depriving the engines of jet fuel. the crew was able to descend and put that plane down into heath row bit it also had rolls royce engines. however there was an air worthiness bulletin that went out and all airlines were to make the fix. we're reminded of the 777 crash in san francisco last july. that was the first fatal crash involving a 777 in 18, 19 years. that one they believe was the result of pilot error at san francisco airport. a lot of questions this morning and without any debris so far, not a lot of answers. >> now i want to bring in tom. he is a former military and commercial pilot whose flying résume contains boeing planes.

i wonder what you make of what we just heard from tom costello. >> he's exactly right. at this point we really have nopg. and when speculation starts, what i would suggest is that we really don't go far into it because sometimes speculation builds on speculation and we get really greatly distorted media stories such as happened with the air france flight from brazil to paris when they came up with all kinds of ideas of what happened. none of it was right. >> i wonder though, in terms of the fact that we're sitting here, i think it's been 14, 15 hours now. >> yeah. >> since this flight you know base chr basically disappeared. we have a report of ail slick off of the vietnamese coast that may or may not be linked to. this.

can you think of any precedent where this has happened like this before? >> no, i can't really. one of the things i would wonder about, and i haven't seen any information about is how did it disaprior from the radar. the plane itself has a beacon that sends a signal. if that stopped then that would indicate that the electricity to the beacon went away. after the beacon went away there was still a radar return from the transmissions from the radar site back to the airplane, then it would indicate that there were -- after the electrical failure there were some pieces that reflected the radar energy. that would be interesting to know. i haven't heard anything about that. the 777 has a great safety record. the crash in san francisco really had nothing to do with the plane. when the plane was built there was a team of people who said, okay, what we need to do is figure out everything that could go wrong with this plane and we want to make sure that whatever happens there's a way to fix it so that the plane gets back on

the ground. and you can see for 18 years we've been really good at it. this is the first time that hasn't worked out. >> it will be very interesting to see, yously it's a tragic situation, but given that history just what might have been missed if there was some sort of error with the construction of the plane or whatever. but any way, tom, i want to thank you. friends and relatives who have been expecting to meet passengers from the flight have been waiting for hours for information at a beijing hotel. we want to go back to the beijing airport if for the latest from cnbc's eunice yoon. i have to think that those family members are getting impatient for some news at this point. >> reporter: they're very impatient. it's been an emotional roller coaster ride for them today. many of them are waiting for any type of information on the fate of their loved ones. earlier today several of them had gone to the airport early in the morning in order to try to pick up their relatives, only to find that the plane never

arrived. it was quite a distressing scene. there was one woman in particular who was being very emotional having what appeared to be a breakdown because she was so concerned about her sister. since then the security has redirected those passenger to come to this hotel, which as you had mentioned, is near the airport. people were brought behind closed doors away from the reporters. the reporters though including myself did hear quite a bit whailing behind those closed doors. there have been so many conflicting reports and that is one of the reasons why they have been on this emotional roller coaster ride today. one of the other points i'd like to make is that malaysian airlines said they have decided to send 160-person team, which is supposed to be led by a

senior executive. they're expected to come here in the next several minutes, at any moment at this time in order to try to support the ground staff here in china. >> all right. so you've got that and you've got the u.s. navy involved and you've got massic expanding search operation going on. hopefully there will be some answers coming for everybody soon. i want to thank eunice yoon from cnbc. straight ahead for us, why the long term forecast for the democrat party is looking a little rosier than the immediate one. ♪ [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ [ birds squawking ] my mom makes airplane engines that can talk. [ birds squawking ] ♪

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welcome to what's next. comcast nbcuniversal. some new polling data out friday has some good news for democrats. they may like to think they're politically independent, half of

them identify themselves as independent, but in reality, polling shows that millennials tend to vote democrat, a voting gap between younger and older voters was big back in 1972 when vietnam was raging and the voting age was first lowered to 18. but then the gap was gone. they voted pretty much the same way until george w. bush took office. that's when the gap started to grow again. it wasn't quite as big in 2012 as it was was in operating. barack obama enjoyed a 26. point advantage among younger voters. this is the big hope for democrats right now. they're looking at they future and destiny, a generation coming of age with some very different attitudes about government and politics than their parents and grandparents. 53% of millennials saying they

would rather have a bigger government with more services. plus this, 54% of millennials believe it's the government's responsibility to provide health insurance for all. there's a particular reason for democrats to be hopeful about their long term future because their immediate future is shaping up to be pretty tough. control of the senator is on the line this november. democrats control the chamber by a 5 to 45 margin. given how many democrat held seats are up this year in states that mitt romney carried in 2012, that kind of republican pickup is entirely plausible. as i just mentioned, there's also the house where democrats already face a 17-sheet shortfall. no one is talking about them winning back control of that this fall. but the challenge is to keep their house losses to a minimum or maybe pick up a couple of seats so they would be in

position to make real gains in 2016. part of this is cyclical. and it doesn't help any that midterm elections are when the younger voters are least likely to turn out. that has been the pattern lately. part of it is popularity as well. president obama's approval rating right now is going to be a factor this fall. and yes, the voters who are most angry with the president are most likely to turn out in the midterm election which brings us to the one group that is looming large over the fate of barack obama's presidency. it's men. not just any group of men. it's specific kind. white working class men. democrat presidential candidate has won a jort of the male vote. he fell to 35% in 2012. that was six points worse than he faired with them in 2008.

it's not just a problem that obama faces, it's something that the democrat party is grappling with. even in places like michigan where it has been decades since union memberships ready previkted democrat votes, many pay less attention to this group. this is a huge part of this story's mid terms. michigan is home to a key senate race this year. karl eleven is retiring and polls show the race to replace him is surprisingly close. this is a seat democrats cannot afford to lose. but pause this is a midterm election year it means that what's been called the coalition of the ascended, the millennials they are not liking to turn out in the numbers like they did in 2012. that's been the pattern over the last decade. when it comes to midterms, an older whiter one

disproportionately composed of the white guys who have turned hard against the president is the elector rate that shows. places with mid turn turnout problems coupled with resistance, the democrat party among white men could make election night in november a very long night for democrats. what is the party going to do right now in 2014? well stressing pop you list economic themes like raising the minimum wage be enough to bring the white guys back into the fold or are there ways that democrats can excite the base that was there for obama in 2012 to actually show up in 2016. and how long will that pattern persist? to discuss all this i want to

welcome normal onstein back to the table. and frank houston who knows a lit bit about those problem areas democrats are facing. he's chair of the oakland county michigan democrat party. frank, you were quoted in the "the new york times" story we talked about this week. tell aus a little bit about you experience in michigan, site of a key senate rait race this year. we talk about the working class white male voters. we see the statistics where obama's approval rating is them is off the charts low, his performance with them in the election last year not good. what -- when you talk to them, what do they tell you? >> i think there's a couple of things. first of all it's a luxury that we can have this conversation on the democrat side and that's because we have for generations now really been committed to fighting discrimination based on gender, race, sexual orientation and so on.

it enables us to take a step back now and milwaukee sure we're not leaving anyone out. i think we can learn a lot from folks like franklin roosevelt. when fdr ran, it was economic issues much like we're facing today. and i think the lessons there are, you know, you had at that time a man who in many ways would have been seen out of touch on the surface level, privileged, wealthy at a time when we have unprecedented employment so people took a chance on him as someone who would represent their interest, and what he with go out of that social security, a minimum wage. so i think democrats today can learn from those lessons and kind of throw out asujss that white men aren't on our side. because on issues they are. and i think it starts from that. and that's when i talk to them, they want the same thing any person wants, good schools, good jobs, you know. and knowing that for example fdr

is an example. the president modelled this well, a promise made is a promise kept. >> the question i have where,ha does it come from in the first place, that resistance. you're talking about they're with you on the issues, you should be able to win them over. so where does the resistance come from in the first place. >> we with can argue that some of it was on the other side of the aisle exploiting differences, using race and gender as a wedge. but really when you look at, when we get back to the issues and put the time and energy into talking to all voters,ant that doesn't just mean on 30-second spots, that means the hard work on the door-to-door campaigns, we can contact with them. that's part of it. so often we get in these things where it's top down races, national money, 30-second spots and we core get that our local

candidates can be very effective messengers connecting. >> there's sort of a dilemma almost for democrats which is in the "the new york times" story we're talking about, which is, you know look at the number like we have from this new suri of millennial and you say wow, there is a huge future here for democrats, one of the biggest reasons why democrats seem to do so well among this new poll among millennials is they're so much more diverse. when you get to the silent generation, there aren't enough nonwhite people to be surveying right now to be a representative sample and now you're talking about 40% for the millennials. is there a way -- do you see a way, other than just waiting for those voters to reach critical mass in the e electorate, is there a way in the sbrirm for the democrats to be winning over these sort of the old reagan

democrats? >> we can't just wait until the population changes. in your setup you mentioned that while we may show up and show out and out perform in the presidential elections as people of color have done in the last election. we need to transition those voters into every election voters. that work is not done three months before election day in the 2016 or any other presidential election of that. that work is done now. how do we change that outperforming black vote, black women vote into making sure that they're voting in every single election down the ticket. and so there's work for the party to do in that aspect. traditionally the party has been focusing their outreach on people of color the last three or two months of the election. now that we're out performing and showing that we show up and the reason why democrats get elected is because of that vote, then we need to spend some investment and time in moving them into every election voters. the other thing, just to your

earlier point, i think that the republicans do well. we talk about all the time, is their messages is done very well. the fact that you can take working class and middle class white men and they will vote against their interest, right? they believe in the economic advancements that a number of democrats across the country and in state legislatures are pushing but the republican party has been great at messaging and saying you don't feel you belong in the same party as people of color as lgbt. so -- >> it's a message too about redistribution as well. like it's your money that's being taken and being given to somebody else. >> and to the point it's sort of feeding into that fear. you know, white men tm, i should say, not individual but collective are moving into the minority. so there is that fear that you know, as we move into the minority, where is my money going. you know, they have an investment in this government, in this party and then i'm losing out. and republicans have been able

to capitalize on that fear, you know to say it's more minority, the people of collar advance and sort of all of this variation and population. i'm losing out. i'm different. so you have people which we really should be concerned about is that white men cannot feel some sort of connection in the same party as people of color. >> it occurs to me no party can have it all. the whole part of plit dal parties is you represent different interests, different groups. is it a case maybe where what we call the reagan democrats, the white working class men they're going to become part of the republican party and something that the democrats have to live with? >> i don't think that's swierly the case. one thing we should point out is there's a real gap here between the south and the rest of the country. white working class men in the south are dramatically more republican. there are opportunities youd the south. i do think that the democrats have not focused on a lot of the

concerns that we've been talking about. paul london has called this recession a man session. and if you look at where the jobs have been lost and where you could get them back, a robust infrastructure program that could u bring back jobs to electricians, plumbers and construction workers that's hitting where the concern is. you've got a lot of people under employed. minimum wage is an issue that resonates. it's not going to help them get jobs. and i think the failure to push hard by the president, by democrats for an infrastructure program hurts them with this group of voters. they're not going to get a majority anymore. that's not going to happen. the demographic changes have created unsettlement. there are issues other than the bread and butter that mean something to people. you can compete mock the south and get close to a majority of the votes if you can resonate with them by different ways.

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the year was 1984, the massive landslide reelection of ronald reagan thanks to a landmark study by a democrat strategist after that election, one place became the poster child for blue collar voters slipping away from the democrat majority. there was a term that stanley greenberg, that strategist and many others used, the term became reagan democrat, white working close people who became to feel alienated. while landscape has changed, here we are all these years later still talking about the democrat struggle with white working class voter ps and stan greenberg who has advised democrats joins us now. stan, thanks for joining us this

morning. >> good morning. >> i just wonder, you sort of turned the political world on to the idea of reagan democrats all those years ago. when you look at the story in the "the new york times" this week, when you look at the polling numbers that we -- >> not again. aren't we done with this problem? >> has anything changed? >> a lot has changed. i wrote after barack obama won his victory, i said, you know what? it was amazing that he won mccomb county. it was oakland county where he had the really big majority. and oakland county, more upscale richest county in the state, a lot of immigrants, diverse, that's the future. it's the future in michigan and metropolitan areas around the country, the future of the country. there are big changes. the working class voters matter a lot and are an important part of the strategy. but reagan democrats weren't

just men. they were women too. they's a big par get for the democrats coming forward. >> give us a little bit of the lis tore call context as well. when you talk about the struggle in 1984, what were the factors, what was the history, what were the circumstances that created that break of the working class from the democrat party? >> we went through a big racial uphooefl which through the baptist south and the catholic north out of the democrat party and it was a big struggle that bill clinic tob started to bring them back. but you were not allowed to speak about it because race was such a controversial subject. and the study was, i mean it was obviously anybody trying to study why democrats were losing working class and union voters. but what this study said unapologetically is that race is at the heart of the problem unless you begin to deal with

that. it didn't propose that testimonies cater to those views. it suggested we have a much broader agenda for speaking to them. that is probably the strategy right now as well. >> well, i wonder, you know, on the ground in michigan, i mean, how much do you see race being a factor in, ku know, huch do you see in michigan? >> i don't know about michigan because, you know, normal onstein was right about this, obama is getting 25% of the vote amongst working class whites in the south. if you go to ohio and michigan, places in the midwest, you're getting more into the mid 40s. let's keep in mind here, working class noncollege white women were breaking even with obama and romney. and they are very much -- noncollege unmarried women, white women are very much

available to democrats as an agenda that will engage them and draw them in and make them play a big part in the election. you have to get in the new real economy. if you look at the ray gone democrats, they ar part of old politics that's nearly gone bup but they a were also part of a post industrial period in which we were trying to come to terms with the changes taking place in the country. we have a new economy in which jobs don't pay enough to live on and people are looking for where's future with jobs that pay. and you know, there's an agenda with wage aeps trade. >> i did want to get your experience sort of on the ground. you know, we've talked about, it's the first african american president. has that fact -- >> yes. >> -- complicated the relationship between -- >> yes. >> i'm trying to get frank in here. >> well, what i was -- >> steve, one second.

we have the county chair here. i want to make sure to get him in. >> i think stan is saying say lot of things that are true. i make it personal. i look at my grandfather, a lifelong republican. he voted for barack obama the first time. so i think there is an ability for white men to cross over. but what democrats have to do is make sure we're focusing on the issues that we can talk to everyone about. for instance when we talk about earned paid sick days or making sure tipped employees for instance make the full minimum wage -- and these are predominantly women. those are issues that white men overwhelmingly sumt. there's a whole set of issues that gettous out which is campaigning like mad men in a modern family world. we need to make sure we don't make those mistakes. >> i want to thank stan greenberg for joining us this morning, really appreciate that, here in the studio, frank houston, thank you. we have new actual score boards

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rockefeller usa. it's time for a special tournament of champions edition of "up against the clock." she's half canadian but born deep in the hart of texas, please welcome back kate. he went to high school in winnipeg man to be ba canada where he may have inspired the hit, "rock in the free world, it's norm ornstein. the number one seed in the tournament, it's the income nabl jeff smith. the host of "up against the clock" steve kornacki. >> thank you bill wolf. thank you studio audience. this is the moment our contestants have been playing for all year. the "up against the clock"

tournament of champion. our answer to march madness. thoed is the zart of our three first round matchups. the winner this morning is going to advance to the tournament of champions final which will be held on april 5 president the three people standing on contestants row right now for hand picked by our own selection committee. jeff smith is the number one seed not only in the group but for the entire tournament. norm ornstein is the number two seed and kate is the number three seed. the rules for the first round matchup remain the same. we'll have three rounds of play. questions will get harder as we go along. you will be penalized for wrong answers. as always i would like to remind our live studio audience to please remain absolutely silent. no outbursts while the panel is

in play. contestants are you ready to begin the tournament of champions? >> absolutely. >> yes. >> indeed. >> we will put 100 seconds on the clock. it's not going to be on the screen but they're going to ring the buzzer and tell me when it's over. 100 point round begins with this. in a ceremony this week in honoring women in president obama misspelled this word --. kate. >> respect. >> on tuesday, steve someman failed in his bid to unseat this -- jeff. >> john core had. >> that's correct. the russian rebroadcast of sunday's oscars was cut down to 90 minutes omitting a speech by this actor who -- kate. >> jarod let to. >> he is correct. he referred to the ukraine

crisis after winning his oscar. extra bonus, letto's band will be traveling to ukraine to perform. what is the name of that band. >> 90 seconds to mars. >> i'm sorry it's 30 seconds to mars. sorry we continue. in the district of columbia voted on tuesday to -- >> marijuana. >> norm is on the board. 35 seconds left in this round. the college board announced -- nornl. >> s.a.t. >> incorrect. i will finish the question, announcing sweeping reform to the s.a.t.s this week saying among other changes a perfect score on the test -- jeff. >> 1600. >> would return to 1600 points. a hundred points for smith. it was reported that oprah winfrey is teaming up with david simon to make an hbo mini series about what civil rights leader? called time.

it was martin luther king, jr. i'm sorry, that brings us to the end of round one. the store boards are working. kate has 200 points, jeff has 200, norm at zero. this is the 200-point round we're going into. again, 100-second round here. i'll give you updates on the time as they give them to me. it begin with this. this coming tuesday marks a special election for a house seat in florida pitting republican david jolly and democrat alex sync against each other -- >> bill young. >> they're vying to fill bill young's seat. e-cigarettes promoted as a safer alternative to bakko cigarettes were banded in public spaces by this major u.s. city this week? we'll call time on that. it's los angeles. los angeles banned them in

public places. first lady michelle obama will be making her third solo trip outside the u.s. when she visits what country later this month? kate. >> china. >> china is correct. >> under a minute left in this round. 200-point question. to the delight of hypochondriac, president obama will field questions -- >> web m.d. >> 200 more points for kate. after the state's supreme court ruled that it this was actual i -- that this activity was ak actually legal, massachusetts lawmakers quickly passed legislation to outlaw it. what is this activity >> taking a photo up someone's skirt. >> 200 points for kate. this family friendly media conglomerate announced this week that it would cut all funding to

the boy scouts of america next year due to their policy of banning gay scout leaders. jeff. >> disney? >> it is disney. 200 points for jeff right at the wire. ends the round. brings jeff to 400, kate at 800, norm at 200. this brings us to the third and final round of this opening round tournament contest, the 300-point round. we'll go 100 seconds. i'll try to keep you updated. we begin now. the democrat senator told the nation magazine this week -- >> bernie sanders. >> is prepared to run for president if 2016. instant bonus, sanders on wednesday received a letter critical of his performance from the city from what long term progressive activist -- >> ralph nader. >> when keer sten gillibrand's

military assault bill narrowly failed on thursday, name one of the thee -- >> claire mccaskill. >> one of the three female senators to vote against it. this governor skipped cpac this week but his first 2014 ad in his reelection -- kate. >> scott walkers. >> air waves in wisconsin this week. this long time clinton family pal and a chief strategist in hilly clinton's -- jeff. >> mark pen. >> mark penn is correct. he'll joint microsoft this week. adding to the push family political dpien city -- jeff. >> land commissioner. >> that's correct. 300-point question. in a moment that his conserve tiff primary challenger likened

to michael -- jeff. >> mat bevan. >> incorrect. you lose 300 points. mitch mcconnell brought a rifle on stage cpec and presented it whom? >> tom coburn. that changed the outcome of the game and kate wins it with 1400 points. jeff smith, the number one overall seed goes down in a close game with 1,000 and norm at 800. this was a very close game and that means, kate, that you are one step closer to becoming the first ever up against the clock national champion. you have advanced in this bracket. next week, as you can see, isaac and alex and susan paige will be competing against each other for a spot in that championship match against kate and one other contestant april 5th. that is the date of the finals where we will crown a champion. congratulations, kate. bill wolf is back now to tell you what you are going to be playing for in that april 5th

championship game. >> congratulations. as today's winner you've won a spot in the up against the finals spot next month where you'll face off for the grand prize, not one but two amazing dinners for two at new york city's renowned restaurant founded by chef tom colighio. we'll throw in a bottle of wine. back to you, steve. >> all right. i want to congratulate you again, kate, on that. >> thank you. >> you were excellent competitors. congratulations on a fine regular season. we will be back right after this. i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn. because you can't beat zero heartburn. woo hoo! [ male announcer ] prilosec otc is the number one doctor recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 8 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. thank you. thank you. i got this. oh, no, i'll get it! let me get it. uh-uh-uh.

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it's time to find out what our guests know now that they didn't know when the week began. jeff smith, we will start with you. >> we found out that for 40 years now the republican primary electorate has been changing.

it's an electorate that used to be up scale and internationalist. it's a lot more down scale, populist and isolationist. that trends continued to play in his hands. we saw at c. pack, it's very real. >> that chris matthews clip from last summer. >> starting to look fresh. >> l. joy. >> what i know but what your viewers should know is in the new york state legislature, we have 11 vacancies across the state in the state assembly and the state senate. this week it made it 12 because there was another indictment and conviction of another assembly member, but more interesting is that six of the districts are majority/minority districts and i have five in brooklyn alone where they have no representation through a state legislative budget cycle and legislation where people don't have any representation on the state level. the governor has to call a special election. so far he has not done so, particularly troubling sings we've known these vacancies

existed since the november 2013 elections. >> that is amazing. norm? >> well, a week from yesterday on march 14th the breakthrough movie of the year, a dramatic change in how we finance movies, veronica mars opens nationwide. everybody, every viewer should go. one of the executive producers is named daniel orenstein. >> kate, you are the winner of today's match-up. do you have any final thoughts? >> i learned this week that harry reid believes his wife came up with a new democratic slogan that the gop is addicted to coke as in coke brothers. that's where he got the inspiration to go with that line. >> he knows how to stir it up. i want to thank jeff smith, l. joy williams. joe and kate for getting up this morning. thank you for getting up. tune in tomorrow, sunday at 8:00. we will have an exclusive behind the scenes look at cpac.

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