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does this tell us about the future of the gop? good morning, i'm chris jansing and we're working on several developments of the missing airplane. third day of a vast search and rescue operation off the waters of vietnam. tom costello joins us live with more details. one of the things we were waiting for is the results on the test of the oil slick in the area where the plane might have disappeared. what can you tell us, what's new? >> the vietnamese air force spotted this sheen on the water south of vietnam and malaysian authorities determined that fuel did not come from a plane, so they are confident that fuel is not related to the missing 777. there also was debris over the weekend and they do not believe that came from the missing 777. where does that put us? three days into the mystery and still no sign of this flight with 239 people onboard. it has been missing since the

early saturday morning hours local time. the malaysians announced a short time ago they are now expanding the search zone, so instead of just being in the ocean, and by the way, they are expanding the ocean view, as well, and the ocean zone, they are also going to begin looking on land in malaysia. there was the malaysian tape that suggested the plane may have turned back, may have, so there is some reason to believe they should look back behind the trajectory of the plane, as well. but keep in mind, this flight was moving at roughly 500 miles per hour at 35,000 feet, so if there was some cataclysmic disaster that befell this plane at altitude, it's entirely possible that this search zone, the debris field, could stretch for hundreds of miles. if, on the other hand, the plane went into, straight into the water or into the land somewhere, ground somewhere, you would presume that that debris field would be tighter, more condensed.

the trouble is, if a plane or anything hits water at that altitude, it's going to shatter like it hit concrete. one would think that by now they would have spotted some debris somewhere. the fact that they haven't is very concerning to them. the militaries, the navies from multiple nations, including malaysia, vietnam, singapore, the united states, china, australia, the philippines, have all converged into this area, thailand, as well, looking for this plane and so far nothing as we are now approaching nearly coming up on 72 hours soon. >> the other question that i have for you, because you've been covering this for so long, is everyone is searching for some sort of clues in past history, looking at the air france jetliner that went down, but has there been anything like this, tom? >> you have to go back to a missing plane in 1947 as the last time a plane just disappeared like this and we haven't seen it since. in this particular -- let's talk about air france, that plane disappeared over the atlantic

ocean, but they did spot debris within about 36 hours or so, they found the tail you may recall and pieces floating on the ocean surface. it took them two years before they found the body of the wreckage in the mountain zone below the ocean there or on the ocean floor, but they found wreckage relatively quickly. in the case of twa-800 off the coast of long island, they had wreckage on the surface of the water the next morning. they had a pretty good idea of the general area where that plane was. for this to have gone so long without any sign whatsoever is disconcerting and there is no radar tape, no may day call, no emergency transmitter beacon coming from this plane, really confounding the experts here. i will tell you they are looking at two individuals on the plane with stolen passports. the malaysians said a short time ago they did not look like asians, that was the words of the malaysians, they did not look asian. they are looking at a possible stolen passport syndicate.

was that in any way related to the activity on the plane, we simply don't know. u.s. intelligence at this point sees no suggestion of terrorism. >> so, here's where we're left, tom costello, thank you. i want to bring in nbc news terrorism analyst devin coleman, retired airlines captain jim tillman. so let me pick up, evan, right on what we heard, no suggestion of terrorism, no claim of responsibility. i know you follow these kinds of things closely. what does this tell you? >> there's no chatter, no credible claims of responsibility from any organization, and even if you look at this target, a malaysian aircraft carrying primarily chinese passengers, there's a very small number of extremist groups that would want to carry out an attack on a target like this and most don't have the capability of doing something on this scale. the answer is, there is no evidence whatsoever showing or indicating this might be terrorism. everything is pointing away from that conclusion right now.

maybe evidence will surface changing that conclusion, but right now there's nothing to suggest that's the case here. >> again, what does that mean then? jim tillman, let me bring you in. do we have this video of the helicopter, u.s. helicopter? this is the first one we've seen, brand new video of a u.s. helicopter taking off to take part in that search. jim, what are they looking for? >> well, they are looking for just about anything, chris, right now. the whole investigation is wide open. we don't even know, as you may have heard earlier, that the crash was in the water. it may very well have ended up on land. there are all kinds of scenarios that are being floated around. you have to be careful, because often times we go in the wrong direction in these investigations. we should take our time, be very, very patient and understand we have the most sophisticated group of people out there and equipment to find the secret to this, and they will. they will eventually find it.

how long that will take, i don't know. >> don't you have to start with what the probabilities are here, and i'm wondering what could have happened that was so catastrophic, so fast, that we find ourselves in this position three days later. >> well, there are two extreme scenarios one could speculate and that's what it would be. one, that there was an explosion of some kind that just completely destroyed the airplane at 35,000 feet and rained down pieces of it all over the place and it could cover a wide portion of the earth's surface. the other is that this was done deliberately by some crew member or someone that had influence in the cockpit to actually fly the airplane some place else and turn off certain kinds of automatic equipment that would give its location, but even then, a radar trace should not be fooled by that, so, you know, just about any scenario you come up with, you can come up with opposing ideas that say, no, i

don't think that could happen either. we're just really dealing with a puzzle here. >> and, in fact, that was reflected, they've been having a regular set of news conferences, and as they've been described to us from our folks on the ground there, they go in every few hours and are told, basically, we don't know anything, haven't found out anything. this i'm going to play for you from the latest news conference from maylation officials. take a listen. >> as far as we are concerned, we are equally puzzled, as well. the honorable prime minister used the word "perplexing." >> what perplexes you the most, jim? what is the one overriding question or one overriding piece of evidence that you'd like to see here? >> one of the things that has me going is the fact we have no information, that we have absolutely no indication about what happened that can be definitive, you know, we can

guess, we can speculate, we can do all those things. the only thing that we really know is one radar sweep, the airplane was there, the next radar sweep it wasn't, and that is the part that really is perplexing. usually you have at least some kind of a line of thought or investigation technique that will drive down to a certain point. even with air france we had some pretty good idea that the problem was in the cockpit, and actually they flew the airplane into the water for all intents and purposes. so, the thing that's really perplexing is the fact we don't know much. we're not real smart about this right now. >> another thing that this has brought up, evan, and is disturbing to a lot of people, even if it's not terror, you have these two stolen pass ports and the numbers are absolutely astonishing. interpol says over a billion times last year travelers boarded planes without their

passports being checked against interpol's database of 40 million stolen or lost travel documents. so, what does this tell us about post-9/11 security? because interpol says they are very upset about the fact these, obviously, weren't checked. even if it's unrelated, come on. >> this is the only positive thing to come out of this so far, the recognition not all countries, including countries playing critical parts in airline infrastructure are paying as much attention as we are to actually checking passports and that is disturbing and a wake-up call and malaysian authorities are embarrassed and no doubt they'll be putting more effort in trying to check whether or not the passports coming through their airport are stolen or not. there's a basic check, interpol database they should be able to check these things. the fact they haven't been is not reassuring for us flying recently in east asia. >> typically, the connections when they are made, aren't they

involved with some sort of drug smuggling or human trafficking? >> stolen passports are involved in a lot of other things than terrorism and generally speaking, elicit migration, drug smuggling, narcotics. this is much, much more likely to be the case here than any sort of terrorism connection, and in the absence of any other information, we should be careful in suggesting there's any terrorist connection here. >> evan kohlmann, jim tillman, thank you both, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. checking the news feed this morning, in a stunning new interview, the father of adam lanza says he wishes his son had never been born. peter lanza says, he's always thinking about what he could have done differently as a parent. adam did have a form of autism and beyond being a bit peculiar, he said he and his ex-wife never thought adam could be violent. adam sullivan met six times for

interviews lasting as long as seven hours. >> he's haunted. he wishes that he could go back in time and fix what went wrong. he's a kind, decent man, and he's horrified that his own child could have caused this destruction. >> peter lanza said he went public with the interview so people could be afraid this could happen to them and possibly prevent another sandy hook. adam killed his mother and 26 other people before taking his own life. public safety officials will give us details about new security measures. three people kill, 260 injured in the marathon bombing last year. police expect about 36,000 runners and a million spectators for the marathon on april 21st. live pictures right now, tallahassee, florida, the official launch for the self defense campaign. black clergy and citizens are joining together to challenge

what they say are judicial biases against people of color and the poor. among those attending today, the parents of trayvon martin and jordan davis, two black teenagers both killed in florida. jordan davis's mother will be tamron hall's guest coming up at 11:00 eastern here on msnbc. senate democrats will be pulling an all nighter to bring attention to climate change. lawmakers planning an overnight talk-o-thon for the issue, headed by senators boxer and whitehouse. don't call it filibuster, however, there is no legislation up for debate. coming up, sarah palin can still bring down the house. >> i do not like this spying, man. i do not like oh, yes, we can. >> oh, but can she help the republican party win a national election? and what new lessons can we learn about the future of the gop after cpac? and after the break we'll talk to congressman greg meeks

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president obama ratcheting up his diplomatic efforts to deal with the crisis in ukraine, even looking for help in maybe some unlikely places. last night talking to chinese president xi jinping. both leaders want to end the situation peacefully. china could be a key partner in trying to put pressure on the russians. another meeting wednesday when the ukrainian prime minister will meet face-to-face with president obama. that meeting designed to boost the ukrainian government's legitimacy against president putin. congressman greg meeks, thanks for coming in. you've seen these moves and

phone calls from the president, he made a series of phone calls to world leaders. he's invited the ukrainian foreign minister to come to the united states. what do you make of the possibilities for diplomacy? >> well, i think that's the only option here that we have. we need to talk to our allies, as well as what's taking place with china now. we need to make sure we straighten up and have ukraine in a good place as we passed a bill in the house trying to make sure the imf and others would give the kind of financial support that's necessary so they are strengthened, so i think diplomacy is the only option here. >> you've heard the critics saying the president is being outfoxed and outplayed by president putin. first it was coming from republicans, but we even heard from chris coons over the weekend. let me play what he had to say. full screen here. let's put it up. there you go. as putin takes increasingly aggressive steps, in ukrainian

territory, the u.s. needs to be thoughtful, less rhetoric, more action. i frankly think this is partly a result of our perceived weakness because of our actions in syria. your reaction? >> i couldn't disagree more, number one. people forget putin had done this before. didn't say the same thing about george w. bush when the russians were in georgia. the only option we have here is diplomatic option and that is talking to our allies. >> you understand their point, point is, in syria we drew a line, that line was crossed. the feeling was the actions did not meet the words and here in the same way, the president has said there will be a price to pay. >> in syria, because we came together in a diplomatic way, those chemical weapons are being destroyed today. without, you know, there being any war or any killings of individuals or anything of that nature. those chemicals are being destroyed today. i think history is going to record that as the right thing

to do. >> we also have seen the criticism about whether or not military option should be in play, not surprisingly, one of the critics is dick cheney, but let me let him make his argument. >> i think i worry when we begin to address a crisis by taking options off the table. i don't think the administration should do that. >> have they done that? >> in a sense, no military, he seems to operate that way most of the time. there are military options that don't involve putting troops on the ground in crimea. >> does dick cheney have a point? do you take options off the table before you see where it's going? >> dick cheney should keep his mouth quiet. dick cheney is the one who put us in the worst standing than we've ever been in with the world with the false information with iraq. if we had dick cheney running the place, we'd be at war. he put us in the worst shape that we've ever been in. >> so where do we go?

rand paul, for example, saying we suspend american loans and aid to ukraine. what do you think the next step is, and what is congress's new role in this? >> congress's role is to show that the west will step up and we will focus more on the region, we will make sure we give some aid to the ukrainians so they can make sure they are less dependent on russia. that's what we need to focus on. look, we're not going to go to war, you know, and we've got these so the only answer is diplomacy. that's why the president is talking to china and germany, the germans, the french, and if we're going to do sanctions, the president also knows sanctions only work when it's done in a multilateral way and getting our allies together. that's what his focus should be in. i ultimately think what mr. putin is doing is going to backfire on him. what he was trying to do with the olympics, et cetera, is show he can play on a world stage, but if he continues in the way he's doing, the countries over

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new developments this morning, but still no sign of the wreckage and no solid clue as to what happened nearly three days after the passenger jet with hundreds of people onboard vanished over the southeast asia. nbc keir simmons is live for us in kuala lumpur where the flight took off and families of the passengers are now arriving. good morning to you, what's the latest on the ground? >> reporter: hey, chris, good morning. well, the latest is frankly they simply do not have the clues as to what happened to this aircraft. all day today, chris, in this small room, journalists have packed in every few hours to hear the latest developments and

officials here have simply had to stand in front of people and say, it's a mystery. they thought they had seen something in the water, maybe even a life raft. that turned out on closer inspection not to be connected to the aircraft. they thought maybe an oil spill off the coast of vietnam, that that might be evidence that the plane had gone down. they checked it, tested it, that is not connected either. so it really is a strange thing and at the same time, it's unprecedented, frankly, but at the same time, of course, you have the families here at this very hotel where we are next to the airport and around the airport. they have been waiting all this time for news, and they are just like all of us, waiting to hear what has happened. the search now is a collaboration of nations, really, aircraft and ships from around the world, including one from the seven fleet, by the way, out on the ocean, scouring the ocean, trying to find

evidence. they are now tonight, here, because the time is much more forward than there, they say they are widening that search, but it really is a mystery. and one of the difficulties is, the plane was so high, didn't give off a mayday signal, so it may well have traveled for some time, it may even have been able to turn, so there is a very wide area to search, chris. >> keir simmons in kuala lumpur for us, thank you so much, keir. meantime, violent pr tests as vladimir putin shows little sign he's willing to take concrete steps to ease the crisis in ukraine. on wednesday, president obama will host the oval office meeting with ukraine's new prime minister in another show of support for the pro west government. the tension in ukraine was on full display in a pair of duelling protests yesterday. pro ukrainian demonstrators were attacked by russian supporters and in another eastern ukraine town, russian sympathizers

called for secession. vladimir putin remains defiant in phone calls with angela merkel and david cameron, putin said it supports crimea's move to break away, even offering crimea's government a billion dollars in aid if voters choose to seceed. >> i do not believe we're going to -- that crimea will slip out of russia's hands. >> you think crimea's gone? >> i do. >> i think the door is clearly open to resolving this diplomatically. secretary kerry is engaged with his russian counterpart, lavrov, as has been the president. >> let's bring in former u.s. ambassador to russia and msnbc analyst michael mcfaul and anne

gearrin. you heard what he said, crimea is gone. it's not a done deal. do you see any diplomatic opening for crimea at this point? >> i see a small diplomatic opening, so, in fact, i think both of my former colleagues are right, that is the moment for diplomacy is now. it's clear that the administration has put a proposal of some sort, a package, that they've presented to the russians as a way that everybody could stand down, and i think that's right. i think we need to focus on that while the window's still open, but if you're asking me as an analyst what's the probability of success of that diplomacy, i think it's very small. >> well, let's talk about these phone calls, because apparently vladimir putin both talking to david cameron and angela merkel wants to find a way out of this, but do we believe him? >> i think his tone and what he's been reported out of these phone calls out of the kremlin has changed over the past few

days. earlier there was no talk of annexation or talk of the crimeans to leave ukraine five or six days ago. now it's clearly his position has hardened, and i think once this referendum happens and we know the results will be in favor of annexation, not because maybe the people support it or not, just because it won't be a free and fair election, once that happens, it's very hard for me to see how putin then backs down. i think he's going to hide behind the will of the people and say this is what the people want, i need to support them. >> well, let's talk about how diplomacy could move forward, and anne, i want to ask you in particular about the role of angela merkel in this. she first met him in 2002 and said she passed the kgb test, was able to look him straight in the eye, but what are the phone calls likely like and what is her role in this? >> well, for her and for other western leaders, it's a mix of

threat and enticement for putin. on the enticement side, they are trying to appeal to putin as a statesman, to russia in its role as a player in large international bodies, the g8 primarily, others, and saying, look, you can't seize another country 's territory and expect to have the rules go forward as if nothing has happened. on the threat side, she and others are talking about the possibility of sanctions, boycotting the participation in the g8 in russia, or possibly even kicking russia out of the g8. >> in the short term, we have this meeting, vice president biden is going to cut short his trip to latin america so he can go to wednesday's white house meeting with ukraine's prime minister. is this more of a show or could it have impact? >> chris, it's definitely a

symbolic gesture. here is the president of the united states inviting to the white house a guy who two weeks ago was a pretty unknown ukrainian opposition leader, and is now the acting prime minister. it's a huge gesture of diplomatic embrace, and it is also a real finger in the eye of putin, who doesn't recognize this government in kiev, who calls it illegitimate. it comes days before the referendum that ambassador mcfaul referred to, and it is clearly intended to say whose side washington is on. >> and let's talk about the economics of all this, and we talked about this before, ambassador, financial links between russia and europe playing a key role, but we haven't talked a lot about american kpocompanies, companie like pepsi, mcdonald's, john deere, ford, they've all got a major presence in russia. in fact, i think russia is pepsi's largest market outside

of the united states. how are these business interests being factored into the diplomatic response? >> well, the administration and other european governments are thinking about sanctions. they are raising the specter of sanctions as the cost of annexation of crimea. they have not yet announced what it will be, but you're quite right, there are major economic ties, all the companies you just listed, i would add to that exxonmobil has one of their biggest potential joint ventures with a russian state-owned company, and if there were sanctions placed on doing business with russia, it will have an effect on the russian economy. there's no doubt about it. we in the administration learned how to do sanctions more effectively vis-a-vis iran over the last several years, and i think there's lots of instruments available to the administration, should they have to go that path, should there not be a diplomatic opening available. >> ambassador michael mcfaul,

anne, thank you. today's testimony at the oscar pistorius murder trial was so graphic, pistorius got physically ill in court and the judge banned live broadcasting and tweeting. the expert witness on the stand was describing in detail the autopsy he had performed on reeva steenkamp's body. pistorius shot his girlfriend on valentine's day last year, claiming he thought she was an intruder. peru agreed to extradite joran van der sloot to the united states but not until 2038. he'd come to the u.s. to face charges of extortion and defrauding the mother of natalee holloway, who vanished in aruba in 2005. in two hours, edward snowden will address the south by southwest conference. he'll talk about privacy in the digital age, although not everyone is happy about that. mike pompeo of kansas wrote the

organizers of south by southwest demanding they rescind their invitati invitation. >> kim jong-un won an election with a staggering 100% of the vote. he did run unopposed. this is the first election held since kim jong-un took control. new report that finds government regulators knew more than a decade ago about gm's massive recall but never acted on it. 13 people died as a result of this defect, so what do we know why the government didn't go further into this? >> let me give you facts and figures here. "new york times" analysis found 260 complaints over the last 11 years about the cars with ignition problems. it told nbc news it did take steps at the time, but these investigations did not contain

evidence of a possible defect trend that would warrant a formal investigation. now, of course, federal investigators are asking, you know, what happened, they are demanding answers from gm about why it took so long to order the recall, but gm's new ceo has launched an independent information and told employees they are going to hold themselves accountable and improve processes so the customers do not experience this again, so, of course, we've got to find out more about this. chris? >> for those who don't know, that's the national highway traffic safety administration, who overseas all this. meantime, let's talk about cost of milk on the rise and chooinas partially to blame. >> prices have pushed up for us in america so u.s. exports of dairy products to china, indonesia, and vietnam have surged over the past year and the issue is new zealand has

historically supplied a lot of dairy products to asia, but they've been suffering a drought, so the higher price doesn't just hurt us, it hurts processors, because that's their input cost, right? just how much more are we paying? well, u.s. retail prices for milk rose 1.5% in january and it's estimated it will climb by as much as 3.5% over the course of the year. >> mandy drury, thank you so much, as always. today's list is a fun one, outdated tech terms we all still use. do you dial a phone and hang up? no, of course, you push buttons. what about rolling a car window up or down, again, push a button. the cc line on your e-mail, do we remember what it means? carbon copy. some people even call the remote control a clicker, but that goes back to when changing a channel made a sound, and in the age of dvrs, some people want to tape

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>> and here's "the washington post's" e.j. dionne's analysis, a face-off between the no surrender cries of senator ted cruz and the let's try to win rhetoric of such politics of chris christie of new jersey and paul ryan. jonathan alter, author of "the center hold: obama and his en y enemies." susan del percio is an msnbc contributor and republican strategist. good to see both of you. as we look at cpac and see where this leads the republican party, did it shine a light, susan, on your party that doesn't know where it is right now? >> no, cpac is known for red meat, where conservatives go to get all riled up. it is not necessarily a reflection of where we will be in 2016, probably with the exception of the point you raised there are certainly those who really want to just run on strict conservative values and those who want to win, and that will be a part of the difference, but at the end of

the day, we're going to have to look at candidates who have been able to raise money and implement real policy, not just be that party of no. >> 26 on the straw poll, rand paul wins for the second year in a row strongly, 31%. behind him, ted cruz, ben parson, governor chris christie. we have a better sense of who the electable candidate might be or who the republicans could get behind. >> well, big news is that chris christie who's going to be the more moderate big time republican candidate is in real political trouble. we don't know how much he's going to be able to recover, but right now he's a very flawed -- >> he got a good response. >> but he wasn't even invited last year. they like him now because he's at war with the liberal media, so it's understandable why we would get a good response there, but he's not in a position right now to actually mount a

presidential campaign, so to me the question is, and it's very early, and i could easily be wrong, is it going to be a jeb bush party or rand paul party? ted cruz is not going to be viable. >> although the two of them, i thought, set up an interesting sort of battle that you see within the republican party over foreign policy. take a look at their divide. >> i'm a big fan of rand paul. he and i are good friends. i don't agree with him on foreign policy. i think u.s. leadership is critical in the world, and i agree with him that we should be very reluctant to deploy military force abroad, but i think there is a vital role, just as ronald reagan did. >> i think those who would try to argue that somehow i'm different than the mainstream republican opinion are people who want to take advantage for their own personal political gain. >> whether it's these two guys or not, susan, are we seeing where there will be some disagreement within the party? >> absolutely, because as you

look towards 2016, you see marco rubio, who's really come out with a stronger foreign policy position. that's where the republicans think they can make their difference, but make no mistake about it, when we actually get to the one on one republican/democrat in 2016, it will, again, be on the economy. >> marco rubio, did his immigration stance hurt him? >> yeah, he had a very bad 2013, but he has some time to recover and position himself, but the big question for him, and i think this is looming over the whole party, is jeb bush. we just don't know at this point, you know, whether he's going to make an effort. >> the indication certainly would be, susan, maybe you have more information, that he doesn't have any fire burning in the belly. >> he's not given an indication he is a serious contender. he has asked people to stay by the sidelines, not to, you know, so he could still raise money if he chose, but he has not done anything that indicates he has that fire in the belly, the real

will to run, which you absolutely have to have if you're going to run for president. >> neither has hillary clinton. both of them are in very comparable positions and actually, you know, jeb bush can say, well, if it's going to be hillary clinton on the democratic side, you can't say it's too much of a back to the future thing to go with another bush, and he has very much left his options open. i think if he was not interested in running, i think he would have said so much more clearly at this point. he has not. he has said that he will make a decision at the end of this year. >> that being said, he also has to work through all of these other candidates, where hillary clinton is the presuming nominee, should she choose to run. >> there would be, obviously, a very conservative challenger, so clear the field might be too strong, but i don't think ultimately he would have that much trouble winning the nomination. now you're in the party, so you know better. you think if he ran -- >> if he decided to run, i mean, and that wasn't exactly the

question posed, but if he did decide to run, i do think he could take the nomination. i think there will still be three, four, five, six other candidates who are going to not concede that point. >> bush/clinton. susan del percio, jonathan alter, good to have both of you here. political tweet of the day from the senior adviser to mitt romney, who has won most cpac straw polls? nope, not reagan, the answer, mitt romney. when i started weight watchers i wasn't sure what to expect at the meetings.

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to politics now. singer aretha franklin giving president obama a little respect. you remember the flub at the white house women of soul event last thursday. here it was. >> when aretha first told us what r-s-p-e-c-t meant to her. >> so franklin put out a statement, she said, "i'm sure the president had much on his

agenda and was a little tired, however, spelling it and giving it is a huge difference. the president and i are mutual when it comes to respect." on "saturday night live," their version of president obama like you've never seen him before, shirtless and on a horse, taking a page out of vladimir putin's book. take a look. ♪ ♪ obama ♪ obama ♪ obama >> and the guy who lost to president obama has said over and over again he won't run in 2016, so why is mitt romney having a little reunion for his campaign team? well, "the washington post" reports he's gathering top advisers for a ski weekend. fun times. another romney reunion this past weekend, paul ryan tweeted out

the photo of the two families who could have been first families if things in 2012 had worked out differently. that's going to wrap up this hour of "jansing and co." i'm chris jansing. coming up next on "news nation," tamron hall talks to former ntsb investigator greg fief about the malaysian airlines investigation. [ male announcer ] it's simple physics... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. celebrexs prov to improve plusdailphic fctl studies,

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thailand to the south china sea. in fact, this video just came in of a navy chopper taking off to aid in the search. we spoke with a commander involved in the effort. >> you have to take into account wind and current and sea state and as each hour passes, that area grows bigger. so right now it is a very large search area. i estimate could easily be hundreds of square miles. >> it's been more than two days since the flight disappeared with 239 people onboard as it traveled from kuala lumpur to beijing. the aircraft was traveling about 500 miles per hour when radar indicates it may have tried to turn around, adding to the mystery, two passengers onboard the plane authorities say were traveling with stolen passports. officials are not ruling out the possibility the plane may have been hijacked. meanwhile, family members of the passengers onboard,