baffled. >> we just don't have any precedent for a 777 plane, any major airliner going missing for now three days without any sign of it whatsoever. today new questions about those two passengers traveling with stolen passports as family members of the 239 passengers and crew on board, including american phillip wood, are left to mourn with very few answers. >> not knowing what's going on is, you know, not just for us but you see everybody else and kind of in that panic and frustration. >> relentless, russia's president putin tightens his grip over crimea over the referendum to break away from ukraine. talks over the weekend with germany's angela merkel go nowhere with putin as tensions escalate on the ground and violent clashes. ukraine's new leader will be

visiting the white house this week and speaking at the u.n. as the clock ticks. >> if there is a referendum and it votes to move crimea out of ukraine and to russia, we won't recognize it and most of the world won't either. the headliner edward snowden is to be the main attraction this hour, making his first live video appearance at south by southwest festival and he is hinting at more leaks to come. good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. that intensive international search continuing at this hour for any sign of the missing malaysia airlines plane that vanish the three days ago. it lost contact with ground control early saturday morning malaysia time.

a massive search effort over the waters south of vietnam yielded no evidence of wreckage or debris despite several false alarms. families of the 239 on board are waiting for information. joining me now is nbc's foreign correspondent keir simmons and tom costello from washington. tom, bring us up to date on the false alarms and what you know. >> much of the evidence that we thought we were getting over the weekend, my point as to where the plane is has turned out to be false. the fuel slick spotted by the ve vietnamese came from a ship of some sort. the debris over the weekend was nothing from a plane either. there's the fuel spill there that comes from a ship. all of this is now yet again putting us back at point zero and that is that they have no idea where this plane went of the the malaysia military said

the plane started to bank or turn around according to military radar. if that's true, where did it end up? because it is clearly at this point not in the water. the search zone off of the south china sea and gulf of thailand, although there's new reports of debris closer to saigon. ships are en route to that location to inspect it. all of the reports of debris have proven to be false. if the plane did a bank, making a turn, a theory could be back over malaysian territory or even beyond before the plane finally crashed. we have no idea where this plane is at this point. we do know there's no nj locater transmitter signal to this point. you would expect in the plane crashed on land. we have no pinger coming from the black boxes if they were under water. however, you generally are only going to hear a pinger by sonar and that's cause -- you'll pick it up if you're on a naval ship

or submarine. thus far we don't have either of those to work off of. they are now doing this very elaborate set of mathematical calculations to figure out if the plane turn a turn, can we x extrapolate where it might have been headed? they are operating under the theory that the crew may have been incapacitated because of a sudden decompression which would have left everybody in the cockpit and fuselage in theory without oxygen in very short order and unable to make any decisions. now, by comparison, you know, you're thinking when did that ever happen. payne stewart's plane, they lost pressure at the very high altitude, 35,000 feet and all n incapacitated and the plane flew on for several hours before it finally crashed. at this point we have nothing but a set of high poj thes ease

to work off of. >> they might have had a couple of seconds to try to reach somebody, six seconds if they lost oxygen but it had not been a catastrophic explosion or something of that nature. the other thing that is so confusing is to a lot of us, we always thought that planes were on radar. but now we learned from your reporting over the weekend and other facts, over these large xpanss of ocean, planes are not in touch. >> that's right. this is part of the world where there is not great radar coverage. not only would you necessarily not have it over the gulf of thailand or the south china sea, you wouldn't necessarily even have it over wide bodies of land if that land is generally unpopulated. this is rude meant tri radar. as to the first point, where didn't get they get a may daul off. the first rule is you afiate and navigate then communicate. so communicating with the tower

would be the last priority if they are simply trying to stabilize the ship. again, we're talking about nothing about conjecture because they have nothing else to go on. i can assure you at the highest levels of the malaysian military and search and rescue effort, they are high poj they sizing and expanding the search zone not just over water but over the land as well. >> one other question about the pinging, if it is in the ocean, how long does that equipment survive salt water? >> supposed to last for 30 days. it's mandated to last for 30 days. you may recall in the air france 477. it was going off longer than that. french navy was able to get a read on the debris based on the pinger, if i'm not mistaken. the battery maybe good in 30 days, but they last for 60, 80,

90, 100 days, depends on the batteries. >> tom costello thanks so much. >> keir simmons, this is a horror for everyone connected with this terrible tragedy. >> reporter: that's right, andrea and there are still families here at the airport who are waiting for news as they have been ever since the plane disappeared. and in this very room, this is where they have been giving their briefings, piling it full of journalists, packed in here to try to get news. they understand the principle, andrea, in circumstances like this, malaysian officials and airline, that in circumstances like this you need to be honest and open and give the world as much information as possible. the truth is every four hours they've come in here and had to say we just don't know. we simply do not know what caused this and had to come in and rule out sightings that seemed like they had potential, debris that was seen, a life

raft that was seen, potentially oil slick off the coast of vietnam. they went and tested that. that turned out not to be connected to the aircraft. the thing is to remember, of course, for us journalists here, that's a difficult thing because there's less to report, i suppose. but for the families, they as you point out, are left waiting and hoping for news. this is still -- they made clear here a search and rescue operation but surely with every hour, every day that goes by, it gets more difficult. >> keir simmons, thank you so much from the terrible scene. we wait for families with more on pt missing malaysia airlines plane and what u.s. intelligence might be doing at this hour. founding manager of beacon strategies and. we know what's going on behind the scenes.

intelligence officials don't know, haven't seen chatter we're told but they are beginning to pull strings and there are a couple of suspicious activities that could be dispositive or not. you've had two stolen passports among two of the passengers. we have a statement here from ron nobel at interpol, complaining bitterly about the lack of clearance saying this is a situation we hoped never to see for years interpol why should countries wait for strategy. and ron nobel, former u.s. treasury official has been saying for years that all of these airports, especially malaysia -- let's talk about malaysia and history there. we know now from reporting in today's financial times, that these two passengers had originally been booked through thailand with an iranian connection, iranian gentlemen who was doing the booking for

this thai travel agent. where were they headed? they were headed to europe? >> a couple of things are suspicious. we can't rule anything in or out because we have no bodies or black box or beacons or wreckage. we can't exclude foul play. here's where investigators are looking at. ckuala lumpur has been a point for terrorists, two of the hijackers were there -- >> 9/11 hijackers. >> and made their way to california. these two passengers who rode the plane on the stolen passports were actually heading to europe. they were initially booked to go to amsterdam. they are booking agent, a man according to the financial times, mr. ali, an iranian individual in thailand, went and purchased the tickets and setd my clients want to go the cheapest route to europe. at first they were booked through the middle east -- >> they were going via amsterdam

and frankfurt, both involved before -- >> according to the report in the "financial times" their effort was to get to western europe and many of the terrorist plots we have been tracking over last decade from targeted western europe and the united states. so first the booking agent says i want to get them to europe. tell me the cheapest way to get to europe. it so happens it went through beijing, south china airlines which was co-chaired with malaysian airlines. first question, were they trying to go to china or actually trying to go to europe. if this was a case they were trying to go to europe, it looks a little different. second is, were there any connections from those passengers based on the information we're going to learn about them to any known terrorist that we have. we don't actually see their names yet. we have biometric information. videotape surveillance of what they look like. >> intelligence officials

probably at this hour out at the national counterterrorism center in northern virnginia virnlg ar scouring data bases to look to see whether any individuals have any known connections to terrorist organizations. it's completely speculative at this point but we can't exclude anything. >> we should say two stolen passports, a little suspicious but stolen passports are used routinely by sex traffickers and other criminals in that part of the world as well as elsewhere. at the same time, there is no excuse for a stolen passport that was stolen two years ago, there's no excuse for the malaysian airport authorities for not having the name and the number of that passport and blocking entry to an aircraft. >> that's right, what the system should accomplish if it works, once you report the passport stolen it goes into a centralized data base that interpol and other agencies maintain. they push that information out

to airline and transportation security officials. what should have happened is when they checked in or bought the ticket with those stolen passport numbers, that should have said off a red flag in the malaysian system that should have said these passports are stolen. let's look out for these guys or don't let them on board. that system totally broke down here. where the breakdown occurred we're not sure but that will be part of the investigation. >> one of the reasons why intelligence analysts said this may not be so suspicious if beijing was the destination because there's been no experience that we know of beijing being targeted by terrorists in this fashion. they had their own domestic disputes and disputes with leakers recently. but if this was really a transit point to western europe that creates a higher level of concern, we should also point out that back in 1995, 1996 there was the plot through malaysia, 11 airlines that were supposed to be targeted. that was a plot broken up.

>> as you recall in the 1990s, khal khalid sheikh mohammed conducted a plot to put bombs on 11 airliners and originate in asia and make transit stops in very asian cities, toul, tokyo, and manila then fly to the united states where bombs would be detonated. that plot was disrupted. we have no indication at this point that this flight has in he connection to those types of plots. it's been worth mentioning that we've been tracking such plots emanating out of asia for a long time. >> a long time indeed, about 20 years. >> 20 years. >> most of those plots averted. again, we don't know what happened in this case. thank you, jeremy bash, as always. a very difficult day at the oscar pistorius murder trial today. a distraught pistorius became

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russia's foreign ministry today denounced what it calls lawlessness in eastern ukraine and that could be a troubling sign that putin is trying to create a false perfect text to advance farther into ukraine. joining me now is jon huntsman, former ambassador to china and now at brookings. it's great to see you again. >> good to see you.

>> let's talk about what vladimir putin is up to. angela merkel spoke with him yesterday, so did david cameron. and he is absolutely not budging on his determination that crimea is entitled to its referendum and it is a legal referendum and now there seem to be hints they might move farther. >> he doesn't like the way the cold war ended and essentially he's after a you're asian community and he's against our governing system. it isn't an idealogical war like the cold war, the stakes are different but very much economic. this is one area where we can't forget we do have some levers to pull and cards to play. it is also one where we need to be reminded, where are the weak spots for the united states? they are in the relationship with europe. we've had the pivot in asia, the

reset with russia. but we've left in the dust our relationships with europe. where during the cold war we had a real strategy and based on containment and deterrence and those relationships have langished at a time when they are strong. >> we don't seem to be a relationship with putin. we're relying on merkel or someone else to mediate but so far the president of the united states and vladimir putin spoken for two and a half hours by admission of both counts, two main conversations in the last week alone. and they are as far apart as when they began talking. >> diplomacy and relationships are driven by personalities and people. sometimes chemistry is there and sometimes it's not. but in this particular case, it's less about a personal relationship and more about the coalition you can build against the actions taken by russia. this is where we should be working to build alliances, where we should be working with the leading economies of the world who are no doubt outraged

about what is playing out in ukraine and crimea. >> let me ask about malaysia airlines, you were ambassador in china and know how intelligence and just the whole terror threats in that part of the world. here you've got an airliner disappearing, we don't know what caused it. obviously the intelligence communities are looking but there's been no chatter or hint of anything to indicate a terror plot, but malaysia in the past was an al qaeda strong hold and heading for beijing, possibly now we learned today as a transit point for europe. what would you as ambassador in the field, what would your cia operatives in that part of the world be doing right now? >> first of all they have to track down the clues, the passport discrepancies. but the bigger issues are the fragility of the waterways. let's start with the disputed regions in the east china sea and south china sea. you begin to understand how fragile they are when you've got china and number of claimants

competing over the islands. when you have a catastrophe and search and rescue operations, you realize how important the international common becomes and it should be a reminder to china and everybody in the region, when they have tsunamis and catastrophes like this, heaven forbid they happen again, we need the international water ways open. we need to close the gaps in the airports in asia. i've flown this route and know the route they are talking about. there are real gaps in terms of security at the airports in asia. this, whether terrorist related or not, should be a wake-up call there. and third the united states and china should cooperate more on terror related issues. we presented opportunities to share more in the way of intelligence with respect to certain terrorist groups. they have not worked with us. and this may be a wake-up call for them depending upon who was behind it, what we find at the end of the day.

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>> reporter: one of the biggest rallies over the weekend in kiev, we saw prime minister who of course will be heading to -- this week, ukraine will not cede one centimeter to russia. but arriving here in simferopol, they do this control this place and have occupied it and it's hard to see how this can now be rolled back. certainly putin seems to be in a hurry to establish the fact on the ground to annex crimea presumably making it far more difficult than to roll that back. as you see big rally -- >> as you can see those pictures we have lost our voice contact but we know he has been

reporting on the clashes over the weekend there in crimea, pro and anti-demonstrators charging against people who were pro-ukraine in the crimean capital and as well as sevastopol. for more on the crisis now i'm joined by senator dan coates, former u.s. ambassador to germany. we know angela merkel spoke to putin. what is the relationship oern than economic, there's been some concern merkel is not tough enough because of germany's reliance on russia for so many of the energy supplies? >> i don't think we have to worry about chancellor merkel being tough enough. she speaks russian so she spoke to him six times as i have heard. tougher each time. she's a tough lady.

they do have the issue with oil and gas but, you know, just as important for russia to consequences of a breach in this relationship as well as germany because they need the money from the sale of natural gas. they know we can provide alternative means and norway is pumping more gas into europe than russia is. we have a.m. many supplies here and there are new finds -- we need a lesson -- europe needs to lessen its dependance. i think she has leverage. >> at the same time putin seems to be saying no go, that there's -- every right to have this everreferendum. this is our area, you stay out. he's also basically saying they won't let the monitors in. so far monitors have been turned back. if u.n. monitors can't get in, the only demand from the west is pull your troops back to their bases and let u.n. international

monitors come in and oversee the situation. >> that's a more than reasonable demand. this election thing that putin is trying to pull off is a farce, we know how russians conduct elections if thep don't have monitors they'll get a bogus result on this. we cannot let putin get away with this excuse. we have to keep demanding this be a free and fair situation but it cannot be determined simply by russia saying we're going to let the people have a referendum. the international community does not support that. we need monitors to go in an get the truth in terms of how the situation stacks up. but there needs to be a price paid for bully who is taken over the neighborhood or taken over the playground, whether that's economic sanctions or whether that's a whole range of isolation, mark kirk and i put a resolution together. it should be bipartisan. we want to work with the president. it should be also work with our european allies to sent a strong

message, you trampled the sovereignty of ukraine we're not going to let it go past and be another appeasement. >> i also want to ask about the temporary residents of moscow right now, edward snowden, he is right now speaking live to south by southwest at that conference in austin. and i wanted to play a little bit of what he had to say so far. >> the nsa, this sort of global mass surveillance occurring in all of these countries, not just the us and it's important to remember this is a global issue, they are setting fire to the future of the internet. and the people who are in this room now, you guys are all the firefighters and we need you to help us fix this. >> the audio is a little bit quirky there from his live stream but basically saying that the nsa is setting fire to the internet. that they are setting fire to the future of the internet and

the people in that room at south by southwest are the firefighters. you're take on this? >> well, i mean, we're having a debate right now about the privacy of the american people. i think edward snowden is using i think for whatever purpose, a great exaggeration in terms of any kind of violation. it's a legitimate question about privacy and rs a legitimate question about providing security for america in intercepting these terrorist threats. we need to find that balance. on the other hand the mat jort of the material that edward snowden downloaded goes to our national security, not just listening to somebody here in the united states. there's never been an incident reported on that. that's not the purpose of the program or how it's being administered but the national security and nchings he has to take it to china and russia and then say, this is just something that is going to destroy the internet, is just totally false and totally bogus. edward snowden potentially and

who probably has downloaded a whole bunch of stuff that affects our national security sean close to if not an act of treason in my opinion. >> senator, in his view, his view is that what he took was not national security -- >> that's what edward snowden -- >> nsa says they are military secrets. >> basically saying he disclosed the privacy invasion. isn't that an issue where the government did not tell people what they were doing in terms of the grass -- the mass collection of telephone records data and the white house itself has acknowledge that this needs to be reformed? >> yes, and these reforms are under way and we're looking at these reforms in the intelligence committee. but the breach of this has been exaggerated way beyond what has been done number one. but we do need to assure that the public understands what is being done and why it's being

done and why they are not in jeopardy. the privacy is not in jeopardy. on the other hand what snowden took out goes way beyond this. instead of taking it to inspector general or u.s. congressman or senator, to get us to probe into this more, he takes it to china and russia. our adversaries who have this information now that can be used against us. so what he's saying today doesn't begin to compare with what he has taken and why we do not have answers as to why he took it overseas to the chinese and russians. >> thank you very much, senator coates, we'll have to live it there. to be continued. and we'll continue to monitor snowden's comments as well. stay with us right here. to lead the meeting. 90% confident i'd say the right things. but with 100% odor protection, i had nothing to worry about.

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figures, that is true, but rand paul is much more of a sort of -- i don't want to say a straight libertarian because he's not. a republican with very strong libertarian tendencies to him, he's more a republican than his father. his father was more of a libertarian. ted cruz is more of a sort of strict tea party, let's get the government out of our business, anti-establishment. but on foreign policy, he's not a libertarian in the way that rand or ron paul is. i think what this does is serve to make the point, these are not the same person, they have distinct views. rand paul's potential audience in a primary is different than ted cruz's potential. they are not nonoverlapping but they are different. on foreign policy probably the brightest line of demarkation. >> and mark, after watching them all weekend and watching everyone else at cpac, who emerges in your mind, rand paul winning the straw poll. but who emerges as serious

viable contenders in primaries coming up? >> nobody more than the others. i think without totally challenging the premise of what we're talking about, i think the differences between even those two guys on foreign policy are overstated. case by case rand paul is going to be the nominee for some -- and ted cruz, he's going to have to pay attention to the wing not just the republican party but the part of the country which is tired of extended engagement by the united states, particularly militarily around the world. i think the thing remains completely wide open. we'll have to see who runs, of course. people like rand paul and ted cruz are not the kind of people traditionally to have been nominated. i don't think they will be unless the field lacks a strong republican type of nominee. both of them though are magnets for media coverage, both can talk generally and vaguely about what they believe in and get a lot of attention. i don't think it means much whether they'll be the nominee

or not. let's take a moment, mark, you're reporting about hillary clinton and the steps being taken. these are really tangible steps when we're talking iowa. >> you're using the right word, tangible. political reporters tend to be attracted to sexy tv ads and million dollar donations, what she an organization on her be half. they are revamping their website. they are signing up not just supporters, not just people willing to give e-mail address but volunteers. and i think i'm doing more reporting on this you'll see later in the week, by the end of this year she'll have more volunteers with her than all running the campaign combined. that's not something you can turn on with the flip of the switch. it is a real advantage for her that she'll inher it if she decides to run. >> it seems she's organizing early or the people on her behalf you should say.

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do you have any insight into this case of general sinclair? there seems to be a lot of difficulty and the allegation now the judge is supporting ang inquiry into pentagon interference with the plea deal. >> this is a case, but keep in mind, andrea, this is one of almost 100 cases in the last two years, where prosecutor said, you know, we don't want to take this case to trial. we don't think the evidence is strong enough or we think there's problems with the evidence and commanders have said, no, we want to get to the bottom of this. this is a serious allegation that happened in this unit. and we need to get to the bottom of it and have the evidence come out. this is another example of that. keep in mind, none of those cases would go to trial under the gillibrand proposal. >> that's the proposal by your fellow senators, kirsten gillibrand which would take cases away from military prosecutors. your point is that the commanders themselves have in many instances done the right thing by the victims. >> absolutely.

in fact, there's an honest policy difference over which system would better protect victims. i think a lot of emotional arguments are on senator gillibrand's side. on the other side, there's data and factual evidence that shows that commanders are not the problem in these cases going to court. the problem has been victims weren't getting support they need needed, weren't getting their own lawyer or say whether they stay in the unit or the perpetrator was asked to leave the unit or say as to what system the case would be heard in, civilian or military. we have fixed that laundry list of problems along with a lot of other problems dealing with sexual assault. but remained in a position that the commanders need to be held accountable and therefore we can't let them off the hook in terms of being convening authority. >> i want to share with our viewers a quote from the

"washington post," an interview with you, please tell me if this is not a correct quote, but you were quoted as saying, i'm a tough cookie. but both boxers and gillibrand's arguments stung. i frankly could give a blank if i hurt the commander's feelings when my focus is on the victims i care about as much as she does, even if that acknowledgement is not always re s resip indicated. >> it seems it has caused a little tension in the ranks. >> it's hard. in many ways i may take this more personally than i should. that comes from my careers in the courtroom prosecutor sexual assaults. i would never support anything if i didn't fundamentally believe it would do a better job of protecting victims. that's why i supported the policy i did. that's why i've worked so hard on this -- these sweeping historic changes that are going to make the military the most victim friendly organization in the world. i only wish in civilian system we could have some of the protections from victims that we

have put into the law for victims of sexual assault in the armed services. >> and why do you think there is the friction between you and senator gillibrand? >> i think there is just a policy -- honest policy disagreement here. i think that senator gillibrand believes that all crimes, not just sexual assault, she doesn't believe a commander in afghanistan should even have the authority to convene a court martial against a barracks thief when they are millions of miles from the united states. she wants to take all crimes out of the military and put the unfedored discretion in charge. i believe that would be a mistake in terms of holding commanders accountable and ultimately protecting victims. >> senator mccaskill, thank you very much. i know there's the vote this afternoon. do you expect you have enough for passage? >> i think we might do something we never do around here. i think on this list of reforms,

which is very important, including making sure all of these things apply in our military academies, not justin t justininteractive and taking out the good soldier offense, i believe we'll get 100-0 vote. >> thank you very much. always good talking to you. >> thank you. >> pope francis believes that it's time the catholic church stu study same sex civil unions. the first time he has even suggested a possible acceptance of civil unions and said marriage though was between a man and woman but we have to look at different cases and evaluate them in their variety. yesterday on "meet the press," new york's cardinal timothy dole an explained what he thinks the pope's view of civil unions. >> he didn't come out and say he was for them. in an extraordinarily sincere open way, he said i know that some people in some states have

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