>> we're imposing sanctions on specific individuals responsible for undermining the sovereignty and territorial integrity and government of ukraine. we're making it clear that there are consequences for their actions. >> senator john mccain joins me this hour just back from kiev. a sliver of light, the three american hikers held captive in iran, share full details of their night mamare for the very first time. good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. day 10, the search for flight 370 continues with 26 countries involved in the land and sea effort. as the focus moves to the south, india's military dropped out of the search. among other theories, investigators are focusing on the two pilots and what role they could have played in the plane's disappearance,

willingness or not. joining me now is tom costello who has been covering the investigation. aviation veteran and former pilot captain john cox with us from tampa. first to you, what is the latest? what do we know? >> the latest from the malaysians this morning, they now say they cannot be certain when exactly that auto mated data transmitting system was turned off. they know the last transmission was 1:07 a.m. it is not a continuous stream of information. what they are saying is there's supposed to be another data burst at 20 minutes later and it didn't come. they don't know when it went down and when exactly the last words were spoken bit the co-pilot. he said at 1:19 a.m., thank you, good night, we know to air traffic controllers but did he say that before or after the acars system went down? we know the transponders were turned off a short time later.

a lot of that is inside baseball but goes to who was in command of the air crafts, who was talking to controllers and was the shut down already in progress. let's go to the map. the malaysians also say as they are looking at the possible routes of this particular flight, they are looking at these two satellite arcs. they tell us if the plane were flying at minimum speed to the north, they say that the minimum speed ends in laos in there and maximum speed could put the plane up by the caspian sea. you have a huge arc here. now, if you go to the south, they say if it went a southerly trajectory, the minimum amount of fuel would put it -- minimum amount of speed would put it somewhere east of sumatra, the maximum near australian. right now the australians are moving assets and ships and planes into that portion of the

indian ocean to look for any signs of the plane. so far nothing has materialized. if something does, however, materialize in that area and if the plane is already crashed somewhere there, it could take some time for it to wash ashore presumably to australia. we don't know where the plane is and don't know the plane is crashed. at the moment that seems to be the lead theory. why? because of all these countries up here to the north said there's no indication whatsoever that the plane crossed over on their radar. they don't show radar paths at all up here. that would tell you that the most logical path for this plane is in fact to the south. if it sounds like it's a lot of guesswork, it is. that's all they have to go on based on six pings that came off the satellite and they are now trying to do very advanced trigonometry to figure out when the plane may have been. they don't have much to go on. >> stand by for a second. i want to bring in john cox, our

aviation expert as well joining us from tampa. is it conceivable there were no other satellites over that southern region and no way to triangleate? >> i think the thing to realize, the acars system is looking for a specific network, like a cellular phone network. it is sending out that it's available for data to upload or download, except -- and this is probably one of the most important bits of evidence we have right now, is that the data stream to the acars unit had been shut off. that requires a good bit of knowledge, in depth knowledge of someone of knowing how to do that. so that's probably one of the -- the most important bits of evidence we currently have. >> and that evidence would lead you to either somebody on board who knew this aircraft or the pilot or a co-pilot, either will willingly or under dur res?

>> it would certainly point in that direction. as an accident investigator, you must keep your mind completely open. my mind is open to any of the possibilities, nothing is off the table. but right now the evidence does tend to move us toward a deliberate act by someone with in-depth knowledge of not only boeing 777s and i acars unit in the malaysian airplane. >> i wanted to play a little bit of our interview with the partner of phillip wood, the american on board who was waiting in beijing and telling nbc news she believes somehow they are still alive, not crashed. let's play. >> for first couple of days, all i could do is replay memories and see him and you know, open his closet and smell the

clothes. but i think that's when i was still in this stage of preparing for the worst because i think at the very beginning we all expected there to be a crash. and you know, who can survive and who can't survive is a bit of a crapshoot. to get past that, i don't believe he's dead, it doesn't make sense he's dead, there's no evidence of it. then i could start focusing in on how to help. >> tom, just logistically, geographically, where could they be that they could be recovered? >> most of the experts we talked to who are in aviation, who are in intelligence, who work for the government, say at the moment unfortunately they don't see that scenario. but let's go back to the map.

there are a few islands down here off the coast of australia. and they have air strips. now the australians have already done thorough searches there. they've checked with the air strips and there's no indication that the plane landed there. but these arcs don't allow for a lot of room for deviation. in other words, at this point, based on the satellite pings, they do not believe there's any evidence the plane is over here in africa. they don't even think the plane could have flown that far based on how much fuel it had and what the trajectory was. at the moment, they are on this very limited arc in here and in that arc, there's not a lot of areas where the plane could land in this area in the southern circle. >> and just to make it clear, the black boxes can survive the batteries, john cox, for 30 days, we think? sometimes longer. batteries are a bit of guesswork. it's 19 days and counting and it's a very deep part of the indian ocean. the indian ocean is the third

deepest ocean i believe i heard tom costello reporting yesterday. >> the batteries for the acoustic pingers have a design life of 30 days. they may go a little longer than that. but the -- as far as the survivability of the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, i would expect that to go longer. if you look at air france 447, those boxes were in the water for two and a half years and data replay was absolutely perfect. so the -- these are very rugged devices and in the case of air france 447, were in extremely deep water, something over 15,000 feet. if we find the debris field and i'm still confident that we will, that may well be able to lead us to wreckage. once we find the wreckage, we can get recorders and they'll tell us the tale of malaysian flight 370. >> tom costello, thanks very

much. president obama announcing sanctions on 7 russian officials and key putin advisers whom u.s. officials say helped him implement crimea policy. these are the most extensive sanctions since the end of the cold war and four ukrainian officials also sanctioned. ian williams and from moscow, our nbc's jim maceda, first to you ian in crimea. i know there's a satellite delay. u.s. officials are casting so much doubt not only on the legality of the crimean vote but the technical aspects, the fact in one city, 170% of the known population voted. that said, there's no question that crimea is overwhelmingly choosing to join russia. >> reporter: that's right, i think even if you look at those

figures and think they do seem rather high, almost north korean style vote in favor, it is the case that the population here is overwhelmingly in favor of rejoining russia. and the reaction to threats of sanctions and other pressure from the west has been to have them speed up the process of moving towards joining russia. parliament today was working overtime. they declared themselves an independent autonomous state and then appeared to russia to take them in as part of the russian federation. mps are traveling up to moscow tomorrow to deliver that request. at the same time, they have decided to bring back the ruble to nationalize ukrainian state property and before the end of the month turn the clocks forward to two hours to moscow time. moving rapidly towards rejoining russia and where parliament may

well agree to that anexation before the end of the week, andrea. >> to jim in moscow. the circle around vladimir putin was sanctioned. top officials of the duma, not putin himself we were told on this conference call this morning because it would be very unusual to sanction a head of state but these are the toughest sanctions since the cold war. any sign that when vladimir putin goes in front of the joint session tomorrow he will not proceed with the formal annexation and resist moving further into the ukraine? >> andrea, there's just no signal at all that he'll do anything but annex, at least initiate the first step of a process that could take a couple of weeks. that would lead to annexation. in terms of sanctions bothering him or the other individuals,

there's no doubt that some russian investors are worried about international sanctions, you can already see a flow of billions of dollars that have been pulled out of u.s. and european banks as this has been telegraphed now over the past number of weeks. analysts tell us that putin's decision to reaffirm his control, russian control over what they call here the near abroad, which includes ukraine, that is a policy that putin just seems absolutely willing to gamble on, even if sanctions get to the next level of trade sanctions, financial sanctions, business sanctions, that he seems to be betting that europe, which is of course russia's largest trading partner, will lose the stomach for any kind of protracted war of sanctions. that will eventually hurt europe certainly as much -- he believes more than it will hurt russia. putin does have some weapons,

andrea. especially with europe which is again as europe's main trading partner. there's a new law in place to seize property and russian law to seize eu property of u.s. and eu companies doing business in russia and of course he's got that natural gas weapon. europe gets 30% of its gas from russia and putin controls the tap. one other quick point, putin can frame international sanctions against russia in his kremlin controlled media as another outside attack on the great resurge in russia. russians will do anything to sacrifice for the state and for a strong leader. putin really thinks we believe, according to experts, that he can win this battle. >> we should point out that the ruble is down 3% against the dollar since this started and the russian stock market is down more than 14%. stay tuned. a major setback for u.s. military as one of the highest profile cases of sexual assault

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momentum towards a possible 2016 run with a straw poll win in the republican field and former republican senator could kick his stalled career back into gear in the granite state. not his home state. joining me now, chris cillizza and managing editor of postpolitics.com and "washington post" columnist ruth marcus. chris cillizza let's talk first about rand paul and scott brown. you decide do we start with rand paul? >> yeah. >> he's beginning to really spread his wings here in terms of -- >> let's start with him. >> showing the establishment of the party that he's got some legs, mixed metaphor. >> i'll take it, andrea, i've been writing for a while now but i do think people particularly in washington are underestimating rand paul, dismissing him as sort of a younger version of his father, who we know raised a lot of money and got buzz but didn't win anything. i think there's national polling out that shows him at or close

to the top of the republican field. new hampshire, iowa are two states where his father has built an organization where there's some evidence already that he's building organizations. i think he's a guy who can raise the money. i think on fiscal issues, he's sort of right where the republican party is. on foreign policy and defense issues, that will be his challenge. though, i do think there is a more libertarian strain on those issues than some people may acknowledge at this point. i remember when haley barbour was thinking of republican for president in the last election cycle. he talked about the need to re-evaluate the entitlements abroad. if he's saying those things, they might be picking up there is a desire at least, a part of the republican party to do that and i think rand paul speaks to that piece of the party. >> and ruth marcus, what about scott brown? the new new hampshire resident. >> at least it's next door. i have to say i was a little

amused -- >> same media market. >> by the democratic party, the party of hillary clinton and the new york senate race accusing senator brown as being a carpet bagger. but it's a fascinating state for some of the reasons that chris mentioned before, open primaries, swing both ways in terms of republican senators and democratic senators. and i think that senator brown could be a very, very strong attractive candidate there. i would be pretty nervous if i were senator sha heene. >> we know jean shaheen is nervous, it ties down the democratic committee with one more competitive race when they already have six endangered seats. >> another expensive headache they don't need. >> the boston media market, very

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entrapped. they were arrested and embarked on a two-year ordeal. in their new memoir, they share the details of their plight as they endured isolation and severe depression and unending struggle to be free. sarah shourd and josh bauer join us from new york. i feel as though i know you. we've been so involved and talked previously with sara, of course. tell me about the process of writing this book, you all riwre in the first person. one of the things i didn't know about, what you endured and your depression and also the other iranian prisoner with whom you befriended through the wall who was executed, if you want to talk about that. >> yeah, it's good to be here, andrea. well, i was in solitary confinement the entire time i was in prison, 410 days. my only lifeline was the time i eventually got to spend with

shane and josh after my mental health deteriorated to a point where really the iranian authorities were afraid i would come out permanently damaged. the other lifeline was of course times i could interact with other political prisoners and other women that were there. there were many of them. beautiful encounters but it was one of the most touching and one of the things that affected me the most to this day. she broke prison rules to reach out to me and tell me how much she loved me and how iranian people don't hate americans. and she said no matter what, we'll be friends. i'll always try to find you. they moved her away from me and tried so hard to separate us. a couple of months after my release, she was executed, i believe very unjustly. she was a protester, protesting for human rights in iran. >> shane, if you could talk about the way your love deepened

and the engagement ring you fashioned for her. >> we were together for a few years before we were in prison in iran. we moved to the middle east together, we lived in damascus and sara was writing and teaching iraqi refugees. when we were pulled apart from each other, it, you know, became very clear immediately how important she was to me. and you know, i knew i wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. one day knowing that sara might be freed soon, i decided i was going to propose to her in prison, which wasn't an ideal situation but made a ring out of thread, used what i had and went out to the courtyard one day and proposed to her. >> and josh, can you talk about the ordeal and your interactions with the guards as well the other iranians. >> i wasn't allowed but able to

sneak in some discussion with them. i could talk to them through whispering through the halls, i could give them chocolate through one of the windows i shared with them and learned about the torture they endured. i met a student dissident, al qaeda, all sorts of people from totally different worlds from me and we found ourselves actually with oddly some common ground there in prison thanks to the iranian regime. part -- for me it was the difficulty of being there for so long for 26 months that put me in touch with something that i had never known before, never had anything like that, that what became a bond between me and other prisoners and prisoners around the world really, the rest of them in prison and prisoners in the u.s. and guantanamo bay, people that endure similar situations. i now can feel into them in a

way that i had no idea before. >> that's one of the reasons why since you've been released you've become an advocate for prisoners, if you want to speak to that. >> been able to speak out a little bit and the book hopefully can become something that people can feel into what it's like to be behind bars for people. my co-authors are involved in advocacy. >> do you know why you were taken? have you figured that out? you've had more time since you got out before your -- josh and shane. do you know why you were made examples by the iranians. >> we were very much in the wrong place at the wrong time. particularly in the wrong time. the streets of tehran and other capitals, big cities in iran just exploded with millions of protesters and the government felt threatened. and we were held because we were valuable to the iranian government. they want to look strong and

defiant to the u.s. government but they also -- we knew eventually they would cash us in, sort of like compassion points. and that was the sliver of light for us. the reason we wrote the book and what the book was about, is about freedom, about the horror of losing it and the miracle of getting it back. it's also about all of the people that we had to leave behind, all of the people in iran that didn't make it out like my friend za rar and all of the people in u.s. in solitary confinement for petty offenses. they are being psych logally tortured. there are violent people we put in solitary, but there are better ways. >> our interrogators told us a couple of months into our incarceration, they knew we weren't spies and our situation had become political and it would take negotiations between their government and other government to get us out. and i think we ultimately the iranian government is ultimately responsible for our ordeal.

but i think as a country we have to understand if we deal with countries and the aggressive foreign policy we've oo used with iran in recent years, going to likely be consequences. and unfortunately the three of us were consequences in that situation. >> ironically, as we sit here today talking, iran and u.s. negotiators and others from other countries are sitting down in vienna to have the second round of negotiations to try to negotiate an agreement on the iranian nuclear program which could be adversely impacted by the rising tension with russia as well. shane and josh if you want to chime in on that. >> this is sort of a historic opportunity. we were caught between two countries that have been hostile to each other for decades and i left -- when these things

happen, sometimes i stay -- when the last negotiations were happening, couldn't go to sleep at night. it stays with me. it's personal. it has to be resolved by some sort of effort from the two countries coming together and there's elements in both regimes in the u.s. and in iran that are trying to sabotage it and elements that are trying to come together and find some common ground. that common ground could end this decades long cold war that has put our lives in danger for years and threatened -- ultimately threatens another disaster in the middle east. >> well, shane and josh and sara, it is so good to see all of you and the book is sliver. a sliver of light. we thank you. thank you so much for being with us. it's wonderful to see you free. >> thank you, andrea. >> you bet. >> and we'll have more on the missing malaysian airliner with bob hager next. stay with us here on quts andrea

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welcome back. the size of the massive search area isn't the only daunting aspect of the quest to find flight 370. the batteries on the black boxes and devices are charged to send signals for 19 more days, putting intense pressure on teams across the indian ocean. bob hager spend years covering aviation for nbc. bob, it is so great to see you. >> andrea, my old colleague of so many years. >> yes, so many years here in washington. well, bob, you've seen so many of these searches before. does this compare to anything that you have experienced? >> nothing. i mean, never have we been this many days where what are we ten days out at this point? >> right. >> with no clear answers and just slivers of little clues. that just is unprecedented in modern times. go back to amelia earhart in 1937 for such a case with unanswered questions.

>> and it's -- it does remind one in terms of the way the debris could be spread and search, tell me about the space shuttle columbia and what we experienced with that. >> well, that was a long time in the making but and there was wreckage scattered all over texas and so forth. but at least there you had wreckage you could recover. you had a clear track coming down that nasa tracked it over texas while it was reentering and all. it took a while to put it all together, many months actually to do the whole investigation. but at least they had clues to go on. in this case, you've got a few radar blips and i think the best hope now for the investigation is finding something in the background of one of these pilots or passengers. but the wreckage, i don't know how much -- even if they find it, how much it's going to tell them. >> even if they find some debris eventually, washing ashore, it would be very hard to find the body of the airplane itself. >> they don't know where the

plane came down in relation to where this stuff washed up on the shore. even if they find the black boxes which would be magic if they could find them, in any investigation, that means so much, but in this case, one of the two black boxes would be the cockpit voice recorder that records the conversation in the cockpit. that could be just crucial in this case to tell what went on in the cockpit, did one pilot subdue the other and take over or what? that voice recorder records over itself every two hours. if this plane flew on for another four or five hours after the last communication with it, why that would be recorded over so he wouldn't even have that. >> one thing that has been so puzzling, if there were some involvement by the pilot, the co-pilot because it seemed to be somebody fairly sophisticated, if not a crew member, a passenger who knew something about turning off the equipment, the transpondsers and acars, why would more than 200 passengers

be so quiet? >> you know, in modern cases of hijackings, never mind 9/11, but since then, a plane every other year or so gets hijacked. and most of those, it's been the passengers ever since 9/11, they've learned to watch out. and most cases, some crazy hijacker in the passenger cabin will get up and get something going. and passengers just overwhelm him. that's how most of these things come out lately. in this case we don't know. >> is it possible we'll never know, bob? >> you know, that occurs to me. all of my years as a reporter, i never would say it in any crash because the investigators, the investigation would go on for years and they always get the answers. they've got something to go on and they get to something they were comfortable enough they could be conclusive enough about the finding. we've got so little. unless they find something in the background of the pie plots or plan -- evidence of a plan to

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we'll continue to make clear to russia further monprovoke indication will diminish its place in the world and the international community will continue to stand together to oppose violations of ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity and continue the russian military intervention in ukraine will only deepen russia's diplomatic isolation and exact a greater toll on russian economy. going forward, we can calibrate our response based on whether russia chooses to escalator deescalate the situation. >> president obama imposed sanctions on putin's closest advisers and top officials in ukraine. eight senators have just returned from a weekend trip to kiev, including senator john mccain who joins me now.

thanks very much for being with us. let's talk about the sanctions that were imposed today first. is this going to have any impact, do you think on vladimir putin and his circle and his decisions? >> well, it may have an impact, as far as putin is concerned, sanctions on seven people after he is now. and ukraine in the short term and even moved into part of ukraine where a natural gas facility is that provides gas to crimea, i think vladimir putin must be encouraged by the absolute -- the president said we'll consider other options. he should have said we're going to provide military assistance to ukraine but to not do that after this country has lost a large part of its territory due to russian aggression, i think frankly it's encouraging and it

makes me less optimistic about putin exercising restraint in eastern ukraine. he has it set up and troops and aircraft deployed so if the quote, provocations continue, he could move into eastern ukraine, base he cically with impunity at would be tragic. >> i'm struck by the fact that the white house in the conference call today and in the present statement, didn't mention the gas terminus. they are outside crimea but it's a strategic area. >> it's a critical area because crimea is dependent on outside supplies for both energy and water. that will be the next move you will see. the russians make to control that. and it is obviously a invasion of ukrainian territory outside of crimea.

i don't know when the president and his advicers will wake up to what putin is all about. we've got to start with the fundamental reassessment of our relationship with him. and you know, united states has many, many options that as the strongest and most powerful nation in the world could employ ranging from beefing up nato, to resuming construction of missile defense systems and in the czech republic and poland, to a broad variety of options, but we must commit ourselves to long-term freedom and independence of ukraine and that means including crimea. >> the white house said today these are the toughest sanctions since the end of the cold war, that putin himself was not sanctioned but that others, other cronies could be. but you think that weapons ought

to be approved to support ukraine. you were in kiev this weekend. is that what they want? they want defensive weapons from the united states? >> they want it very badly. their military capabilities have been dramatically eroded over the last several hours under yanukovych and they need capables in which to fight. you could give them anti-air equipment and anti-tank and help up their training, one of the thinks i would do is send the military to kiev and find out how to best assess them. if you are now sitting in lithuania or latvia, where 30% of the population is russian speaking, maldova, not a part of nato and russians are occupying already part of your country, georgia, you would be very nervous today. and this president's response, i

don't know how it could have been weaker besides doing nothing. seven people being sanctioned after aggression has taken place. i can tell you our friends in ukraine are brave and dedicated and they are willing to fight. by the way, there's a small base in crimea of 600 marines, it will be interesting to see what happens in that particular case. overall, they feel to a large degree that we are not giving them the support that they had hoped for. >> vice president biden is going and leaving tonight for poland for the other surrounding countries. what message do you think he should take and is there any way he can give them more hope of more western support? because understandably, the president also has to coordinate with the european union. can't get too far out in front of them and has to only go as far as angela merkel is willing to go. >> interestingly, angela

merkel's statements have been stronger than the president's but also again, america leads. fundamental criticism i've had of this administration for a long time is there lack of desire or understanding of the importance of american leadership. i'm glad the vice president is going. but i also think that the europeans -- it is questionable which calls for a long-term plan and it's going to take a while to help these countries in europe become independent of supplies of russian energy. that will be a major effort that we have to undertake. >> senator john mccain, thank you very much for joining us today. >> thank you, andrea. >> and they were putin's games and on sunday night the sochi winter games officially came to an end with the extinguishing of the flame. many of the paralympic medal

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