>> with his character and what we knew of him, it just wouldn't make any sense. >> victory lap, after the first round of sanctions by the u.s. and european union, russia's president putin stands defiant today. joe biden arrived in poland telling the newest nato members, we've got your back. >> we joined poland in international community in condemning the continuing assault on ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity and the blatant, blatant violation of international law by mr. putin in russia. honors delayed, two dozen battlefield heroes will receive the medal of honor today. a past due recognition decades late. >> to be honored in such a fashion, i just still can't comprehend it. i can't. not yet, anyhow.

good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. the mystery continues into the missing malaysian jetliners and officials tell nbc the plane's diverted path was programmed by computers in the cockpit. there's more confusion today. as officials say the communications system didn't shut down before the co-pilot's last radio call. tom costello has an updated overview of the time line. >> flight 370 leaves kuala lumpur at 12:31 a.m. at 1:07 the last ought mated acars data transmission. next transmission never comes. at 1:19 a.m. the co-pilot radios already, good night as air traffic controllers hand him

over to vietnam controllers. someone in the cockpit turns off the transponders and the plane turns around. at 2:15 a.m., the last military radar contact of the all that's left are six pings being transmitted along two very long arcs to the north and south, the last one at 8:11 a.m. >> tom costello joins me along with michael gold farb here with me. that time line only confirms there was so much we don't know and those two arcs indicate the broad area, not flight path. so the amount of territory that is now being searched is enormous. and some of these countries are budget conscious and beginning to scale back the search. >> including the united states which may not be doing it for budget reasons because the uss kidd was in the bay of ben gal and there's no reason to believe

the plane is up there. they are scaling back. we've got only two planes, p3 and p 8. you talked about the arcs. these arcs are not necessarily flight zones. in fact, what this is are somewhere along these arcs to the north and south, they believe they picked up a ping or six pings in total from this plane. but they can't determine is it in the northern arc or southern arc. guess what, this total amount of acreage here involving these two arcs is 2.2 million square miles. 2.2 million square miles. just down here in this area about 1500 miles south west of perth australia, the search zone is about the size we're told of maine. it is a massive search zone right here. they've now broken up these two quadrants if you will, these two lines into seven quadrants each and each quadrant is 160,000

square nautical miles. it means it's highly unlikely they'll pinpoint the location of this plane in any short order. you have this continuing effort now to shift the focus down towards the southern indian ocean. why? because so far all of the countries to the north with one exception, have said they don't believe that this plane crossed over its territorial borders and it was not picked up on radar. however, in the last few hours, the thais believe it may have been picked up on one of their radars, probably early saturday morning. as to why they didn't report it until now. nobody asked us for specific information. nonetheless, this would make sense. keep in mind the thailand borders malaysia, so it is possible, of course, that this malaysian flight hit a thai radar installation very close to

the malaysian border as it was departing. but we're still trying to unravel a mystery more than 11 days into this flight and the focus is on the cockpit crew as you mentioned because it did take expertise to turn the plane around. did they turn it around because there was an on-board emergency and they needed to get back to malaysia. we don't know the answers to any of those questions. >> it did seem, michael goldfarb, they made this decision that the turn took place right at the point they were leaving malaysian air traffic control and entering vietnamese air traffic control. they say good-bye to malaysian, don't know they connected or changed over to the vietnamese silen silent, perhaps because they were switching over. >> first of all, i think of world is flum exed by this, with everything that we're -- >> we like answers. >> we're exposing old

infrastructure from the 80s and 90s so we don't have the assets available. >> the plane is new. >> the plane's cockpit with the flight management systems is more modern than what we have, pilots can't use half of the technology they have. here's what we know. takeoff, disappears at the point in time and three sources now saying the malaysian radar, the satellite and now the thais weighing in 11 days later for whatever reason, indicates that we know that plane has made that turn. but beyond that, we have no idea a, where it is or why it occurred. >> we should point out also that experienced pilots have told us that that turn would be a normal 20 degree bank. it's not a sharp turn as it's been graphiced on the maps. >> i believe the "new york times" had a -- >> you had no ground sense, it's dark outside, over the ocean, might be asleep. you don't even recognize -- >> pilots put that into the flight management system.

it was a 20 degree turn and controlled turn. we don't know if they were at that point in responding to a loss of their a cars reporting system or transponder, was there an electrical fire or we just don't know. >> one question that comes to mind, tom costello, how slow the malaysians are to have searched the pilots homes and still to my knowledge, at least, correct me if i'm wrong, they have not permitted the fbi to come in and enter the case. the fbi, which is the most experienced intelligence agency globally at taking old laptops and deprogramming them and finding things that other people can't find. why is malaysia being so resistant? is this national pride? at not involving the americans. >> the fbi has been involved in some -- looking and scrubbing in the passenger list as it were. i think you also have a situation here where the

malaysians as any country would, they value their own territorial and national integrity and don't want to hand over key pieces of an investigation to another country. keep in mind there are only about three or four americans on board this plane. this is amalaysian plane, only a small number of americans on board and there are cultural sensitivities here. let me also say, we have been struggling with the inconsistencies and contradictions over the past two weeks or say saying one thing then the next day they kind of backtrack. i have seen some reporting that suggesting the malaysian were in the pilot and co-pilots homes relatively quickly. others saying they waited a week -- >> we did see keir simmons and his team were out front when they took the computers. >> that's right. >> and that was only a day or two ago. >> that's right but we don't know if that was the first visit. and we've been led to believe maybe they were there earlier.

this has been if you're frustrated, we're all frustrated in trying to get straight answers but clearly they did not take the flight simulator until sunday. the other thing we're struggling with -- it may have been saturday. the other thing we're struggling with, there's nothing that we have seen so far in either the background of the pilot or co-pilot that suggests in any way that they were -- that there was anything suspect there. both of these two individuals seem to have very good clean backgrounds, family people, co-pilot was about to get married to another pilot, a captain with another airline, a woman. the captain himself was a father and grandfather and had kids who had gone to school in australia and the like. this is really hard to try to pin down. >> and finally, michael goldfarb, have you ever been involved in your days at the faa in decisions about ending a search? >> no. they never end the search. here's why. boeing and faa regulators must

find out what happened to that plane because we need to learn from it. we've learned several things already. we learned a billion people don't get passports verified through interpol and all cockpit doors are not checked around the country. >> but active search -- >> it will change as it was with air france. two years later they were able to pull out the black box and the plane. we have to know -- >> they have wreckage within five days. >> acars that's right. >> and pretty good idea of where the plane was generally. in this case we have no idea. >> and tom, we may never know that. and that's the tragedy, double tragedy on top of losing this aircraft, never understanding what the cause might be. all of this is speculation and the problem with the malaysian authorities and beating up on them a lot andrea, they got caught off guard and have a military culture and political culture and engineers within the organization don't necessarily get to make decisions so we're having ram pant speculation and not a lot of facts.

>> good point. thank you so much. michael gold farb tom costello. thank you. >> joe biden is in war saw today condemning russia and putin for what biden called a land grab. the former annexation of crimea. russia will see additional sanctions if it continues down the current path but putin is hardly backing down. joining me now from moscow is jim maceda. putin's show of force and strength today was really apparent, first in the kremlin itself and then red square, to the multitudes. instead of backing down, he's doubling down. jim? >> reporter: that's right, andrea, he is definitely doubling down and it was a vintage vladimir putin performance, full of sound and fury and fanfare and history, all by the way from putin's point of view which many

officials in the west which biden would called flawed and deep in the cold war and in any case great nflourish, he explained it's 60 years as a ukrainian territory and it was time for crimea to be unified with russia again because that's what the people's will was. at his most emotional putin tore into the west for cheating, betraying russia over the years, allowing nato to expand to russia's very borders and acting irresponsibly, and ukraine by allowing those ultranationalists and anti-semits to take power in a coup with no regard at all for the interest of millions of russians who live there. he went on to address americans directly and asked if freedom is your deepest wish, what about the free will of crimeans? don't the crimeans also have

that same value? also explaining the military intervention. he did admit russian troops from the black sea fleet already in crimea were used but that those numbers never exceeded the 25,000 limit established by international law. and andrea, this is important, he spoke to ukrainians calling them brothers, telling them not to believe those people who are saying that russia wants to take other parts of ukraine. he said russia wants a strong ukraine. but in a very thinly veiled threat, he also said that kiev must show it protects the rights and protects the rights of russians implying at least that he'll have to do that if they don't. andrea? >> there was also very sarcastic tweets that you were pointing out to us earlier from the deputy prime minister, rogozin, first he tweeted with a bear and vodka and ak-47, we're waiting for sanctions with a sort of

smiley face. >> reporter: that's right. >> after the sanctions were issued by president obama, comrade barack obama, what should do those who have neither accounts nor property abroad or you didn't think about it? so a sarcastic dismissive attitude towards the sanctions. the sanctions so far were the very first early stage sanctions and if russia does formally annex as putin indicated today and they will follow through on friday. he's already preapproved much tougher sanctions against the elites and that's where it could get more difficult for putin and rogogzin and others. >> he mentioned sanctions in his speech today and interesting, andrea, he framed international sanctions as another external threat to the russian people. one that they had to rise up

against and unite against. he even called the slapping of the eu and us sanctions, he called it a fifth column effort to weaken russia but that russia for its part was strong and determined. and that it also wanted only good neighborly relations with everyone else. again, andrea, vintage putin there. there's no real concern about sanctions generally speaking. most of the analysts we have spoken to about sanctions say that russia, putin is -- there's a flexibility there. they can -- they are a developing nation so they can shift their business to china, to india, to asia in general, whereas there are some 5,000 small and medium businesses european businesses in russia. so the question is, will europe really have the stomach to go the long haul in terms of a war of sanctions, back to you. >> jim, we should point out also, the president announced today another what some would

call slap on the wrist. called for a g-7 meeting on the sidelines of the summit including russia. i don't think russia will be very upset about being excluded from a g-7 meeting. thank you very much. jim maceda, very busy day in moscow indeed. here at home, general motors is shifting into damage control once again as the nation's largest automaker makes its second wide ranging recall this year. this time more than 1.5 vehicles have been recalled, including buick enclaves and akad yas, chevy traverses and saturn outlooks. those vehicles may have defective side air bags and knewer cadillac xts brake pump issues. the automaker is facing that criminal investigation and congressional hearings next month into an earlier recall of 1.6 million other cars for an

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we condemn russia's moves to formally annex the crimean region of ukraine. such action is a threat to international peace and security and it is against international law. we would not recognize this attempted an nexation. as we have said, there are costs for such action along with -- >> well, today president obama is calling for a meeting with seven members of the g-8 next week on the sidelines of a conference in the netherlands.

you saw jay carney condemning with putin did today in moscow, not invited to the g-7 meeting next week is russia. not as though putin would really care. joining me now is msnbc contributor and former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfall. where do we stand today. putin has signed the papers and there's no backing him out of crimea. do you think that anything that the u.s. has said so far will deter putin if he was going to move further into eastern ukraine? >> no, not so far. i fully expect there will be additional individuals added to those executive orders as a result of the decision to annex crimea today. my hope is that it goes much farther than what we saw yesterday. but then secondly, i thought putin gave a very mixed message

about eastern ukraine. because on the one hand he said he want a strong ukraine and on the other hand reminded the government in kiev that they have to protect russians. and what i fear is if there is violence in eastern ukraine and who knows who might start it, that that could lead to unintended consequences that could compel putin to move there. that is the next drama i think moving forward for the coming weeks and months. >> what about president obama and what he should do? should he announce more sanctions off the top? should he have agreed to ukraine's request for defensive weapons? >> most certainly -- you just heard jay carney just said two minutes ago, right, that there will be costs. they have to exact those costs now. there's no question. and it's not because exacting, putting a longer list of people on the sanctions list is going to compel putin to leave crimea.

that's not going to happen. but over months and i would say over years, there needs to be a debate in russia about the cost of being isolated from the west, the cost of not being able to do business in the west and travel in the west. that's why forceful action literally in the next days or so, i think sends a very important signal inside russia. >> he does not seem to be -- putin, does not seem to be taking this very seriously, these threats. he seems to be saying that europe will suffer in small businesses in russia, small european businesses in russia will suffer more than the russians will suffer. is that just bluster? >> president putin is very dug in. this speech today was really over the top and in my opinion really ends the post cold war era. this is a period that started in the early years of gorbachev and it's now over.

this is a different world. he's seeing everything in zero sum terms and the west, united states is clearly his enemy. what about the people around him? what about the people that make literally billions of dollars because of trade with europe and trade outside of russia? those people might have different interests and might behave differently if they appear on a sanctions list. and that's the debate that i think needs to be joined inside russia. i want to be clear. it's not going to change putin's cal cue lus in the short term but may change attitudes about putinism in the long term. >> what about the american companies? you were on rachel maddow's show last night, have big deals in russia, must be saying to the white house and administration, whoa, don't go as far as you did

with iran, for instance and impose those nuclear sanctions if you could use that term, the banking sanctions that stops russia from banking anywhere in the world. >> that's right. i'm sure that's exactly the debate in the white house today. and all of those companies and i know all of those companies well, are making exactly those arguments, that the world economy is too fragile right now to get into this escalate tri war with russia. and there's no question in my mind that decision makers in the white house and the rest of the u.s. government are weighing the pluses and minuses of comprehensive action versus limited action. >> michael mcfaul, thank you very much for being with us today. >> thanks for having me. the state department has taken action against syria, adding them to end all con slar offices because of the atrocities in the syrian war

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that number has shot upward of late. it had diminished in the last decade or so. but i do tend to think that as regards russia, crimea, ukraine, it is i think viewed as a back of the mind issue for most americans, particularly as there remains worries about the economy, jobs, that continues i think to dominate the main front burner concerns that people have. this is definitely a back burner issue still i think at the moment. >> what about all of the republicans like john mccain and others who say this shows that the president is weak, leading from behind. is there anything diplomat iicay he could do that he's not doing? >> it's hard to see what president obama could do from here that would have any strategic influence on putin's decision whether or not to go ahead with the annexation, short of a military move which there's

absolutely no appetite here, not only here but not even in europe where there is very much a front burner issue. they are weirded out about the idea that russia may be making moves around back into some of its former soviet territory. but even they are not calling for anything like an invasion. >> chris cillizza, in defense of the president, let me say forsake of argument here, he was elected to end two wars. that's his argument, clearly he defeated hillary clinton partly because of his position against the iraq war. there is no ap tide here for doing anything, nobody wants to see the u.s. going against russia? >> you and anne make the exact right point. if you look at the last decade or so in public polling you've seen a steep decline of people

who thought the iraq war was worth fighting and a general trend -- there was a pugh poll conducted last year, a majority of people agreed that america should not vofl itself in the vast majority of conflicts and let countries do the best they can on their own. that's a majority of the country agreeing with that sentiment. so the president politically speaking, i leave the diplomacy angle to you guys. politically speaking, there's absolutely no desire for him to do anything more, sanctions, fine. if you look at the data, anything beyond sanctions, people do not want. >> there is a different perspective in warsaw and other countries joe biden is visiting today and tomorrow than there is in germany and the rest of the europe, the europe that is very involved economically with russia. >> yes, i mean they are closer to it, right? and biden was preaching to the choir today when he said that in poland, that what russia did is

nothing short of a land grab. that is very much the prevailing sentiment there, i haven't seen polling but that's definitely what the leaders are saying and that's what biden was there to do, is to say, we see it the same way you do. we don't -- give any legitimacy whatsoever to what russia did, our tools to combat it may be relatively ineffective and wouldn't say that out loud. i'm here to show that the united states will stand with you and that we care about this as much as you do. >> the future of nato is really on the line. >> right, talking to nato nations or countries that want to join nato very much over russian opposition, ukraine is the first in that line. >> anne gearan thank you very much and chris cillizza, thanks to you. in seattle, two people were killed and third injured when a news helicopter crashed near the space needle. it crashed into three vehicles and burst into flames. it was shared by seattle

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rollout and missteps and when they talk to people from the white house who come up to the hill, they feel they are being outspent and $40 million by republican outside groups compared to $17 million for democratic outside groups. democrats are very scared. >> no, democrats are not very scared. look at health care reform. it was just reported yesterday by the department of health and human services, 5 million people have signed up for a plan under the affordable care act. and again, the contrast going into november will be republicans who want to go back to the broken health care system and take -- they want to force seniors like the ones i've been online behind in the drug store in my district when five to six prescriptions, before affordable care, two or three get left behind because they can't afford to take them home. what we're focused on is getting our voters turned out and expanding the vote and going into our fourth generation of

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. malaysian authorities looking at the pilots and passengers say there's no one else besides the pilots who could have flown that plane. the pilot's family has put out this tribute, to a man who was loved by many, including his neighbor. >> the speculation of pilot suicide or hijacking, i can't imagine with his character and what we knew of him, just wouldn't make any sense he would have anything to do with any sort of deliberate action on his

part. he was, you know, bright, intelligent, inquisitive. you know, forward thinking. he was a real -- very positive. in everything he did, he was so positive and just infect shouse laugh. great guy. >> there's no way to get to the bottom of this, you were two upstanding citizens as described by friends and relatives and pilot and co-pilot and malaysian authorities say somebody counter manded and reprogrammed that flight path. >> reporter: that's right, andrea, the mystery deepens every day here really. and what investigators will be needing to ask themselves are some pretty basic questions.

you notice they took the flight simulator from the pilot's house. they'll try to look at that to see what evidence might be on there on what he might have been doing with the flight simulator and talk to friends an family to see what kind of psychological state they may have been in the run-up, the days before the incident. whether there was any kind of motivation that might explain an involvement in what happened to flight 370. yet, at the same time, as you say, friends are saying this doesn't make sense. we have been looking at the background of the pilot and co-pilot in the last few days. today we were at the pilot's house except you can't get close to that. he lives in an upscale residential area guarded by security guards. we believe he also has two homes, three children, a grandchild, friends say this is a guy who had no reason to do

something like this. the same with the co-pilot saying he has a girlfriend, possibly fiancee and that et cetera a happy guy and that he just wouldn't do something like this. the same star story from them too. the extraordinary i guess, after all of this time and conversations we've been having and investigation that's been going on, we still don't know where the plane is, who was flying it exactly or why they were flying it in the way it appears it to have been flown. >> keir simmons, thank you very much. setting the record straight, two dozen soldiers are going to receive the medal of honor today, decades after their courageous acts. those little things still get you. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment is right. cialis is also the only daily ed tablet approved to treat symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines,

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in july, of course i was very glad to hear about it and here i am and i'll be glad to receive the medal of honor. it means quite a bit to me. >> and the president will be awarding that. that was sergeant erevia on this program last month. he and 23 others will receive the highest honor for military honor years late, decades late. jack jacobs joins me now. this was congressionally mandated in part to redress discrimination in the past where those who really deserved to be awarded the medal or considered for the medal were not because of race or ethnicity. >> yeah, there have been -- this isn't the first time. there have been several others before that that were mandated. i remember some years ago there was a mandated review after which a substantial number of

japanese-american troops, members of the 442nd combat team most decorated unit, received medals of honor and there have been other reviews of the record down through the years most notably in 1918. from time to time, it's worth while to look at the record. >> and was it the case in your experience here you were a jewish american in vietnam war. in the past years were there others discriminated against because of being hispanic or african-american who did not get reported up by their commanders for these honors. >> not that i know of. not that in my units in any case. i know of other circumstances in which there was discrimination. i think it's interesting to note the observation. i think it was bob kerry, medal of honor recipient in vietnam, lost his leg, he was a s.e.a.l. someone asked what does it take to receive a medal of honor.

he says, you have to do something, people have to see it and be able to write and they can't hate you. we think about all of those people, men and women who served honorably val yently in war and nobody saw it or people saw it and they themselves were killed or they wrote it and the recommendations were accidentally or on purpose lost. we realize that everybody who receives any kind of decoration for combat valor should realize that he wears it not for himself but for all of those who can't. >> and the emotions of the families, survivors who are accepting these -- this medal post humously as well as the three service members who were still alive at vietnam who will be at the ceremony. it's really hard to manage what that must feel like to receive that honor on behalf of all of your fallen brothers. >> yeah, you know, your memory gets better as time goes on. these people were -- they were

young kids back in the war when they served. majority of them either didn't survive. there are only three alive here and interesting and sometimes frustrating thing is that some of them were still alive after their action, were not killed in action but died a few years ago. so the ceremony is going to be a bittersweet one, i think. >> thank you for your service and always for being our colleague. >> my great pleasure. >> thanks for having me on. >> and be sure to stay with us here on msnbc as we'll bring you the entire medal of honor ceremony from the white house beginning at 3:40 p.m. eastern time. remarkable moment for 24 deserving servicemen and their families. and that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow the show on facebook and twitter at mitchell reports and ronan far row has a look at what's next on "ronan farrow dail

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