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lady and daughters travel to china on the home front, president obama focuses his midterm economic message towards women. >> when michelle and i had our girls, we gave everything we had to try to balance raising a family and chasing careers but i'll be honest, it was harder for her than it was of me. >> the skies are dark and the erial search is over for today. these capture the best most credible leads in the flight for 370. sara joins me from beijing, her partner, philip wood was one of the 239 on the flight. thank you for joining us. i know we have a big satellite delay. we'll work around that. are you satisfied with the way

the malaysian officials have been handling this search, particularly because they waited for several days after knowing about the satellite pings and arguably wasted time on a northern search before moving south. >> well, that's one of the key points of frustration, i think for everybody is that it seems like at least at the beginning of the search effort it was really miss directed. people just started to run in lots of directions instead of stopping and thinking and deciding what the most logical path would be. >> the officials have given you updates. how timely are these updates? >> there's really not official updates, malaysian airlines has given the occasional piece of document out but it's usually something that is several days delayed from what's been in the

press. i'm getting my news directly from my contacts in the media here in beijing. >> are you satisfied with the australian search, the prime minister coming out saying the two pieces of debris and what are the thoughts about these very large pieces that certainly could be part of a wing? >> well, i'm certainly hoping that they are not part of a wing because if they are, then that takes away the hope that the plane is hiding someplace with the survivors alive on it, which what i've held from the beginning. i am glad to have the australians involved. i trust them. i think they will do and disclose what they say they are going to do. and that's a reassuring piece, but i can't believe that that's actually going to be the outcome. >> is the united states doing enough, we have very advanced aircraft now in the search, but do you feel the united states is throwing in enough at this to

help with the very complicated search in one of the most remote parts of the indian ocean and very deep part of the indian ocean. >> it's hard to tell because i don't believe that piece of the search is where the effort should be put. i continue to believe that this is going to be solved through intel through information from whoever would have been motivated to do this. i do believe that there's some greater plan at play here not just a rogue pilot flying a plane for a number of hours then putting it into the water. that just doesn't make any sense to me. >> what makes sense to you? what theory do you think should be pursued? >>. >> well, the intuitive action i had is that the plane has been taken. there's no other explanation for the sequence of events.

once we started learning a little bit about the movement of the plane, so that's the kind of data that the malaysian government should have been disclosing very quickly which they held tightly far too long. who would be doing this and why would they do it? if they are hiding the place someplace on land, why are we not doing any searching on land and there's got to be intel available to us that maybe is being explored but we just haven't seen any of it. maybe we don't know about it on purpose. >> tell me about the officials in beijing, the chinese authorities, what communication do you have from them? how are they handling this? so many of the passengers were chinese. >> yeah, i haven't personally had any communication from any government agency, not the american embassy, not chinese, not malaysian, i'm a little invisible to them here.

but i think in terms of the chinese government and how they are communicating with their own people, i find it to be almost irresponsible. they've taken a deflective best defense as a good offense approach here, blaming malaysia and not giving information to the locals. i've been looking at cctv and china daily as well as looking at international news and it's like it's two different events. this kind of misinformation is just -- it's just indicative of the closed approach that china is taking with its people and stirring up more problem. it's making the issue worse. the clever chinese are looking at the international news and infuriated their own government is hiding information from them. >> it's really extraordinary. tell me about philip wood, your long-time partner. you obviously have a great

adventurous spirit living abroad and trying new things. >> philip is a very special guy. he's also a really private man. and my big fear is that he's going to come through this and be quite angry at how public we've become. but you know, you have to keep the momentum going and keep people's interest in the story, otherwise people stop caring then it can so easily just disappear. >> well, i think that no one would question what you were doing. you're doing the right thing and people care deeply. and through the window that you provide into philip wood, this is very important. thanks for sharing sarah bajc.

thanks for being up at this hour from beijing. >> for the very latest on the search. any details about flight 370, i'm joined by bill neely and tom costel costello. you heard about the lack of information from the officials in beijing to the families but the sense is that the australians are handling this correctly. >> reporter: yes, you could hear the frustration in her voice and of course there's frustration here most of all from the air crews -- five air crews have come back having seen absolutely nothing but there is a sense that the australians are as the prime minister said, toniy abbott, throwing everything they can at it. he went to some way i think to lowering expectations and saying this is just about the most

unacceptable place on earth to carry out a search and saying what was seen on satellite images on sunday and then shown to the world or thursday, could be shipping containers. and it is true that the south indian ocean is a wash with containers that have fallen off ships. he's doing a little job of lower people's expectations. as for the job they are doing, it's very difficult. the malaysian government has been hammered, coming from a great deal of criticism from the way it handled the investigation. the australian government going the other way. it saw these images and processed them and got them out into the public arena as quickly as possible but that has raised hopes here. >> and as you point out, i think the australian prime minister today trying to point out first of all that we don't know at all whether this -- these debris, these two pieces come from the plane but also how difficult with the currents moving so quickly and visibility as poor

it was that it was really a needle in the haystack. >> reporter: yes, one australian aviation expert said today this is just the most challenging location you could find on earth to find two small pieces of debris, if that's what they are, they may already be at least 15 miles apart. the current is strong. the waves can be up to 100 feet. the winds are strong, visibility can be poor. yesterday visibility was terrible. actually today the australian crew that came back said visibility was pretty good. they could see for about six miles. the american crew on board the poseidon , p8, they can go down to 1,000 feet if they see anything on radar that is of interest. you have sophisticated planes and a norwegian cargo vessel

that even tonight it is night time here, has its search lights on in that area. and during the day the crew were out on deck with binoculars trying to locate the ship. you have high tech and low tech and satellites. the extraordinary thing, andrea, about this story, is for all of the skill that mankind has, and all of this technology, we still can't unravel the mystery of this missing plane. >> that's precisely as you point out. that is the mystery. tom costello, we're used to getting answers, even with twa, even as painful as it was when i covered and air france, we got eventually answers and there was some kind of satisfaction we knew pretty much what had happened. this is just so frustrating and i can't even imagine for the families and for people like sarah bajc. >> let's remind the audience why they are focusing in this part of the world.

she wants to keep the hope alive and her hope alive would be the northern track, the plane was taken up and ended up -- >> understandably. >> absolutely, a country that may be hos pitable to enemies of the united states or what have you. the reason they are focusing on the southern track because of the satellite pings that suggested a track to the north and they believe that would put it in the southern hemisphere. in addition to that, the spot they found the satellite photos, it's almost an x on the map of the intersection between where the fuel was expected to run out of the plane and the last ping. it's really extraordinary. if these photos do indeed show debris from the plane, that's an incredible piece of detective work. as bill points out, also entirely possible we're looking at flooting debris in a part of the world that's become the world's junkyard for so much

stuff floating in the ocean down there. the big challenge we talked about these black boxes and pingers that ran out in about 16 or 17 days or so, the battery life. the black boxes will be still good and if they can find those eventually they'll be able to retrieve those hopefully and retreat the data from the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder. you're talking about hundreds of perimeters of data that tell them everything from fuel exhaustion, everything from what were the flaps doing. there's a whole wide variety of information they'll be able to gain access to. >> two quick questions about the search, would submersibles work in this environment given to two three mile depth to get to the ocean floor? why can't we aerially refuel the aircraft to save the time -- they only have two hours of fuel left by the time they fly from

perth then have to return. why can't they be going with substitute crews? >> i know there was a discussion about the refueling tankers. i may defer to bill on that because i believe there was some concern about pilot hours, how long you have pilots in the air over that region. >> i was wondering why you couldn't -- why they couldn't double staff it and have some crew members napping while the others are working? this is the poseidon is basically a boeing 737. >> reporter: that's right. the poseidon will not fly, tomorrow, saturday, because the crew needs rest and also that the plane needs routine maintenance. i mean it has raised some eyebrows here. on the other hand the australian and new zealand orions will fly and japanese and chinese planes may be on the way and three chinese ships. there will be eyes on and the u.s. plane will fly again in 36 to 48 hours.

>> as to submersibles, yeah, they are very good tool. but you've got to have at least an idea where you're looking. you can't put a submersible into what amounts to essentially a 100,000 square mile area. they've been shrinking the area tighter and tighter but the last size i saw, we're talking still in the neighborhood of 20,000 square miles or so. a massive area. they've got to shrink it down much more than that before you ever put a submersible in there. >> bill, thank you for your reporting from perth. appreciate it. very sad news, tragedy in afghanistan, the taliban claiming responsibility for a murderous attack at kabul's hotel. four teenage gunmen made their way through heavy security opening fire on hotel guests and staff. nine people dead including four foreign nationals and the senior

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well, s russian takeover is now official, vladimir putin signed a treaty earlier today finalizing the annexation. ukraine signed its own agreement, a trade pact that reasserts its ties with the west. joining me now in eastern ukraine, nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel. there's a lot of tension there yesterday. i don't know about today, but certainly they were concerned about the massing of russian troops you reported. what is the state of play?

>> reporter: there is still a lot of concern as this country is being pulled in two opposite directions, the formal annexation which has been signed by putin and approved by parliament, adjoining crimea with russia and that agreement you mentioned with the government in kiev, a proamerican government, that is actually looking for weapons from washington signing an association agreement with the eu committing itself to closer political ties and closer economic ties and it's expected that after elections in about two months that those associations with the european union could get even tighter. here in eastern ukraine and southern ukraine, people are worried that they are going to be torn apart as this -- these divisions become even more polarized. russia has troops on the border, about 20,000 russian troops also heavy armor, attack helicopters and there is a concern by the

government in kiev and by some people here that those troops could cross over the border. that would not be an easy thing, however, that would probably involve some sort of military fight. russia would have to cover about 300 kilometers of terrain, go through populated areas and certainly subject itself to even more, far more painful sanctions. so far there are about two dozen people who are very close to vladimir putin who have been sanctioned by europe or washington. and president obama has threatened that the sanctions could become much more painful, targeting specifically the oil and gas sector in russia, the mining sector, and other key elements of the russian economy, which would have a quite a dramatic impact. already we're seeing the russian economy just on those threats and these targeted sanctions starting to warm wobl dropping

over 2%, stock market dropping over 2%. >> the russians were mocking president obama's sanctions, the first group of sanctions and these were more targeted and putin's banker and friends and his lifelong friend and judo partner. it's getting to the cronies but as you point out, it's not yet the big oil and gas sector and mining sector and other banks than the 17th largest bank and putin's bank but he could clearly move his money around. is it enough to deter him or do you think that this next group of sanctions would be the only thing that would actually stop vladimir putin from rolling over ukraine? >> well, so far they have -- the early sanctions and targeted sanctions didn't do anything to deter russia. but we saw today a hint and it could be just a strategy or

gamesmanship from vladimir putin but he effectively called for a truce in sanctions. after yesterday announcing very symbolic sanctions against american officials, members of congress, some of the white house staffers. vladimir putin said today he didn't want to engage in a sanction war with the rest, which could be an indication that he's not interested in escalating this further and seeing those sanctions come into play that target the oil and gas sector which are really russia's lifeline and which by the way is another reason why this country, ukraine is so important to russia. russia -- how does russia survive? why is russia such an economic power house? although recently it's been showing signs of weakness. because of high oil and gas prices and all of those pipe lines that go to europe go through ukraine.

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>> i think it is a bit of a pause. i wouldn't be entirely optimistic to say he is reconsidering, he's regrouping to think what his strategy is going to be next. i've been arguing all along that crimea is his primary goal and i was never sure he wants to go deeper into ukraine or take over east ukraine. he just wants it under the russian influence. and one of the reasons he was so firm on crimea is that he also would like to destabilize the pro-western government. he's trying to decide how to manipulate between his constituents in east ukraine, those who are pro russian, but also make sure that the west unite states and european union

are not cutting him out. >> in fact, there's a lot of wobblyness, europe is not totally strong because they are so much dependent from energy from russia and trade and economic ties with russia, the kind of ties we don't have here in the united states. >> absolutely. i think that's why -- their names are much weaker than the names that the united states decided to sanction because as you mentioned earlier, there's a very, very close people to vladimir putin, high up on pt food chain, one of those who was targeted is very close to vladimir putin and very important billionaire in russia. in fact, interestingly enough is

a finnish citizen and he is on the united states list but not on the european list. i think europe does have to speed up with sanctions if it really wants to have some effect on vladimir putin and really go almost for the throat of the kremlin. >> the economists that was just out today captures what people are thinking about vladimir putin. he has dominated this crisis in a uniquely personal and iconicgraphic way. isn't the cold war -- you know about the cold war and teach that and lived it through your family. i covered the cold war in the reagan years. we don't have missiles against each other, not competing in every country in the world against this soviet clos sos, but there is a new chill and that is seriously disturbing. >> there's a freeze, it's more than a chill now. i don't think it's the cold war

because we don't really have two ideologies, we have one paternalistic power, which is russia and pretty much the rest of the world. i think when vladimir putin decides for him to unite with somebody else, for example, with china, or say with iran then we should think about how the cold war lessons affect our behavior. it's one man who really thinks he walks in the great steps so he can really expand that land to make future greatness. what he doesn't really take into account, that markets -- you cannot order the markets not to shiver and not to go down and that's something today that suddenly the markets are going down that russia -- russian economies is shaking and trembling and that may be something that would really stop

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julie page for the associated press. julie, there at the white house it's very clear that michelle obama and hillary clinton are two very different kinds of first ladies and the contest ha never been more apparent than in the trip to beijing. >> reporter: absolutely, i was struck listening to that clip from hillary clinton, it is not a speech you would expect michelle obama to give in china or anywhere else in the world. that's not to say her chip to china this week is not important. if you remember back to last year, her husband had a summit in california with the president of china. that was all about emphasizing a personal connection with the chinese leadership. this trip is very much a part of that and she's going to be talking to women, to young girls in a different context at schools. it may not have the same kind of impact that the hillary clinton speech had but in her own way she is trying to send a message. >> and what we just saw were pictures of her with the first lady of china, who herself is a

very different kind of first lady. chris cillizza this is important because of recent tensions with china, china versus gentleman fan, over china's declaration of its control over areas, aerial defense zone that japan and the united states clearly disagree with. joe biden was there arguing against it. these are unresolved issues that understandably president obama and president xi will discuss when they meet next week. >> you know that this visit michelle obama is focused on the personal, which makes sense. she is not an overly political person. i think we all knew when hillary clinton was in the white house that she was sort of a political co-partner with her husband, i don't know if she thought they would run and be in the senate but we knew she was in the role. michelle obama not in the role but it is impossible for first lady of the united states to go to china amid everything you

laid out and not have some effect on the personal and policy and political realties there. this is soft power. this is sort of what -- how the u.s. looks to china and the world. this is part and parcel of that. obviously president obama has a big role and vice president biden has a big role. i would not undersem the role that perception and how we are seen that the first lady has influence on, even if the trip is quite clearly not focused on doing political things. >> and never underestimate the diplomatic impact of my shell obama wearing that red dress, which is very much in china red for good luck. it's a sign of respect and sign of the red that the chinese love in the meeting with president xi, we saw those pictures. julie and chris, thank you so much. jimmy fallon thinks the president might be a little

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by relatives they asked a lot of questions but a lot don't feel they got any answers different from what they've been getting for days. and andrea, they were even asked to fill out a form to let the officials know details if they wanted to be contacted urgently if there's any important news. we're two weeks in, pretty stunning that they are only being asked if they want that type of communication. meanwhile, after those terrible scenes with the mother in tears, getting carried away, they've now got police here and barriers up only to prevent only the media from going in to this hotel. they appear to be trying to keep media and families apart. some relatives will want to be away from the journalists but still, in many ways it isn't looking great for the way the malaysian authorities are handling this. they are doing a lot of things to try to help. they are trying they say to give out information, they have counselors here. it just is a really difficult time, andrea.

>> it certainly is. thank you so much to keir simmons in malaysia. the intense aerial search will continue when the sun rises. it is being described as the most inaccessible spot on earth. conditions were better today but will the weather continue to cooperate? >> had really good weather actually, compared to what we saw yesterday, the visibility was great, better than ten kilometers visibility, no rain in the area. >> arnold gordon, a professor of oceanography and earth sign sciences at columbia. tell me about the -- just what the climate is like there and what the ocean is like, the waves, how difficult it is to do this kind much search and the visibility given the way the ocean is in that location? >> it certainly is a very challenging place. 1500 miles off perth. there's current and there's

ocean currents and waves, clouds and rain. and they all that displaces the debris from where it was photographed on the 16th of march. the currents will move the debris towards the east, maybe a little bit north and east, about 12 miles a day. so then you have in the system that disperse, make for an irregular trajectory. then you have the waves. i worked in that area in the past and it's quite characteristic of having pretty high waves and the waves will move the debris in addition to the ocean currents. towards probably the northeast. then -- but the other thing the waves cause a problem is that they have white caps, the wind is strong, the waves are

breaking and that limits the visibility from ships at sea and even from the aircraft. so it's going to be a challenge to find that. but it's about a 15,000 square mile area, sort of to the east and perhaps northeast of where they spotted it. large area, but they can cover that in an aircraft. >> so the first challenge and it's a big one is to find these two pieces which were about 14 miles apart. if they are found and identified as being part of the missing airliners, then you've got an even bigger challenge to work backwards and figure out where -- how the ocean flowed and where the rest of the debris and hopefully the black box might be. this is really, really a very difficult detective search. >> yes, it is. and exactly right. once they know that's the debris in the aircraft, then -- and they know, of course the latitude and long tud where they photographed on the 16th, then

you use the ocean current information to work backwards. they can be pretty certain of when the plane descended from fuel distance traveled and then once you know where the impact -- then you have to go there and see if you can hear the black box, which has a limited transmission lifetime. i heard 16 days. the bottom there is about five -- about 9,000 feet deep. so mid ocean ridge. there's lots of hills and valleys, even if they hear the black box and get information in the black box, sending a unmanned vehicle down there to photograph it is going to be most difficult and take a long while before they find the aircraft. i do think that there's a high likelihood of what they photographed is parts of the aircraft but one never can be sure. it certainly is the best lead they had now and i was -- the

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traveling to atlanta to visit with jimmy carter at the carter center on thursday for a "meet the press" interview on his new book and thoughts about current esh yus like drone war fare. the main focus was his book "a call to action". >> why did you choose this time to focus on women and the way women of victimized around the world? >> i don't think there's any doubt that the existing abuse of females is a worst and most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on earth. and now the abuse of women and girls is all over the world in every country on earth. >> and you can see more of my interview with former president jimmy carter this sunday on "meet the press" and monday here on "andrea mitchell reports." among david gregoriegregory's gl be mike rogers. we also shared reflections

and recommend nis enss about the life of robert strauss, i first met back in the 1976 campaign and became a friend and monitor through generations of journalists, he died this week at the age of 95. president carter told me the one time democratic party chair and middle east negotiator was the most extraordinary public servient he had ever known. without him there would have been no camp david treaty because congress wouldn't have agreed to it. the texan and lifelong democrat made easy friends and allies across the political divide, from engineering jimmy carter's road to the white house to the iran-contra scandal. in a statement yesterday former first lady nancy reagan called strauss, one of her closest friends and people asked me how i could be acquainted with him since he was such a staunch democrat. always quick and firm, it didn't

matter to him which political party i belonged to and didn't matter to me which political convention he attended. he served this country with great distinction. he was witty and quietly a devoted caregiver for many years to his wife helen. he is survived by three children, seven grandchildren and six great grandchildren. he was a great man. we still run into problems. that's why liberty mutual insurance offers accident forgiveness if you qualify, and new car replacement,

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we have a major milestone, twitter turns eight years old. 500 million tweets a day reretweets, 3 .4 million for ths tweet alone. the first was to mark knoller and president putin's first ever tweet congratulated president elect barack obama. well, how things have changed.

that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." my colleague, ronan far row has a look at what's next on "ronan farrow daily." >> great show today. i'll like forward to the carter interview. >> thank you. >> stay with us today as well. ahead on quts roen n"ronan far, no sign of debris. it is day 14 and we're going to recap and look how the choppy seas off aus trailing i cantral search. michelle obama and her mother and daughters are taking china by storm. does it gloss over china's real human rights abuses. i'll sit down and talk about that issue along with an important milestone for twitter coming right up. to prove that a febreze car vent clip

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this week of too many questions and way too few answers in the search for flight 370. we'll take your choice for the under one underreported story this week the and twitter is having its eighth birthday, and we are going to be playing watchdog on new crackdowns on social media around the world and also reviewing embarrassing tweets. yes, folks, see how twitter ruined me forever for real human communication. >> the breaking news we have this morning, still no sign of flight 370. >> it's night fall off the coast of australia. >> another day turning up nothing. >> 239 families are waiting for sh something. >> russia is answering with some of its own sanctions. >> the fear is one side or the other will miscalculate, setting off a confrontation that quickly spins out of control.