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difficult this search is. >> the waves can reach 100 feet. >> nasty weather in the skies. >> if there was anything down there we'll find it. >> we have never seen an airplane of this size that did not leave a floating debris field. >> what are the chances it is still floating and what are the chances we find it. >> a lot of it may be submerged by now. >> some say the debris could be hundreds of miles away. >> family members were briefed behind closed doors for about two hours. >> there is really no updates. >> stunning, they asked if they wanted to be contacted if there was urgent news to tell them. >> we have now officially passed the two-week mark in the search for missing airliner flight 370. despite the best efforts to locate two large objects in the indian ocean, possible debris from the vanished plane have yet to turn up anything. it is currently 4:00 a.m. local time and a third day of searching is to begin in just a

few hours. the floating debris was seen some 1500 miles off the coast of australia, in waters difficult to navigate. families have reached a crisis point in their frustration and the pressure is on to find the two object that is have been called the -- objects called the best lead yet. tomorrow, the australian prime minister tony abbott defended his decision to release information about the debris saying even if it turns out to be nothing, families deserve to be alerted on any and all leads. >> we're trying with everything we've got in that area to try to learn more about what this debris might be. now, it could just be a container that has fallen off a ship. we just don't know. but we owe it to the family and friends and the loved ones of the almost 240 people on flight

mh-370 to do everything we can to try to resolve what is as yet an extraordinary riddle. >> a senior u.s. investigator says he was highly skeptical that the debris was from flight 370. telling "the new york times," i have seen the pictures, those pieces are pretty darn big, in a crash, the investigator said the plane usually breaks up into smaller pieces. the further complications, the search has been plagued with problems. the malaysian government has often questionable pieces of information raising questions regarding the international scope of this investigation. the partner of philip wood, one of three americans on board the flight told andrea mitchell she is resorted to getting information through her own channel channels. >> i have not personally had any communication from the agencies, not the american or chinese or the malaysian. i think i'm a little invisible

here. the malaysian early airlines has given the occasional piece of document out. but it is usually documented from the press. i'm getting all of my news from the contacts here in beijing. >> joining me now, bob hager, thank you. there is surely frustration that none of the debris has yet been found. in your expert opinion, what is a reasonable time frame here i mean given the extraordinary nature of the investigation for planes to go back and forth. this is a multi-hour flight from where the debris field may be. we should be looking at days, weeks? >> oh, yes, i think minimum of days. and you could easily be talking weeks or you can also make out a scenario for you know, where it is never found. especially of these two pieces, if they find these two pieces in there not part of this airplane then we're in for a really long haul. but even if you find them and

they are a part of this airplane, and by the way, i think that a wing could float around there, the larger piece of plane. so i think the statement there -- >> "the new york times" -- >> yeah, that it was probably not part of the plane because it was too big. i don't think you can say that. it is curious how it matches the size of the wing, and a wing would float. all that aside, we know nothing about it. it could turn out to be junk or that the planes can't locate it now. so you can't really say. it is hard to predict based -- because we know so little. i do think it is more and more discouraging every day that the planes get out there and fly their two hours and don't come back with anything. >> there is news today that in "the wall street journal" and "the new york times," they're now using human spotters on the plane as opposed to radar. tell us why they would do that. >> well, that is natural -- the

radar can pull you down to the right spot if you see something on radar you can get your plane to the right spot. but to tell the difference between an ordinary piece of wreckage and to identify it as a piece of the plane, to make that differential, that is a much, much more sort of fail safe determination than the radar would be. >> so even if the debris is found, bob, then there is the whole process of trolling the ocean floor to actually find the fu fuselage. >> oh, yeah, that goes into the whole time frame, even if you do find the plane it tells you it was not in a jungle air strip or anything. it tells you it crashed, sadly for the families everyone was lost. it might tell you there was not a fire if it was not charred, maybe. that doesn't tell you anything really about what went on with this plane. you need the black boxes. you have to make careful

calculations if this was a part of the plane back to where the main part of it might have hit the water and gone to the bottom, and how the lighter pieces may have gone over time. if you locate the main pieces, and locate it with sonar, which is under water radar. then you have the mapping vessel, sort of maps the bottom, tries to find wreckage. then if you find wreckage that looks like the main body of wreckage you have to eventually send out a small unmanned sub. 20 feet long and look that way. and then with the camera, see where the black boxes are, try to fish them out. >> it is an arduous painstaking process. >> it is long, we can't begin it yet, because we don't know enough. >> bob, if you'll remain with us a while, i'm going to bring in the editor at foreign policy magazine. christian, thank you for joining us. the other thing, there are so

many dimensions to this story. but one of them certainly is a story of malaysia. and what is -- and how the internal dynamics in that country have informed and complicated this entire investigation. one of the things that i found remarkable. "the new york times" reported that the most popular theory in malaysia among the malaysian public is that the plane was hijacked and the government was keeping a secret while negotiating for the release of the hostages. of course, we have no evidence that that is true at all but it is a window into the lack of transparency that is typical in the malaysian government. tell us a little bit, if you will, about this sort of 50-year history that this government has in terms of its relationship with its citizens. >> well, that actually is a very interesting example that you have cited there, alex. i have been talking to some of my friends in malaysia, and they say there are all sorts of conspiracy theories, conspiracy theories that the americans or chinese did it. and as you said, there is

indicative of a culture where people are not used to getting information from their government. in fact, the government has done a pretty bad job of communicating to people about this disaster. they have backtracked on a number of things. very, very clear this is a government not used to responding to requests for information from people. >> and it is also being used as this entire malaysia airlines event is being used as as cudgel, where each party, sort of the opposition party not in power is using it to hit the opposition party. opposition parties have introduced a motion in parliament seeking to force the government to handle its information only to have the pro speaker block this debate. complicating this, one of the pilots is a supporter of the opposition movement and has been at rallies and expressed

statements of support for anwar ibrah ibrahim, one who is controversial with the government. that seems to have created another dimension here playing out in the malaysian parliament. >> you have to remember, more than half of malaysians actually voted for anwar ibrahim, the leader of the opposition. because malaysia has a sort of cronyism political system, the same government in power there since 1957 is still in power. and one of the things that raised the ire and suspicion of a lot of people inside malaysia was when the acting transport minister who happens to be a cousin of the prime minister made a point of saying that the missing pilot of the plane was a quote unquote fanatical supporter of the leader of the opposition. now, being a supporter of the opposition is just being a supporter of the opposition.

he is not a radical. he has never proposed to overthrow the government by force, he is quite moderate. >> and he has been unduly targeted by this government. >> he has been unduly targeted by the government. one thing that has been odd, he was convicted on charges of sodomy, right before the plane disappeared. a lot of people in malaysia think the charges are spurrious. >> and we talked about how it complicated the dynamics, many countries in the region they say have not cooperated. they have years of mistrust. that is borne out in the example of the thai government only giving information about its radar and the detection of this flight ten days after effectively a wild goose chase. in your experience in the industry, cooperation is not a given in these investigations but this would seem to be almost a kind of worse case scenario in

terms of different governments. >> indonesia, for instance, wouldn't give the flight clearance for some of the planes to go over its turf. i imagine all of these countries are wary of china, and they're wary of them. >> it will be a long and complicated search. coming up, russian president vladimir putin puts pen to paper, formally annexing crimea. details on that just ahead, corporations are people, too, corporations in fact may have very conservative views about birth control. and planned parenthood's ceo joins me with more on the supreme court case right around the corner. this is for you.

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argue the requirement to provide contraception coverage, for the plan b pill, or pay a fine, these businesses contend that mandate violates their religious liberty. religious organizations are already exempt, and not subject to penalties, but corporations are not granted the same rights as religious organizations or individuals when it comes to religious rights. it is a fine but very important line that many hope the supreme court does not cross when it takes up the two cases. on tuesday, the justices will hear 90 minutes of oral arguments and the ruling is expected sometime in june. joining me now is the president of planned parenthood federation of america, cecille richards, always good to see you. >> good to see you. >> this is a huge case, a flip in describing the import of this. but first and foremost, the

implications, no u.s. court has ever ruled that a company has the same religious rights, religious freedom rights as an individual or a religious institution. which way -- i mean, can you tell us which way you think the wind will blow on this? are you optimistic on the supreme court and the way it will be established? >> well, i'm optimistic, this is much bigger than birth control. really a question of whether corporations can pick and choose which laws they abide by and foll follow. and it is interesting, since it is about birth control, of course 99% of american well use birth control. it is a big health care concern for women, 20 million are not getting it through their insurance plans. that is a threat, this is a health care issue, an economic issue and would be a huge change in legal precedent for the supreme court to rule against women. >> in terms of the specifics of the case, one of the aspects

that a lot of people are not familiar with is the fact that the hobby lobby had in place a health care plan that covered contraception, including plan b before the aca went into effect. given that this notion that is so -- a moral to provide access to this pill seems mighty convenie convenient. >> well, it is definitely ironic and perhaps hypocritical, in the last few weeks, companies are saying of course we should provide birth control for women. they are a majority of workers in this country. we've seen religious organizations, the nuns coming out, the sin is not allowing to have women to have the resources and the ability to plan their families. i really think the position that hobby lobby is taking is really contrary not only to their previous behavior but to most businesses around the country. >> yeah, even from sort of the

faith-based decision-making, 98% of sexual experienced women are using birth control. 58% of women have used contraception for a medical reason. independent of that, they feel like there is plan b, being equivalent to abortion. but it is not at all. >> absolutely, i am so glad you raise that point. how are you going to have a ceo of a corporation, not a medical doctor, basically making his own findings of fact about how he believes the birth control works? he is going against the ama, saying plan b is a form of better control, to now take a position it is different, anti-medicine and basically anti-precedent for women. >> it would seem that this hobby lobby piece, given their previous position on plan b and their position on covering it is political. i feel like this is just one

more peg to just roll back the law, the affordable care act in whatever way possible. i mean, from your point of view how worried should women be that their contraception coverage is going to be rolled back? >> i think they should be worried. i think that is why we see thousands of people speak out on this. we'll see a lot of people at the supreme court on tuesday. again, women are concerned why this is a controversial issue. for 99% of women it is basic health care. and the other thing it is important we see at planned parenthood. women do make decisions on what kind of birth control to use is whether or not they can afford it. in fact, if the public health concern is to help women plan their families and avoid the unplanned pregnancy, it is an american value. >> every time we have a discussion it feels like the clock has turned back even more. and it feels like the aca was progress and real, and the force is turning it back. not just on the question of a national health care, but on the

question of access to contraception. we are back in like margaret sanger days. >> it is a good point, but politicians are back in the 1950s. but the american women have moved forward. it is the most commonly used form for women, they use it in a whole host of scenarios. why we are now having this argument i have no idea. except that there is a handful of politicians who want to keep women from having access to family planning and reproductive health care. >> and control over their own bodies. >> there you go. >> should the employers be except from the contraception mandate? no, 53% say no, 41 say yes. cecile, it is always a pleasure to see you. >> thank you. after the break, get happy. congressman and civil rights icon john lewis shows off his dance moves. pharrell, you would be proud. that is next. whenever you're r. thank you. thank you. i got this. oh, no, i'll get it!

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the horrific costs of our failure to fix a broken immigration system was on full display this week when police rescued over 100 immigrants who were being held against their will inside a single story stash house in houston. the windows of the house were boarded up and the doors, dead

bolted. the immigrants inside, some of whom had been held there for two weeks were trapped in squalor. they had no hot water, just one bathroom for over 100 people and they had very little food. there was so little space inside the house that many of them were forced to sit on top of one another. >> bodies upon bodies, people sitting on top of one another. squalid conditions, dirty, filthy conditions, it was a classic condition of human trafficking where they were treated like animals more so than human beings. >> 99 men and 16 women, one of whom was pregnant, were found, including 19 juveniles, all from honduras and el salvador. one woman, a 7-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy, all three were found inside the house.

while immigration and customs enforcement known as ice described the largest such operation known in five years. this is not the first time houston has seen immigrants treated this way. while the week's discovery was not to be believed, one spokesperson said the scope of this happens on a smaller scale with great frequency. the fate of those inside the house remains unclear. some may qualify for special visas, although some may simply be deported back to the countries they fled in search of a better life. joining me now, professor denise gillman, and former governor of new mexico, bill richardson. governor, i would like to start

with you. i think so much of the discussion around immigration has taken on a punitive tone. and stories like this really illustrate the incredible extraordinary sacrifices that people are willing to make to come and be a part of this country. what do you think should happen to these 100 immigrants who were locked in the house? >> well, on a broader scale, alex, the failure of the immigration reform measures in congress where you have concrete measures and guidelines to deal with situations like this does not exist. secondly, we have a broken immigration system with little resources which foster this kind of human exploitation by these smuggling rings that promote sexual violence, extortion, they promote all sorts of havoc on these individuals. it is simply when they go across the border to have a better life. what we're doing now is a very

cruel human rights situation. where a lot of these immigrants don't have legal assistance. they don't have the ability to get medical treatment. so what is the answer? the answer is to have an immigration bill passed by the congress that gives resources to stop these smugglers. that enforces some of the border that needs to get beefed up. and then legalization programs so there is the 12 million that are already in the united states with certain guidelines. get a path to citizenship. this is all a result of the broken system that we have today. congress' failure to act on any immigration reform. >> and let me ask you, would they be deported back to the countries from which they came? is that right? >> well, they will almost certainly be placed into deportation proceedings.

that is how ice treats such an encounter. with the immigration relief, as you mentioned there are special visas that has special requirements that usually applies to individuals who have been trafficked in to engage in forced labor or in the sex trade so that may be the case with some individuals found in the house and maybe not for others. there is also a visa which allows for victims of serious crimes who cooperate with law enforcement. and since there is a criminal investigation in this case and almost certainly many of the individuals will be asked to assist with that, i would hope that their assistance would be certified and that they would qualify for a u-visa as they certainly are victims of a serious crime. >> let me follow up on that. most people hear the border is more secure than ever, we know there are drones flying over and a record number of law

enforcement agents on the border. it feels like the stash houses and the number of people and the predatory nature of these coyotes and human smugglers, they're operating in a more sort of vicious fashion despite the fact the borders are theoretically more secure. how correct is that? >> i think that is correct, the build-up of enforcement along the border, the militarization if you would like to call it that along the border has unfortunately fed into a situation in which it becomes more difficult to cross the border. there are still going to be more attempts to cross the border but it is more difficult. and so therefore it is more expensive. individuals trying to cross the border, there is more money to be spent, so organized crime and more serious criminal actors get involved in what used to be a simple effort of crossing the border on one's own, now organized crime is involved.

and because they're looking for a very serious profit out of this what they will often do is hold people that they have smuggled across until they can get even more money from family members, essentially a kidnapping for ransom to increase their profits. >> governor richardson, how do you think stories like this affect the drive towards immigration reform or the enthusiasm for it? i mean, on one hand you would think this is horrific, we must have comprehensive immigration reform. on the other side, the detractors are going to say, well, they must have a path way to citizenship. i'm not sure which argument it buffers. >> well, i was a border governor. so we had incidents like this. i have optimism about this country. i think the american people, voters see something that is not

working, that is inhumane, and the main objective is to push the political process to deal with it. in this case, i think it's the very able attorney you just talked about. these people need medical assistance. they need special visas. but on a broader scale, i think little incidents like this show the importance of immigration reform. and one of the bodies of the congress, the senate, has moved with what i think is a sensible bill. the house of representatives still is not acting. but you keep piling all of these stories of our broken immigration system. i think eventually it is going to have an effect. but a lot of it is politics. a lot of it is who can be tougher. but at the same time i think the american people have a good heart. and they will send messages that this is unacceptable. so i'm on the optimistic side of this. >> you know, and just to follow on that, governor, i mean, i

would imagine you were governor of a border state. border residents don't like things like this happening in their back yards. i mean, the people of houston can't be proud that something like that happened not once but twice in the last two years on this scale. >> that is right, you see these instances, houston is one example. there are other very, very strong cities that have the same problem. this happens in rural parts of arizona and new mexico and texas and california. this is not just concentrated in cities. these smugglers operate across the border. and they're vicious. they want to make money. they exploit these people. and it shows the incentive for these people is there with this broken immigration system. >> professor denise gilman, and governor bill richardson, thank you so much for your time and thoughts. >> thank you for having me. coming up, drones are used

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information on the use of it in war fare, we have more on it at home. last year, joe arpaio announced he would like to buy two drones for his tent-city jail. in texas, after the drone hobbyists, after one of them observed blood leaking from a meat-packing plant into a nearby creek, governor perry signed legislation making it illegal for drone users to use it on private property. thank you, governor perry. these blue sky days are pictures over our heads taken with a civilian drone, in the current issue of harper's magazine. joining me now from paris, is the contributor, tomas, thank you for joining us at this late hour in paris. i know there is a short delay, so the first question is, tell

us how you actually purchased your drone and why you decided the focus on the civilian use of drones. >> i just went onto amazon.fr, the amazon.com that you have in france and i ordered it up. and them i bought a high resolution camera and put it on there and i had to do a little bit of modification. there was not anything off the shelf ready for professional photos. but since i bought my drone, things have gotten even cheaper and more professional. and then i decided to travel around the united states and look down on the country with this drone. >> i think what is shocking to me is that you were able to not only buy the drone but get it into the air over people doing yoga in a public park. but also over spaces, you used it to photograph settings including prisons, oil fields, industrial feed lots. i think most americans think that there is no way an unmanned

aircraft, basically, which is what a drone is could sort of fly over these spaces and capture images from them. were you surprised at how accessible everything was basically? >> it takes about the amount of time that it would take to learn to ride a bicycle. to learn to fly a drone, and then it was very simple to do. so it was not that difficult. what i was specifically looking for was to call attention to first of all, foreign drone use, which you have talked about. but how the military technology has transferred to the united states. you know in your previous segment you talked about u.s. border customs and border protection. well, they have a fleet of ten predator drones, the same kind of aircraft that are used for strikes abroad. and not only are they using them to analyze border threats but they have actually been lending those drones out to different federal agencies, apparently you

know up to 700 times between 2000 and 2012 to the texas rangers. to local sheriff's departments. so for sometime there has already been drones flying over america without really a debate or the public knowing about it. and i wanted to see what they're seeing. so i put my own drone up in the world to see what can the government see of us. how does it affect our lives to be looked on from the sky? >> also, there are civilian sort of settings. but you also used your drone to take photos of sort of areas where the u.s. has used drones in warfare situations, which is to say the sort of gathers that have become habitual targets of foreign sites, such as weddings, groups of people praying, tell us about the choices that you made. >> well, while i was researching this story it really struck me some of these particular strikes that i came across. you know, imagine that you're invited to a wedding of some

obscure cousin, and somebody shady shows up to the we have hadding, somebody on the other side can look at the screen, push a button and a few minutes later you don't exist anymore. i was really shaken when i read about the specific drone strikes, people not feeling safe anymore. looking up at the sky, wondering when they could be struck. and i wanted to sort of bring that feeling home. this drone war has been going on for ten years. it is fairly obscure. it is clandestine. i wanted to bring that feeling back to the american people so it could stir our conscience and we could think about it and at the same time show how the drones were being used over us. it is quite strange, you know, as a photographer i'm usually using my camera to capture beauty or news or something like that. the feeling of power you can get

from a drone looking down on people, flying into inaccessible places is quite amazing. >> and what did you think -- many times the u.s. government or other governments conduct air strikes using drones, say -- there is a discussion about the image quality and not being able to determine who is who in some of the imagery. how did you find it as a photographer, the clarity of the image, especially when drones were flying over groups of people, exercising, praying, celebrating in some fashion? >> you know, my drone was not the most expensive one, but even with the technology i have, i could have it so people wouldn't notice the drone and i could still take a picture where it would recognize their face. and of course, with the more powerful drone and more powerful lens, you could still fly high and see their faces. so it is possible to do surveillance on people without them noticing at all. i would try to fly where people

could see me, and sometimes i would hear weird comments. one time there was a little girl who asked her mother what it was. and she said that is a drone and if you don't do your homework it is going to get you. so there is a strange reaction -- >> yeah, i wanted to ask you just as we wrap up did anybody ever question what you were doing? this seems like a fairly huge, unregulate unregulated industry if you want to call it that. i think there were almost 1600 drone permits issued in the past two years, did anybody ever say hey, you can't do that? >> much less than i thought they would. and i was flying in front of authorities often who would give me permission. the problem here is that drone technology has out-paced regulation for military operations, which are mostly in the dark without transparency. for government operations, which apparently they're happening all the time. and we didn't know about it.

and then for civilian use where the faa, i feel for them. they want to keep the skies safe. but they have a difference between the things like a june bug, maybe it doesn't have a air safety problem but it has a privacy problem. >> it is a brave new world, tomas, thank you for your time. i will see you back here 4:00 p.m. eastern. good evening, americans, welcome to "the ed show," live from new york. let's get to work. >> where are the jobs? >> we have a party nationally that has a hard time losing mid-terms. >> they are counting on the fact that the democratic base will not turn out in the mid-term elections. >> america is broke. >> so wh