good morning, everyone. happy friday to you. i am frances rivera in for tamron hall. this is "newsnation." this morning, we are learning alarming new details about the co-pilot of flight 9525 who authorities say brought down the plane deliberately. german prosecutors say andreas lubitz may have hid evidence of an illness from the airline. prosecutors searched lubitz's apartment and his parents' home and seized medical documents that indicate quote existing illness and medical treatment. prosecutors find a torn up doctor's note excusing him from work the day of the crash. >> the fact that this medical certificate was torn up for the

day of the crash solidifies our suspicion that he kept secret his condition towards his employer as well as his colleagues. >> no suicide note was found and there's no obvious motive. multiple newspapers say the 27-year-old was facing what's described as a personal life crisis. meanwhile, crews continue to scour wreckage hoping to recover the second black box that could could reveal more clues. victims families arrived on seen yesterday and this morning. many asked to provide dna samples in tents set up nearby to help identify bodies. claudio joins me. what else are authorities learning about his background? >> reporter: the authorities believe there is a connection between the fact that andreas lube its hid information about

that illness, we don't know what it was, and the fact he boarded that plane anyway even though he was exempt. the doctor said clearly he shouldn't work for a number of days, that he shouldn't have boarded that plane but he did that anyway. that implies and suggests that he may, this is only speculation for now, he may have feared that his illness, whatever it was, could have prevented him from continuing to do his dream job, which was flying a plane. let me remind you, this was a pretty new job for him, has only flown a year and a half on germanwings, 630 hours of flight experience but this was his childhood dream. now we do know about six years ago he had a six month period of leave from training at lufthansa because of a burned out syndrome, some kind of depression. so this could be something

similar. did he was he afraid this time they will stop him working as a pilot, we don't know that but certainly that's a lead for investigators to look at. >> i want to ask you, investigators gained so much information from the first black box, the sounds of the captain banging on the door the sounds of andreas breathing and screams from the passengers there. what more can the second black box provide if and when they find that? >> reporter: the second black box is the flight data recorder includes the statistics from takeoff to the point of impact. it will be the altitude speed, where he changed, the exact speed. there are helicopters flying in from the crash site into the airfield, when i am here it is taking all the investigators back and forth who are working on the crash site. that second black box, let me

continue on that would provide much needed technical information. but right now investigators are looking into more specifically the reasons behind that action. clearly the second black box will be more important if this was meant or believed to be a technical fault but at this point it does look like andreas lubitz did crash the plane deliberately. but they need to find the second black box to be sure. >> authorities say there appears to be no religious or political motive for him. claudio, thank you for this report. >> want to bring in a couple of guests. i want to start with you, focusing on medical documents found in lubitz's home here. what else will they look for trying to determine down the road what recommendations may come into play what changes come into play especially if there are signs of clear mental

illness or psychological illness as well. >> i think first we have to understand from his physicians the doctors seeing him, exactly what the condition was. we can predict it is probably some kind of mental illness, but i don't think we can confirm it until we get some report from medical officers. secondly we know that in our system and in lufthansa system it is self certification. so he hid his illness, and not surprisingly because it is a stigma. it is a stigma in society, we deal with it here every day, it would have disqualified him as has been said from his dream job. the question is how do you get at that issue in a way that's sensitive, understanding, but protects the individual and the traveling public. >> want to bring in tom. lubitz started pilot training in 2008. he took that break for about six months, some reports saying that was to treat breakdown syndrome but there were no reasons given

officially for that break, and apparently had to go to psych evaluation before hired, but how do you go about looking at that now, the first thing i wonder are there other pilots out there now who may be doing the same thing, hiding illnesses, tearing up notes? >> listen i can't speak to that. i think that you know we have an isolated case here that involves one single pilot in europe who was on lufthansa, one of the best run airlines in the world. i think you will find probably people in every profession who are dealing with mental illness, dealing with depression and many of them who are in very high performing jobs and take medicine or have counseling and that kind of thing and, you know there is a process at least in the united states by which if you, yourself are in that kind of scenario you are supposed to self report. that obviously would be up to the individual to do that.

there are confidentiality rules. in the united states if you're on medicine for a psychological issue, you have to be if i am not mistaken off that med for a year before the faa would clear you to fly again. but there is the self disclosure issue that is you know part of medical confidentiality issues and sometimes the two may run right up against each other. >> kitty, speak to that given it is an honor system to self report. will they start looking into other airlines how that can be changed knowing there's a physical and psychological evaluation that happens before and only physical evaluations after that but not mental. can that change and how tough will it be to implement that? >> i think it is an issue that needs to be carefully discussed and with pilots as well as the airlines. this is an issue as tom says that cuts across all races,

ages professions, and we need to deal with it. it is out there. i talked to a pilot said no self-respecting pilot who wants to keep his job will report that, they just won't. i know of instances if a pilot was too tired to go to work he was fatigued he was involved in accident, he wouldn't report that, it goes against his record. we just need to have a thorough conversation about this honest conversation, see what we can do together to make the system work better. >> i think it is important, draw the distinction though, there's a big distinction between someone dealing with sadness, somebody depressed, somebody seeking counseling or medicine and somebody that becomes suicidal another big jump then somebody becomes homicidal. we are talking about there's a very big breadth, the spectrum is very wide and i would hate to cast everybody in the same light. >> understandably, that gray area. >> that's why we need to have a conversation about it because

there was nothing that we've heard so far other than this note from all of the objective reporting that this pilot had any issues. he was apparently passed training, he apparently loved to fly. people who come forward said he was a good guy. now we are learning more. that's what we need to focus on as we go forward. how do we understand this better how do we address and help somebody in that situation. >> tom, i want to ask you among other changes in the wake of the tragedy, lufthansa, parent company of germanwings announced two changes, two authorized people are required to be present in the cockpit during the flight. they weren't the first, there were other airlines that were public saying we are doing that. why is that why were they so cautious? you would think they would be the first to do it. are we going to see most if not all airlines adopt that? >> it has been forced on them after the lufthansa ceo suggested they wouldn't german

transport minister suggested that he may in fact make that a new regulation in germany. we are seeing norwegian air take up that issue, they're going with two people in the cockpit at all times, berlin air, lufthansa, air canada easy jet, a number of airlines. i think it will roll across the airline industry you're going to see almost everybody follow the us faa rule on that because it makes sense. candidly i am surprised it has taken this kind of event for that to happen. >> certainly other changes and recommendations to come out of this tragedy. tom costello katie higgins, thanks for your perspective. we will bring any updates on the plane crash investigation throughout the hour. we are also watching these stories. >> we thought there was a bomb or something. >> two people are unaccounted for after an explosion leveled three buildings in new york city's east village. what inspectors found moments

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the prosecutor's office dusseldorf yesterday concluded the search of the lubitz apartment, measures didn't lead to finding a suicide note however documents were found with medical content which indicated an illness and corresponding medical treatment. >> that was the prosecutor in dusseldorf germany discussing medical documents seized from the home of the co-pilot who deliberately crashed germanwings flight 9525. among the items were torn up doctor certificates including one excusing andreas lubitz from work the day of the crash. and the documents also suggest the 27-year-old hid an illness from his employers. no evidence was found suggesting religious or political motive for the crash and no note taking responsibility for it. as crews work to identify remains of the passengers

they're scouring the crash site for the second black box that could yield more clues. joining me clive irving author of wide body, triumph of the 747 i want to get your reaction to news lubitz may have hid evidence of a type of illness from his employers, going so far as to tear up that note from the doctor. >> this raises sensitive issues about medical confidentiality. it appears he concealed what seems to be a long-standing medical problem for which he was being treated and for which he was issued several, not one, certificates allowing him sick leave, but didn't show them or inform the airline he had that problem, so he never took sick leave. one of the certificates they found today did cover the day of the accident. it is troubling this can happen

because obviously there is a difficult line to draw between pilots unions tend to be sensitive. they resisted putting camera in the cockpit. often there are circumstances as in this case a camera in the cockpit could have been very useful. for the sake of confidentiality, they allow cockpit voice recorder in there, that had to be there, that's where evidence for all of this came from. but in fact we are get to go a new experience here where in the history of aviation security the last thing we thought we were going to face in terms of defending ourselves was defending ourselves against pilots, because by reverse of logic, reinforced locked the cockpit doors. >> i want to bring in to that point your latest piece for the daily beast, germanwings brought down by the bomb in andreas lubitz's brain. you write this catastrophe

produced a classic reversal of logic to make calk pits safe against terrorists. the reinforced locked cockpit door turned out to make them safe for demented pilots. the irony is precautions to secure calk pit doors in the wake of 9/11 is the very thing that brought this plane down in keeping the captain out. >> the history of aviation security is like a leaking bucket. you find a new hole plug it another hole occurs. it is difficult, it is a complex system with many layers. the last one we thought we would have to address is sanity and security of the pilot in the cockpit. and there is a medical ethics issue that's going to come up here because we don't know for example, from what prosecutors said today whether the doctors who were treating him knew what he did. this is -- not that they told the airline they were treating him, whether they knew what he

did. if they did know what he did, i assume as in all medical practices, you know the occupation of the person you're treating, it ought to be routine. if they knew and were treating him with something which would have implications for someone who had a job, whose job concerned safety of hundreds of other people that they weren't concerned about that. there's a breach here of communication. i suspect it may be a breach because of the -- and germany is sensitive to this. >> there's a huge gray area, consider protocol in the united states pilots are only required to be evaluated for psychological issues before they're hired, after that they are evaluated physically. only meant to self report honor system thereafter when it comes to their mental state. so who is to determine a pilot is having a bad day, suffering through some depression a break up at home or financial issues to mental illness and how can

that be determined. and when is that going to be reported to the airlines their employers? >> there's nothing more mysterious or in fact more dangerous than we ourselves. it is difficult to know what's going on in the heads of people you intimately know sometimes. think of how much more difficult it is to know what's going on in the heads of people who are doing extremely stressful work which pilots are doing, and i always thought pilot fatigue was a serious problem, particularly on budget airlines they turn around five or six flights a day, and working quite long hours. those hours are regulated, but number of hours doesn't address the question of stress. >> we have been hearing that term breakdown syndrome as well making it tougher is that friends and families report not noticing anything at all wrong with lubitz. thank you for your perspective and appreciate your time. thank you. time for the "newsnation" political post script.

here is a look back at a wild week in politics. >> today i am announcing that i am running for president of the united states. we'll be on the federal exchange like millions of others on the federal exchange. >> afghanistan remains a very dangerous place. i decided we will maintain our current posture of 9800 troops through the end of this year. i have a very business like relationship with prime minister netanyahu. >> shocked by the fact there were reports that information was being passed on from the israelis to members of congress. i'm not aware of that at all. >> i know what it takes to protect presidents and their families. >> who are you holding accountable? >> we're going to wait. >> you're going to wait. that's the problem. >> we are going to wait. >> that's the problem, we're going to wait. >> it appears we have an agency at war against itself to bring this kind of disruption when they are supposed to be guarding the president of the united states of america.

we are better than that. >> joining me live msnbc senior political editor mark murray. nice to see you on a friday a lot to cover to wrap up the week. we will get to secret service in a second. we have big news from capitol hill with senator minority leader harry reid announcing he is retiring at the end of his current term. in a youtube video, he insists his recent eye injury had nothing to do with the decision. but read between the lines here. he did say this. >> this accident has caused us for the first time to have a little down time. i have had time to ponder and to think. we've got to be more concerned about the country, the senate the state of nevada than us. and as a result of that i am not going to run for re-election. >> president obama just released a statement calling senator reid a fighter. mark, knowing there were rumors

of his retirement in the past months did this surprise snuyou? >> it really doesn't. to hold onto his seat he would have to raise a tremendous amount of money, be engaged in another lockdown knock down fight which he has won time and time again, saw it in 2010 most recently, but it would be a huge undertaking. it seems from that video after some reflection he kind of decided gosh is it really worth it. this move has two big consequences. one as i just mentioned, we have a competitive 2016 senate race in nevada presidential battleground state. means we have a new democratic leader for the party in 2017 either the democratic majority leader or democratic minority leader depending what happens in the 2016 senate races. >> he said it would be appropriate to soak up the resources when it comes to the re-election bid. want to get to the secret

service. they put in place new rules, staffers no longer allowed to drive official government cars within ten hours of drinking alcohol there. those are the changes that will ease concerns from lawmakers or is there so much more to do? >> you know everything has been reactive including new rules put in place. but frances, what has kind of come out, whether it is this people who are able to jump over the fence earlier, that there's been almost black eye after black eye after black eye. even if 99.9% of secret service are doing their jobs doing it well, without any problem at all, the little stories make it hard for them and for an agency that has so much respect and plays such an important role protecting the president. >> want to get to the staggering revelations from the report involving another government agency under fire now. this time the dea, especially when you hear reports of sex parties with agents with

prostitutes, hired by local drug cartels. fill us in. it is staggering when you read detail after detail. >> this goes back to americans' loss of confidence in institutions. we have seen whether government agencies, members of congress that there are always these stories that are going out there, and this just is another example of americans saying see, there's your government working for you, they're going to these parties, there are prostitutes involved and just ends upbringing down all of these institutions. >> on top of that, former police officers in colombia saying they were provided with money, expensive gifts, weapons paid for and given by drug cartel members. a lot to digest at the end of the week. appreciate you being here. mark murray. have a good weekend. still to come italy's highest court set to make a new ruling in the amanda knox saga. could she be forced to return to italy? one of the stories we are

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welcome back. a look at the top stories in the "newsnation." german prosecutors found evidence that the co-pilot of the plane that crashed into the french alps hid an illness. they don't say what illness he was suffering from. here in new york they're trying to put out hot spots after a fire that leveled three buildings in the east village. authorities say two people are unaccounted for, 25 people were injured, including five first responders. now to an msnbc original here, as the debate rages on over raising minimum wage a new restaurant in philadelphia is taking matters into its own hands. williams street common opened last month, pays all employees $15 an hour and no tipping is

allowed. >> here at william street common we focus on paying employees a fair living wage. we want to eliminate unpredict ability of tipping, take that responsibility off the customer and put it on us. >> that's it. funny, right? >> all employees paid $15 an hour and 20% service charge added to all checks. >> everyone here makes $15 an hour from the front of the house to the back of the house, no matter what job you're doing. in a typical restaurant i think what's most stressful is the pressure to turn over sales nonstop, constantly. so far we have been pretty busy and all the customers really get into the concept. >> i think that's convenient for customers, especially for us because we are international, we are not used to tipping at

restaurants. >> definitely have to shift toward higher minimum wage and i think philadelphia is being relatively progressive. >> there's a role for people to lead the way and i think that they'll have to catch up. >> every party benefits from the concept, the company, employee and customer. >> so far at william street common the employees are happy, customers are happy. hopefully we can move forward with that momentum. >> and the restaurant sets aside an additional 5% of sales for benefits and perks for employees. we should note this business model doesn't work for every restaurant. up next, fiance of aaron hernandez takes the stand in the murder trial against him today. >> i asked him if he did it he said no and that was the extent of our conversation. >> it is one of the stories we

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this morning. jenkinz took the stand a moment ago, she's been granted immunity. hernandez is on trial for the murder of oden lloyd. >> mike pence signed the religious freedom restoration act, it allows business owners the right to refuse service based on religious freedom. while it doesn't mention sexual orientation, some are saying it gives businesses the right to discriminate in a statement government pence said this bill is not about discrimination and if i thought it legalizes in any way in indiana i would have vetoed it. some business leaders disagree. the co-founder of paypal called it pretty unbelievable and ceo of sales force tweeted the company would dramatically redugs their investment due to customer outrage. a week away from the final four, the president of ncaa expressed his concern in a

statement, said in part we will work diligently to ensure student athletes competing in and visitors attending men's final four are not impacted negativively by this bill. what does your gut tell you? indiana's governor says it is not about discrimination but do you agree with that? go to newsnation.msnbc.com to vote. four more men's sweet 16 round games, it's ucla versus gonzaga and duke and utah. then it's oklahoma and michigan state. tonight's matchup come after thrillers and another kentucky romp last night. >> mcconnell three. good. wow, the arizona wildcats outscore the mus ket tears. >> goes the other way, they will take on the winner between kentucky and west virginia. >> take a look at that kentucky

spacing right there. >> a team that shoots over 50%. oh -- >> no! >> it counts. showalter who comes up with pick pocket, he'll be chased the other way and gets it to go! wisconsin trailed by four with 6:30 to go. they go on to win it and make it to the elite eight for a second consecutive season. >> joining me now is nbc sports network network contributor jay busby. i did fill out brackets like i do every year. how are yours after last night? >> mine are awful. mine are terrible. i had to tell my kids that their brackets went to live on a farm with other brackets it's just an ugly scene all the way around. >> a happier place.

i want to ask you about the elite eight determined before we talk about shows showdowns. let's talk about tonight's games, gonzaga beat ucla who do you like tonight? >> gonzaga is a strong team. they are a two seed. ucla is punching over their weight. i think gonzaga will come through. they have a likely match-up in duke coming up. >> now, go on to duke and utah coach k is looking to make it for the 14th time. can utah stop the blue devils here? >> i don't think anybody can stop the blue devils. duke is playing some of the best basketball. there are a lot of duke haters and this is not going to be the best time of year for them. >> to north carolina state and louisville, my bracket here i'm looking good with that. upset number one seed villanova,

will they be the cinderella story for this year? >> they are as close as you can get. a true cinderella has to be from a smaller conference. they are playing big teams all the way around. louisville is a couple of years from a national championship the kind of team if they get hot at the right time they have a well tested coach and i look for louisville to win tonight. >> i want to ask you before we go michigan state upset number two seed virginia can they hold off oklahoma? >> i think so. michigan state is another of these teams that's peaking at absolutely the right time. the coach knows what to do in the tournament and keep his players focused and made them get off twitter, which is a big step. and i think michigan state is one of the teams you want to look out for that's going to be a great team. >> i hope your brackets are off and happy living at the farm. thank you. and that does it for this

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right now on "andrea mitchell reports," health warnings newly discovered doctor's notes indicate the co-pilot was covering up a secret illness. this comes after a search of his home in germany. >> day of event related sick leave notes, doctor's notes from the day of the crash were found, supports the assumption that the deceased concealed his illness from his employer as well as his work environment. >> proxy war, yemen now the battleground for a widening war between iranian and saudi forces. addressed at the u.s./iranian nuclear talks today in switzerland by tehran's foreign minister. >> we believe that they will

only cause loss of human life. they have to stop and get -- everybody has to encourage dialogue and national reconciliation in yemen. >> and out of the ring former boxer harry reid the senate democratic leader sets off a scramble to succeed him after he announces he's hanging up his gloves at the end of this term. >> my friend senator mcconnell, don't be too elated i'm going to be here for 22 months and i'm going to be doing the same thing i've done since i first came to the senate. >> good day, everyone i'm andrea mitchell in washington. we're continuing to cover breaking news from germany where we learn today new information, the co-pilot andrea lubitz was hiding a secret illness. investig