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flight into the french alps. amongst evidence was a torn up doctors note that said he was unfit for work and should be excused during the the time of the crash itself. prosecutors said lubitz who locked the pilot out of the cockpit before they crash had concealed his illness from his employer germanwings which is owned by lufthansa. germanwings said the sick note was not submitted to the company. back in 2009 lubitz did take a month. long hiatus from his training for burnout syndrome. in his press conference yesterday, lufthansa's spokesperson said lubitz had passed medical checks. >> translator: when we choose our candidates we don't only look for technical skills but in particular we look for

psychologically healthy coworkers. he passed all medical tests. he passed all aviation tests. he passed all checks. he was 100% able to fly without any limitations, without any reservations. his accomplishments were excellent. nothing was noticed that wasn't proper. >> nthank you for this. what do we know about the meds he was taking? when they said he was in psychological good condition, did they have a recent test of that? what are they talking about when they make an assertion like that? >> well essentially what they told us yesterday is that pilots from not only lufthansa but also the other european airlines undergo a psychological test

only once when they are -- when they have to get their license. later on in their career they need to get regular medical checks but certainly not psychological. now, they rely on the pilots themselves, of course, to hand in any medical notes such as the one that was given to lubitz so that they make the company know about their condition. well, that of course is raising -- this new development is raising questions than it's giving answers. for instance what is this medical condition? is it related in any way to that burned out syndrome or depression suffered from about six years ago? also shouldn't be more strict regulations in place whereby if there is someone who is in charge of hundreds of lives given a medical note that says you're unfit to work, should you really leave it to the person

to the pilot to hand it into the company? shouldn't it be the job of a doctor or the hospital to tell the company since this person is in charge of hundreds of lives. also did lubitz decide prior to boarding that plane that he was going to down and fly the plane into the mountain bringing with him 149 innocent lives? or was it just a decision he made on the spot where obviously he wouldn't have known that the pilot would leave at some stage to go to the toilet. also the investigator said they did not find a suicide note or any claim of responsibility written anywhere. so that suggests that lubitz may have just made an instant decision when the pilot left the cockpit, chris. >> good analysis there. thank you so much. claudeo levagna. we turn now turn first of all

your reaction to that conversation greg about the whole fact that we now know the doctor gave him a note to give to employers. he never gave them the note. the fact he had the burnout experience in training. what else do we -- by the way, there's an assertion by the ceo of lufthansa that somehow they're asserting there that this guy was in good psychological health when the only evidence he had of that was a test he was given when he was given his wings. >> yeah. and that's really an issue here chris. they're going to have to try and see how each of these things are related with this early depression burnout syndrome in his early 20s. he was employed by lufthansa or germanwings at the time going through his training. he interrupted his training. dp the company know something was going on and did they require periodic monitoring? and all of a sudden the young

man goes to the doctor he's unfit to fly, he fails to put in his form. what was he concealing? they're going to have to try and draw those together and see if they are interlinked. was it mental physical or a combination of both that made him unfit to fly? >> let's get to that. it's the end of the week now. what we now know is the company is now protecting itself by saying we believed he was -- in fact, we had reason to believe he was psychologically fit when it turns out they don't have periodic psychologicalest thes of any kind. they have the original one when given certification. he has no idea whether they're in good shape. the doctor trusted the co-pilot lubitz to deliver the message to the boss. >> well in flying for an airline, you depend on the trustworthiness that existed for the policing of one's health and ability to fly to the pilot. and i got to tell you, i'm concerned about a lot of this.

but one of the things that puzzles me he was burned out and had so stay on the ground because of it? burned out from what? i mean this guy only had 600-some hours in the airplane in the whole airline. what was he burned out from? >> well, training, apparently. >> well if he can't train -- i'm sorry. i don't find how a person that can't even go through the training successfully because of burnout but he can fly these people around in the sky as an airline pilot. doesn't make sense to me. >> i think that's the question raised by other people here. let me go back to greg with that question. why would lufthansa place the trust of an airplane in the hands of a guy who had just failed to get through training even without burning out? >> i think that's going to be a major question that needs a very good answer from lufthansa. in the united states a pilot with 660 hours would never be in the cockpit of a commercial airliner. you need at least a minimum of 1500 hours in an airline

transport pilot certificate. here you have a young man at 21 years old, he goes through burnout, takes a hiatus and now he's back in his training program into the cockpit of a commercial airliner. i know that he has met supposedly all the rigors of training and passed his check rides, but does he have really the maturity one, to make the decisions that are necessary, but two, it's obvious there were some psychological and possibly physiological conditions that he wasn't being forthcoming with the airline that he was flying for. >> what do you think of claudio's question of opportunity. maybe he didn't know. but if the guy hadn't gone to the john what would have happened? they wouldn't have crashed. at least not that flight. what do we make of this? was this premeditated or impulsive or opportunistic or somewhere in the middle? you're waiting for your chance you don't know what day it's going to be. >> i think from the standpoint

this was basically a crime of opportunity. i mean they're going to look and see if this was a premeditated act. we don't know when he went to the doctor. we just know he had a form that said he wasn't fit to fly for several days including the day of the event. if he had gone to the doctor and had life-changing news he had cancer, a brain tumor, something. could that have culminated with the depression to then cause him to say, you know what? i'm going to lose my career as an airline pilot, he gets in the airplane that day, it's a crime of opportunity, he found an app tune time and decided on his terms that he was going to do harm to himself and unfortunately 149 people with him. >> jim, what's your initial -- my initial impulse when i watched this thing unfold this week in hearing about it was the egypt air guy. somebody did this. all the information didn't add up except for personal decision. and then turns out it's not actually terrorism in the sense we use the term. but now the question is when did the guy decide to do this?

when the guy went to the john? he said he's going to the john let's kill everybody. how do these decisions -- i don't know how anybody can figure this out. what do you think? >> i think it's probably a crime of opportunity too. unless he had flown with his captain enough about once you reach cruise he goes to the john or whatever else. unless he had a history with this guy, i think it was a matter of opportunity. because that's all it takes. the guy is out of the cockpit, he immediately takes care of certain things. he locked that door so he can't get through it. he sets up the autopilot to make that descent. he does all the things overtly. i think it was a crime of opportunity based upon the feeling that this would eventually happen and he'll be able to do these things. >> what do you think should be done about this? should there be any kind of correctives about who gets into the -- the whole discussion in the newspapers in the states was whether we were too stringent in putting the locks on the door you can't get through, doors that can't be smashed down no

axes to smash through them no firearm to cut through them. what do you think we should have? should we have impregnable doors to the cockpit? first you, jim. >> we already have impregnable doors. the thing i see is we need a protocol and a policy and an ability to override something that's coming out of the cockpit. but it has to be something that is sensitive information for the airline and airline crews. we can't jump on television and say that okay here's what we have to do. we have to push this in and then we're going. it has to be information that's kept. and i think it can be done with what we have right now. it's just a matter of protocol and a matter of following certain systems. >> what about when you get a flight attendant and say i'm slitting your throat unless you give me that number? is that the thing we've always been afraid of with terrorists? >> we still have that kind of a fear and it's very realistic. the attitude i have understood is if that's the case you give up the life of that flight

attendant, but you're going to put the flight on the ground for the sake of all the passengers. it's a horrible thought you'd have to go through that but it sounds to me that's what the policy has been. >> thank you greg and jim. thank you for your expertise. coming up with the middle east in crisis and the obama administration trying to negotiate a nuclear deal with iran is war and peace going to be the top issue for 2016? and if so, how far right will the current crop of republican contenders go? plus businesses in indiana can now refuse service to customers and claim religious beliefs as a defense. well, the law's defenders call it religious protection. but critics say it looks a lot like legalized discrimination against gays. and in the round table tonight, hillary clinton's going back to the strategy that certainly worked for her in the past. listening. while the republicans who want to beat her are out there shouting. finally, let me finish with this. that reactionary move in indiana. this is "hardball," the place for politics. i've been drivin' a lincoln since... long before anybody paid me to drive one.

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iran that leaves iran with uranium enrichment? would you reject that deal if you took the oval office? >> absolutely. day one. >> some on the right go further than walker. one called for bombing iran now. he wrote the inconvenient truth is only military action is israel's 1981 attack on saddam hussein's reactor in iraq or the syrian reactor can accomplish what is required. time is terribly short but a strike can still succeed. that's john bolton. he has support, by the way from other right wingers like louie gohmert. >> we need to encourage this administration to go take out iran's nuclear capability. i don't think that we ought to put israel in a position of having to save both themselves and the united states. i think it's time to bomb iran. >> wow.

and senator tom cotton of arkansas also talked about keeping military force on the table. >> israel struck iraq's nuclear program in 1981 and they didn't reconstitute it. israel struck the nuclear reactor and haven't constituted it. rogue regimes get the picture when there's a threat of military force on the table we will not allow the world's worst regimes to get the worst weapons. >> how far will the republican party go in 2016? howard fineman director of "the huffington post" and eugene. most elections are about unemployment, inflation, usual stuff. this one is getting hotter maybe because the republican party is getting hotter. maybe because it's a trickier path for this president -- >> one reason is the economy is doing better. and obamacare is actually

working. and i think on cultural issues the republicans realize they're not going to fight on that ground because it's out of the mainstream for them now. by process of elimination in addition to which this is the most complex it turns out that the president has to deal with. when you look back at history from perspective of history, we're going to see that this era has been the beginning of what amounts to a full scale war between sunni and shia. >> we're not even relevant to that. >> in that sense we in some respects aren't relevant to that. that complicates everything in a historic way that i think george bush started out by getting rid of hussein. that pulled the piece out of the jenga tower. the tower collapsed, so to speak, and the president is left to deal with the consequences. that's very difficult. that makes foreign policy the -- >> that's why i love you. not just your brain but your agreement with everything. i was watching that woody allen

movie the other night and they talked about going down the rabbit hole in iraq. this is the rabbit hole. i'm not sure about israel and how much we love them. it's about the jewish community. i get the sense it's about the early voters in iowa and places like that who are very bible driven. i'm not knocking it. they think of israel as the old testament, as the people they root for instinctively. they can't be wrong on any politics. and therefore it's about the devotion. these guys all play into it. leading it is guys like ted cruz. the first 20%, 30% they have to get to win the nomination is the hard right. >> that's right. i think they're playing to those voters. i think it takes a lot, though to move an election off the domestic terrain to the foreign pollster rain. and -- >> why are they shooting their big guns on foreign policy then? >> because they don't have anything else to shoot at right

now. but i think it takes a lot for that to really sink in with voters and for voters to decide on that basis. we may get there, but when is the foreign policy election? it's usually when we have an actual war. >> here's two options. suppose they cut a deal the president goes through the tricky almost indiana jones kind of path through the caves. don't step on the wrong rock. if he gets to a deal calls it a deal, is that more treacherous than him than not getting the deal because something happens or because menendez and all those guys pull the plug on him at some point? what's better for the 2016 election? because both results koultd lead to a call for bombing. yeah, for the republicans. >> for the republicans. oh. >> we don't have a deal for the iranians to stop -- >> oh republicans -- for the republican red meat right. by the way, a lot of this is about appealing to evangelicals in iowa south carolina early in

the process. they want a deal because they're going to denounce it whatever it is. they don't want the whole thing to fall apart. they want a deal -- >> will they call for bombing or both? >> they'll call for a bombing and they won't like the deal. what happens is this has become so polarized, so a part of the basic terrain of american politics, the middle east politics have become one in a way i haven't seen as long as i've been covering politics. and the republicans especially the conservatives that even jeb bush and the others they're all in. they're to the right of lee in most respects. >> you're not going to hear netanyahu call for bombing. >> if we hear bomb bomb iran as mccain loves the joke isn't that the one thing they all agree on?

>> if you don't count rand paul, yes. >> your colleague today margin marginalized him -- rand paul doesn't have a chance. >> that's right. maybe it is. maybe that's the one unifying thing. and -- >> so maybe you're wrong. >> sort of projecting this image of american strength and american control and america stride the world, that's a big selling point for the republicans. >> yes, but however, projecting it from the safety of not having anything to do with it. because none of them want -- are going to commit to putting troops on the ground again in that region. they're talking about bombing from long distance. they're talking about telling the israelis to go do it. the republican right is not -- you haven't heard a single one of them including ted cruz talking about putting american troops back in the region. >> that's true. what's interesting about it because they are so hawkish and the love to use phrases like we

shouldn't be ashamed to use america's muscle. once you start to fight, it's always a disaster. >> walker has opened the door actually. he said he would consider maybe in iraq or some place like that. >> thank you, have a nice weekend. up next the new law in indiana that could make it possible for businesses to discriminate against gays. know your financial plan won't keep you up at night. know you have insights from professional investment strategists to help set your mind at ease.

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>> well that was indiana's republican governor mike pence just yesterday after he quietly signed a new bill into law called the religious freedom restoration act. restoration act. that's interesting. it prohibits from burdening a company's ability to exercise their religious freedom unless government can show it has a compelling interest. opponents of the bill say it is specifically against the lbgt community. pence responded to that claim yesterday. >> this bill is not about discrimination. if i thought it was about discrimination i would have vetoed it. in fact it doesn't even apply to disputes between private individuals unless government action is involved. i think there's been a lot of misunderstanding about this bill. >> cnn reported about pence and his motivations, his allies who

pushed it into the legendture led by eric miller and a powerful lobbyist in indiana who stood behind pence at the bill signing ceremony touted the protections it affords businesses against gays lesbians and transgender hoosiers. those who lobby pence posted now christian bakers floress, and photographers won't have to participate in homosexual marriages. celebrities and activists disagree with him and are voicing their disapproval. hillary clinton weighed in tweeting, sad this new indiana law can happen in america today. we shouldn't discriminate about people because of who they love. #lbgt. steve kornacki is my colleague and host of "up with steve kornacki." elizabeth birch. i want to start with you, steve. is this an anti-gay move by

pence and the legislation? >> i mean you sort of trace where this thing comes from and it's sort of -- it's clearly in response to there's been this rising tide of public opinion. rise rising tide around the country to legalize gay marriage and advance gay rights. this is the only way to view this. in terms of the politics of this, it's not terribly surprising that mike pence of all governors would sign this. he's also had strong ties to the christian right. i wouldn't necessarily regard him as a 2016 process as somebody who thinks he has a future. there would be a reason to cater that conservative base of the republican party. but i think the much broader story here about the political implications about this is when you get to this level, we're not even talking gay marriage here we're talking about bakers and cakes for gay weddings and should they be able to deny gay customers services. when you get to this level, the republican party itself i think is divided on this.

i think the democratic party what you heard from hillary is what you'd hear across the board here. they said it themselves after the 2012 election that autopsy report called gay rights a gateway issue. they said young voters are not going to look at the republican party until they have a different tone on gay issues. this is a perfect example of it where you have a pragmatic group of the party that will take a different choice than pence is taking. >> you may be undecided, you be a conservative person. but you look at this and say i'm getting off the train here. >> exactly. so the louder voices than even civil rights or human rights voices are business. the indiana corporations hate this law. it's an image issue. >> is this going to be a convention trade? >> yes. sales force already announced they're moving a major convention out of indiana to new

york. eli lilly is furious. alcoa. household names. the chamber of commerce was against this bill. it's not about a hypertechnical legal analysis. it's about the image of indiana. this will hurt. and it was a very kind of public relations bone headed move in this era. and the only reason they passed it is because of the proliferation and the constitutional analysis around gay marriage. >> steve, you're an expert in so many areas, i'm going to push you in your envelope here. does this mean notre dame wins the championship in basketball in their home state of indiana? they can't even win it there because they won't be allowed to play there? >> you're looking at the ncaa headquartered in indianapolis. this year's final four coming up in indianapolis. this year's final four will still be in indiana. but indianapolis is a frequent site for the final four will they get any in the future?

will the ncaa itself -- which 15 years ago it was a big coup. will it stay in indianapolis? i think there's a longer term question there. >> so that's the fourth and the sixth of april. that's come up too fast to change. barney frank was the first member of congress to come out of the closet he reacted last night here on "hardball." here's mr. frank. >> well what if you're a wedding planner and a divorced catholic comes in who hasn't gotten an annulment. that is a violation for a devote catholic. if a woman comes in in short shorts that's a muslim? seriously. this isn't something -- you can't have it for gay people only. i don't think america wants that. if you want to personally discriminate, fine. you don't like me i don't want to see you. but you get a license to run a business and all the support

that you get, then the obligation is to serve anybody who's well behaved. >> i wonder where this goes. you're an advocate. you know this issue for a long time. and i was thinking does this go all the way from you don't want to do the wedding planning you don't want to be the clerk at the hotel that checks in a couple that's same sex. or you don't want to serve gas to a guy in a gas station because two guys look like they're lovers. how far can you carry it? i'm a baptist, i don't believe in this. how far can this stretch in indiana? >> it's the problem that the perception is it is sanctioned behavior. but the funny part to me is are you kidding me? wedding planners? what if the wedding planners decide they don't want to marry born again evangelical christians because they're gay? where does it end? it's a slippery slope. >> we'll have to wait for cases, i guess, to see how this thing works for people to start using this sanction. that's a nice word.

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over the last week i listened to you and in the process i found my own voice. now together let's give america the kind of comeback that new hampshire has just given me. >> that night in new hampshire i think the first lady there at the time she was the senator thought she'd won. seven years ago in the primary the night she won. hillary clinton's campaign in the granite state was a notable bright spot up to then. but she won praise in new hampshire for finding a voice of authenticity. she credited that to her listening tour to them. we're learning now that clinton's presidential launch will try to recapture that authenticity. as they report quote, her team

is keen to speed her transition from aloof, global personal to down to earth campaigner. it's worked before. this was hillary by the way launching that effort more than 15 years ago at a forum in upstate new york. >> i'm starting a listening tour of new york. i must say i'm very humbled and more than a little surprised to be standing here today. but when new yorkers began talking to me as they did shortly after the senator announced that he would not run again, i listened very hard. and the more i listened the more excited i became about the possibilities of what could be done on behalf of the people of new york. >> in stark contrast to hillary's listening tour you have something of a republican shouting match as ted cruz starts a war of purity. it's not a campaign of

inclusion. joining me tonight jonathan capehart and michael tumas. what do you think of this? i don't need to ask the right question. is it too late? is it too soon? >> it feels like here we go again. it's like it feels like the campaign or not campaign has been going on and on and on and on and what we want from hillary clinton is why do you want to run for president? what's your message? and does she really need a listening tour to tell us what she plans on doing if she's elected? >> look. it worked for her when she ran for senate in new york. at the time i thought it was a great thing she did. she went to all the counties in new york. she sat, listened to people talk, listened to their questions. and then when she announced she was running, you learned what she learned. she not only listened to people she internalized what she heard. and so when she talked about the issues facing new york -- she

came in for an editorial board meeting at the -- >> she wasn't from new york. so she -- >> of course. >> number two, she was going up state where they had reason to be skeptical of her of a big city liberal at that time thinking is she going to be humble enough to listen to us. what's the reason now to do it? >> well i think you put it -- >> i think the reason to do it -- >> i'll tell you why. the reason to do it now is to establish this thing of humility. that was the main word in the piece today. this was the main error she made in 2008. they tried to establish this aura of inevitability. it's going to be hillary, it's going to be hillary. that backfired. it didn't work. now she is the presumptive nominee. she doesn't have serious competition. exactly what she has to do is make it clear that i'm not taking that. >> we've all lived this. politics is a vernacular. it's a language. you've got to get in it. it's diving into cold water. once you get in the water, you

get used to it and you get used to the temperature. she has to get into that water again. can you get into it more slowly by listening? here's where i stand on this here's where i stand on this. >> i think the only benefit to her doing this listening tour is it can give america a chance to figure out who is the real hillary clinton. you sort of alluded to it when you said she didn't necessarily prove she was from new york. is she the woman we heard on video with a strong southern accent? is she the new yorker? who does is the stand for and what is she going to do not just for -- this is important because i would love to see a female as the next president of the united states. but if she's going to do it she has to give us an overriding reason why it's her time and -- >> okay. there was a knock on al gore one

time. he was arriving somewhere maybe tennessee and he was asking the guy welcoming, the guy setting up the trip what should i say? that's the danger that she's at. she's younger than me but at some point you ought to know what you want to say, not what you ought to be saying. is it a way of asking for somebody to script her? >> no. i think that's too cynical. i think the listening tour is not jumping in the water. it's standing on the diving board getting ready. then when she makes her announcement and she tells the american people why she -- >> what's she going to hear in the weeks? what's she going to hear in two weeks that's going to help? >> i'm sorry. >> here's what she's going to hear. what we already know. right? >> oh now i know why i'm running. >> she's going to go and talk to the american middle class. what i would love to see her do is do something different and not just talk to the middle class but talk to the underclass. what she's going to hear is we have an education system that's broken. we have a health care system that still doesn't work for the

people who need it. there are so many other issues she can talk about that would show her as being humble and not as the hillary clinton who -- >> it's like a little preseason. you know? it's like a little warm-up. >> on the diving board. >> that was the book tour. >> everybody knows she's running, chris. it doesn't really matter. she can trot it out this way. it insulates her a bit. one thing she doesn't have a good eye for, is talking to the press. >> will it be for us? >> i'm sure she'd love to come on here. >> she will. >> when she's talking about the issues that really matter to her, when she talks about women and childrens issues she is humble articulate. she grabs you. i want to see her do the same thing but i also want to see her do it -- >> jonathan. >> why isn't it humble a sign of humility that she would go to iowa, go to new hampshire, go to

those voters in one state that rejected her another state that propelled her and listen to what they have to say after years of politicians coming in and telling them what they think they want to hear? why isn't that humble? >> i think new hampshire is too easy. they're too comfortable there. she won new hampshire. but i think even launching a campaign from iowa to me would be a stroke of brilliance. because iowa is every man's land for the united states. i think that would be brilliant for her. >> people will like it chris. >> it's all how you pull it off, if you pull it off well. >> i was on the first listening tour. reportering made fun of it rolled eyes. >> it was brilliant. it was brilliant then. it will be brilliant now because the american people want to know that the person that they're going to entrust their lives and livelihood to is listening to them. >> and we will hear the echo of those thoughts when she starts to campaign. >> yeah. true. >> we'll hear that. >> my vote is to start in iowa.

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