. >> joining me now with more is jim himes. nice to see you. thanks for joining me. >> good to see you, alex. >> so are there any leads on who may be responsible? >> well, one of the weird things about this whole experience is that our own intelligence community doesn't have a whole lot more than what you read about in the media. this thing has simply disappeared. and, of course, the challenge of figuring out what happened has been complicated immensely by the fact that we now because the malaysian military failed to notice the radar traces that turned out to be this plane, we really have no idea where this plane is, within a grid of tens of thousands of miles. so a lot of missed opportunities. but one of the staggering things here is just the fact that we just don't know. >> do you find it somewhat comforting, if you will, in a very bizarre way that it's not al qaeda, or aqap, or some of these groups that we're so familiar with, because would they not have already taken credit for this and said we are responsible? >> well, i'm not sure i find