air force lieutenant richard newton. >> good to be back, governor. >> so many things we don't know about the mystery of the mayasia flight 370. what are the possible scenarios that need to be focused on in terms of looking for the airplane? >> first off, there are a lot of different scenarios that are out there and speculated in the nows and from a broad stand point. we need to focus on first of all what happened and secondly determine how it could occur and then get to the whys. and the scenario we heard from the prime freedom of mayasia that it was a deliberate act and therefore, some type of misbehavior in the cockpit got us to the ponent where we are now. >> there are hours and hours of speck oulgz and television and radio of what happened and all of the things portrayed. what do we know at this point? >> what we know right now, we have pieces to a puzzle and think in terms of the puzzle and we are getting to frame what could be a some type of deliberate cause that created this aircraft from being lost. but we don't have physical evidence. we have virtual evidence but no physical evi

. >> joining me now is stormer assistant vice chair of the staff lieutenants general richard newton the third. thank you for joining us. welcome back. good to have you again. >> tlr so many things we don't know about the mystery malaysian nig flight 370 what are the possible scenarios that need fto be focused on in terms of looking for the airplane? we can determine how it occurred and we will get to the whys eventually. we heard from the prime minister in malaysia earlier stating the fact it appeared to be a deliberate brat a-- deliberate act. some type of misbehavior in the cockpit got us to the point of where we are right now. >> there have been hours and hours of speculation on television and radio about what happened and all of the different things that had been portrayed this could have been, this could have been. what do we actually genuinely know at this point? >> what we know is we have pieces to a puzzle. in terms of doing a big puzzle we are getting the outer edges of the puzzle to frame what could be a scenario that looked like a deliberate brat cause from this aircraft bein

former commanding officer of the uss sole and vice chief of staff lieutenant general richard newton iii. general boykin, i want to start with you. let's get to the heart of a very hot conflict that's going on right now. this week chuck hagel says we're going to make some significant cuts. putin ramps up and sends several airplanes, 8 of them just this past week, thousands of russian soldiers to crimea. is there a disconnect between what we're doing and what is happening in the rest of the world? >> well, governor, i think it's very important that we understand that we can cut the defense department, but that has to be done after a careful analysis of who we're going to be up against in the future and ance assessment of what risk wee willing to take. what we see in the ukraine is an example that there are some powerful enemies out there and this process that i just talked about has not been used. this is about politics and out of control spending. >> commander, you were in charge of the uss cole when it was attacked. when you hear that america will be reducing its overall budget, i think

. >> with us now is former assistant vice chief of staff of the air force general richard newton.eneral good evening. thanks for being with us. you just haired dominique, the inconsistency now after the transponders turned off they did say good evening. what does that tell you? >> that tells me there's obviously communication ongoing between the aircraft and the ground controllers at some point. also reported that the aircraft communications addressing reporting system or akars was was sending and you had communication with ground control and then reported that the transponder in the aircraft stopped transmitting at that point indicates that to me it is still of the delivered likely event verses a catastrophic failure of the aircraft as it was flying through the sky. >> as we try to make sense of this, do you think there should be live streaming from cockpits so that at least we have the ability if something like this happens in the future to identify what is actually going on? >> judge, i don't think at this point, it is way too early to determine what would be some of the ramifi

. >> with us now is former assistant vice chief of staff of the air force general richard newton.hanks for being with us. you just haired dominique, the inconsistency now after the transponders turned off they did say good evening. what does that tell you? >> that tells me there's obviously communication ongoing between the aircraft and the ground controllers at some point. also reported that the aircraft communications addressing reporting system or akars was was sending and you had communication with ground control and then reported that the transponder in the aircraft stopped transmitting at that point indicates that to me it is still of the delivered likely event verses a catastrophic failure of the aircraft as it was flying through the sky. >> as we try to make sense of this, do you think there should be live streaming from cockpits so that at least we have the ability if something like this happens in the future to identify what is actually going on? >> judge, i don't think at this point, it is way too early to determine what would be some of the ramifications of what occurr