Found ten objects, 26 feet long by 13 feet wide. Their pictures, they come from yesterday. Some officials in japan are reportedly saying they believe theres a high probability they could be linked to the missing jetliner. Great developments. Search planes had to pull back early from the search zone today because the weather conditions were just too brutal. A half dozen ships however are still out there looking. Again they have the challenge of dealing with low visibility. Theyre hoping to have the planes up again tomorrow if weather improves. Until then, experts are pouring over these images, new ones, ones from yesterday, ones from a few days ago trying to determine if objects are whats left of boeing 777. As we said, time running out. The planes data recorders are losing Battery Power if theyre working at all. Theres new concerns theyre not. Well tell you in a minute. The chances of finding pings are growing slimmer by the day. John is with us. A former pilot and criminal investigator. And oceanography professor at columbia university. John, i want to ask you. We have 122 possible objects spotted yesterday. 300 objects were seeing for the first time today plus the news japan took pictures of ten possible objects. I know until a boat gets them up and looks at exactly what they are, nothing is confirmed. This is an awful lot of debris sited in the area they think the flight ended. Absolutely. This is a very important lead. Every sighting has to be checked out. If we have a small chance to find the airplane by the way its a small chance in the huge ocean we need to take every opportunity. Finding that debris though is going to be very crucial to find out whether its a linked to this downed aircraft or this aircraft at all. Thats the proposition finding it. Once they spot it on the satellite, a few days past. Then you have a bad weather day. The searches are called off. Lets bring in the oceanographer. This is a concern act what the currents could have done to the debris spotted on satellite. Thats correct. On average currents flow toward temperatures the east. Theres a lot of other factors that make the trajectories ko chaotic. There are waves in the area very high wave, that push the debris. When you combine currents, waves, wind, its very difficult to build a trajectory to see where these particles are going to go. And also the many particles that are from perhaps from the aircraft have dispersed with time. They move apart with time because of turbulence from the ocean. Its quite a challenge to find them. Then the biggest challenge is work backwards to determine where the impact was. I was thinking thats the frustration there. You get the satellite images i again youre taking a cautious note. You say we have got to get there. We cant get there. The weather a day is such a huge setback. Weve had two days of setbacks. Weve got to understand two things. Its not finding it but chasing it. Every time we get a delay, we have to remember men and women are risking their lives to find this. We dont want another air tragedy by having this go down. We want to make sure we keep them safe at the same time. Those delays put us way behind. In two days it could be another hundred miles or so away. If the flight did end in the ocean as the experts stated it did, would you see this many pieces of debris, hundreds and hundreds . It depends how the aircraft broke up. The luggage would be out there. Like we saw many years ago off long island, all the debris was out there. Its going to depend. Theres three theories. Until we find out which, every one of them are still open. John, youve been a great voice on our show. Thanks so much. Arnold, thanks for joining us. Great to have you here. In washington today, rescuers etch issi searching foe days after the mudslide. 90 still unaccounted for. 24 were killed when that hill gave way. One woman was at home and it was pushed a quarter of a mile. She got the chance to thank the mann that pued her from the rubble. Theres nothing left. It ripped the roof off. I thank god for that. If the roof had still been on, the house filled up with mud and water. We would have drowned. Well have a live report from the scene later this hour. Two of the worlds most powerful men sitting down face to face for the first time. Little difficult to hear. Not just a photo opp. President obama and pope francis were focussing on common priorities Like Fighting poverty, Affordable Care act, contraception mandate. Were going to take more about their hour o. Any moment we expect the president to speak. Well take comments live from rome when he begins. Listen up sports fans. This is huge. Could be a game changer. A Regional Office of the Labor Relations board says Football Player at North Western university can unionize. They can form a union. The ruling says athletes are essentially university employees. The athletes feel the union could help get better medical coverage and maybe compensation. These universities mike a fortune off of college sports. North western is fighting the ruling arguing the players are students first and athletes second. When it comes to the worlds best airports, u. S. Failing to make the cut. The 2014 World Airport a wards are out. Singapore wins. Munich, amsterdam rank in the top five. See a trend . Tokyo, beijing, zurich, vancouver, london round out the top ten. 13 million submitted their picks. Not a single u. S. Airport made the cut. Denver is lovely as is atlanta. Eight minutes after the hour o. Ahead at this hour, may be the most mysterious clue yet in the search. The final partial hand shake the plane sent to the satellite. Up next, well speck to the satellite expert about what secret he thinks that ping, hand shake might hold. 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Now according to one of our next guest, a quick series made earlier in the flight could shed light on that final hands shake. Joining us now, tim and bob, a former pilot and long time aviation correspondent. Pleasure to see you both. Thanks for joining us. Bob, lets start with you u. What has people so excited about the partial hand shake is that it very well could be the last transmission of point of contact. It could be. Its interesting when you look at pings, what weve been told so far you have them every hour regularly reporting in as it tries to make a hand shake with the satellite high over the indian ocean. Whats intriguing when this airplane took off, there were three pings and more rapid succession. Then when that rapid left turn was made at altitude, there were three more pings in rapid succession. The question is why . It may have to do with altitude changes or the presentation of the aircraft to the satellite. Indication of the big swooping turn could mean the plane went into a dive or rapid climb. In terms of the final ping, this is where i think tims analysis is spectacular. I think tim has the best blog out there on this. It could mean change in presentation of the aircraft to the satellite meaning a final dive or could mean there was a power loss. In either case it could mean that particular point is where the aircraft went down or went into its final glide which would help people find the black box. I would say too, the black box obviously is not going to have the conversations when this big swooping turn was made back to malaysia. It will tell us whether the airplane slowly went into the water, whether it lost one engine and fell in or was deliberately pushed in. Most importantly well know too whether there were inputs to the flight Management System saying there was a pilot in the cockpit commanding it or as some suggest was a ghost flight. I think tim has done a spectacular job on his blog, smartest guy on the block. Tim, you have quite the introduction. Explain to me the analysis of the final hand shake and the pings from earlier that seems significant to you. Thats right. There are two sorts of pings. One is a ping initiated by the satellite network, the hourly pings we see where the network checks in like it would with your cell phone to check its still connected. Then you have irregular pings look like theyre initiated by the plane itself. For example, if you drive through a long tunnel, your phone will ping the network to reestablish contact. There are pings associated with this turn. The plane may have lost contact with the satellite if it turned sharply, went up and down, Something Like that. Then the planes term that will would have tried to reestablish with the satellite. It seems like the last partial ping, same thing was happening. It wasnt a timeout from the network to reestablish the plane was still connected. If its the same situation, it may well be connected with a turn, stall, dive, whatever. Really interesting notion there. Bob, we know youve had a chance to look at these images, the 122 first spotted and the field of 300, then maybe i dont know if youve had the chance we havent had a chance to look at the japanese imagery yet. The ten larger objects. All roughly in the same area. Youve covered a lot of accidents. Im curious to your reaction to this satellite imagery. Its so hard to find things. Theres a differential between the radar and satellite images. A lot would be under the surface of the water so ships arent seeing it. Also a big differential in terms of seeing the the object. A 40 knot wind is going to rip through the water. You expect differential between light objects, oxygen masks, flight graph, tray or something which would be blown in the ocean hundreds and hundreds of miles. The more substantial objects, its possible its still floating. It would be empty and sealed, its possible. Fiber carbon parts. You expect that to be up. I expect to see a differential in terms of where it goes. As we look at wind chart, weve seen east and west depending on how high or low you are. Its going to take a super computer to figure that out, where the debris came from to find the underwater debris field which is the most critical. Planes cant fly which would be a big help. Ships are still out there. Thank you so much. Great to have you with us. Ahead at this hour, did the pilot have anything to do with flight 370 just vanishing into air . His son now has something to say about it. Well have the details next. Y aah [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of greattasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and 9 grams of protein. [ bottle ] ensure®. Nutrition in charge™. [ bottle ] ensure®. Are you still sleeping . 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Developing at this hour, new satellite images showing hundreds of objects in the southern indian ocean. Planes still cant locate them which leaves i shall officials about so many questions. Why did it turn away from the flight path . Was the cause of the plane going in the ocean mechanical, terrorist, hijacking, suicide . Did the pilot have anything to do with it . We dont know anything. Until they locate the flight data recorder, we may never know. After days of speculation, the pilots son for the first time speaking out about his father. Heres what he told the malaysian newspaper. Ive Read Everything online but ignored the speculation. I know my father better. We may be as close as he travels so much, but i understand him. That again from the son of the pilot. Will ripley joins us now in perth, australia. Will, officials tell us at cnn that their investigation has turned up nothing in the pilots background that makes him greater focus. Theyre still investigating him, but still they found nothing thats a giant red flag. What else is the son saying in defense of the father . Reporter well you know, heres the 26yearold, pilots youngest son whos had to listen to his dad being called everything from a hijack tore political radical to somebody on a suicide mission. The reason theres focus on the pilot because a lot of the planes moves were calculated in the sense you had to punch in demands. The plane did a turn in a matter of minutes. This is something an experienced pilot would have had to do. The big question is why. He said what you read in the quote there. He says we arent close, but i know my father. This has been a difficult time for his family. One interesting thing in the news straight times article, the son said when he heard the news from the malaysian Prime Minister they believed the plane had crashed and no one survived, he said he wasnt surprised by that. A lot of victims families were. For him to say it wasnt a surprise was striking. That is striking indeed. We know obviously from watching the course of the investigation, the simulator in the pilots home was taken. They took it. We know the fbi was taking a look at it as well. What are investigators finding out about the files deleted from that simulator . Reporter were expecting announcement from the fbi any day now on that. We know they have had teams working around the clock not only on the simulator but any computers the pilot had access to. The pilot and copilot. What cnn sources are saying is so far they havent found a smoking gun, something that would make them indicate okay, heres what were looking for. Real answers are sadly lying in the indian ocean where searchers havent been able to get to because of all the weather. Can i ask you a quick question about the weather tomorrow. Are they expecting conditions to cooperate more with search efforts . Reporter as of right now, we are being told that the planes are going to be taking off around 5 00 a. M. Local time here. You know, we were told that yesterday as well. In fact, of 11 aircraft slated to go up, eight reached the search area and had to turn around. Visibility went from good to zero. Weather conditions got ugly quickly. Thats how volatile the ocean weather is. Thats disheartening. Will in perth, australia, thanks so much. Ahead this hour, all new leads in the search frustrated by bad weather as we were talking to will about. Were going to talk more about hit and possible changes coming to the Airline Industry that could make searches like this obsolete. It and possible change to the Airline Industry that could make searches like this obsolete. Told ya you could do it. dad vo i want her to be safe. So, i taught her what i could and got her a subaru. girl piece of cake. announcer love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Return on investment wall isnt a street. 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You could never get too much of your italian friends. Were able to continue the discussion today. My day started with the great honor of meeting his holliness pope frances. Like people around the world, ive been moved by his compassion, message of inclusion. I was grateful to have the opportunity to speak with him about the responsibilities we all share to care for the least of these, the poor, the excluded. And i was extremely moved by his insights about the importance of us all having a moral perspective on World Problems and not simply thinking in terms of our own narrow self interests. Of course its wonderful to be back in rome, one of the great cities of the world. I should point out while this is our First Official bilateral meeting, i had the chance to welcome him to the white house. He came as a group of mayors back when he served as mayor of florence. I look forward to the opportunity to welcome the Prime Minister back this time as Prime Minister. I also want to say that i had a wonderful meeting with my good friend. I think italy is is lucky to have an extraordinary statesman to help them guide the country through challenging times. Italy and the United States share extraordinary bonds of history and family and culture. Were especially grateful and proud for the italian americans who made enormous contributions to our country. Italy is one of our closest allies. Our bond links us and the United States together. Ive made clear throughout the trip our partnership with europe is the foundation of americas engagement in the world. Its a corner stone of our security policy. I appreciated the opportunity to consult with the Prime Minister on a wide range of issues. On a more personal level, i want to say ive been impressed by the energy and vision that mateo is bringing to his position. Theres a seriousness and ambition of ideas, and i think and spirit and energy of the italian people has the opportunity to be unleashed in the way that will be good for italy and also good for europe. Its wonderful to see this new generation of leadership coming to the floor. As the Prime Minister indicated we focused on the situation in ukraine, something ive been talking about over the last three days. We continue to see International Unity in the face of a violation of International Law in ukraines territorial integrity. The imfs announcement today that it reached a preliminary agreement on ukraine on a loan program is a may jor step forward. This significant support will help stabilize the economy and meet the needs of ukrainian people over the long term because it provides the prospect for true growth. It will require Structural Reforms, but it means ukraine can go on a path that countries like poland have been able to embark on and seen incredible growth over the last several years. Its also going to reinforce democratic reforms and should help unlock some 27 billion in International Support for ukraine. So its a concrete signal of how the world is united with ukraine as it makes tough choices at a difficult time. Ukraines leaders can show considerable courage and foresight making the reforms to grow their economy, leave behind the corruption of the past, and today i want to call on the United States congress to make sure the United States does its part with economic assistance package that helps support the ukrainian people as they move forward. As noato allies, United States and italy are going to uphold our obligation with allies. Our moving ahead with in brussels, a signal of the growing isolation. The sanctions the United States and European Union have imposed will continue to grow. As i said yesterday in brussels were continually hopeful russia walks through the door of diplomacy and works with all of us to try to resolve this issue in a peaceful way. We will continue to coordinate closely with italy and other European Partners throughout this crisis. I thanked the Prime Minister and president for italys commitment to nato. Italy is one of our largest contributors to the coalition. In kosovo, in lebanon and at the Nuclear Summit this week we announced the removal of yuranum to be eliminated. Its one more leadership across the board. We discussed the need to boost Economic Growth on both sides of the atlantic so were creating jobs for people, especially young people. Thats why in addition to kinds of steps the Prime Minister outlined and plans to pursue, we have opportunity to move forward with the transatlantic trade and Investment Partnership to boost growth and investment not just for large but also small and medium sized businesses. I commended his efforts to hire more workers and make the Italian Economy more competitive. There is woirk remains to be done. As italy moves forward and makes decisions, United States will stand with you. Finally we discussed broader global issues. Italy played a Critical Role in the nato air campaign to protect the libyan people three years ago. Well Work Together to make sure they develop the Security Forces that can restore order to libya and mike sure they have a government serving the libyan people. The entire world appreciates the role italy plays in the initiative to destroy chemical weapons. Its a port where syrias chemical weapons will be unloaded and transported to ships for elimination. This is another example of how we Work Together not just for ourselves but the world. We are looking forward to being back in italy in milan hosting the world or being part of the world exhibition next year italy is hosting. Im proud to announce today the United States will participate in the expo and together with our partners were going to put together an outstanding, usa pavilion. Italy will put on the exhibition as only italy can. I have volunteers on my staff that want to go and mike suake t goes smoothly. I understand restaurants and shopping may somewhere be in their agenda. So mr. Prime minister, thank you for your friendship and leadership. Im confident that together we can build on the progress that weve already made. Im more confident that the bonds between our two nations will continue to grow rooted in the enduring friendship between our two people. Thank you so much mr. President. Thank you so much also for the shopping and food. Its so important for our economy. For questions, okay, for america. Okay. Channel 1 news. Good afternoon. Prime minister, you said a moment ago that you will be you are committed to creating a new europe with less os tearty and more growth, less bure rack say. Is there an american model to be followed . Are you asking u. S. . Change of economic policies in the field. What kind of europe would you like to see for better corporation in the economic field and also in the defense field which you mentioned yesterday. Thank you. Italys first effort is going to be change to italy. Italy doesnt have alibis any longer. Italy musnt think problems and opportunities will come from the outside, from europe or u. S. We have to change ourselves. We are a great country and able to change. We have to reduce our bureaucracy. We have to reduce, down size our Political Class and costs. We have to work on our labor market because our International Investors have to know this is a great place for ideas and businesses to grow. So this is why we say to italians and to all our fellow citizens that we shouldnt be looking for an excuse. Noeb noeb is going to do this from the outside. We have to do this. If we believe in ourselves, yooirp has to focus on growth and less on bu rack say. I think this is how it should be. I spoke to Angela Merkel about this. We will be discussing this during our semester of presidency. Can the u. S. Be a model, you ask that . Of course. Over the years, under the leadership of president obama, the United States has chosen an ambitious course. They have been rebuilding their economy in america. In fact, thats a message that weve received. We decided to call our measures, jobs act. This is the same term used in the u. S. More or less. This is a way of helping youth have more credibility, have more space, more room. We have to make sure that our investors want to come. So of course the u. S. Can be seen as a model. The important point italy has to do its homework. In other words, italy must finally put into practice Structural Reforms weve been waiting for past 20 years. My government and credibility over next four years comes from that. We want to change ourselves. Clearly were doing it in an interconnected global world. We know europe has to think a bit more about the future and bit less about the past and the friendship and cooperation and partnership with the u. S. Therefore are a unreling kwishable beacon for us. Before i talk about the future, let me talk about the recent past. I think europe has taken important steps and deserve credit. As recently as the year and a half to two years ago, we were very worried about the euro spinning out of control. There were enormous challenges across the board. Because of strong coordination within the euro zone, because of smart actions by the European Central bank, the financial situation has stabilize. I also think there were countries under enormous market pressure, borrowing rates skyrocketing. Because of tough decisions, youve seen those, the ability of countries to borrow on the International Markets stabilizes. All that was necessary and was important. It could not have happened had it not been for coordinated response among european leaders. Weve Seen Movement toward Banking Union which i think is helpful. There are other other multilateral reforms taking place we have encouraged. Now having said that, what is also true is that europes growth is still very slow. Its Unemployment Rate is still very high. And nobody knows that better than Prime Minister renzi. Thats part of his mission, the economy. Each country has a set of issues its going to have to address. Each country has strengths and weaknesses in the economy. I think Prime Minister renzi identified the stuck churl reforms italy needs to engage in to be more successful. Im confident hes going to be able to move italy forward in part because italy is ready to move forward. As far as europe as a whole, i do think that the old debate about growth versus aus tarty is a debate. You need public finances in order but also have to grow. The more you grow, the easier it is to get public finances in order. There are different capacities within europe. Ive said before and will repeat again, those countries that have substantial surpluses have more room to help boost european wide demand and that in turn will help countries still in deficit. That will lift europe as a whole and that means that everybody is growing. And so, in my conversations with president yesterday at the European Union i encouraged them to continue to identify ways in which countries with surpluses could do more to boost demand while still being prudent about public finances. Last point i guess i would make is in terms of the United States and how we can be helpful, part of us is making sure were taking care of our own issues. Its not as if we dont have a lot of work to do ourselves. Weve grown faster than europe and i think we recovered in part because we took some smart steps. We also have fundamental problems that many advanced nations face and then in fact i discussed with his holliness, hope francis this morning, increasing tendency in the World Economy for those who benefit from globalization and technology to do better than ever before. Those at the top. Those at the bottom or in the middle having more and more problems in part because perhaps their jobs have been rendered obsolete, in part because its very difficult to see wages increase, Companies Feel as if they can always move if labor makes too big a demand on wage or salary increases. So, all of us are seeing structural problems in this new economy. That means weve got to redouble our efforts to educate our young people to make sure we have the capacity to provide skills to our workers if they lose their jobs. They can transition quickly. That we have a strong baseline of social support for people if they end up transitions out of jobs. That were paying more attention to opening opportunity to people who have been locked out, particularly young people. As i mentioned to the Prime Minister, one of the tragedies of high youth unemployment is that when young people dont have a strong attachment to the labor market early, that can continue the rest of their years. We have been listening to the Prime Minister of italy, renzi as well as president obama, wide ranging topics, a lot focussing on the economy. Were going to turn and head to a press conference underway now. This is in new jersey. That man youre looking at there, i believe randy masstro with the law firm of gibson and dunn hired by Chris Christies in new jersey to investigate the bridgegate scandal. What this investigation has found is Chris Christie is not in any way responsible. He did not order and was not involved with noting directing the bridge closure. Lets listen to what he has to say. They are contradicted by documents, witness accounts and own prior statements. So no remedial actions are required in regard to allegations. Finally i wanted to briefly summarize some of the recommendations that we have made to the governor. Because while the actions of the few, there was a violation, a breach of the public trust we take very seriously. We take our mandate seriously to make recommendations to the governor that something in his office, that Something Like this never happen again. Among the recommendations we have made to the Governors Office are that iga, Intergovernmental Affairs office run by Bridget Kelly in 2013, that that office be depanded and the Governors Office be reorganized, functions combined with those of the Governors Office of constituent relations into an office of legislative and constituent services. To get back to the original mission of that office which was to provide constituent services to provide services to local elected officials in a non partisan way. Open to all. The way that office functioned during the first three plus years of governor christies administration. Until this aberration behavior directed by Bridget Kelly in 2013. And the mission of that office should be made Crystal Clear to be a Service Function for all and are non partisan manner. Second, weve recommended to the Governors Office that the governor appoint a chief ethics officer for the Governors Office. This would be a senior statesman of unquestioned integrity and independence to report directly to the governor and issue period reports to the public as for complaints within the Governors Office. And we have recommended separately the appointment of a chief ethics officer for the office of the governor to be responsible for ethics enforcement, conflicts issue resolution and training. And that that person should have a direct reporting relationship both with the chief counsel to the governor, the ombudsman and ability to report to the governor as well. Finally, in regard to the Port Authority, which is where this lane realignment was aif he can which you waited, we recommend the appointment of a Bistate Commission to examine ways in which to fundamentally restructure and reform the Port Authority to ensure its independence and professionalism. This incident exemplifies that there are times within the Port Authority where the rivalries between new york and new jersey have led to communication failures and other problematic issues. A Bistate Commission appointed by both governors can look at ways to help improve the operations of Port Authority to make it truly independent and professional to serve the needs of both states. In the first instance a commission will hopefully look at these types of issues first whether its appropriate to restructure so that there are new jersey and new york divisions, functions, projects principally in one state or the other that will be run by each of those states so that those states will be truly accountable for the projects applicable to each state. Second, to look at ways to restructure the appointments process at the Port Authority to encourage independence and professionalism. Terms of years, staggered terms that will exceed the length of terms of governors and joint appointments by both governors to increase independence and responsibility within the Port Authority. That is a brief summary, ladies and gentlemen, of our findings and recommendations. And now i would be pleased to take questions. Yes . Someone looking at this they would say, well, governor christies lawyer, the fact you found he did nothing wrong here is suspect because thats what youre supposed to do, work for him. And they would doubt these findings. Sure. Sure. The premise of the question is wrong, david, because the premise of the question is that our law firm works for an individual. Our law firm was retained by the office of the governor. We were obtained by a public office. And we have an obligation to that public office. And whatever the facts were that we found, our obligation and it was publicly stated, was to report those findings back to that office. And that office announced publicly long before wed reached any point of rendering findings or knowing what our findings would be that those findings would be put out to the public. And, david, had we found evidence to the contrary of what we found, we would have been reporting that. And of course in facilitating our cooperation with investigations we would have been providing that information to investigators. What we found, david, what we found was governor christie had no involvement in the decision to close these lanes and pno prior knowledge of it. Not a shred of evidence of it. And were obligated to report that back. That is our public responsibility, both as lawyers and to a public office. Yes, angela . Did you interview witnesses on your oath . Did you interview chairman samson . And what did okay. Our interviews were not under oath, just as initial interviews that other investigations are doing are typically not under oath. Chairman sampson had denied any prior knowledge of the lane closure incident in prior statements he made, so we had the benefit of that. But we did not have the opportunity to interview him. Yes . Residents of new jersey are probably today realizing this cost a Million Dollars dragging on what does a Million Dollars buy with an investigation . Well, first of all, i have no idea what the cost of this has been, but i will say that to do an investigation like this and to have to facilitate cooperation with other investigations that have issued sweeping overbroad subpoenas is a costly proposition. Its a costly proposition for the Governors Office, for the legislative committees, for those individuals who are involved. But let me also say this, its a search for the truth. And we believe we have gotten to the truth or we would not be reporting it. It serves no ones interest, no ones interest certainly not my or my law firms interest, certainly not the Governors Offices interest or the constituency it serves, the people of new jersey, for us to have done anything other than to try to get to the truth here and to address it. Because, ladies and gentlemen, there are other investigations that will make findings after we are done. We will be judged at the end of the day by whether we got this right. We intended to get it right. We believe weve gotten it right. Weve admitted where we dont have answers yet. And other investigations will continue to work with to see that they get those answers, but as to the most important questions, we believe we got it right. Well ultimately be judged by that. And we had to work even harder to get it right now so that the people of new jersey could be assured as a matter of public trust whether the officials in their Governors Office have conducted themselves appropriately or not. So, yes, our findings today are a vindication of governor christie all right. Youve been listening to randy mastro, former member of mayor Rudy Giulianis administration. Appropriate to note. He was hired to do this internal investigation basically finding no remedial action required, but they did make some recommendations to some changes that need to happen. Lets bring in chris franks to sort of go through what was said. Weve been reacting to it ourselves. Ill tell you what, this is a huge report. You take a look, its like 350 pages. So were going through it, but the top line headlines here, Chris Christie didnt know about the lane closures before they happened, didnt know when they were happening, and everything he told us on january 9th in his Big Press Conference according to this report turns out to be true and his understanding. Now, what this report really does is take a hard look at Bridget Kelly, she was the deputy chief of staff to Chris Christie, and david wildstein, he was one of the top at the Port Authority. And they come under scathing review. Essentially this report says both kelly and wildstein knew and perpetrated these lane closures for some reason to get back at may the mayor of new jersey. The Port Authority doesnt tell us what the motivation is, but they say its clear that both kelly and wildstein used the lane closures for political retribution. The other interesting fact here that has come out in this report that had been rumored was that Bridget Kelly and bill steppien, had some kind of a personal relationship, quote, and at some point after stepiens departure, kelly became personally involved. Cooled and largely stopped speaking, so that was a headline too that christies deputy chief of staff and Campaign Manager had some kind of personal relationship. Gives you a sense of the web of connections at least going on behind the scenes. Chris, we cant state this enough. This isnt the final word here. This is an investigation launched by Chris Christies office by a law firm hired by Chris Christies office. Theres still a legislative committee with subpoena power investigating the situation. Theres still a federal investigation at work right now. Any sense yet if they will find things to be a little bit different than this handpicked Lawyers Office did . Well, ill tell you, jon, the legislature is going after the documents of Bridget Kelly and bill steppien. Both of those parties have declined so far to give their emails and Text Messages to that investigative committee. And the lawyer for Chris Christie who put this report together said that, you know, what they know is limited because they also dont have those things. That is the same thing they would all like to get their hands on. Chris frates following this closely. Dig into those pages. Thats it for this at this hour. Legal view with Ashleigh Banfield starts right now. Hello everyone. Im Ashleigh Banfield. It is thursday march the 27th. Welcome to legal view. I want to begin with a Major Development now in the hunt for flight 370 just one day after news that a french satellite found possible debris with about 122 objects, we are getting word of another debris field almost three times the size and not that far away either. A thai satellite captured these images of 300 floating objects in the southern indian ocean. Objects that could be from this missing