In all, nine ships, ten military planes and a civilian jet took part in todays search. And a malaysian government source tells cnn, the jetliners turning off the course is being considered a criminal act. Either by one of the pilots or someone else on board. So for weeks, we were told the last words from the crew were, quote, all right, good night. Now weve learned the words were actually, quote, good night malaysian 370. The release of the transcript is raising many questions, and its also providing a few answers. Lets bring in our aviation and government regulation correspondent, rene marsh. Walk us through some of the details weve learned from this transcript, which has just been released. Right. You know what, wolf, we have learned that communications between the cockpit and air Traffic Control was pretty normal up until it disappeared. So this is the transcript here. Just a little bit over two pages long. And were going to pull from it. We know that at 12 40, according to this tra
Accusing russia of violating the 1987 treaty signed by president reagan and gorbachev. President then of what was the soviet union. President obama reportedly sending this letter directly to his counterpart in russia this morning as well as having john kerry deliver a similar message to the Russian Foreign minister. Also tonight just hours ago, the u. S. Releasing new satellite images from this saturday appearing to provide the clearest evidence to date showing that russia is directly, directly, attacking ukraine with deadly force. Look in the lower right of your screen. The green box shows the telltale signs of rocket launchers in russia. In the upper left, the blue x shows the charred craters of explosions ntds ukraine. This comes after this amateur video last week reportedly showing what we were told were Russian Military units firing artillery shells directly into the ukraine. The pentagon called this a clear escalation, thats a quote, of hostilities by russia days after prorussian
Republicans think. They can do this for a quarter of the cost of the president s proposal. All the sudden they think they can do it in the next week. If the house is able to pass a piece of legislation next week, if the senate can pass it to provide the money necessary to do the things that ive talked about just a few minutes ago, that we can secure the border. And that will allow us to then continue the discussion on the other issues. Nbc News White House correspondent Kristen Welker has the read out from there. Whats the thinking there at this hour . Well, white house officials are skeptical, first of all, that this is going to pass through the house but certainly skeptical it would pass through both chambers. First of all, the white house is asking for 3. 7 billion. White House Press Secretary josh earnest just said in his briefing that thats the amount of money the president thinks is necessary to deal with this crisis, both in terms of adding new Immigration Judges as well as beef
25 years ago the berlin wall came down. Even as they celebrate in germany, russian tanks are again barrelling into ukraine. We look ahead on sunday morning futures. Well, a shakeup in the Party Leadership on capitol hill. Republicans now control both the house and the senate. The gop taking the victory, campaigning on that promise that theyre going to end the gridlock in washington. Congressional leaders already having their first sitdown with the president. My first guest is one of those republicans who secured a reelection on tuesday. Senator Lindsay Graham is a member of the Senate Armed Services committee. Good to see you, senator. Thanks for being with us today. Thank you. Good morning. So what do you see as the policy priorities in terms of getting things done come january . Well, we got a lot of bills that came from the house to the senate with bipartisan support from the house. It died in the senate. The keystone pipeline, i want to take the defense cuts under sequestration, wh
Efforts by judy and scott, the partners and associates and staff of gilbert, llp law firm. Thats where we are right now. They made me take the jacket off. I didnt want to take it off. But they said, you got to take it off. Tim reiser of capitol hill, jill zuckman of skc knickerbocker have been inconceivable. Senator Patrick Leahy of vermont has been instrumental in shepherding the arrival of this day. I want to thank all of the members of congress from all sides of the aisle, such as senator flake, representatives Chris Van Holland and barbara lee and numerous others who spoke up or visited me, subjected themselves to my ranting and helped me regain some of my weight. Even in cuba, m ms melt in your mouth, not in your hand. To all of those who tried to visit me but were not were unable to, thank you for trying. Im at your service as soon as i get some new teeth. And i hope theyll be strong and sharp enough to make a difference. To the washington Jewish Community, ron halber in particul