that came under scrutiny when he was living in a condo leased by an energy lobbyist s wife. all of these things were questions that he faced today and didn t really take responsibility for hisas. his actions. the biggest base that he covered that a lot of us are talking about now besides that fact that he only got melania a card for her birthday was the fact that he acknowledged that michael cohen represented him in the deal with adult film star stormy daniels which was an astonishing admission there on live television to say the least. do you think of this new admission is going to hurt the president and how? well, look, it was already cited yesterday in a legal document that was filed by attorneys with the southern district of new york, so obviously his comments on public
more than seven hours after its kwgs systems shut off. these moments are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane. reporter: authorities are now looking deep into the background of the pi lots as you might expect. let s talk more about this and the news that came out today. jim clancy has been tracking this investigation from the very beginning for us. jim, i want to get your take. we hear these press conferences and sometimes people don t realize when the big news come out. they acknowledge they are looking into the pilots but they say they are not ruling anything out. i just listen toured report. it s correct. from what we were told days before. today in this press conference what they said is, no, we re not quite sure, we don t think that the com systems, the transponder and a-card were turned off before and now we know it s the co-pilot that said all right good night. suddenly what do we have?
every piece of the data that comes in has a clock. the clock is with the airplane, the clock is elsewhere. you have to match up those times. that s why the radar, when you get two or three different radar tracks, why it takes so long to figure it out? you first have to start match the time of the signals, and sometimes that s difficult. jon: right. and we should say that although some unnamed u.s. authorities are quoted in that wall street journal article as saying those engines were transmitting, the malaysian authorities say it wasn t happening. again, another conflict in the reporting we re getting here. john golia, formerly with the ntsb and a former airline mechanic, thank you. thank you for having me. jenna: as bizarre as this case is, 80 planes seemingly disappeared since 1948, that s according to the airuation safety network. some, of course, were found much later, others never found again. perhaps the most famous case is amelia earhart who disappeared in 1937 while attempt
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malaysia also denying that report as well. a whole lot of denials today. we ll see what we actually known. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is working the story from washington the. reporter: good morning, jenna. one urged caution with wall street journal reporting to fox news that the jet continued to fly for hours after the tran ponder went dark. that raised the prospect that the flight was taken over for a future plot. fox news confirming the faa and ntsb are analyzing three data streams that flow from the boeing 777. they include the transponder which when dark about an hour into the flight. the radar data which would still show the jet but with no identifying code which is emitted from the transponder and the so-called, a-card data which transmits data about the running condition of the aircraft for maintenance purposes and that is the data stream that the wall street journal is referring to. of the malaysian authorities saying that the data did not contin