four americans and four seals that called for help that never game. is there inconsistency here? of course this is hypocrisy in the extreme. not only did we leave them behind. we did not rescue our americans under fire we had no adequate protection to start with. every time i see susan rice go on sunday talk show somebody should have alarm bells to go off. somehow she always seems to step in a hornets nest. eric: k. thank you for your analysis this morning as always. martha? martha: we were talking about this big question now, what are those former gitmo detainees doing in qatar right now? amy kellogg is there with the latest. she is live from qatar. plus this. oh, my god. eric: this high school student, wow, what a surprise of a lifetime. right on stage at her high school graduation ceremony. we ll have the heart-are warming inspiring story straight ahead.
capital and the 9/11 hijackers a few of them passed through malaysia, and guys, an interesting wrinkle that nobody has been talking about, this week in new york city, there is a major terrorism trial going on in new york right now, and the trial of osama bin laden s son-in-law, and during the trial, a convicted terrorist testified that in 2001, there was an terror plot to activate a asian cell to use a shoe bomb the blast into the cockpit. and look, we don t know obviously, because that is and all of this you are talking about and the different scenarioings, and does it speak to intent to you, erick? well, absolutely intent. if you are a ter the errorist and you want to hijack a airplane, you have intent and a lot of things to do with the airplane. you can use it as a missile in the future, you can crash can it, and you can make a political statement, and speaking of political statements, don, we
as the plane went out over the eastern coast of malaysia, and the prime minister told us, and i m giving you exactly what we know from the p.m. and in the haze of information do we know that the prime minister has the information correct? well, he was very careful in the way he put the time line. the acars disabled and the plane goes out with the last known position on the south china saeshgs and then turns to the left, and this double arc with the potential that you are now seeing with the two paths. erick, do you want to weigh in on this? well, if it is a possible r terror angle, and it is all speculation, because we don t know for sure, but it is one of the possibilities, there are a few al teternatives. you have malaysia in the past, h historically moderate, but al qaeda has been active there. in 2000, a large al qaeda summit in kuala lumpur, the malaysian
egypt air. why go to all of the trouble of everything else there? so a moment there, and yes, they are on the, and a piece of the jigsaw that on the table that will be investigated. yes, but here s the thing. if it is a passenger, or someone on board this plane, they went to great lengths, and they were very knowledgeable about when to turn the acars system off, and when to turn the transponders off and how to hit the waypoints and how to get the point if they indeed landed this plane intact somewhere, they knew what they were doing. yes, but you have just with respect, gone over another i said if. but really well, we are all saying if, because you don t know either. and leave it to one side, and just talk about the actual commandeering of the aircraft. yes. and if they go ahead, erick. i didn t mean to interrupt, richard, but if it is al qaeda, and if we are talking about that possibility, they have had trained pilots in the ranks over the years, which is a pot
actually at the trial of osama bin laden s son-in-law saying that back in 2001 there was a plot to supply a malaysian terror cell with a shoe bomb to hijack a plane, blow the door off the cockpit. so there is a precedent here. and even the 9/11 hijackers themselves passed through malaysia. very interesting details there. erick, always great to get your insights. thank you. thank you, gretchen. so just how hard is it to find a plane that seemingly vanishes into thin air? well, guess what? it s pretty hard. it s being compared to searching for a needle in a haystack. this interactive map from the washington post showing what crews are up against. users click through until they actually find the jetliner. the boeing 777 is 210 feet long. so look at your screen there. the search area spanning more than 35,000 square miles. meantime, new developments in the crisis in ukraine now. secretary of state john kerry issuing a new warning to russia telling a senate committee that