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himself. now he has put his office behind this assertion. if it does not pan out it will be embarrassing. if it pans out nobody will remember he said it anyway. i am not quite sure what the political logic is behind this kind of language. jim tilmon? yes? how do you feel? what is your assessment of the prime minister saying he is confident these are the black boxes? i am convinced he is a great politician and not convinced he is the person that can deliver that information for us and for our team. mr. huston is and i want to hear what he has to say. i am saying to myself the longer this goes the less confidence i have in this whole approach about whether we are in the right place and those basic things. i am very concerned about the progress. you helped finding 447,
locator. not related to the beacon. right now i want to bring in my team of experts. michael kay, jim tilmon, jeffrey thomas is back with me and also joining me exclusively is the director of underwater research for premier exhibitions. i am interested in learning how you feel about what the prime minister had to say. you have been skeptical of some of the information coming from all of the agencies. i don t understand why he is using this language especially right now. if he is as confident as he says he is, it would seem sensible to wait a day or two or however long he thinks it will take to let the black boxes emerge and whether the world find out and not let there be any doubt. as is, he is upping the ante on
so i believe that the search for debris is now focused very much on this greatly reduced area, where the debris would have spread, too. and it wouldn t have spread too far, either. so there s a very good chance that we can pick up debris here, make a sighting, possibly pick some up, which will give us real certainty that we re on to the airplane. you know, the chief coordinator of the search says that he is a lot more optimistic than we have a week ago. i m wondering why he is so confident, and jim tilmon, even after listening to that last briefing, are you still as confident as you were before? you ve been very skeptical all along. this is the most optimism you have had. i m very impressed with the organization of the team now. and the players are playing on a field that s very, very sophisticated, they re very sincere, and they re very, very tireless in the way they re going about it. and the kind of evidence they have been presenting, now that they have this team in action,
try to triangulate and locate it. i think the next two to three days will be essential to where we go next. even if it s run out, at least there is somewhat they have somewhat of a location. jim, in a matter of hours or days, the pingers from the cockpit of flight data recorders may have stopped transmitting if they haven t stopped already. if that does happen, do you think there s enough information that searchers are, as i say, in somewhat the right location? we now have the best information we ve had since this whole thing started. i could be just as critical as anybody else on a scientific level. but i ve got to tell you, from just a strictly emotional level, i m uplifted by the fact that we do have something that sounds sound, sounds like it s scientifically derived, and it gives us hope that we might be on the right track and i certainly hope that we are. this is the first time that i think i ve heard optimism from jim tilmon on this panel. you ve been very skeptical, and