it played a clip of mitt romney out of context. host andrea mitchell referenced romney s anecdote of convenience store over a stop over the weekend in pennsylvania. i was at wa-was. i went in to order a sandwich. pressed a touch-tone key pad. and the sandwich, touch this, touch this, pay the cashier, there is your sandwich. it s amazing. it s amazing. bret: however romney was actually making a comparison between the private and public sectors. here is what he said next. it s amazing. people in the private sector learn how to compete. it s time to bring the competition to the government to get it smaller and respond to the customers which are you. bret: mitchell likened the incident to george h.w. bush s super market scanner moment. that painted him as out of touch. however, new york magazine notes president bush was not looking at a standard scanner
the emergency doors in flight? i didn t see him trying to open one of the emergency doors myself, but, you know, what was really the there was a lot of miracles that happened in that flight. there was an extra pilot on the plane that the copilot managed to get, you know, into the cockpit, so they managed to get him out of the cockpit, secure the cockpit and get another pilot in. but the real, real tension, and a lot of you are seeing in the video that i shot was that, you know, when he barreled down this aisle and started pounding on the door, you know, and screaming, give me the codes, give me the codes, you know, let me inside the let me in, and then something about a bomb, and he s radically like punching the key pad, banging on the door. until he got pinned down even when he was pinned down it was
the iranians are referring may be a u.s. unarmed reconnaissance aircraft that had been flying a mission over western afghanistan late last week. the operators of the uav lost control of the aircraft and had been working overtime to determine its status. so in fact u.s. officials are saying the crew reported right before they lost this plane, unmanned plane, that they lost flight controls right before it went down. but so far the key thing is they re not saying it was shot down. they re not saying what kind of drone it is. but shot down or not, the real question here is the real bottom line, do the iranians now have their hands on classified u.s. technology. the u.s. knows it is not going to get it back. in this particular case, barbara, the u.s. can t go in retrieve it or destroy it as it might be able to do if this material would have ended up in another country. well, that s absolutely right. when helicopters or drones go down in places like afghanistan, and they want t
and now the 48 hours. what will happen after those 48 hours? well, again, these are approximate times that our technical teams said if we have consistent pressure readings over that period of time, it s logical to talk about next steps. if we can sustain pressure over 48 hours, we move into a reasonable range that we have contained the flow at that point and you can have a discussion about whether it is possible to shut in the well or not. i don t want to presuppose any of those decisions because we don t know the conditions will we will encounter. those are the thresholds we are looking at when you have enough pressure readings to have a serious discussion about next steps. we would like to move to the phone con vens call to take questions. if you would like to ask a question, please press star on your key pad. your first question is on the
the co-pilot in this or the kamten inkamt captain in this situation, whenever was locked outside, cannot break it down. there s no way for that to hatch. there is a key pad to untlok triple locking mechanism that that door has. however, the pilot in the cockpit can override that panel and lock the crew member out. so whether or not this was intentional or the crew member on the flight deck was incapacitated with some type of medical condition, that still remains a mystery. and we know that the casing from the second flight recorder has been found but the memory card with the critical information about the flight is still missing. if the two are separated, what are the chances of actually retrieving what s on the that card? in the past the chances would have been low because the flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders were analog.