biggest jets in the skies today simply vanished. investigators are still trying to pin down the motive of the two men who boarded with stolen passports. more on that in a moment. first, the latest on the search. investigators say tests proof a couple of oil slicks did not come from the plane as they first thought might have been possible. after a yellow object investigators could have been a life raft. turn out to be garbage. and crews on a search plane said they thought they spotted an airplane door but it was gone by the time the ships arrived. each falls lead more agony for the families of the and crew. many relatives are holed up in a hotel in beijing. airline officials told them to prepare for the worst. we ll show you where the search is centered. the plane took off saturday morning. headed for beijing. probably seen this flight path over and over again. an hour into the flight it just dropped awful the radar. no word from the pilot. no signs of distress, nothing.
ronald reagan recognize this party today? i don t think he could he would recognize the party but wouldn t be in lock step with what is being advocated here, and that is if you re not with me 100% of the time you re against me: he said if someone is with me 80% of the time, i m with him. sure. well to the guy who plays third in the cpac poll, dr. ben carson, the guy who was speaking about health care, big excess government, with the president of the united states looking at him, as he did so. unmoved then, moving the nation right now. dr. ben carson, good to have you. i in the flesh. absolutely. i talked to john mccain earlier and he told me that a lot of these attacks are getting personal, particularly when it comes to ted cruz and rand paul. maybe too much so. what do you think? well, it s a game that i simply refuse to play. i don t get in the mud pit and do that. we have too many important issues to deal with. and you think ted cruz and rand paul do?
0 losses. i do think the secretary of defense is a special case. we re always reluctant to criticize a sitting president when you still have men and women on the ground. i know if this happened under george w. bush s watch, republicans would be very upset. to your point, he compares him because bush had no second thoughts on the war. but i think most americans sort of agree with having second thoughts. the weird thing and the unprecedented thing about this whole episode is that it s a criticism of a sitting president. it has very little substantive element to it. it s almost entirely a personality critique. and i think that s the part that s weird and that we haven t seen before. you see paul o neill, you see administration officials coming out in the midst of their former bosses terms and saying there s something here that we disagree with, we think the country should be on a different path. but this doesn t look like that. this looks kind of catty. supervision. you kcan t get
0 shactman, john heileman. and in washington, sam stein is here with us. hi, sam. hello. all right. hello. how is your holiday season going, sam? going pretty well, i guess. how about for you? man, it s unbelievable. it really is. it s the best holiday season i ve had. it s because you re here, sam. let s talk about this next year. let s look ahead. let s look ahead. let s be forward thinking. let s lean forward. okay. this year s session of congress will i m sorry, go ahead. this year s session of congress will go down as one of the least liked, least effective in history sending the government into shut down and getting practically nothing done. it was fun. two good things. one it was fun. and two, they got 14% approval rating. it was not fun. here s the question, guys. will 2014 be any better? this morning we ll look at what s possible in the next year. john, let s start with you. if we go back over the last year we see a lot of promises at the inaugu
0 the media 20 years from where i am tanning now. and the courthouse is about three- quarter was a mill. if you look at the charges, they are two, they break down in three discreet buckets. first charge, most serious charge aiding the enemy. and the second underarticle 134 of the un cj and allows the military to combine federal charges and most of them deal with unauthorized release of class foyed information and the third under article 92 of the un cj. unauthorized access to computer network ands use of media to copy and retain classed information. we expect the verdict will be read in the courthouse and the situation is extremely nowed. we ll wait for someone to come from the information center to information that is helpful to the people and he passed it indirectly with the knowledge it would be accessible to the enemy and he did it knowingly. in other words, the accused had knowledge that his actions by sending to a third party would be accessible and obtained by an enemy of the un