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That may detract us, may, detract us from that item that could be catastrophic failure to an aircraft. >> reporter: the chairman of the house homeland security committee says tsas highest priorities must be securing commercial aviation from the type of threats and weapons that could bring down an aircraft. but schumer says a knife does pose that risk, and given everything already banned, keeping them off planes only makes sense. >> does anyone think this, which youre not allowed to bring on a pl...

House homeland security committee says tsas highest priorities must be securing commercial aviation from the type of threats and weapons that could bring down an aircraft. but schumer says a knife does pose that risk, and given everything already banned, keeping them off planes only makes sense. >> does anyone think this, which youre not allowed to bring on a plane, bottle of shampoo, is more dangerous than this, a sharp, and deadly knife? >> all right. well you know what? the tsa says that that...

Using them for what they want them for. >> so now that its out of committee, whats the next step? is it scheduled for floor action? >> we have three more that have to come out of committee. senator feinstein has a major bill, listing a number of weapons she wants banned. >> the assault weapon ban. >> yes. and senator schumer has one on, on background checks. senator boxer has one on schools. all of these will be voted out. theyll have differing chances on the floor. but i think that we ought to ...

Executive editor, mr. jim vandehei. good morning. >> good morning. how are you? >> good. lets talk gun control as it pertains to universal background checks. we talked earlier about the presidents dinner meeting last night with republican senators. you say the presidents going to continue to reach out today. but were talking here about chuck schumer and tom coburn. they were working together on universal background checks. looks like now schumer may be going his own way. >> yeah. the further we ...

If you fill up for the weekend, a national average is $3.68, up 15 cents from last week and up 46 cents from last month. >> i would last love to pay that. >> last year was the expensive ever on average and while digging deeper in the pocket, big oil is turning a massive profit. $118 billion last year, alone. theyre called big oil for a reason. being bigger gave them more pricing power but senator schumer wants to break up big oil. he says we now have only about four large companies, that means w...

Together. >> how is it the senate didnt pass a budget, the democrats in the senate for four years, how is that possible? isnt that a constitutional duty sort of like you were supposed to be the 41st vote against health care and didnt work out that way either? >> well, it worked out somewhat, but more importantly, yeah, it is the senates responsibility, and its harry reids job and harry reid and his lieutenants obviously schumer and durbin, are supposed to get that budget done. its shameful and r...

Together. >> how is it the senate didnt pass a budget, the democrats in the senate for four years, how is that possible? isnt that a constitutional duty sort of like you were supposed to be the 41st vote against health care and didnt work out that way either? >> well, it worked out somewhat, but more importantly, yeah, it is the senates responsibility, and its harry reids job and harry reid and his lieutenants obviously schumer and durbin, are supposed to get that budget done. its shameful and r...

A lot of ways, you know, he started off -- you had a republican party that was largely kind of in the doldrums and he started off with economic stimulus and health care which united the party in some way. is he -- is he smart to refocus on the economy, jim? >> yes. >> and probably the more important question, is there actually -- we had angus king on saying theres common ground. is there common ground on big things? >> you saw the working group on background checks for gun control. you saw cobur...

I dont know what happened. i wasnt in the next stall. >> thank god. >> sean: 107 tv stories, 105 newspaper headlines as you can see across the country. mark foley, 42 tv stories, 117 newspaper headlines across u.s. newspapers. >> you know what, i think were missing the bigger picture here. weve got the media that pretty much put this under the rug but it is the irs everybody. how would you like to owe $11 million to the irs and yet be on what you see open secrets.com. he donating to schumer, hil...

I wasnt in the next stall. >> thank god. >> sean: 107 tv stories, 105 newspaper headlines as you can see across the country. mark foley, 42 tv stories, 117 newspaper headlines across u.s. newspapers. >> you know what, i think were missing the bigger picture here. weve got the media that pretty much put this under the rug but it is the irs everybody. how would you like to owe $11 million to the irs and yet be on what you see open secrets.com. he donating to schumer, hillarys campaign, he has been...