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We talked about a review of the policies at airports. every airport is a little bit different but the coordination with the local police is key because remember, tsa officers are not armed. it the local police that provide the perimeter security, if you will, thats a more soft target outside the check points and so, what we want to do is conduct and i want to work with the director of tsa to lack at how are we coordinating with locals at the airports of security, police officers to see is there ...

Crucial issue front and center, as we talk about this horrible act that happened today. an act of domestic terrorism i think it is fair to say. should tsa officers have guns? >> absolutely. theyre at a vital point of airport security. they should be trained and armed at that point so theyre not sitting ducks there. the whole notion or concept that youre screening for weapons and you could encounter one by someone of ill intent and not be able to respond to him is somewhat ludicrous. but its unfo...

Clemente, a former fbi counterterrorism unit. this unit running the investigation into the shooting at l.a.x. tim picking up on what brian todd just said, you get through the security point and then really you think about horrible things could have happened. so many people walking around. planes and you could hijack a plane. does that concern you sort of that he was able to get as far as he did? >> well, erin, theres the tsa officers, my prayers go out to the family of the individual who died an...

On a plane. now, i fly quite a bit and i have flown to many, many airports internationally as well as our domestic ones, and i will tell you that almost everybody does it the same way. in other words, to get to the terminals, you generally must enter the security point where you have somebody checking your i.d. to begin with and then you get to the place where you check your belongings, et cetera, that youre carrying on. there are very few places, there are some places that check you first, put ...

>> thank you for taking the time to talk to me. >> some live coverage from the scene. we are getting a clearer picture two hours after it happened. this happened at 9:30 this morning. here is what we believe has happened. we believe that the gunman who was a white male described to me as younger white male, as a high powered semiautomatic weapon said to be a high powered semiout mastic weapon, shooting at the security point. this is to multiple media

Today, shepard. now, a contact at fox turkey tells us that he actually had to go through two roadblocks before he got to the security point at the embassy where he blew himself up, and its not clear how he got that far, but the state department is describing the point where the bomber detonated his vest as the first security point on the embassy compound. in any event, the guard was killed outside, but on the other side of that glass, two staffers were injured, not badly, and that particular poi...

One nuclear weapon. theyre looking at a broad nuclear weapons, and the threats for years to come. >> harris: and we saw john mccain of arizona saying that the white house is disengaujed and its that kind of policy thats gotten us to this point. is he right? are those critics right? >> i think that the president is very disingauged from a security point and not anywhere like a consideration the president shut give to protect american interests arounded world and the withdrawal and decline and wit...

Protected. so i wonder, i hope they dont think that we think they didnt do anything because we are want tipping our hat to them? >> well, i think that if you talk to people who are in in the special operations forces and people who have been in, they had to be grinding their teeth whether they saw this flow of information about the attack on osama bin ladens cam pound. i think that -- its inevitable that will be television and reporting about t. from their standpoint, the people whose lives are ...

Protected. so i wonder, i hope they dont think that we think they didnt do anything because we are want tipping our hat to them? >> well, i think that if you talk to people who are in in the special operations forces and people who have been in, they had to be grinding their teeth whether they saw this flow of information about the attack on osama bin ladens cam pound. i think that -- its inevitable that will be television and reporting about t. from their standpoint, the people whose lives are ...

it was a key question today. the secretary of homeland security, the department which oversees the secret service was in the hot seat on capitol hill. >> to your knowledge, is this the first time something like this has happened? >> there was nothing in the record to suggest that this would happen. >> and in fact, it said one agent that wasnt implicated in the matter but talked to the post off the record said, quote, of course this has happened before. this is not the first time. anoth...