Reporter no other gun man is found. At this point it looked like he acted alone. Reporter officials wont say if the suspect was targeting someone on an arriving flight or if hes cooperating. Randi kaye, cnn, new york. Lets get much more on this. I want to bring in jeffrey thomas, an aviation perspective, joining us from skype. Great to have you on the program. We want to talk about Airport Security to start off with. Should we be alarmed that this individual was able to check in a firearm when hed already flagged himself up to authorities . Absolutely. It is a troubling background to this gentleman from what has been reported to us. The fact that he had some problems apparently, allegedly, and then indeed checked this
firearm with his checked baggage which of course is allowed in certain states of the United States. And that was nothing illegal this doing that. However of course what transpired of course was a terrible tragedy. But the problem weve got here is that although some cases its legal, some cases its illegal, if somebody wants to perpetrate Something Like this, whether legal or not, is not going to stop them. And this is the big challenge for the industry is wherever you have large numbers of people congregating like an airport, to board an airplane, to check in at an airport, you have bags, all sorts of different types of banks. Then you have a recipe for where this can happen again. And over the last 35 year, weve
had 26 such arpirport tragedies. So its unfortunately nothing new. I wonder if the airport could have done more though. Not just because this individual has flagged himself up, but also because he had ammunition with him. It wasnt just a firearm. So surely should there be a process where anyone carrying a gun through International Airports should be monitored as they are going to collect their baggage . Thats a very good point. Youre right. This is something that i guess well have to have a good hard look like. Its like the shoe bomber. We all have to take our shoes off now. And as different Terrorist Acts occur, it just results in more restrictions on travel. And as it is, the tsa and other authorities around the world are really struggling with the amount of checking and inconvenience that passengers
have to go through because of these terrible random acts of terrorism. Its a very vexing problem and the other issue is 100,000 flights a day around the world, about 10 Million People get on airplanes every day. That is an enormous logistics exercise to increase further the intrusiveness of security checking. We have to go through at the moment. And what about cctv, as well, some suggestion that perhaps he had gone into the bathroom before opening fire on the terrified people in this terminal. Perhaps more cctv or perhaps more collaboration between social media agencies and authorities, airport authorities, would just help provide a Bigger Picture of when attacks could be in the offing. Yes, thats a possibility. Although, you know, in the few seconds to pull a gun out of a bag, what cctv could do with the
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the russian president ordered a Multipronged Campaign to hurt Hillary Clinton. It says putin was motivated by an old grudge against clinton and a clear preference for donald trump. Both the cia and fbi said they have high confidence in these conclusions. The report also warns, quote, moscow will apply Lessons Learned from its putin ordered campaign aimed at the u. S. President ial election to future influence efforts worldwide including against u. S. Allies and their election processes. Donald trumps reaction to the revelations in the Intelligence Report was luke warm at best. Here is jim sciutto with that part of the story. Reporter tonight a Declassified Version of the Intelligence Communitys report on russian hacking concluded that, quote, putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for President Elect donald trump. Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in
2016 aimed at the u. S. President ial election. Russias goals were to undermine public faith in the u. S. Democratic process, denigrate secretary clinton and harm her elect ability and potential presidency. The russians assault on the u. S. Election used several different techniques blending, quote, company verse ivert Intelligence Voergss with overt agencies, Third Party Intermediaries and paid social media users or trolls. It also says, quote, when it appeared to moscow that secretary clinton was likely to win the election, the Russian Influence Campaign began to focus more on undermining her future presidency. Following the briefing, the President Elect said in a statement, quote, i had a constructive meeting and conversation with the leaders of the Intelligence Community. I have tremendous respect for the work and service done by the men and women of this community to our great nation. However, trump made clear he
believes the hacks do not tapt his election victory. Quote, there is absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election including the fact that there was no tamper ing whatsoever with voting machines. Intelligence assessment confirmed that being thatting was not involved in vote tallying. But in a statement trump never specifically acknowledged that russia was behind the hacks. Despite the clear Intelligence Assessment and overwhelming bipartisan agreement on russias involvement. I think that is the one thing in a statement that he should have acknowledged, that whether youre a republican or a testimony, we are not going to tolerate a country like russia trying to interfere in our election process. Reporter donald trump and some of his surrogates have made the point that only the democrats were hacked here and thats why only democratic material was released, but in fact this report contradicts that and says that the cyber ops targeted both major political
parties, but because material stolen from the democrats, only that material was released in the days and weeks leading up to the election, it is in large part because of that that the community concluded that the intention here was to weaken Hillary Clinton and help donald trump. Jim sciutto, cnn, washington. Some u. S. Democratic lawmakers are calling for a Bipartisan Commission to further investigate the depth of russian influence in the u. S. Political process. For reaction from moscow, lets bring in fred pleitgen. Im curious to know what the xr kremlin are saying. Is this an embarrassment or compliment . I would say that they would be angry about the results coming out of the report. There hasnt been any official comment yet from the kremlin at all. However Russian Media outlets, state owned ones and also senior russian lawmakers have been commenting and they have been quite angry. There is for instance former head of the russian parliaments Foreign Relation Committee who came out with a series of tweets, he is very active on twitter, early this morning and late last night clearly right after reading that Declassified Version of that report where he says that its not russsia that is undermining democracy, it is the u. S. , blaming the Obama Administration for the poor relations with russia. And of course the russians have always said that they flat out denny of the allegations and there is nothing to indicate that they would change that stance even since this Declassified Versionof the alle there is nothing to indicate that they would change that stance even since this Declassified Version came out. What were hearing from Media Outlets an russian officials, they feel that what has been put out in the public so far is very thin, that there is very little in the way of substance in there, there is very little actual evidence to suggest that russia was behind this. A lot of the conclusions are there, but very little else. One of the things that they take issue with a lot is this allegation that russia is spreading fake news in the United States, that there is some sort of Russian Campaign to try to influence the mindset in the United States. In fact the russian state owned Media Channel Rt put out a very, very long article earlier today basically refuting all of the things that were said in that Tee Classified Report that came out from the Intelligence Community there in the United States. And basically just going through one by one true all these allegations and trying to refute them all. So there certainly is i would say frustration, some anger here in moscow, but also a lot of combativeness where the russians are continuing to say that it wasnt them and especially saying that they dont have any sort of media or Fake News Campaign going on in the United States. Substance or no substance in this intelligence, this could really damage relations between the u. S. And russia even further
particularly between President Elect trump and mr. Putin. There certainly could be the potential. One of the things that was viewed with a lot of interest here in moscow was the fact that donald trump came out with a statement shortly afterwards where he also mentioned russia as trying to hack into sensitive u. S. Information. However mentioning it along with china and other state and nonstate actors. So i think that was something viewed very closely here in moscow to see whether he would come out with a tough statement toward the russians or whether or not it would be more general as he did. The mood here in moscow is one that they believe after january 20th, there could be somewhat of a reset, if we can use that word, of relations between russia and the United States. Obviously theyre hoping for concessions from the u. S. Especially when it comes to loosening and possibly getting rid of some of the very crippling sanctions on the russian economy. It seems almost something that
they are banking on. For instance the rue bell oig has risen a little as it gets closer to when he comes into office. Whether or not that will happen, whether or not all this will translate into policy of course is something that theyre still waiting to see. Okay. Fred, appreciate it. Thank you. Donald trumps lack of outrage over russias meddling in the u. S. Election is puzzling to Many Americans including the u. S. President barack obama. Mr. Obama said people should remember russian interests are not the same as u. S. Interests. I think that what is true is that the russians intended to meddle and they meddled. Ill be honest but, one of the things that i am concerned about is the degree to which weve seen a lot of commentary lately where there are republicans or pundits or cable commentators
who seem to have more confidence in Vladimir Putin than fellow americans because those fellow americans are democrats. That cannot be. Does that include the President Elect . Well, what i will say is and i said this right after the election we have to remind ourselves were on the same team. Vladimir putin is not on our team. For his analysis of the u. S. Election and russian hacking scandal, im joined now by the Assistant Head of the u. S. And Americas Program at the Chatham House think tank. Thanks very much for coming in. How difficult a position is donald trump now in given the fact that hes questioned the reliability of his own Intelligence Reports . Does he now have to act against putin . He doesnt have to act necessarily. But hes been put in a very difficult position because this report, at least the unclassified version that is available to the public, doesnt really produce a lot of new
information, but it does put the premature until against community on it. It means those hawkishly inclined toward russia can pipt to it and say this is the high confidence of cia and high confidence of the fbi and moderate kevin duraconfidence o inform sa that they actively worked to get you elected. And the people charge d with resetting trumps relations with russia, it will make it more difficult. And what do you make of the idea that president putin personally authorized this sort of hacking, that its gone right to the very top there . What is at stake for Uhe Tvladi Putin as an individual . On the one hand its very gikt from the uncrass filed report to verify whether that is true. Just based on the general sump we can say that he must have been involved, but its very
difficult based upon what is released to the public to draw that linkage. And of course the Intelligence Community wouldnt be annual to say so publicly because that would divulge presumably their most sensitive sources and methods. So there is a stalemate there. And i think in a way putin has gone with this strategy because it doesnt present a risk for him. There is no really credible threat that the United States can make in response to this are or that any other country. And thats why hes adopted it as a strategy thats why its effective. I guess one of the the reasons that donald trump has been slow to approve all of his own Intelligence Agencies reports is because its somehow delegitimizes his own election win. But does it also perhaps comply that his team were complicit or aware of russian hacking and thats why they stood by and let Hillary Clinton lose while they took the victory . There is no indication again in the unclassified person of any u. S. Person connected formally or informally to Trumps Campaign who was aware of the hacking. That would be a very serious
crime presumably if there would be evidence of that, there would be more of an indication. But we really dont know because again you get into the question of what are the sensitive sources and methods, what can actually beity vul divulged to the public. Only thing we know is that the conclusions are the same. And if russia has done this in one election process in the u. S. , it could presumably deploy the same kind of tactics for german president ial elections coming up next year, france, as well. I dont see any reason why they wouldnt. They have seen their objective may have been initially to just discord and disunity in the United States. Im sure that they take trump being elected as a boon to their interests. Trump is certainly more friendly to russian interests than was Hillary Clinton. So i think that regardless of what their actual objective was, i think that they see this as a successful playbook and they dont see any particular reason not to do it injacob, many than
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