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Demapped sooner than the air travel industry expected. take a look at the numbers from the tsa. they screened 1.67 million people across the country yesterday. shy of the pandemic record of 1.98 million people screened on sunday. that is the highest number we have seen since march of 2020. much even higher than the numbers over this past memorial day weekend. and now this is what is so interesting for the tsa. it is asking its office staff to come out to the security checkpoints at airports across the country to keep the travelers moving. the tsa does have a hiring goeg goal by hiring 6,000. s...

6,000 officers to staff the nation's airports. on competent reporting that tsa is prepared and well positioned to help ensure that everyone who wishes to travel will do so safely and securely. >> now the tsa volunteers are not doing the actual security screening. more so helping out with the peripheral duties like moving the plastic bins and keeping lines flowing. remember, there are real risks to transportation security workers. you know, just the other day cruise ship passengers on a cruise ship in italy tested positive for covid-19 and they're required to be tested before, during, after the...

Charger. >> my little shampoo bottle. >> first of all, we always have to remember that inch tell against and being on the offense is better than being on the defense. >> so remembering the threats we face and the way this president has untied the hands of people. you can have all the technology but you have a human behind the screen. you talk about 70 to 90% failure rate. my home airport had a 95% failure rate back in july. that's why the acting t.s.a. director was let go. >> some of the highest rates in the country and missing 95% of the time. it's when big government run security. >> well, i...

I think the question is -- >> large. >> you know what i do. i take the test for citizenship that you can do. yes, you can. [laughter] >> you got a lot of extra time. >> sitting in the back of a cab. it does reinforce your pride. you know, speaking of all this, there's security concerns that are fueling all of it. we're thinking about this. there's all this concern about airport safety. this month, house lawmakers received a classified briefing on an undercover probe showing that the t.s.a. failed to spot threates like knives, guns and explosives. some reports say the failure rate was as high a...