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Across the board. >> well it needs to be thought through, too. what exactly are you asking the flight attendant or cabin crew member to do while he or she is sitting in the cockpit? are they now going to be assessing the mental health of the pilot? what happens if the -- what are they expected to do if something untoward happens? remember in the united states as juliette knows, upwards of 20 to 25% of the pilots are armed. what exactly are we asking flight attendants to do? >> well i'm wondering, does this case make people reassess the idea of arming pilots? >> it might. i mean, the -- look, a...

You are all for security. let me read this, this is part of your cnn.com opinion piece that jumped out at me in this post-9/11 era. you said i was never a fan of armed pilots. another flight attendant might have felt insured, but when i walked into a cockpit to find a pilot with a gun on his lap, i was rattled. i had met the guy before, had no reason to distrust him, but even the thought of an incident was enough to question my safety. is it about people or is it about guns? >> it's a little bit of both, when you're adding -- you can screen people, but you don't know what's going to happen lat...

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>> that's right. the federal flight deck officer's training program known as the ffdo may soon be a relic of 9/11 as the administration wants to cut its budget of 25 million in half. supporters say arming pilots is cheaper than check ago single suitcase. >> to protect an aircraft, to protect possibly the potential of thousands of people, the federal flight deck officer cost $15 per flight. >> homeland security officials argue the department's multilayered approach to airline security that relies on screening, intelligence data, and reinforced cockpit doors is more effective. focuses on high ri...

Federal flight deck officer program is predicated on the fact that the program is not risk based, and you will have an ffdo just, you know, whether somebody is on a flight or not, and we are moving in the tsa to risk-based systems and those are the ones we'll put money into. >> reporter: there is strong opposition 4 morning at the heritage foundation, a conservative think tank in washington. panelis argued gwynn a budget cut of 50% at one point suggesting this white house believes terrorism is a thing of the past. >> the obama administration has had an institutional hostility towards the conce...