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Transcripts for MSNBC Alex Witt Reports 20211120 19:39:00

So, john, it s got to be very concerning for any pilot who may have been walking into atlanta hartsfield airport thinking, wow, here comes a gun that gets that close, it s in the terminal, somehow it gets dislodged. talk about it from the pilot perspective. i mean, there s got to be all sorts of things that run through a pilot s mind when they hear about a gun dislodging at the airport. well, any time there s a discharge of a weapon in an airport, it s extremely serious. and the question is, what s the secondary security concerns and what i mean by that is, okay, the weapon discharged. is there an ongoing threat? that s the first i think you want to protect are the passengers and the airplane. so, that s from what i have read, they were able to quickly determine there were not any secondary security issues, although they do have a large number of passengers out on the ramp area, so this is going to

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