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In this country or even in europe, but for me, what bothers me is the ground staff in this country and europe is not completely vetted and that's the easiest way to get it in and doesn't matter how crude the bomb is, you can bring an airplane down. >> yeah, we've seen that in the united states. there was the case in atlanta of a baggage handler shipping weapons around the country using his access to get cargo on to an aircraft, which is just stunning and if it was guns it could have been anything else. >> yeah, and then the young guy in minneapolis who was a baggage handler that went to syria ...

Baggage handler, there are some reports out that it was, all he would need to do is take it and insert it next to the skin and like i said, a couple ounces and electric detonator and switch and timer knowing the plane would take off on time it would be very, very easy to take down an airplane. >> frightening stuff. bob bear, appreciate it and mia bloom. a 360 exclusive, new details about the attack inside the bataclan concert hall. two young people survivors describe how they managed to get out alive and what the attacker said as they were carrying out the killings. i absolutely love my new ...

In terms of -- and the personnel involved in -- who have access to aircraft at los angeles international airport, and at dulles airport? >> you know, lawrence, i again have to respectfully disagree with mr. christoph and your other guest relative to the ability of the potential to get 5 bomb on a u.s. aircraft on u.s. soil. i think mr. cavanaugh will remember the case in hartsfield where for five years a baggage handler for one of the major airlines had been in cahoots with a former airline employee and was smuggling hundreds of weapons, including semiautomatic weapons that were fully load ed ...

Where thousands of employees are going to go through the same checks passengers go through? i haven't heard anybody propose it. >> if you're a caterer or baggage handler, you don't have to go through a metal detector? >> no. most of the airports, no. >> is that okay with you? >> well, it's okay if they've done an in-depth background check on it. but the problem is these are minimum wage jobs. they turnover. and they don't have the time to complete the in-depth background checks so they do a minimal check. and as peter pointed out, 73 people on a watch list. >> and food carts are prepared offsi...

Hybrid explosive, that means ones that ripped as jimmy was saying. it opens up the side of an airplane, the zipper effect. doesn't take much explosives. if they wanted to make sure the plane went down, they could get it around security and have a baggage handler simply put it in the tail of the plane, use a lot of explosives to make sure the plane came down. weather whether it was a vapor or barometric switch i don't think we'll ever know. i have to emphasize how easy this is once you've got staff on the ground to get a bomb on and blow a plane up. i mean, you don't need a suicide bomber. you ...