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The same suspect killed himself before charges could be brought. the case was officially closed. dr. scott gottlieb is former commissioner of the food and drug administration. given the context this week doc, we thought it was worth talking about how prepared we are. what is the risk to us, not just the lawmakers or the media about these sort of, these sort of attacks? >> we're more prepared than we were. we forward-deployed sniffing devices to detect things in the environment and i will pound mail that goes to official facilities like capitol hill or white house. this person must have known t...

Dangerous, potentially lethal, levels. >> the faa has been remiss in terms of hiring people properly. yes, there's a financing problem, but that doesn't absolve controllers across the country from falling asleep on the job. i mean, they have a shift. they should have been awake. they should be fired. they did a bad job. it's a disservice to other controllers who keep us safe, but it's not so much -- this is an instance of bad management and bad supervision. >> now, additional controllers will be added in 27 airports, but just recently congress voted to cut the faa budget by some $4.3 million, ...

Adds up. those are questions that are going to have to be answered and accounted for. >> there's this real sense also that there was not a lot of consultation between the administration and capitol hill. and apparently that somebody there in washington, d.c. is going to have to make amends for that. is that what you're hearing there? >> yeah, exactly. eventually there will have to be some sort of accounting, some sort of reproachment done to try to get more people on board with the mission going forward because even though you say yes, we hand off to nato, that doesn't absolve the u.s. of its ...