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Would, again, be another major policy reversal from this president on what was a critical campaign promise during that election cycle, wolf. >> yes, it was. jim acosta at the white house. thank you. let's get more on all of this. democratic senator ed markey of massachusetts is joining us. he is a member of the foreign relations committee. thank you for joining you. >> you're welcome. good to see you. >> let's talk about breaking news. secretary kelly is saying that the electronics ban keeps him away at night, that the threat is real. he said the ban now on bringing electronics, ipad s, iphone...

Unfortunately, you know, we've seen with the threat at airports, this is the weakest link. have 100 countries sending flights to the united states. some of them have excellent security and some of them don't. >> and we know, wolf, that there are places on the internet where some of these bomb-makers are trying to share their knowledge. they are trying to export some of that knowledge to other people, to other terrorist groups for next act reason, because they know, for instance, that the device that was used in shabaab -- by shabaab in the cimol somalia aircraft, they removed the dvd drive and...

Welcome back. starting today, passengers from ten different airports located mostly in the middle east will not be allowed to bring laptops and tablets as carry-on items on flights headed to the u.s. those items must be checked. the electronics ban is one of the strictest security measures since 9/11. and it's because of fears that terror groups are trying to hide explosives in devices such as laptops. hour are airlines handling this new ban? >> reporter: fred, we were at the airport earlier today. we spoke to passengers there. it did look like this ban is being enforced and things were going ...

Uninterrupted internet service on their flights into the united states and uk impacted by this electronics ban. and one other thing they're doing is introducing this service where passengers have the option, rather than checking in these devices, that they could carry them up until the boarding gate, and right before getting on the flight, after having gone through all the security measures they have to go through, they would hand it over to an airline representative who will put it in bubble wrap and put it in a shatter-proof case and hand it back to these travelers once they land. >> that ce...

Adopting new things and new thinking. and if it doesn't work, we will do something different that will work. >> reporter: emirates airline is allowing transit passengers to gate check their laptops and tablets. and offering some flexibilities for passengers originating here in dubai, as well. this hub has had its fair share of challenges as a major bridge. sars, obama and even the u.s. travel ban at the start of the year. so i asked the ceo to rank the impact of this electronics ban. >> fortunately all those this will have a significant impact to some of our passengers, about 250,000 over the ...