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We want you to listen to one tsa agent who was chased by white with the machete, was wounded in the arm as police tried to subdue him. >> what i have to say is tsa spends a lot of time having us train. and we train and train, unbeknownst to a lot of people so, we are trained to -- how to react to different situations. when this all started happening, coming down it was second nature. you know, we want to make sure the passengers are safe so we tell them run, run, you have to get out of here run. with that we know they're leaving and we're counting on the ones with the weapons to be able to pro...

[ inaudible question ] what i saw originally was one of the officers getting sprayed with the wasp spray. he took a bag and threw it at the guy, which slowed him down enough that when he came through and i was yelling for everybody to clear the checkpoint and then we all took off and ran towards where the leo was, and i was calling run, run for them to get away from him. and i was calling for the leos so she was there and alert. she saved a lot of peep's looifs. this man was swinging very hard with that machete and if he would have made contact with anybody it would have been terrible. and i j...

Airports say moving toward full employee screening would simply be too costly and too time consuming for airport workers to wait in line like you and i. but some members of congress just aren't buying that demanding the department of homeland security review employee screening policies to make sure airports aren't leaving a door open to a possible disaster. drew griffin, cnn, los angeles. >> pretty telling. let's talk about it. former cia operative bob baer back with me. and robert mcfadden, special agent in charge of ncis with the suppan group. when you look at this physically in the areas of...

>> what is the most important change that could be made at american airports right now? >> well, one, coming from a little bit different perspective, keeping it in context. these are very very low percentage though they get our attention, that's the essence of terrorism. when it is terrorism. but then other cases like today we'll never know what was in his head though there was mental illness according to all reports what the motivation is. increased security working with the public engagement at the community level, increased measures, a holistic approach. >> bob, final word. do you think we'...

That agency is critical to our security and safety. >> is there going two be a shut down at dhs? >> i certainly hope not. the senate i think is going to send us a clean bill. as peter king has said we ought to take the bill up pass it and fund the department of homeland security. >> steny hoyer, always a pleasure. thanks for being with us tonight. >> thank you. >> if the dhs shuts down it's going to have a disastrous impact on men and women who work hard to keep us safe and do their jobs which the republicans say they love. roughly 200,000 workers will have to continue to work without pay. wou...